supersquirrel
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- Comment on Cozy card game where you can craft your own cards. 17 hours ago:
This looks interesting
- Comment on What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage? 1 day ago:
- Comment on TIL science has its own swifties 2 days ago:
Think of The Taylor Series as a way of systematically approaching the estimation other more difficult functions starting from a particular point and reconstructing a graph function by stacking polynomials/exponents.
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 2 days ago:
This isn’t about AI, or Palestine, or healthcare.
No, actually it is inseperable from those things.
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 3 days ago:
Probably because you are still refusing to look at this any way other than a naive techy who sees everything as a series of individual technical problems and cannot grasp the systematic, social forces shaping the technology and systems around them to violent ends.
This article laments about a number of things that have systematic, definable origins that society has warned tech industry workers as if they were simply expressions of a chaotic universe full of people who aren’t as smart as them that always for some reason desperately need their help to accomplish basic things with the tools from the industry they work in.
There is a crisis of individuality in the politics of US tech workers, and it is far past nauseating, it is offensive to all the people being hurt right now by the tools these people are involved with building.
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 3 days ago:
They aren’t? The whole point of AI is to use technology to rationalize severing the social contract at a basic level in order to normalize hurting people for being out of the loop. Techies in their naive smugness refused a leftist analysis of their industry, failed to unionize and now the rest of us are paying the price.
Whether it is using AI to aid in the Palestinian genocide with Microsoft, using AI to mass deny life saving healthcare and murder people with United Healthcare, preying upon tech illiterate people with the ads industry or any number of things, trust us, we aren’t thankful for techies.
- Comment on Australia receives first two Boeing AH-64E Apaches as local industry prepares for 230 jobs 3 days ago:
yeah Boeing sketches me out, they didn’t really make this entire system though, they bought it so I am not really sure how much they can enshittify it in the way Boeing has its other stuff.
- Australia receives first two Boeing AH-64E Apaches as local industry prepares for 230 jobsdefence-industry.eu ↗Submitted 3 days ago to news@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Cause and Effect 4 days ago:
The problem is not and has not been science. The problem is messaging.
Yes, but the actual factor driving this is the meteoric rise of the top 1% richest, it is *wealth inequality that creates a coherence to misinformation by establishing systematic incentives.
- Submitted 1 week ago to memes@sopuli.xyz | 1 comment
- Comment on How do I shoot my gun in factorio for the steam deck? 1 week ago:
so check the steam controls by pressing the bottom left … button. Examine the controls for Factorio, are the steam deck controls mapped to mouse and keyboard or is Factorio receiving the actual gamepad inputs without them being translated?
From there you can just figure out which binding is for fire with the keyboard and map that to a steam deck button that makes sense for you, or you can look up the gamepad bindings in factorio and figure it out that way.
- Comment on EA Close To Sale That Would Take The Company Private 1 week ago:
Sounds like something Stephen Miller would try to implement.
- Comment on W E G O N O W 1 week ago:
This one trick other species without symbiosis don’t want you to know!
- Comment on If AI Was Really Used to Censor ‘Together’ in China, It Represents a Potentially Terrifying Future 1 week ago:
China’s writing the playbook.
who is selling them the apparatus to do so again?
- Comment on Yea well it still can't have an existential crisis like humans can! Take that! 1 week ago:
That is EXACTLY what this mindset leads to, it doesn’t need to be said out loud.
- Comment on Console wars death watch: Microsoft Flight Simulator coming to PS5 in December - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Mission Accomplished
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
Trust is developed through genuine conversations and actions, it is never something you can be totally sure of but on the otherhand when conversation and action is based on mutually shared values, solidarity and empathy you don’t need perfect trust.
The struggle to improve all our lives as best we can isn’t some clandestine bankrobbery that requires secrecy and ultimate commitment.
- Comment on Greatest irony of the AI age: Humans being increasingly hired to clean AI slop 1 week ago:
This isn’t an irony, this was always the plan. The intended effect was to break the back of labor in the tech industry and it worked beautifully for them.
- Comment on Oof 2 weeks ago:
Hey, our future isn’t that bad at least we get treats before the disease kills us. That is what “treatable disease” means right?
