HarkMahlberg
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
People keep asking me, and I haven't really had an answer, but now yeah, I'm thinking I'm back.
- Comment on 11 minutes ago:
Gina got fired because... pronouns
Yeah imma stop you right there.
Because it would be illegal.
If that thought even so much as crossed Carr's mind, why would he make any remarks at all? It costs nothing to keep his mouth shut, and it avoids any liability.
Thats why there is no legal document or order.
Committing crimes and getting away with it is a virtue to conservatives. Why won't they create a paper trail of their crimes, man I wonder. Anyway, release the Epstein files.
- Comment on 34 minutes ago:
celebrated
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
- Comment on 38 minutes ago:
It's an impressive feat to get -5000 reputation in only 4 months. Again, you gotta try to be this toxic and terminally online. Even AI can't pump out that much hate that fast.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 10 hours ago:
dopamine delivery device
I'd even go so far as to say it's a dual-dopamine-plus-cortisol device. For as many things on the internet that give people joy, there are probably as many if not more things that make people angry. And the algorithms are very good and pressing both buttons simultaneously (the meme of a superhero sweating looking at two buttons need not apply).
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 13 hours ago:
I've been waiting for the boomer generation to stop any of what they're doing for 30 years. I suspect they'll still be a viable political bloc for the next 20 years. And even then, gen x and gen z will pick up right where they left off.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 13 hours ago:
Don't underestimate the stupidity and calcification of tiktok users, they'll just stick around having never heard of the sale. They won't even question why their feed is now a nonstop loop of Kirk clips.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
@arararagi Don't forget Metaverse, they took a fuckin bath on that.
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- Comment on GN's GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to try to make up for the lost traction! 1 week ago:
I'll shill for them - if you play DND, the dice set is sick. Nice wooden case too (but the fit is a little jank, the lids don't sit flush). Still, it's an eye pleaser.
- Comment on A goodbye to kbin ... 1 week ago:
Nothing lasts forever, especially on the Internet, but I'm happy to say I enjoyed kbin.social for as long as I used it.
Thanks Ernest! Good luck on your recovery and next projects!
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
It must be exhausting being this way.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? 2 weeks ago:
BG3 is the only game I can think of that's worth an $80 price tag and the moniker of "AAAA." There is a frankly ludicrous amount of stuff in this game. The amount of effort it just have taken, let alone to ship 8 fully featured patches, borders on lunacy.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 2 weeks ago:
You misunderstood, I wasn't saying you can't Ctrl Z after using the output, but that the process of training an AI on a corpus yields a black box. This process can't be reverse engineered to see how it came up with it's answers.
It can't tell you how much of one source it used over another. It can't tell you what it's priorities are in evaluating data... not without the risk of hallucinating on you when you ask it.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 2 weeks ago:
Wild to see you call for a "sane take" when you strawman the actual water problem into "draining the oceans."
Local residents with nearby data centers aren't being told to take fewer showers with salt water from the ocean.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 3 weeks ago:
Beyond the copyright issues and energy issues, AI does some serious damage to your ability to do actual hard research. And I'm not just talking about "AI brain."
Let's say you're looking to solve a programming problem. If you use a search engine and look up the question or a string of keywords, what do you usually do? You look through each link that comes up and judge books by their covers (to an extent). "Do these look like reputable sites? Have I heard of any of them before?" You scroll click a bunch of them and read through them. Now you evaluate their contents. "Have I already tried this info? Oh this answer is from 15 years ago, it might be outdated." Then you pare down your links to a smaller number and try the solution each one provides, one at a time.
Now let's say you use an AI to do the same thing. You pray to the Oracle, and the Oracle responds with a single answer. It's a total soup of its training data. You can't tell where specifically it got any of this info. You just have to trust it on faith. You try it, maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. If it doesn't, you have to write a new prayer try again.
Even running a local model means you can't discern the source material from the output. This isn't Garbage In Garbage Out, but Stew In Soup Out. You can feed an AI a corpus of perfectly useful information, but it will churn everthing into a single liquidy mass at the end. And because the process is destructive, you can't un-soup the output. You've robbed yourself of the ability to learn from the input, and put all your faith into the Oracle.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Others have explained the unicode-in-URL aspect sufficiently, but I can speak to the author of the site somewhat. His or her blog posts have hit the fediverse several times before. They're often insightful and skeptical, highly privacy conscious. I hope they don't mind if I take this part from their FAQ:
Can I trust the information on this website?
No. And you should never trust any single website or entity. Especially not the ones that have sponsored content or have no academic/professional background in the topics they post about.
Take this information as mere pointers into different directions, that scratch the surface and ultimately provoke your itch to find out more about the individual topics. Do your own research and come to your own conclusions.
- Comment on Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down 3 weeks ago:
I think you should apply to Burger King, I think that might be more your speed.
- Comment on Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down 3 weeks ago:
"I don't know any typescript but I'm gonna submit pull requests and waste my team's time by making them fix my mistakes."
This kind of rhetoric would make you unhirable in my industry, AI or not. What a disrespectful way to work with other people.
- Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great" 3 weeks ago:
So does purchasing groceries at Walmart, but many Americans have no choice in that matter.
I do appreciate that you had a more empathetic comment for the guy whose girlfriend is still on Facebook. Thank you for having the civility to not call her a fascist sympathizer to his face. But don't worry, your true feelings are safe with me.
This is not how you make allies btw.
- Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great" 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great" 3 weeks ago:
Fascist techbros were already somewhere between wealthy and ultra wealthy.
There are plenty of non-fascist tech-savvy Americans, they just don't control Scrooge McDuck amounts of money.
- Comment on [Episode] My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 • Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru Season 2 - Episode 8 discussion 3 weeks ago:
The viewer isn't supposed to know yet. Manga readers already know.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 3 weeks ago:
A game would keep people entertained or engaged in some way, some kind of focused shared activity. But to 4chan, coordinating with other anons about what YouTube comments to spam, what subreddit to brigade, that was the game. Organizing a personal army of trolls (yes that personal army) was the whole point of being there.
In your analogy, a game of LoL takes place where all 10 players don't play the game, they use global chat to decide on raiding Battlefield, DotA, or Overwatch. They then make a bunch of accounts, join some games, and rile people up with hate speech. Then they go back to LoL to share how angry they made other people.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 3 weeks ago:
Believe me, they've already been everywhere you've been. It's not like once you post on 4chan you're forbidden from making accounts on every other website.
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 4 weeks ago:
So did Bush. It's only bad when their enemies do it. It's righteous and just when they do it.
- Comment on The Looming Social Crisis of AI Friends and Chatbot Therapists 4 weeks ago:
"You look like a good Joe."
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 4 weeks ago:
What a gaping, wretched asshole.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours) 4 weeks ago:
Almost had me, not gonna lie!
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 4 weeks ago:
Maybe I missed something, but ublock still works very fine for me, even on mobile. And running a pihole, while not trivial, also takes care of some ad traffic. Firefox coems with a reader mode (a feature I really like even with the adblockers!).
So why do people not want to visit pages anymore, if all these tools already existed?
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 4 weeks ago:
In a better timeline, we wouldn't need to cheer the victory of one megacorporation over another, they would both be the losers. But also people are still capable of holding two thoughts simultaneously.
For instance, we'd all be happy to see Apple lose the Epic Games lawsuit and be forced out of their monopoly on app stores on iOS. But those same people are aware it would allow Epic to continue being a disgusting company.
bait the anti-ai crowd
Oh I see lol
