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- Comment on I am gorge 1 day ago:
I prefer the second option. That means he is alive and can still find love as a wiser but sadder monkey. There is more room in a broken heart.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 2 days ago:
Zuck owns more than Facebook, too. ANY big social media platform is similarly toxic.
These people have co-opted our social discourse for evil causes. And they aren’t the only way to share work online.
Creative people do not have a right to my admiration if they provide fresh bait that the oligarchs use to degrade democracy and civil society
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 2 days ago:
Nah, if you are feeding the Zuck, not my team. The principled creatives aren’t there.
It sucks to try to make a living as a creative. But giving your efforts to support social media platforms controlled by the worst people is inexcusable. Zuck literally and provably helped the fascists gain power.
The creatives I can respect create because they are compelled to. They work jobs and create when they can. They share their work on less shitty platforms and in actual real life.
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 2 days ago:
I remember at my first job in high school in a store on Main Street. We had a sidewalk sale with other business owners.
My innocence was lost when my boss instructed me to place higher prices using our ordinary white stickers and then cover them with orange sales stickers at slightly higher prices.
These dicks just do it at scale. Amazon is a tawdry crime organization. We all know it.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 2 days ago:
Boo hoo, losers. Your device has a power switch. Influencers have a warped and inflated sense of the value they create. They can stop at any time and use their skills in other ways.
Making good content is hard, but ‘good’ content doesn’t have an expiration date. Shallow brain-rot content does and that’s what the algorithms reward.
The entitlement that influencers have is nauseating. There are many creators out there laboring in near obscurity and producing useful content all the time for little or no compensation.
They are tools for Zuck and fools for propping his platforms up. It sounds like a hard slog, but they can stop any time.
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? 4 days ago:
Listen here, you little shit.
JK, you are correct. I prefer punishingly steep progressive taxation over asphyxiation as a solution.
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? 4 days ago:
Then WHY THE FUCK AREN’T WE ACTING LIKE IT!!!
Sir, I apologize for my inappropriate display of emotion. But seriously, I think almost everyone would agree with this statement if asked in a vacuum.
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- Comment on Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote 6 days ago:
I don’t buy it.
A diversity of regulatory approaches especially in such a complex subject really does need the 50 state laboratory.
In fact because states are smaller markets, it might encourage the development of more smaller companies. A complex regulatory landscape gives an efficiency edge to players who focus product development in specific states.
Anything to keep this shitshow happening in a more democratic way is fine by me. Anthropic and that Altman fellow seem so desperately out of touch with humanity, I welcome any disadvantages we can give them.
- Comment on This was a great TV show and so few remember it 1 week ago:
I used to love watching My Horse The Sex Pest on Nick at Nite!
- Comment on Damn 1 week ago:
I want a Nerdy Gurdy so freaking bad. Nerdy Gurdy
- Comment on You got it, buddy 1 week ago:
It’s southern hemisphere for sure
- Comment on ⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ 1 week ago:
I’m jealous of your gritty existence.
- Comment on ⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ 1 week ago:
I miss my Razr. It had the most satisfying feel and look when you flipped it open, star trek communicator style.
- Comment on Does using ChatGPT change your brain activity? Study sparks debate 1 week ago:
It definitely does in my experience. I have intentionally used it for specific tasks for defined periods of time. And then stopped and used only my normal online search tools and a text editor without AI assistance. My projects were written concept development, plus some light coding to create utility scripts.
From just my own experience there is definitely a real cognitive hazard associated with using LLMs at all, for all but the most specialized tasks where an LLM is really warranted.
The scripts worked fine, as they were quite simple python utilities for some data cleaning, so I see a use there. But I found that the concepts never caught fire in my imagination, whereas usually a good share of concepts developed manually turn into something that gets a deeper treatment, even a prototype design at least.
- Comment on Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order 1 week ago:
Lucky people. They will have a period of mourning and then enter a cultural renaissance.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 1 week ago:
Websites work very well and are scalable af. A plugged in person with a track record like that could go Web 2.0 and probably net more.
- Comment on It may make you feel better to deny it.... but it's true 1 week ago:
Feeee-males.
- Comment on the seven deadly companies 2 weeks ago:
Correct. I in no way envy any of those poor half-souls who haunt LinkedIn.
- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 2 weeks ago:
What you might want is a permanent easement, as is often used for conservation purposes
- Comment on The future is amazing 2 weeks ago:
I know, Don’t actually care.
- Comment on Who remembers alt.fan.tonya.harding.whack.whack.whack ? 2 weeks ago:
alt.sexy.bald.captains
- Comment on The future is amazing 2 weeks ago:
AI: Actually Indians
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for taking the time to write that. That was very well thought out and I really can’t see much or anything to quibble about.
I am a gay man raised in a conservative culture and I really know quite a lot of men in their 30s and 40s who are straight and accepting of me, but still deeply deeply troubled and confused about what it means to be a man. They struggle to identify and articulate their emotions quite a lot.
The fact that those in same-sex relationships have to invent their own ways of dividing the work in a partnership without reference to pre-defined gender roles makes their insight incredibly useful to the world at large. A lot of the struggles that men experience are due to rigid gender roles that do not allow for healthy expression.
I get a little bit angry because it’s like we were expected to accept that provisional approval from the Supreme Court, which as we all know is a very fragile victory.
Why? Because frankly, I think gay men and lesbians have a lot to teach about relationships just by existing visibly. Transgender people do too, but they do not yet enjoy the patchy and tentative acceptance that same sex relationships between cis people have achieved in the large parts of the USA. Their struggle is very intense right now and the LGBQs can help by getting loud again.
Why did we give up on the fight so early? The struggle for existence is not quite as dire for gay and lesbian people as it used to be, but it is still quite a struggle as nothing is assured. But it is not just for our benefit that we must be visible. Frankly, our experience gives us a great deal of wisdom and insight that our society, and men especially, desperately need.
- Comment on The real question is, which color? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe a tic tac, or better a chunk of alkaline seltzer
- Comment on PROGRESS 2 weeks ago:
The sandwich has three poignants.
- Comment on Dear Kevin 2 weeks ago:
Unequivocally yes.
I got a contest going with my plant systematics cohort (8 credit hours over an academic year, that’s a lot of plant id work). We would see who could come up with the filthiest mnemonics to remember plant families and such.
Our professor, a brilliant botanist with a filthy mind and tenure, was delighted beyond measure at how well the entire cohort did on the practical plant ID exams. But mostly he enjoyed watching our classroom discussions.
- Comment on Nestin, nexin, nesprin, nectin, nephrin, netrin... 3 weeks ago:
There are too many fscking proteins and I won’t put up with it anymore!
- Comment on Yet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why 3 weeks ago:
It is exactly because Microsoft does suck fucks.
- Comment on In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high? 3 weeks ago:
If you really want help, you almost need to dox yourself by giving pretty specific location info. So please don’t do that.
Land matters are very complex in any country. In the USA, laws around land use can vary from one block to another. 50 states and many matters are delegated from each state to their counties for implementation.
My point is, yes, you may be able to arrange such a community.
It can be a tricky legal, political and social affair that is very specific to your exact site.
So plan on a huge learning curve and learning how to find the right kind of legal and organizational advice.