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i guess the closest i have to a glib position is "you shouldn't have to pay a defence contractor to use a computer" plus "subsidizing tools that enable widespread fraud is bad" plus "you should not be surprise if people are judgemental about software that has killed several people"

although i do try and hold a more nuanced view like "machine translation good, extractive corpus bad, duty of care missing" i simply do not have the time or energy or good faith to talk about the finer points, especially when it feels like people are simply carving out exceptions for themselves

The more i see stuff like this from people heading projects the more i think that the ability to actually hit send on a work, warts and all, is a skill that is necessary lest the allure of "perfect" eat everything and everyone you love

The giant swing is the moment when real information starts hitting the system and overwhelming the signal of degenerate gambler chuds. But it shows the uselessness of betting markets; by the time they're giving Lula 75% odds, pollsters were publishing 95% certainty projections of the final result.

all else aside its pretty funny how right wing guys take one L and immediately start tweeting We Break The Law At All Times You Have To Lock Me Up Immediately

my Portuguese isn't great but I think I can work this out

FUCK your thermostatic public opinion, FUCK every shitlib who wrote us off, FUCK the state department, and especially FUCK every American social media company you can all SUCK MY DICK

A RED STAR SHINES OVER BRAZIL! Lula is reelected! Brazilians managed to mobilize and beat Bolsonaro, Trump, Meta, Google, Netanyahu, media oligarchs, corrupt judges, fascism, imperialism, apathy and hatred! May this victory bring hope to all our comrades fighting across the world! We can beat them

waking up from a nap to check my phone and see unambiguously good news for the world… honestly a little beautiful. fuck bolsanaro fuck zuckerberg and musk and everyone who controls the internet and thinks they can just take the whole world away from us for free

okay the thing about the "call an ambulance but not for me" is that yeah, how would we not assume the ambulance is for Jair Bolsonaro?

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

Guy who is accidentally correct about where Doggerland was

if my dad got disturbingly obsessed with spirals I’d probably do what I do for all his weird hobbies: buy him a cheap shirt off amazon that says like “Yeah, I’m A Spiral Dad”

further enshittification of the internet, this somehow went into my spam despite the invite only being good for tonight so i almost completely missed it

no one cares about trans women in women’s sports and you are, most generously, the worlds biggest idiot if you take it at face value as an earnest concern had by real voters

yeh tbh if AI is so great you should be proud of it, you should disclose it everywhere and put a bunch of stickers yourself that you used it for your project showing everyone how cool and cutting edge you are, no? like, it's the future right? you love it right??

The A Thing Thing (1982)

The thing about translation news sites like RHDN is that they represent *curation* - ways for people to make sense of what's happening in the scene, what's happening out there. RHDN's "just take everything" stance is breaking down in the face this much spam.

Every industrial product is being discontinued in favor of manufacturing different form factors of wire mother

That simply cannot be a real show and yet it makes so much sense that Dan would be on it and would be doing well. Truly, good for him

As an entirely serious comment, the NDP speaks to the issues the other major parties will not

I feel like the only real way to describe the economy right now is everyone is smashing up all their stuff with a hammer and it's not even clear if they're looking for nails or what

I think you need to look on the bright side of things. If EA closes all it's studios it means Microsoft won't need to buy them to close all those studios

i don't think anyone has ever hated their product and customers as much as video game companies

it's literally a corporation with billion dollar scale investment pouring millions into producing malware, one of the largest acts of technological and economic terrorism in history

This is an excellent, calm and precise discussion of what it means to draw lines for AI use in a creative community, and the problem of AI users feeling entitled to both have their cake and eat it.

so if it was a root certificate did they think they were setting it to 16?

What you've got to understand is that I'm not just *randomly* mad at you for using AI, I am spending a significant amount of every day either dealing with shitty slop code or talking with friends whose job prospects have been fucked by AI or reading about friends choking on data center smog

anyway, who was 4?

if you've convinced yourself it's ok if you cross a picket line (I wish you wouldn't) at least keep that shit to yourself instead of broadcasting shit that will do nothing but weaken other people's resolve and increase pressure on people who are holding the line you couldn't.