NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on LinkedIn is the ‘most AI-saturated platform,’ new study suggests 19 hours ago:
Rule of Acquisition 33: it never hurts to suck up to the boss!
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 day ago:
If you believe it’s that simple, you should look into it.
The biggest problems are water access and soil quality. Generally speaking, all of the land that is good for farming is not wilderness, it’s aldeady owned and in use by somebody. If you have to spend money to irrigate and more money to make the soil into something that can grow food, you’ll be broke long before you’re self-sustaining.
- Comment on Valid point 4 days ago:
>it was about that time that i noticed @OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world was about 500 feet tall and from the paleolithic era
- Comment on Not all of these are true 4 days ago:
Actually all of the men in the Great Lakes area were lost in the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
- Comment on Enjoy 1 week ago:
this is a real pisstake
- Comment on Why don't people afraid of AI instead use it while they can to make decent money? 1 week ago:
Stealing the work of artists is not moral in any culture.
- Comment on Why don't people afraid of AI instead use it while they can to make decent money? 1 week ago:
Anyone with any sense objects to the use of all forms of generative machine learning models because they are all based on theft. Whether you’re talking about generating images, audio, video, prose, or code, all of the models were trained on source material that was acquired illegally.
Framing these objections as “fear” is intentionally disingenuous and is an attempt to dodge the criminal aspects of how the training data used to produce the models was collected.
You cannot be a moral person and a generative AI user at the same time, they are mutually exclusive.
- Comment on Nurseries, vets and shops: As many as one in 1 workers in 8 Britain are employed by companies ultimately controlled by private equity 1 week ago:
" … As many as one in 1 workers in 8 Britain … "
…?
- Comment on How do I deal with children following me around in video games? 1 week ago:
Start giving them chores.
You might get some work done for free, or you might make them bored enough to leave.
Or you’ll get a shitty, half-done job that you’ll have to spend more time fixing, while the kid practically begs you for approval.
- Comment on molly for better socials 1 week ago:
You’re welcome.
On the topic of Ghost in the Shell (assuming you mean the original 1995 animated version, not the 2017 live action) I want to point out that it helped establish the cyberpunk genre, and was an inspiration for many works that came after (such as The Matrix). If the ideas presented in it didn’t feel so compelling to you, it is probably because you were already exposed to them through other media which drew from GitS originally. I think the animation still holds up well today, and the music is masterful.
I think it’s also important to understand that at the end of the movie, Motoko’s origin (human or artificial) is uncertain, and this is intentionally unresolvable. Without the ambiguity, the conflict between Motoko and the Puppet Master doesn’t matter, and the conversations they have don’t make sense. The story hinges around Motoko’s humanity.
Don’t watch the live action version.
I’ve also noticed how some older movies can feel quite sexist or abusive towards women.
This is certainly true, and I think it’s important to watch those examples in order to understand where we came from, and how we got to where we are today, and to help identify similar behaviors in the present. When you grow up with something it seems normal, but seeing the same thing in a less familiar context can break it loose from that perceived normalcy and make the problem more obvious. When you notice those problems in older media, take them as lessons.
It’s also worth noting that acting as a profession has long been a home for progressive thinking. I think this is because portraying different characters in a believable way requires the examination of human behavior. In order to play a bad, antisocial character on the stage you must observe and study bad, antisocial behavior. Acting becomes reflective of human society.
The point being that some of the examples of sexism or abusiveness that you’re referring to are intentionally so. That behavior was not included in the plot by accident. Writers and actors put them into their stories as a commentary on the social norms of the time when the work was made. Portraying them for an audience made the problem visible, it held a mirror up to society, it made people talk about it, it forced people to address it in some manner rather than continue to ignore it. If it seems less relevant in the present, that is because society became aware of itself, and the behavior changed.
- Comment on molly for better socials 1 week ago:
Hmm, at this point it is a period piece. It struck a chord in its day because it captured pieces of teenage life and the culture of its time period that were relateable for many people. There are representative character archetypes that are timeless, and at its core it is a coming-of-age story that is always relevant, but the culture that it is set in is now the past and may not feel as relatable if you’re younger and/or not American.
If you are a movie enthusiast, it is worth watching because it has well-written characters, because it is a highly referenced piece, and because it is representative of its time period.
- Comment on Sometimes it be like that 2 weeks ago:
Also, some people believe the Earth is flat.
- Comment on Guy on a subway. Reading a book with a FAKE book cover 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Please mind the gap 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on People who stand close to the beginning of the line but aren't actually standing in line. 3 weeks ago:
Definitely sarcasm.
- Comment on People who stand close to the beginning of the line but aren't actually standing in line. 3 weeks ago:
God forbid I have to talk to other people in public.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says "YouTube monetizes Xbox better than we do", ahead of expected layoffs | Satya Nadella bemoans performance of Xbox 3 weeks ago:
So… your complaint is that you’re really bad at selling a product that has a high demand… ?
- Comment on How do I unrot my brain from AI, how do I start using ChatGPT less and less, and is improv a good enough way to fix an AI-rotted brain? 3 weeks ago:
Colld turkey.
Read a fucking book.
- Comment on What comes after postmodernism? 4 weeks ago:
cyberpunk distopia
- Comment on Use the wizard 4 weeks ago:
[It’s all inside of me, it’s all inside of me
It’s all inside of me, it’s all inside of my head](www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gmmi2SvMMk)
- Comment on A world full of wonders 4 weeks ago:
Will wonders never cease?
- Comment on I hate obscure tech issues! 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on The truth is out there 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on How were maps created back in the day? 4 weeks ago:
anything “back in the day” just means before tech
Define “tech”.
Fire is technology. Written language is technology. The magnetic compass is technology. Sailing ships are technology.
- Comment on How were maps created back in the day? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not about “blame”. Such thinking is unnecessarily adversarial.
The point is that the question as it was asked is not really answerable in this format, because it is too broad and the answer is complicated.
- Comment on Buzz off 4 weeks ago:
This is wasp propaganda.
- Comment on Sexy Spyro 4 weeks ago:
Stupid sexy Spyro
- Comment on How were maps created back in the day? 5 weeks ago:
Um… but you said:
“There is nothing broad about their questions”
- Comment on How were maps created back in the day? 5 weeks ago:
Er, not really… for instance:
“…back in the day?”
Which ‘day’? Before digital mapping? Before cartography as a formal practice? Before the invention of the compass? Before the standardization of the meter? Before the printing press? Before Galileo? Before Eratosthenes?
The time period of the question is potentially the entirety of human history. That’s quite broad.
What methods were used to scale down in world, to paper distances?
In which part of the world? In which culture? For what purpose? (e.g. navigation? coastal, inland, international? crop planting? city planning? determining property lines? etc)
This is.not a straightforward question in any way. A complete answer would be an undergraduate degree with a double major in history and geography.
- Comment on 🌈 🏳️🌈 🌈 🏳️🌈 🌈 🏳️🌈 5 weeks ago:
Came into the comments to ask the same thing, you already found it. You are awesome.