zbyte64
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- Comment on X now lets any user AI-edit other users’ images without consent, and there is no opt out 18 hours ago:
And he encouraged others to do so. It is almost like this is a bigger issue for women or girls for some reason. I’m probably sexist for noticing.
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 5 days ago:
Teflon Don, like Epstein, collected pictures of power people doing “embarrassing” things. Unlike Epstein he didn’t use a private island, he used hotels that catered to people with power.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 1 week ago:
That’s all hard to do when billionaires are the ones structuring society. The point is we don’t get to choose corrective societal actions unless it is an exercise of individual privilege. I would have loved to take the train to visit relatives, but it literally is not an option.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 1 week ago:
Urban centers have less waste or CO2 per capita than their rural or suburban counterparts. The problem is our pursuit of ever increasing profits is extremely wasteful but is currently how states gain influence.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
Our political system equates value to revenue and that is why we don’t tax accordingly. Business owners are labeled “job creators” and taxing them is framed as a negative value add.
Absolutely agree that athletes are also being exploited here and the burden should not fall on them to correct this.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
This. Everyone wants qualified, well paid teachers for their kids, just like how most people want universal healthcare. But our government and media structure actively disempowers any such movements in that direction.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
And when the social sector lobbies it is called “special interests” by the press. When capital owners do it they are called “job creators” by the press.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
Revenue is not the same as value, teachers enable much more economic activity than athletes. The fact we equate “profit generated” to the value of the profession is part of the problem.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
Was thinking about this in the context of a joke I heard in the late 90s:
What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? A good start.
We didn’t we have jokes like that about the billionaires; at the time people were glazing Bill Gates. It’s wild because billionaires are the ones writing the laws, lawyers just act it out.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 1 week ago:
But maybe if I use AI I can be wealthy. Sure it is accelerating climate change and will undoubtedly cost lives, but that is a small price to pay for me to horde money like a dragon.
- Comment on Hey Grok 2 weeks ago:
She changed her last name to not be associated to the guy. I can at least respect she doesn’t want to be defined by her opposition to her father.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 4 weeks ago:
It could be different but that is what the companies are stating as their operational life span when they report their financials. They used to say they would only last 4 years…
- Comment on Leftists should stop trying to change the world, and use those new skills, knowledge and strengths (after trying to wake Liberals up) to survive the accelerating US collapse. Be selfish. Make moves. 4 weeks ago:
I agree people are selfish but I disagree on where that leads us. Acting as a collective is the best way to be selfish. Billionaires have their collectives: corporations; and if you don’t do the same then you are not even selfish, you are just cattle.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 4 weeks ago:
Haven’t seen this mentioned yet: the RAM they are making for these AI chips are built to burn up after 6 years. The RAM is built into the processing units to reduce latency but the whole unit is designed with short planned obsolescence so burning out after 5-6 years is expected. The assumption is that by the time they burn up they you will replace them with a more energy efficient unit.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 4 weeks ago:
It often feels like violence.
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 1 month ago:
How exactly was it brilliant of him to say Mamdani can call him a fascist?
- Comment on THIS is real. There is an app that allows you to text with Jesus 1 month ago:
First the pope throws a rave, now this 🤦
- Comment on Meta - There's Levels To This Shit 1 month ago:
Apply this logic to the hospitality industry, where Trump famously got his start. Your hotel hosts dignitaries around the world. If you find out one of your guests invited prostitutes or did drugs you could have leverage over some very powerful people. If there is sewage surveillance, you will see it at the hotels first.
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 1 month ago:
Being right isn’t as important as doing right. I have better things to do with my time, unlike marketers.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 2 months ago:
The truck says “War” on it. This is why voucher schools exists, so that I, as a parent, don’t need to deal with this kind of parent and their kids.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 2 months ago:
Where I am at there’s triple digit hear warnings, so there is a logic to this. On the other I have used my bicycle to pick up my daughter under such conditions so it is possible, but then she rightfully complains about the heat.
- Comment on Insuranace is a joke 2 months ago:
Needing to own a car to exist in society is a tax.
- Comment on Why do people hate reality? 2 months ago:
With you on all but makeup. I don’t do it but I know enough to know it is an art form and I also know there’s a paradox of self-expression that is intertwined with camp and seduction. These things are not inherently bad, but they are destructive when they are commoditized so that we start to think we have to pay admission to express ourself
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 3 months ago:
Oh, you actually serious?
I don’t care enough about this to debate his motives, I just know stupidity when I see it.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 3 months ago:
Lol. That was good but you need to double down on the irony at the end or else people might think you’re serious. Maybe rift on him crossing state lines.
- Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism 3 months ago:
Saying that you’re not worth the time to train someone to interact with you better but here’s a product you can buy is a platitude. You failed the empathy test.
- Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism 3 months ago:
Additionally, AI will only be getting better,
It might get cheaper, but that doesn’t mean it’s doing a better job.
if the alternative is telling people that are struggling and have no other options that they have to tough it out
That’s just it, if you’re talking to someone who’s is struggling with this there is already a better option: showing empathy. I suspect our perceived lack of empathy is a reflection of how society treats people in general, we are just more honest about it.
- Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism 3 months ago:
I’ll be honest, I find the framing of the study offensive and I’m not sure if I have the words but I’ll try.
It’s less about this study comparing itself to no intervention instead of comparing to existing interventions, but the social context of AI being pushed as a way to make care giving more efficient while sacrificing quality.
- Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism 3 months ago:
half were assigned to use Noora for four weeks and half received no intervention.
If only they gave a control group an off-the-shelf social game like LA Noire…
- Comment on The devil made me do it 4 months ago:
Ever tried siracha deviled eggs? Or with grey puopon? I wonder what the price of eggs are now…