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- Comment on Social media users probably won't read beyond this headline, researchers say 20 hours ago:
The researchers found that these links were shared over 41 million times, without being clicked. Of these, 76.94% came from conservative users and 14.25% from liberal users. The researchers explained that the vast majority—up to 82%—of the links to false information in the dataset originated from conservative news domains.
- Comment on Dead Game News: Ubisoft is getting sued over The Crew 1 week ago:
Unrelated to the video itself but thanks for introducing me to FreeTube and Libredirect!
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 3rd 2 weeks ago:
Veilguard, Session, and a lot of Skate 3. It’s all been an adventure.
- Comment on Recommend me your favorite linear games! 5 weeks ago:
I actually found The Messenger after completing Sea of Stars and being so invested in it. I looked the devs up and decided I’d buy all of their stuff.
- Comment on Recommend me your favorite linear games! 5 weeks ago:
I liked The Messenger a lot.
- Comment on More than a dozen states in the US have sued TikTok, accusing the social media platform of helping to drive a mental health crisis among teenagers 1 month ago:
The TikTok ban used to be about trying to squash pro-Palestine sentiments and media. I guess this works too.
nbcnews.com/…/israel-palestine-hawley-tiktok-war-…
- Comment on Godot fork- Redot emerges after recent events within the Godot project. 1 month ago:
Based and orcapilled.
Thanks! I’m never getting rid of this URL.
- Comment on Godot fork- Redot emerges after recent events within the Godot project. 1 month ago:
Anyone that uses “woke” unironically is not someone I will ever take seriously. Criticizing someone for having awareness of reality is peak modern day anti-intellectualism.
- Comment on Horizon Zero Dawn Dev Addresses Criticism Over Aloy’s Remastered Look 1 month ago:
My (non-)issue is more with the fact that she looks too polished for a character that exists in a post-apocalyptic world. Both her clothes and some facial characteristics, like the perfect eyebrows.
- Comment on Covert Racism in AI: How Language Models Are Reinforcing Outdated Stereotypes 1 month ago:
Shit in, shit out. That’s AI. You can’t guarantee a single thing it says is true, and you have to play whack-a-mole forever to get it to behave. Imagine knowing this and still investing time and money in it. We could be investing that in education and making the human experience better, but instead we’re stuck watching capitalists harness it to replace people, and shoving half-baked ideas out the door as finished products.
Look, I love tech. I’ve worked in tech for 20 years. I’ve built apps that use AI. It’s the one tech that I despise watching capitalists have control of. It’s just chatbots all the way down that don’t know what they’re regurgitating, and eventually they’re going to be vacuuming up nothing but other AI content. That is going to be the future. Just bots talking to other bots. Everything completely devoid of humanity.
- Comment on What games would you recommend others to just play on easy difficulty 2 months ago:
Project Zomboid. That’s the most recent game I can think of where I reduced the difficulty (and that’s coming from someone that has nearly 400 hours into Elden Ring). It’s not that the game is tougher than ER or anything like that. It just has a ton of cool mechanics and detail that are really enjoyable if you’re into zombie survival games. The zombies can really swarm you in that game and you won’t live long.
It also has sandbox mode where there’s no zombies and you can focus on farming, building, etc.
- Comment on Ex-Twitter staffer wins $600K over Musk’s click-yes-or-resign ultimatum 3 months ago:
You should still celebrate. It’s a win for the working class collective.
- Comment on Trying to remember a video game trailer about managing a big walking living tank in a fantasy setting 3 months ago:
- Comment on AI Video Generator Runway Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission 3 months ago:
Companies use pirated content: line go up! 📈
Everyday people use pirated content: STRAIGHT TO JAIL!
- Comment on Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues 3 months ago:
I have friends still dealing with all kinds of airline troubles (basically stuck in cities for a week past their return date) and I can’t believe anyone would have so many mission-critical systems using Windows. Their infrastructure must be a mess.
- Comment on Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues 3 months ago:
The real solution is to not make anything that’s mission-critical reliant on Windows.
- Comment on Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues 3 months ago:
A backup plan probably involves using some other company/service that can suffer the same fate 😭
- Comment on Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues 3 months ago:
It’s what happens when you put too many eggs in one basket. You see a similar house of cards when you look at package managers in the software dev space. Single point of failure.
