philosloppy
@philosloppy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Samsung Embeds Israeli Surveillance App on Phones Across MENA 1 week ago:
“is this runoff full of poop or just pee???”
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 1 week ago:
DO you interact with normal people? most of them don’t even have a computer anymore.
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 1 week ago:
sure, but those are just numbers you pulled out of literally nowhere.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV dislikes AI, won’t authorise creation of AI Pope—"If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive"~ there’s a big problem 1 week ago:
this certainly wouldn’t be a problem for Catholics since, like most Christians today and basically all Christians before the 18th century, they aren’t biblical literalists.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV dislikes AI, won’t authorise creation of AI Pope—"If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive"~ there’s a big problem 1 week ago:
The integralists and post-liberal techbros are gonna get together to make an AI sedevacantaist pope for their little fiefdom. Which would certainly why a gay billionaire would pick JD Vance as his political protege
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 week ago:
yeah, I personally just check the fridge the night before and write down what I need.
I know I’m on the “technology” community of an internet website but I find that adding computers to something that is sufficiently addressed with some forethought and a piece of paper is just making things unnecessarily complicated. Call me Ted K I guess lol
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 1 week ago:
it’s easy to do something in the heat of the moment when passions are running high (and your favorite show is in-between seasons) but let’s see where the boycott is in 6+ months after everything has cooled down and about 300 other new little fires from the current admin have come and gone from the headlines. That’s the true measure of these kinds of “low temp” protests.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 1 week ago:
see, this just makes you come off like a jagoff.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 1 week ago:
the rampant consumerism in nerd spaces seems to disprove the Lemmy title in the large, even if this specific example indicates the opposite wrt marketing by software firms aimed at developers.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 week ago:
the only thing I could think of with a smart fridge is being able to check the contents from your phone while you are at the store to see if you need milk or whatever…but that’s not really a problem that justifies ads and the absolute invasion of privacy and the fact that the thing is likely about as secure as a wooden fence on a bank vault
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 week ago:
if you bought a smart fridge, you get what you deserve
- Comment on 1 week ago:
seems like a common theme in most creative industries: the more money that flows in the less congenial to experimentation and deviation the industry becomes.
To quote a giant piece of shit, “Don’t Fuck With The Formula”
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 week ago:
I honestly don’t remember anything about it except that I didn’t really enjoy it that much. that was a looong time ago
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 week ago:
I played an hour of the first game and that was enough for me, so I’m not exactly their target demo anyways.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 week ago:
…or Do Not Play
way ahead of you there, guy
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 2 weeks ago:
consider the Dot Com Bubble: the internet obviously didn’t disappear but that doesn’t mean there weren’t serious economic consequences.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 2 weeks ago:
borderlands
premium
lol
lmao
rofl
- Comment on Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide 2 weeks ago:
I’m not saying that I think roblox should be protected from a lawsuit, I made a bad joke about how roblox exploited child labor with their outrageous percentages on their store (I have no idea if that still happens because I’m perpetually ~10 years behind everything in pop culture)
- Comment on Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide 2 weeks ago:
I think I worded that poorly; Roblox is infamous for exploiting the labor of children, in the form of user-created content, to generate a shitton of money on their store by taking a (rather large) percentage of the sales.
- Comment on Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide 2 weeks ago:
Would be pretty silly if roblox lost a lawsuit for letting someone else exploit children through their platform.
- Comment on Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads 2 weeks ago:
What a coincidence; I’ve been seeing a lot less Roku lately.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 2 weeks ago:
The conflict of interest here is pretty obvious, and if anybody was suckered into believing this guy’s prognostications on his company’s products perhaps they should work on being less credulous.
- Comment on How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine? 2 weeks ago:
through the secret force technique of “who gives a fuck”
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
bullshit. You’re just intellectualizing being a creep.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
How, exactly, does having empathy lead to toleration of unempathetic ideologies like fascism? It logically would make us even more averse to those kinds of ideas.
What a reductive and unnuanced view of the world. I sure hope you are not representative of the rest of the population or we are even more fucked than I thought.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
the problem is that he was wrong; Empathy is a good thing. You are embodying his shitty ideology by not having empathy. That doesn’t mean you gotta suddenly like the guy or not call out his shitty ideology, but don’t let yourself get dragged down to his level in the septic tank.
I’ll gladly die on this hill, get at me nerds
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 2 weeks ago:
his book on propaganda, The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, is also well worth a read.
And, if you like Ellul, you should definitely check out Ivan Illich’s work. He’s another social critic coming from a heterodox Christian perspective (Catholic in this case). His ideas can seem a bit unintuitive at and even off-putting to modern sensibilities at times (especially his idea of Life as Idol and his critique of modern medicine in general) but he’s another guy with a lot going on that has been pretty accurate in his prognosticating of contemporary society.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 2 weeks ago:
many mid-20th century French thinkers like Foucault, Debord, Deleuze and Baudrillard spent a lot of time writing about surveillance and technology. Lots of this stuff has turned out to be extremely prescient. (Ellul is another example, but as a Christian Anarchist his critiques of what he called the Technical Society, are a bit of an outlier from the other guys above who, despite a plurality of ideas and perspectives, were all coming from a pretty similar place wrt their philosophical backgrounds)
A pretty easy to digest example is Deleuze’s “Postscript on Societies of Control”, which is like 5 pages long and available for free online, written ca 1990 that is pretty spooky in how accurately it predicted the current state of affairs today.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 2 weeks ago:
there’s a lot of mid-century French theorists spinning in their graves right now
- Comment on A Love Letter To Internet Relay Chat 2 weeks ago:
IRC continues to demonstrate the superiority of protocols over platforms. Unfortunately, the modern internet is entirely dominated by centralized platforms and that doesn’t seem to be changing anytime soon.