MagicShel

@MagicShel@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ġ̵̻ͅį̴̹̜̼̙͍͋̈̕m̷̦͎͈̎̄̄̿̈ṁ̶̭̫͓̞̻̾̂̚ë̶͚́̍̀͆ ̴̻͗̈́̿̂̚͝f̴̧̳̝͓̫̆̍͌͠u̸̧̖̠̗͔̽̽̾ȇ̶̝̠̎̔l̵̡͙͔̀́̃́̓͘,̵̠̜̽͛ ̴͙̜͇͚̥̜̑͛͐̓͆͒ḡ̸̮͝͠ḯ̸͍̩͛͗̍͝ṁ̶̛͎̖̭̖̓̃͑̃ḿ̵̫̇e̸͈͕̍̍͒ ̸̧̣̣̣̹̺͌̃ẇ̴̤̳͇̪̝̑̈́̏̚i̶͖͒̒r̶̢̪̙͉̭̥̂̐e̵̞̳̻̍͘⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “I AM the wire!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little snacc⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why, I’d have calories for a lifetime! I would never need eat again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's basic science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Christopher Lee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️‍⚧️ eat shit transphobes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m cis and they give me environmental stress. “Dude, I’m just trying to order lunch. Why are you sharing these inside thoughts with me?”

  I wouldn’t trade it, but one bad thing about being an old white guy is assholes think I’m safe to unmask around, and Christ it skeeves me out. No, man, take those fucking thoughts to your grave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One slur to rule them all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t heard anyone use “Jap” outside my grandfather’s generation — and he fought a fucking war against them so no surprise he had some big feels there. But he’s also been dead about 25 years and I’ve never heard the word since.

  But also I don’t hang out with racists, so what do I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is audiophile bullshit cheating?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s someone who doesn’t hate bass, they just hate your bass?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about the game more than I’m reading here, but the quote I was responding to is “two real horses fuck.” If that’s not what they mean then, fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, I was able to see your point all the way through, but what is wrong with two horses fucking? You can see that on 100 farms within 20 minutes of me. That’s probably the least weird thing I’ve heard about this game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spongebob big guy pants okay⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Octopodes?

  Ahk-top-o-deez nutz.

  English can always make things worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save the children!!!!!!!1⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m probably hiding an anatomically incorrect skeleton inside of me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI is a societal disaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure I follow the reasoning. California doesn’t have an abundance of water and there are huge water rights issues over it, making producing almonds there even more outrageous. Data centers might be built where there is more abundant water. Even in California, data centers are a fraction of a percent and shouldn’t be restricted on the basis of water usage when vastly more wasteful industries continue to exist there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re thinking of Lycanthrondria.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI is a societal disaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t need those foods specifically, when they are vastly more wasteful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI is a societal disaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We could eat just fine if almonds were never grown, and save 1000x the water that goes to data centers. That would have a far better conservation effect and hurt absolutely no one.

  Also, we’re getting rid of jobs in the falsified images and videos industry? Must be if that’s what AI is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI is a societal disaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Attacking data centers over water use when it is utterly dwarfed by the almond and dairy industries is weird priorities to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI is a societal disaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why start with data centers and not almonds or dairy? The difference in water usage is staggering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While you were having premarital sex, I was mastering the asymptotic notation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but what did you do with the other 4 minutes and 30 seconds?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI is a societal disaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Globally, data centers use 18.2 billion liters of water per year. California almond production uses 6-10 trillion liters per year. A little perspective may be in order here.

  (According to the numbers I was able to find in ten minutes of googling trying to reproduce more reliable studies I’ve seen elsewhere. Feel free to correct me if you have better numbers. Truth is more important than being right.)

  Energy usage looks like is projected to be around 3% by 2030, which is more worthy of concern. The water thing, for everything I can see or find, is vastly overblown and there are much lower hanging fruit to pick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coastal Peacock Spider: Mating Dance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks pretty ambiguous to me. Eyes seem fem, thighs seem him.

