No monologue, no images, no sound. Just… concepts. It’s a bit weird.

Even weirder is that I can actually conjure images while asleep (or about to sleep, or barely just woke up).

I loved books as a kid, but never understood why people preferred them to movies where you could actually picture what is happening on the page. It took me until my mid 20s to figure out my experience was different to other people’s.

I can get lost in my imagination, it’s just not visual or auditory

today’s system of survival Capitalism

it’s not “today’s system”, this is not a different kind of capitalism we are living through; it’s simply the logical continuation of capitalism.

Capitalism means profiting from owning. This systematically means, as the meme says, “line goes up”. The line must go up, otherwise owning stops being profitable, and capitalism stops. We’re just at a point where the avenues to keep growth going are becoming harder and costlier to reach, and each time those avenues are explored, they make the next ones costlier. So we’re all getting squeezed, both as workers (mass layoffs, multiple jobs etc), and as consumers (enshittification, product quality deterioration, price increases).

This is unavoidable; European countries that are currently more livable than the US will inevitably face this as well, they just took the scenic route

There are issues with LGBTQ people in CHina, but they’re not really worse than Japan for example. Not good, because there is no official support or recognition (except at the local level), but no one really cares, especially not the government (except trans people – they do get treatment & support)

I don’t see how editorial content regulations impact a DJ’s catalogue?

Well yes, megacorps have unlimited budget for AI datacenters, that’s my point; consumer facing offerings don’t, such as cloud gaming, and they’re competing for the same price-gouged resource (“competing” is too generous tbh, consumer facing companies are getting curb stomped)

Only consumergrade hardware is overpriced

Well no, the memory price increase is specifically here to price gouge AI datacenters. If you’re running a non-AI datacenter, and if you’re targeting consumers, like with remote desktop gaming, you have AI-like costs (literally, since servers GPUs are gaming GPUs), but without the enterprise customers. Oh and you also need the best bandwidth possible, because a few added milliseconds might make the “remote” use unbearable, which is an added cost datacenters don’t have to deal with on the same terms.

Cloud? With what hardware? Everything is overpriced because of AI, no one is spared

Google is still the first thing that I check, it’s just not as consistent as it used to be in delivering any meaningful results

well, we’re at the stage of violent revolution and there’s no point faffing about further

I do believe we are at the stage where this is the only means of change. We’re not doing it because most people are still delusional (or generously, “hopeful”) that we are not, or don’t even think about changing things at all by desperation / capitulation / ignorance.

A distinction without a difference. There is no need for collusion when you’re moving in the same social circles, meeting the same people, having your campaign funded by the same social class with the same needs and objectives.

And yes, Trump was a mold breaker there, but only as a facade, the reality is not that Trump is “rejecting” neoliberalism, it is that neoliberalism is breaking apart, by its own incoherence, in the US as everywhere else.

Because search engines have been dogshit for the past 2 years (give or take~); AI need to be steered hard but as long as you’re asking for sources (and don’t just read what they’re saying) you can get an answer out of them.

I only find what I’m searching for on Google if I already know the exact keywords for what I’m specifically looking for (…and even then…); if I don’t know the exact terms of what I’m looking for (like @affenlehrer@feddit.org with his bike brake issue) then google is useless nowadays, which wasn’t always true. So now my process is to google first, ask an AI second, and I end up using AIs way more than I would like.

I use AIs exactly as you’re describing, but I ask for sources, which they’re “ok” for.

They’re bad at it too but in a way that make them useful to then extract the keywords google would expect (i.e, the response doesn’t necessarily make sense, but at least I have some resources to form a question google can answer), while google doesn’t seem to be able to give me proper results when I search by using words other than the exact matching keywords

It matches in what sense? Because google has become nigh useless to me. I’m relying hard on LLMs to provide links because google never gives me any relevant response anymore – and I’m not even talking about sponsored content here, which makes things worse in some cases

Who benefits from the government buying 50% overvalued shares? And when these companies inevitably fail, why should half the cost be socialized?

Shouldn’t have looked

They have quite a bit of work to do though, with all the slander they’ve endured.

Chinese death sentences are usually imprisonment unless a new crime is commited, and generally reserved for corruption & other crimes where people nuke trust in public institutions for personal gain

Holy, and I thought “Vöedtæmhtëhactått” was bad

Every single animator has been taking inspiration from everywhere all the time tbf