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- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 7 hours ago:
It was always going to end like this. If you’re surprised, I hope you learned a valuable lesson.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 4 days ago:
If AI is a bubble that pops, all the big talking heads that went on about how it’s the future and we all need to embrace it won’t lose credibility. They’ll mostly just keep their jobs. Not fair. I can be pig headed and wrong and I’ll do it for less than their seven figure compensation
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 4 days ago:
Peter Thiel is a monster whose opinions should be discarded.
- Comment on Mala Petaka is another action-packed GZDoom boomer shooter now on Steam 5 days ago:
It’s a pun and one of the prominent meanings is “old people like boomers like them”, while the other is “rockets go boom”. You know this.
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 4 weeks ago:
True. I just had a long discussion with a former coworker about that yesterday. I don’t buy the whole “people who go to college aren’t smart. the salt of the earth really know how the world works” that comes up sometimes.
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 4 weeks ago:
Most people aren’t that bright. Even people who are experts in one field or another.
But more than that, most people don’t care about things. They don’t know how platforms work, and they don’t care. Just picture a boundless void where things fall in- that’s the typical user apathy.
- Comment on Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates' 1 month ago:
I don’t know. Some CEOs are pretty stupid
- Comment on Microsoft is saving millions with AI and laying off thousands - where do we go from here? 2 months ago:
Can we start reframing this as instead of “saved $500mm” we say “stole $500mm from labor”?
- Comment on Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse” 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure you could really make a dent in the housing crisis, transit problems, food insecurity, any other real life problem of your choosing, with that kind of money. The fact that they blew it on “the metaverse” should be a crime
- Comment on Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse” 2 months ago:
He probably read Snow Crash (or maybe an AI summary, because he is a soulless husk) and thought it was super cool. It’s a dystopia. The book is not aspirational.
- Comment on WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family 2 months ago:
Most messages are so short I don’t see why you’d need a summary. Are people that poor at reading that like 10 sentences is a struggle? If so, education seems like what we should spend millions of dollars on.
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 4 months ago:
There’s still going to be production, and I don’t think we should continue with the capitalist class extracting value and making bad decisions
If you introduce basic income without addressing that, you’ll still have all the enshittification
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 4 months ago:
Basic income seems like an obvious solution.
Many people would pursue happy lives. Do some art. Do some gardening.
You’d also want to have like public housing or something so you don’t have parasitic landlords and homelessness.
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 4 months ago:
My understanding is the most “useful” thing a CEO typically does is schmooze with other rich assholes. A lot of companies need funding, and a lot of funding is handed out based on vibes. A good CEO makes friends with the assholes handing out money. That’s hard to replace with AI, probably.
On the other hand, CEOs routinely make stupid decisions. Maybe cutting that out makes up for the loss in funding opportunities?
Also this capitalist hellscape sucks. labor should unite instead of letting business idiots take most of the value they create.
- Comment on Meta argues enshittification isn’t real in bid to toss FTC monopoly trial 4 months ago:
Zuckerberg is garbage and shouldn’t be allowed to keep living with his tremendous, ill-gotten, wealth.
- Comment on EA employees "upset and confused" at return to office mandate 4 months ago:
Folks should unionize. The people mandating these “return to office” schemes can’t do shit unless labor cooperates.
- Comment on Paradox Interactive's return-to-office policy may be driving employees away from the studio 5 months ago:
No one who mandates return to office should be in a position where they’re empowered to make those decisions.
Labor needs to organize and say no
- Comment on TikTok ban loses momentum as fewer Americans view it as a security threat 5 months ago:
I kind of want to live in a world where people stop using tiktok because short form video like that seems bad for your brain.
- Comment on What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI. 6 months ago:
Big “y tho” response from me
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 7 months ago:
You’re an idiot that’s not engaging with my points. I hope you die alone, removed from everything you’ve ever loved.
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 7 months ago:
I’m not going to do legal research or write a whole thesis for you.
Maybe start here for cases where freedom of speech is not absolute: …wikipedia.org/…/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theat…
You can also consider that the NYT is not legally or morally obligated to publish every letter they receive. Are your first amendment rights being violated when they opt not to print your letter? No.
I don’t want to discuss with you. I don’t think you’re acting in good faith.
I mean really “sometimes laws are incorrect” -> “fascists say that” is like satire.
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 7 months ago:
There are numerous cases showing that free speech is not absolute.
Law is also not necessarily correct.
And that doesn’t address that we’re talking about a private platform.
You’re still wrong, and you’re still wrong in a way that supports the absolute worst of humanity.
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 7 months ago:
Paradox of tolerance comes to mind. If you just put up with people who want to do bad things, they’ll probably do bad things!
And it was considered before. There was a Holocaust. It was decided, via violence and other means, that naziism is not okay.
Also, Twitter is a private platform and is largely free to decide what goes on its platform.
You’re approaching fractally wrong, here.
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 7 months ago:
Better question: what are people going to do in response?
Probably nothing. Disappointing.
- Comment on Pornhub Is Pulling Out of Florida 9 months ago:
The GOP are bad people and should not be in charge of anything.
- Comment on Reddit bans posting UnitedHealthcare shooter’s manifesto 9 months ago:
Seems like a textbook example of why federation is better than something owned by some rich assholes
- Comment on Klarna Stopped All Hiring a Year Ago to Replace Workers With AI 9 months ago:
CEO said he did to prove that AI could ultimately replace all jobs.
This is worthless or even counter productive without like basic income or something.
- Comment on Epic’s holiday sale includes 16 free games this year 9 months ago:
I haven’t looked into how epic works on Linux, but I assume not as nicely as steam. So it’s kind of a non starter now
- Comment on Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client — users told to ‘update to a more recent version of Windows’ to continue gaming 10 months ago:
I switched to mint because ms won’t even let me upgrade to 11 if I wanted to. Other than some initial hurdles installing it, and losing some hd space because I kept windows on the other partition, it’s been fine. Proton and Wine are pretty low maintenance
- Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits 11 months ago:
It’s a little hard to square “steam is over charging for games” with “look at all these games I bought for 80% off ($5) off”, but I guess there’s more to it.