  That thong, though… I could never wear something that made me question whether my asshole was showing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak supports interim ban on AI superintelligence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI superintelligence is:

  • not a thing
  • would have to be a thing in order to get banned
  • if it really was superintelligent they would just ignore the ban — doesn’t apply to “contiguous superpositional vectorized thought-matrix” (or whatever)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World would be a better place⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Got a ring, but I don’t even like talking through it. I just look and hope they go away. But sometimes I have to ask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World would be a better place⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it was ever not about selling (product, religion, candidate) maybe it wouldn’t be so awful to have your door knocked. I don’t mind if it’s about a lost dog or kid, or maybe someone with baked goods saying hi. But no, it’s always someone trying to get you into their pipeline. Someone who doesn’t see you as a person, but only as a lead.

  Fucking people. Get off my porch, lawn—just back all the way out of sight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bats taxonomy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They technically a member of the ambulatory foliage genus, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From that guy’s twitter? The primary source of this article is that guy, who is a lobbyist and lawyer. Someone whose career is based on legalistic wordsmithing to convince people that other people are bad.

  I’ve seen papers served before, both by a cop and a regular dude (going by appearance). The fact that the server was a deputy in this case doesn’t honestly seem relevant at all. Cops are frequently hired because someone in a police uniform knocking on your door is more likely to be answered than someone who looks like a salesman. But jurisdictions are different—I’ve never heard of papers being served by registered mail, for instance.

  That’s why I’d like for the journalist to have brought in some kind of legal analyst to weigh in. They didn’t and what we have is a bunch of quotes from an expert wordsmith and a tech journalist who may not know anything more about the legalities than we do.

  I genuinely appreciate that you took another step to look into this and respond, but hearing more from the guy’s own perspective doesn’t help me feel like I know what’s really going on here.

  I think I’m done with this whole topic until I hear something about it from a better source. If this is never mentioned again, I’ll assume this is just an attempt at manipulating public opinion over a mundane matter that isn’t outrageous at all. If there is something to it, we’ll hear more about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s not just a random dude, though. His organization is involved in lobbying efforts around OAI. The article claims there’s no connection between the case being subpoenaed for and the stuff he did, and that’s the part that might be abnormal and dirty, but it’s nuanced and the clear bias on display demands their claims be taken with a grain of salt.

  It looks to me like this article is carrying the guy’s PR water for him. But just because the article feels manipulative doesn’t mean there’s necessarily no factual basis for it.

  So I just… don’t feel informed at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From my experience, OAI may be the public face of AI, but Anthropic is murdering them in coding capability and cost - as in my company pays more in a week for me to use Claude than I would’ve paid in a month to use the top OAI API. (Actually I paid 1/10th that because I couldn’t afford that for what was essentially just a toy for my discord users—I wasn’t using it for development.) It really puts things in perspective when I can see in Cline the running totals for each task.

  Of course, I have no idea what the operating costs are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an inflammatory way of saying the guy got served papers. I’m not in love with OAI, but it rankles me when someone nakedly tries to manipulate the narrative.

  I don’t understand the nuances of whether it’s normal for the guy to be subpoenaed—it could all be as dirty as he says, but the title makes me assume the rest of the article is just as skewed, and I walk away feeling like someone tried to recruit me to a cause rather than inform me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 60% of US game players only buy two games or fewer per year, survey finds | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a console. The games I bought (on sale or no) in reverse order are:

  • expedition 33 (31?)
  • It Takes Two
  • Baldur’s Gate
  • CP2077 (discount)
  • No man’s Sky (discount)
  • Days Gone (discount)
  • Diablo IV
  • Jedi: Outcast
  • Horizon: Forbidden West

  And it came with the latest(?) god of war, but I’ve never played it.

  So if you’re talking about AAA brand new games, my average is under 2 per year. But I have so many hours logged between BG, DG, and NMS it’s ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Investment is not inherently a bad thing, but this is certainly the case. When the owners of the company care about increased profit instead of the employees and customers (which would be aligned in a perfect world but they are not necessarily so in this one) enshittification is inevitable.

  As soon as it is more profitable to lobby for legal changes that make more money at the expense odds your customers or employees—or find other ways to use your money to the same ends, you’ve gone to the dark side. I wish it was illegal for organizations (other than non-profits) to be involved in politics, but as a practical matter you can either allow it or accept it will happen out of view and ability to influence, like drug use.

  These issues are why I’m happy being a worker bee than a queen—there’s no solving people’s problems when the problems almost always turn out to be the ability/drive of some of us to adapt to any system for maximum personal gain at the expense of others.