I didn’t like his reviews a lot of the time, but I give his longevity 4 stars.

Correction, the first to get caught doing this.

Exactly. The wrong kind of religious extremists. Catholics who blow up abortion clinics? Totally cool, stop warning us about them; in fact, you’re fired because you probably won’t stop thinking about it anyway.

Progressives who care about the rights of asylum-seekers, or would like to avoid the worst outcomes of late-stage capital? Enemies of the state!

Police are defenders of property, first and foremost. Voting against the interests of the property-holders is not encouraged.

We can’t all live like Richard Stallman.

It’s like being an anti-capitalist in the USA. You’ll never see progress if you just live in a commune in the forest. You must participate.

Ejected for “disruptive conduct” - Perhaps disruption is the only ethical action. It baffles me how doctors can support this preposterous MAHA agenda. Aren’t they supposed to do no harm?

Gotta love how the FBI is now spending considerable resources policing “ideology”.

Come at me, bitches. I’m a midwestern-born transgender anti-capitalist atheist urbanite who works in tech and lobbies for socialist policy at every opportunity. I should have my citizenship revoked and be sent off to redacted

I do so enjoy it when they straight-up just furnish the world with a fuckin’ excuse. I can just sit back and bank on the eventual schadenfreude.

Watched it this weekend. It’s a hell of a thing to see how little we have progressed in five decades.

Time for a Howard Beale moment.

• Save a file
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Luckily the law is an unerring indicator of absolute fact and guarantor of the common good, and it says these emissions are totally cool.

Was he attempting to flee illegally into Mexico? Oh, the irony.

Apply cold water to burn

The government prefers to kill people by letting them die from neglect.

The feeling of constant acceleration is valid. It will only get more intense in the coming years, so consider this your practice round.

In spite of the marginal results a lot of current LLMs can deliver, they are making a difference in some areas of work. I’m a data engineer and working with an agent over the last few months has been a revelation. You have to wrangle it just so, but with an adequate context well-defined, you can plow through months of tedious due-diligence and fine-tuning in days.

I wouldn’t trust it for medical advice… yet… but the time will come when it stops being “ai” and becomes like autofocus or voice transcription or shopping cart suggestions, just another tool. Something else will take on that mantle, and be a different, even more disconcerting mixed bag.

There was a book that came out about 20 years ago by Ray Kurzweil, named The Singularity is Near that discussed this phenomenon in detail, and so far has been prophetic. It will help you understand what’s happening and what’s coming next.

Welcome. I too disagreed with the wrong people on Reddit and can no longer participate there.

Yeah presently Lemmy is not Reddit-scale. But, it also is not Reddit-moderated, or Reddit-algorithmed. I find I can sign into Lemmy, do a bit of scrolling and commentary to scratch my itch, and get on with my day. No dynamic selection designed to retain my engagement through emotional manipulation, a far lower population of malicious bots and actors, and generally more thoughtful discussion.

Quality beats quantity. Federated social breaks the toxic monoculture. Distributed media like this is able to support a broader diversity of people. In the end, this is the future.

That darn constitution, keeps getting in the way of people exercising their freedom to hurt others who make them feel uncomfortable.

In the states, though, solar is woke and gay, and thus doesn’t get any financial help(currently). Farmers that live hand-to-mouth in the old model, getting drip-fed agri-subsidies, don’t have a way to soften the blow of the capex needed to push through the expense barrier, even though the other side is cleaner and more profitable.

There are some things you need a shared workspace for. Most of what we do in the US, having converted largely to an email-and-spreadsheets-based economy, does not.

My full-flavor, everyday workspace requires a comfortable chair, decent internet, and intermittent access to elecricity. It fits in a backpack. All of my coworkers are similarly equipped. Our 40-person startup has a minuscule office that we couldn’t begin to fit everybody in. We are making lots of money.