Zephorah
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- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 1 week ago:
Thus demonstrating the crux of the issue.
I was just looking for a name of a historical figure associated with the Declaration of Independence but not involved in the writing of it. Elizabeth Powel. Once I knew the name, I went through the ai to see how fast they’d get it. Duck.ai confidently gave me 9 different names, including people who were born on 1776 or soon thereafter and could not have been historically involved in any of it. I even said not married to any of the writers and kept getting Abagail Adams and the journalist, Goddard. It was continually distracted by “prominent woman” and would give Elizabeth Cady Stanton instead. Twice.
Finally, I gave the ai a portrait. It took the ai three tries to get the name from the portrait, and the portrait is the most used one under the images tab.
It was very sad. I strongly encourage everyone to test the ai. Easy to grab wikis that would be top of the search anyway are making the ai look good.
- Comment on What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage? 1 week ago:
He wants pets and is using the stair edges to handle it himself.
- Comment on GOG: We’re thrilled to announce that the Crysis Remastered Trilogy has joined our catalog, and the original Crysis is now part of the GOG Preservation Program! 1 week ago:
Any media we can own outright is a win.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 week ago:
I wasn’t even aware it was a sub, but if course it is. What could possibly be so alluring in paramount that has a bigger pull than Disney and ESPN content?
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 week ago:
What’s the boycott there?
- Comment on AOL’s dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era 2 weeks ago:
Mashable did an article on it, saying it wasn’t easy to find but $9.99/mo appeared to be the cost, still, after all this time. But it would only run on windows PCs.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 weeks ago:
GOG. It’s not all games, but you can own some of them. Steam, in spite of the CEO that keeps it decent, started this lease under the guise of buying model.
That said, subs are much worse. If the Disney/Kimmel situation taught us anything, it’s that boycotts work.
Subs are costing most Americans, on average, $300/mo. (More Perfect Union covered it.). That’s a monthly grocery bill for 1-2, if you buy right and cook. Subs are part of the “squeeze” that siphons money to the top 1%.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty basic when you dig into the social psychology.
A classic outside the internet experiment would be a waiting room that starts to fill with smoke. Smoke starts to leak in at the ceiling. People see it. The variable is when the confederate (word for person who is an experimenter hire) gets up and leaves. Seeing someone leave, not the smoke itself, even as it builds up in the room, is a far better predictor of human behavior in that moment. People will take this farther than you’d think, waiting and then waiting some more, until a social cue occurs.
Online is different, yes, but our social wiring doesn’t just go away. And now, the numbers of social cues are far, far easier to manipulate. I don’t know if they’re cheaper, but the numbers side of it is disturbing.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 2 weeks ago:
What? You think flat earthers are real? It’s a great topic to use to see how far down the believability about other people will go.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s literally all the same vids. Or things I already watched 5 years ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The search function is terrible. No matter how you filter it, even if the pseudo functional filters work it’s just the most subscribed to garbage I’ve repeatedly tried not to see on the home page. There’s no way to permanently block the garbage I never want to see. It’s an endless repeat loop of sameness. The thumbnails are the worst. Hobby channels are thus dead, it’s the same 50 videos I keep saying “not interested” to instead of anything fresh or new.
I go there for Josh Johnson and a couple others, there’s no way to find decent content creators any more in that dumpster fire.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 weeks ago:
I think it was 10? years ago when I grudgingly tried a kindle because it was so ridiculously cheap and the people around me loved theirs.
The Kindle was an Ad bomb. After engaging internet only, no TV, no ads, since, 2003? (Whenever xfiles, Buffy, DS9, and Firefly were done.) The kindle hit like a sledgehammer with the native ads system. I returned the failed tablet to Amazon.
I don’t know how people live with that level of ad consumption and I grew up with TV commercials. Libby on iPad mini. It’s fine.
- Comment on Steady 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t even have to be a doctor. An ED or ICU nurse would cover most needs.
- Comment on Steady 3 weeks ago:
This is why most medical dramas are irritating.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 3 weeks ago:
At this point, they’ve become another flat earther movement.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 3 weeks ago:
If those were the ideals, the Kimmel and Colbert firings never would’ve happened.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 3 weeks ago:
Red Note is cool in that it does give you more perspective, interacting more directly with the people of China over what is said about the country as a whole.
It’s not my thing and neither is TikTok. I’ve downloaded neither.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 3 weeks ago:
It’s alive due to Messenger and Marketplace.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 3 weeks ago:
Red Note. You can say what you like about the USA, but you can’t criticize China or show skin.
- Comment on Israel threatens national film awards after Palestinian story wins top prize 4 weeks ago:
So that’s it, Israel and the United States are just full bore reality isn’t reality and anyone disagreeing with my reality should be silenced.
- Comment on Ben & Jerry's co-founder quits, says independence 'gone' 4 weeks ago:
The man swims in toxic waste and has dead worms in his brain. I don’t think a little shouting is going to hurt him.
- Comment on Ben & Jerry's co-founder quits, says independence 'gone' 4 weeks ago:
That is how it works. Look at what happened to BioWare under EA. The Sims. Arkane under Microsoft.
- Comment on Know your place 4 weeks ago:
Getting a lot of memes with errors like this lately.
- Comment on Police seek man who called for Keir Starmer to be ‘assassinated’ at far-right rally 4 weeks ago:
Social contagion is real.
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 5 weeks ago:
So it’s all going to plan.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 5 weeks ago:
I’m still convinced flat earthers are an internet hoax/troll.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 5 weeks ago:
I think it was a joke. A little levity in the midst of all this chaos and intentional hardship.
Yes, the deal with dairy farmers drinking the unpasteurized milk from their cows daily is that it’s consumed within 24hrs and then replaced with the next days milk.
RFK is a dipshit and MAGA is likely running with him for two reasons. Cutting FDA regs, insurance policing, fluoride, and vaccines save money. (Put another way, it keeps “their” money where it belongs, away from the working class.) It also thins the herd in the continuing decline of available resources while the planet fails.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 5 weeks ago:
I lol’d.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 1 month ago:
I think it’s like so many things. Sugar. Enjoyable on occasion or induced diabetes. Beer. One on occasion or alcoholism. Dating. Nurturing or controlling/manipulation/obsession. We’re fine until our baser natures take over.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 1 month ago:
In addition, “short” forms, right down to the trite, terrible music, mimic TV ads of yore. (Maybe current too, idk. I don’t consume ads. I don’t have a TV, and when I do watch YT it’s on a PC with uBlock on.)
Basic Psych 101: people are drawn to the familiar. Are high shorts consumption individuals more likely to consume ads?
With everything we’ve said, it wouldn’t be so bad if it was light consumption, maybe with morning coffee, left off for the rest of the day, but instead there’s an insidious pattern I see at work. Do the work, rush back to a chair to thumb swipe up on a screen for the next 30min to an hour. Work, back to the seat for more low attention span crap, rinse/repeat, for an entire shift.
I’m old. If I try to watch shorts like that my brain feels like a cross between watching TV ads and like I’ve been working on busywork/bullshit homework worksheets from school back in the day. It’s an awful sensation, so I don’t do it. I can only speculate that my crystallized wiring has a different format that isn’t so compatible with this new consumption pattern.
This, our discussion, fits more with long form discussion boards in academia, but as part of a graffiti wall. With bullshit, screaming, and bots filling in the gaps. The attention span problems aren’t so much an issue, depending on how you consume, but the dopamine bit is the same. There’s also a partial reinforcement rewards schedule there but that’s another discussion.