meat_popsicle
@meat_popsicle@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Ecuador's youngest mayor Brigitte García shot dead 9 months ago:
Mexican cartels moved into industry, agriculture, and human trafficking. Avocados, limes, and construction, for example.
You planning on legalizing those next? You can’t legislate violent thugs away, you could legalize their entire enterprise and they’ll still have a place because the state ceded the monopoly of violence to them.
- Comment on Security footage of Boeing repair before door-plug blowout was overwritten 9 months ago:
Just fly Airbus. Or Embraer. Or Bombardier. It’s still safer than driving by far.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
You’d think participating in the propaganda campaign for the Iraq war and the Valery Plame incident would’ve nailed their coffin shut, but here we are today, with those same assholes doing what they do best.
- Comment on Electric cars will be cheaper to make than gas vehicles but with much higher repair and insurance costs 9 months ago:
Hah. As somebody that had to be driven to the bus stop because it was over a mile away, I call BS.
- Comment on A Google AI Watched 30,000 Hours of Video Games—Now It Makes Its Own 9 months ago:
People go to casinos and play slots for a hit of brain chemicals. They’re not there for art. Nor are whales in most mobile games.
I’ll bet some exec thinks an AI-enhanced Skinner box would interesting to see.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 10 months ago:
Thanks to federation, the copies of the eggs are. You can’t stop one instance from selling data sourced from federated content until it’s too late.
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 10 months ago:
Oh no, it’s the consequences of my actions by putting all my eggs in one basket and giving a corporation incredible leverage.
Maybe they should derisk their infrastructure then…
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 10 months ago:
You think Microsoft has no assets in Europe? Asset seizure is a sure fire way to get paid when companies refuse to cooperate.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 10 months ago:
Arch isn’t going anywhere.
- Comment on Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist 10 months ago:
lol Finance is sometimes hilariously low tech. Lookup how ACH works, it’s a fucking farce.
- Comment on The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case 11 months ago:
And Timothy McVeigh.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 11 months ago:
Hmm. Maybe minors shouldn’t be working in that type of role if they can’t be photographed at work then? It’s a job in a business that serves the public, photography has to be assumed.
- Comment on AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans 1 year ago:
If an AI can outperform a human doctor, isn’t that a good thing? We should always strive to improve survival for patients - it’s not about doctors jobs but patient survival and long term health outcomes.
I would love for doctors to become AI if the AI improves our growing health inequities and inequalities.
- Comment on AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans 1 year ago:
But some smaller, more integrous and creative influencers might.
Good, maybe they’ll get a productive job then and stop forcing their attempts at being influencers. You either are or aren’t one; they clearly don’t have what it takes to influence their viewers to buy sponsor products as efficiently.
Advertising isn’t a noble business and influencers are just advertisers. There is no noble human spirit in advertising, it is (and always has been) an exploitative and ignoble career.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 1 year ago:
Purely as an investor: if they can sustain that revenue growth the IPO will be a smash.
Never invest in companies you love or you won’t exit when you should.
- Comment on PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries | The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps. 1 year ago:
Agreed. Streaming services always seemed like gilded cages to me. You can only see what they allow you to see - piracy or old-school Netflix DVD delivery gives you all the options. The promise of being able to stream any content at any time, with the producers and people involved being able to get compensated fairly and justly, just isn’t reality with these ghouls running the show.
The model (in the current form, of artificially restricted licensing) seems like less a way to curate a media catalog, but more like a way to curate the subscribers and culture.
- Comment on WHITE WHALE HOLY GRAIL 1 year ago:
…it’s the easy answer so it’s the most likely.
- Comment on Amazon exec says it’s time for workers to ‘disagree and commit’ to office return — “I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better.” 1 year ago:
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!”
- Comment on A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month 1 year ago:
Based on the information the ad services know about individual viewers, they could customize the ads using invented models that perfectly match the viewers’ ethnicity/demographics.
IMO hyper-individualized ads that are personalized would increase diversity. It’d also be a new frontier in advertising manipulation.
- Comment on Japan Becomes 1st Country Ever To Fire Electromagnetic Railgun From An Offshore Vessel 1 year ago:
Played college ball ya know!
- Comment on POV) You use Windows 11 and set up Pihole for the first time. 1 year ago:
Telemetry DNS/API calls, not dialer calls.
- Comment on San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code 1 year ago:
In San Francisco/Bay Area that doesn’t even cover a parking space per month.
In the US, the average home price sold was $495k. Where can you find a $100k house that doesn’t need a tear down or complete renovation?
- Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. 1 year ago:
Ask any woman, they’ll tell you that only applies to men.
- Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. 1 year ago:
Just assume everybody harvests your data. There’s no way to prove that they’re not liars and just doing it anyway.
There are several examples of companies and government agencies that have been caught doing things and retaining data they shouldn’t - only after a breach released all the info.
Home Depot wasn’t supposed to store credit cards but they did it anyway in violation of PCI, for example.
- Comment on Rivian CEO issues strong statement about people who purchase gas-powered cars: ‘Sort of like building a horse barn in 1910’ 1 year ago:
Show me any car using Li-S or Lithium Titanate batteries that is sold and on the roads today.
- Comment on Shower thought: 1 year ago:
“It’s a magic square. Magic! How could it ever go wrong!”
- Comment on Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix 1 year ago:
Exploit is usable via JavaScript. Does not require local access.