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- Comment on Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI 3 hours 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 1 day 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? 1 day 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 2 days 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 days 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 days ago:
link broken I think
- Comment on I declare bankruptcy! 1 week ago:
Your flirting became too big to fail or it would crash the economy, genius!
- Comment on Drink your stoats 1 week ago:
The tragedy here is apparently that people want you to suffer this cruel fate alone.
- Comment on Biblically accurate Furby 1 week ago:
Is this before or after the stage of growth where it absorbs a human child’s soul for more power?
- Comment on Google AI Mode To Become Default For Google Search Soon 1 week ago:
Lol I love how people assume they won’t load the AI up with even more ads than the traditional search results.
- Comment on That one Pokémon 2 weeks ago:
Your mom goes there duh
- Comment on Finish the story, chat. 2 weeks ago:
Sorry but even after doing that it is still clear we need more tariffs on the penguins whether we assume they are cylinders or not.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah true, I guess I meant more before this recent uptick in memes/criticism. I don’t expect celebrity musicians to be paragons of virtue or fight every political battle for justice but I do expect… something? Like a little bit? Have a spine maybe?
I mean she can do whatever she wants, but that is the point right, she can do whatever she wants unlike the rest of us.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 weeks ago:
You can be a pirate with principles.
On the topic, what was the reasoning of the Houthis attacks on the red sea shipping lanes?
It was because they are totally crazy deranged terrorist villains from an 80s action movie right?..or like monomaniacal greed right?
…wait hold on… checks notes … are we the badies?
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 2 weeks ago:
Ok that would be the part I understand, I am asking about the part I don’t.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 2 weeks ago:
Why does Taylor Swift get such a massive pass from everybody in terms of scrutiny?
- Comment on Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy one of the world's foremost experts on public health. He is working hard to restore the credibility of the CDC as a scientific organization 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for that wonderful image!
- Comment on Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy one of the world's foremost experts on public health. He is working hard to restore the credibility of the CDC as a scientific organization 2 weeks ago:
Stephen Miller is a nazi, he doesn’t give a shit about health except as a narrative device to create permission for more authoritarian violence.
- Comment on O-Bahn Busway Adelaide 2 weeks ago:
what advantage does this have over a normal road exclusively for buses?
- Comment on The One Secret Scientists And Mathematicians Don't Want You To Know About The Most Important Number 2 weeks ago:
No, this is from my research notes I wrote myself.
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- Comment on Microsoft fires 2 employees after they broke into president's office 2 weeks ago:
I mean, you can do something illegal and still be a hero.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 3 weeks ago:
Easy. Just imagine only the spots part.
- Comment on Pearl of Honor 3 weeks ago:
brachiopods in the background like
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 3 weeks ago:
No more unrealistic than the massive valuations on the stock market of social media corporations that can supposedly back it up somehow (with AI! or something… VR maybe?) despite the fact that fundamentally these social media places are becoming crowded rooms of bots pretending to be humans all trying to manipulate each other.
My point is, we will figure out how to sustainably scale before corporations do because the metabolism of massive tech companies precludes them from giving a shit about that.
At this point, inefficiency is a virtue for these corporations as it degrades the environment around them making future alternatives unlikely to be able to gain a hold in such a broken context.
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 3 weeks ago:
still better than ios lol
Yeah android has termux, termux is amazing, I run emacs in it and have all the power of org mode on my phone!
- Comment on Think of the shareholders! 3 weeks ago:
This economic crash is going to be so much more painful than a nice quick asteroid impact that vaporizes you in a fraction of a second. Jealous of the dinosaurs right now.
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 3 weeks ago:
nope :)
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 3 weeks ago:
I was replying to both, I understand your point, my point is the beginning of the comment you were responding to defeats itself with stupidity before your logic (which I agree with) has even gotten out of bad and put pants on for the day.
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 3 weeks ago:
The issue isn’t so much that they’re banning pornographic content
I agree with your point but also what the hell, why is this considered a normal well adjusted thing to say…
I’m all in for banning pornographic content
Why? What is the flimsy, unscientific, puritan christian conservative reason and why is it ok for people to force it on everybody else?