- Comment on Who got raptured today? 2 weeks ago:
HECK YES LETS GET RAPTORED AF
reads closer
Wait what?
raptor sauce
- Comment on Reddit Wants 'Deeper Integration' with Google in Exchange for Licensed AI Training Data - Slashdot 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand the basic world model people deeply invested in trying to profit off Reddit have, if they think Reddit comments are valuable enough to make Google bargain with them doesn’t that mean they acknowledge that it is the users not the company that creates the value? Do the current owners seriously think that a totally adhoc system of unpaid subreddit moderators moderating communities of content solely provided by users who are NOT employees, communities which sprung up around different topics organically from the contributions of users who are NOT employees can be misconstrued as somehow a product of value created and maintained by the current management of Reddit?
Reddit is valuable because of the things said on it, not because Reddit is a particularly well designed business, nor even a remotely sustainable one longterm at least in terms of the immense magnitudes of profits that larger investors demand.
I suppose Discord killed off so many independent, open niche communities that Reddit thinks they can really get away with it, but the problem for Reddit is that the best parts of Reddit don’t need a corporation to muddle with them, introducing a corporation just makes it worse in every way…
- Comment on Political discourse 2 weeks ago:
Same
- Comment on Protein time 2 weeks ago:
Imagine a highschool level biology textbook that is made using almost exclusively using GTA San Andreas memes and metaphors to explain biological concepts.
- Comment on Should I _really_ be enjoying myself? 2 weeks ago:
wait but the problem they always say we have is that we are too impulsive and just keep doing things that give us instant gratification instead of things that are good for our future… so how does that square with the background radiation feeling of being so anxious that things that make us feel instant pleasure also make us feel guilt?
hmmm
looks at the concept of “instant gratification” with a skeptical squint of a lone cowboy in a standoff
“I have beef with you Instant Gratification, but today is not the day, but I am swear I am going to make consequences come for you soon, any day now. Maybe tomorrow I think I just have some other things I need to do, I have been meaning to do it so that means I will. you can rest assured about that.”
- Comment on Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI 2 weeks ago:
(There is a clear parallel to the Luddites here, who were skilled technicians and clothmakers who weren’t worried about technology surpassing them, but the way factory owners used it to make cheaper, lower-quality goods that drove down prices.)
I think we need to start putting this on billboards.
- Comment on Directions 3 weeks ago:
I propose Antartica adopt an irrational approach.
Decide on Antartica North as a basis, clearly this should be Antartica’s tentacle where it reaches out trying to touch the South American tentacle.
Multiply North by the square root of -1 a.k.a. i.
I propose as international law that real estate/territory claims all have to be solely defined in terms of trignometric functions on Antartica.
It would also hopefully draw irrationality from different continents acting as an irrationality sink.
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 3 weeks ago:
KEVIN Birmingham’s new book about the long censorship fight over James Joyce’s Ulysses braids eight or nine good stories into one mighty strand.
It’s about women’s rights and heroic female editors, the First World War, anarchism and modernism, tenderness and syphilis, moral panic and about the Lost Generation and the tent it pitched at Sylvia Beach’s Paris bookstore. It isolates a great love story, that of Joyce and Nora Barnacle, one that comes with a finger-burning side order of some of the most cheerfully filthy correspondence in literary history.
scotsman.com/…/the-battle-to-publish-james-joyces…
And what a quest it was. “Ulysses” was illegal to own in most of the English-speaking world for more than a decade. It was banned, burned, debated, smuggled, and finally legalized following a 1933 court ruling. In Birmingham’s highly readable and erudite book, he infuses this story with drama, reminding us that the right to express oneself can never be taken for granted.
Readers will quickly realize the immense scope of “The Most Dangerous Book.” Modernism, obscenity, the power once held by postal authorities, vice squads, 19th century English law, Joyce’s sex life and health problems, The Lost Generation, early literary magazines, Wall Street lawyers, the suffrage movement, anarchy in America, and even the Enlightenment are all seamlessly woven into this most fascinating tapestry.
- Comment on Is 128 players too much for a multiplayer FPS? Yes, says Battlefield 6 3 weeks ago:
It only is if you are a piece of shit company that doesn’t allow modding of your games.
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 3 weeks ago:
If what we perceive as reality is a simulation the purpose is quite clear, to observe the behavior of overconfident idiots unfettered by the mediating tendencies of a too reasonable reality.
- Comment on UK workers wary of AI despite Starmer’s push to increase uptake: A third of those polled do not tell bosses about use of tools and half think AI threatens the social structure 3 weeks ago:
link broken I think
