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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Like, libertarians? I have to think anyone seriously down the chud rabbithole would be embarrassed to even ride in one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like somebody’s backpedalling on a definite political statement after it became personally inconvenient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still possible to be off of the digital surveillance grid, but it is hard and a small subculture at best. I’m in it.

  The Clarke book brought up elsewhere had the the right idea, but the wrong manifestation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a logical conclusion of facial recognition and mass indexing existing that anywhere remotely public you put your face is just public.

  I have less of a problem with that than the fact an illusion of privacy is created anyway. Now we have a whole part of our economy that exists because people don’t really understand it’s there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dope. This one is new to me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI couldn't create an image of a woman like me - until now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Image generation often happens in a kind of region by region way, too, so not just continuing the arm might be hard.

  It’s annoying that she asked ChatGTP why it was doing that and they reported the answer uncritically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, the graph given is sus. The trend starts before the AI sector was really a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything we know about Ferrari’s first electric vehicle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, so you could basically drive like a madman and not lose any power because of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything we know about Ferrari’s first electric vehicle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  with a maximum regen deceleration of 0.68 G before the carbon-ceramic friction brakes take over.

  That sounds like a lot. Is that a lot?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, okay. So it comes down to a strict definition of “belief” which requires total certainty. I’ve seen it used that way before, but when I say I believe something, I never mean there’s no chance I’m mistaken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think one can take that even further. It’s possible that the fact that people who rely on truth and morality (which is a human constant if not a natural one) converge, is the whole reason either one has a place in our society. Almost all our instincts lead us away from them, otherwise.

  So do you believe in an objective reality, or not? You said a couple of opposite things there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kind of a tale as old as time. If there’s a socially correct way to think, and at least two people, they’re inevitably going to disagree on which way that is at some point, and splinter into subfactions that hate each other.

  Lemmy has examples of this already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American media is freaking about homicides on transit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean with malice aforethought by a particular person. Foreseeable or unnecessary accidents are still accidents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American media is freaking about homicides on transit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose, although bus collisions tend to have a pretty low fatality rate as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American media is freaking about homicides on transit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, what a masterpiece of a campaign. Although other Canadians I’ve shown it to seem horrified.

  I could be wrong - they clearly happen. But it takes relatively more effort to get run over by a train than a car whizzing by a sidewalk driven by literally whoever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American media is freaking about homicides on transit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I missing something, or was that the point of this post?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American media is freaking about homicides on transit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, they are pretty rarely on purpose.

  The bar for accidental transit deaths is probably even lower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump suggested people shouldn’t feel sorry for Joe Biden over his cancer diagnosis⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And somehow, the Democrats don’t learn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No thanks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No thanks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Statistically, there might be somebody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Text is light. Images are a bit heavier, but there’s not too too many.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m Fighting for My Freedom Using Outdated Technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm. I wonder if anybody’s compiled a modern text compression algorithm onto whatever machine they have?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m Fighting for My Freedom Using Outdated Technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, there’s also the political unpopularity of letting the words “prison” and “upgrade” get anywhere close to each other. Unless the upgrade is to the guns and razor wire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, doxxing has always been possible. When I think about how you could dox this account, though, it’s not ways that would show up on a simple tool like that. An LLM might be able to piece together a chain of thought for it, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pandering to conservative Americans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the bible verses on the side OP was focusing on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, you can still be anonymous, but it’s extra work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, so this was always going to happen eventually, right? It’s yet another reason you’re not anonymous online unless you actually are.

  Next stop, AI-powered doxxing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is whether there’s any room outside the system to exist in, right? Can you jailbreak your implant? Can you live in a shitty illegal slum, or are they all carefully dispersed before they can begin?

  It’s all about technologies of control. Ironically, the places seeing democratic backsliding are not the only or even the main ones developing and implementing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Um... I'm not even using a VPN... Fuck you reddit.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Truly the new Coke of websites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still holding out hope for cyberpunk. At least it comes with skylines and cool back alley markets.