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LRTs: again, thinking genAI is an actual solution is a sign of being caught up in the grift

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This is what we are experiencing in LA County. We are being terrorized. This is not an exaggeration. Summer is cancelled here. The dread is palpable.

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So much of the value of reading criticism you disagree with lies in exposing yourself to new perspectives, testing your own assumptions and values as an enjoyer of media against a well articulated opinion to the contrary. That's the good shit

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I have thought pretty hard on how to respond to this as one of the “creatives” whose work is being “scraped” here. Plain and simple: this is theft of very hard work that only a handful of people are qualified to do, stripped of all relevant context. It is not a “cool” or “fun” use of AI.

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

👇🎯 We have four living presidents, & it is a national embarrassment that they are not, collectively & loudly, in front of microphones every day denouncing the fascism & calling for Congress to impeach/remove Trump to save the Republic.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

You'd think customer service is one place LLMs would be useful, but Reddit is full of complaints about how Verizon's "Personal Shopper" AI assistant routinely signs customers up for costly services they never asked for

submitted 3 hours ago • 9 comments

The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate. A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.

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Nobody arguing in good faith has believed the official numbers for well over a year. We knew that the IDF specifically targeted those who could keep track so as to obscure the true death toll.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

So we’ve got to the “videos of fighter pilots singing Taylor Swift songs while to make war seem quirky and fun rather than brutal and murderous” part of the war quicker than I expected.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

You don't root for BOTH Auburn and Alabama. You don't turn on Green Bay at Chicago and "just hope for a good game." These are the kinds of things things people who aren't fans in the first place say. You are a Mets fan, or a Yankees fan, or neither (if not running for NYC Mayor!) but not "both."

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Yoko Taro, creator of Nier and Drakengard, laments the decline of 'weird' game developers in AAA gaming. He argues that while indie games thrive on oddity, major studios shy away from risk, stifling creativity. #GameDevelopment #YokoTaro

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

we have commodified everything. games, movies, everything. its all formulas and tests and feedback. with its history and art design, marathon should have been a singleplayer shooter, or at least shipped with a singleplayer campaign. but those numbers wouldn't stack up the way executives want.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Just received an email from Stripe about how they’re implementing “AI-powered Smart Disputes”, a feature that definitely will not cause problems and will not be exploited to the detriment of the average small business owner/artist/person rapidly running out of options for taking payments online.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

I'd prefer if people didn't use "burden" at all WRT to disability or health status (e.g. "burden of disease"). Strong eugenic undertones!

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

The Trump administration has spent months illegally impounding funds in the name of waste, fraud, and abuse. Congressional Republicans are now seeking to cut GAO, an organization dedicated to rooting out waste, frauds abuse, roughly in half.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

Also, I need to get back into my fanfic writing. I have Year of the OTP, Ailana Wake, and Quadrtum's Crossing to get to.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

I got some new ball jointed dolls! I'm kind of excited to put them together. Less excited to figure out where to put them. I at least got the one I wanted which is nice!

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

it is important across the board to promote hobby posting, also goofy posting

submitted 22 hours ago • 11 comments

Serously, come ON. This is NYC. Our whole thing is "I'M WALKING HERE!" not oh yes sir mr president thank you sir please don't notice me please.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

What do you call this? It's well past consent manufacturing, it's just direct governance via media manipulation

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Jessica Ramos basically admitted to Brian Lehrer that she thinks Trump will punish and single out NYC if Mamdani wins and that's her justification for backing Cuomo First off, STOP MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON FEAR. Second, stop giving that man more power by rewarding his racism with cowardice. FFS

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"6 Trump Voters React to the U.S.’ Bombing of Nuclear Sites in Iran" --New York Times. --That isn't journalism! It's not even a "story." IT'S A FUCKING ANCEDOTE about some shit your heard while standing in line at a Klan rally. WHAT THE FUCK EVEN ARE WE DOING?

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

Part of the reason places like libraries are important is because the homeless can just come in and "be." Read a little and do stuff on the computer without anyone telling them to leave...

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Apropos of nothing, review scores are not a healthy way to value art, or even assess whether you might like something. It’s why I tend to pivot more towards either technical analysis (Digital Foundry) or interesting think pieces like @docseuss.bsky.social ‘s work docseuss.medium.com/playthis-dea...

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100% of Black people self censor at work. Its a job site not your personal safe space, snowflake.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Surprise, surprise: Meta's Manhattan-sized data center is going to be powered by three new gas power plants. Residents of the nearby town have no idea how much their bill will increase: "It’s like building the power impact of a large city overnight” www.404media.co/a-black-hole...

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Did they miss the part of the Bible that says not to pray in public like hypocrites?

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wtf HIRE US 💀💀💀

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once again, public libraries as key infrastructure. I really really really want leftists and progressives to take public libraries more seriously as institutions. Part of that means you have to get involved in actual GOVERNANCE.

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The purpose of representational democracy is to protect us from the whims of deranged rich people, be they king or oligarch. Everything else is wainscoting.

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There are way fewer swing voters than there used to be---but Democratic Party officials have not adapted to this new reality, argue @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social and @adambonica.bsky.social. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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So the latest AI wrinkle—I’m learning that people treat things like ChatGPT as a search engine?!

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Really important and yucky byproduct of the ChatGPT-ification of search👇

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Sadly, I already see people bragging about AND teaching others to train ChatGPT to produce reading material in their target language when graded readers of all genres already exist for most languages. It's such a waste of time and energy and inferior to books written by people. #LangSky #polyglots

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congrats Mac and Me (1988), you are more popular than war with Iran

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Part of the appeal of conservatism is that it’s simple and not intellectually rigorous. That’s why you hear conservatives appeal to “common sense” so often. But the world isn’t a simple place. It’s very complex. And when faced with the complexity of life, conservatives fall back on bigotry and hate.

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Love women taking control of their health but I do worry that an excessive focus on “cycles” and whether you’re luteal or ovulating or whatever is actually yet another way for women to minimise our own feelings, thoughts and intuition

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With video game prices rising, AI is a critical tool for developers and gamers alike. By seeing which games use AI, gamers can save money by not buying those games.

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Just a reminder that Orwell’s protagonist in 1984, Winston Groom, works as a copy editor, except that his job entails endlessly “correcting the data” so that the archival record conforms to the Party’s preferred fictions, and what is “known” becomes a principal instrument of conformity.

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

People make art under hellish conditions locked up in prisons as just one example. It's because making things affirms our humanity. So yes, make art during fascism. What are we fighting for? A free society FOR ALL where we can revel in beauty, culture and all good things.

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