The reality though is that Windows computers not running the CrowdStrike agent were not affected. This one falls on CS, but there is a much larger problem at play. Also, auto-updates are a plague, especially on a kernel level. That’s just insanity.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 23rd 4 months ago:
Definitely Shadow of the Erdtree! I’ve already beaten the Dancing Lion boss. Just started playing WoW Classic again too and found a guild filled with super nice people. So that’s been fun.
- Comment on 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign? 5 months ago:
- Comment on Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts, Leaked Contract Shows 5 months ago:
Their TVs are a pain in the ass too. The UI can be annoying and sluggish, sometimes requiring a hard reboot to get it to sort itself out.
- Comment on New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC 5 months ago:
Looks at the list of partners 762 partners total 🤯
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 6 months ago:
The “bad” ones just float to the top when a government is around long enough. It’s human nature. The ones seeking power and money see others seeking the same, and they look at them as a rung on a ladder. They help each other because it benefits them. They actively work to shut out the “good” ones because they know they’ll lose their spot to them if they aren’t careful. Suddenly the “good” ones are lost in the noise. The incorruptible become powerless.
It’s similar to the police force in the US, for example. People go in with good intentions, but the force has been around long enough that the mad dogs have already permeated all of the top ranks. So the “good” ones either wash out, or they assimilate. One of my relatives washed out, while the one that had been there much longer turned into a massive racist. Which one do you think climbed the ranks quicker?
Power structures automatically attract selfish, self-serving people that just become worse offenders the more wealthy and powerful they become. Power is a vacuum after all, and there are plenty of bad people standing in line to fill it. This is why I don’t trust a single politician. Whether they want to admit it or not, under that facade of wanting to change their city or “do good,” there is some underlying desire for power and attention. That doesn’t mean none of them do anything good in their time though; it just means we should be cautious.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 6 months ago:
As soon as I smell authoritarianism, it’s a no from me. Even as someone that reads communist and socialist theory. I think people take too much of the past and try to apply it as-is to the world of today. But it doesn’t work. Modern times require modernized ideas, and I sometimes wish people had more imagination.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 6 months ago:
I’m against both of them. It’s imprisonment, torture and forced assimilation. It should be an easy decision for anyone that is also against what the Nazis did and Israel is doing.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 6 months ago:
I have a feeling these questions are trying to feel out whether or not I’m a fan of the authoritarian flavor of communism and that’s a nope lol. I’m not on Lemmygrad or Hexbear. I don’t like police regardless of the continent or any other factor. We are seeing power vacuums in 2 very different types of authoritarian structures and none of them pan out to anything good for the working class.
I keep it simple: it’s always the working class vs the ruling class.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 6 months ago:
It didn’t invent it. It just caught on at the right time and amplified that knowledge. It’s also a network. I don’t get TikTok but I’ve seen how popular it is in the new generations. This isn’t new knowledge; it’s just new packaging for a plugged-in-since-birth generation.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 6 months ago:
It’s not about trusting TikTok. It’s about understanding that we have a terrible tech company, vs a terrible government. But at the same time, it has helped radicalize and inform so many in the ranks of Gen Z, amongst other generations. Even if you skip past the 24/7 stream of Gaza coverage ( which we absolutely need since Israel has murdered something like 121 journalists in Gaza), you’ll find videos of Gen Z and other folks making videos that layout documented history, protest methods, agitprop, and their own amateur journalism to others. That has value, even if the source is just in it for the notoriety and money. It’s an awkward position where it becomes a tool to the revolution, because it’s in opposition (for its own gain), but is never trustworthy.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 6 months ago:
Oh shit, I forgot all about Telegram. Bluesky is in the ring now too, but I don’t really know much about it.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 6 months ago:
Musk is a useful idiot. He ruined Twitter and the US government quietly thanks him for it because it no longer serves as a tool to see unfiltered events happening on the ground (like Israel murdering Palestinians). So mission accomplished there, and now the new target is TikTok.
There’s also this quote said in 1981 by the CIA Director at the time, William Casey:
We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false
Meta is already in the government’s pocket—which covers Instagram and Facebook, Elon has basically erased old Twitter, and now TikTok is on the brink of being banned in the US. Pretty fun pattern of events to try and control the narrative.
