The argument that paywalls somehow ruin the open parts of the Web always fell flat for me. It is trivial to contribute to the Web for free if one wishes. Nobody is forced to paywall their content.

Yeah, nine times out of ten someone who wants “free speech” on the web means they want to force others to listen.

The nice thing about Fedi is that slur-loving people can have their space that allows slurs, but people who don’t want slurs can de-federate.

It doesn’t really improve productivity much for me. And if you take into account the emails I receive from coworkers written with copilot then I’m actually doing more work to decipher what they are trying to say.

Looks great, can old Google location data be imported?

John Oliver did a deep dive into her recently. It’s not good. She brands herself as a moderate but is essentially in lockstep with most MAGA views. The owners of CBS are gutting everything that’s left of the storied CBS brand to enrich themselves.

I’m only seeing information about ChatGPT, Sora, Claude and Gemini… Where is the news about AI?

It is just advertising. The more I think about it the more I can’t think of any practical use for generative AI that doesn’t involve essentially spamming everyone.

It is lol the dead giveaway is there’s no watermark or artist credit

EDIT: Unrelated but a reverse image search turned up this amazing LinkedinLunatic

Their modlog is public FYI: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=115941

Looks like they have rules against racism?

At least Conservapedia goes through the effort of trying to appear legitimate and people-powered. That probably makes the disinformation there more dangerous by having the patina of legitimacy but Grokpedia is just so LAZY.

Good read that got me thinking. Donation supported journalism works well for NPR.

I can imagine an ecosystem in which enough people give their $50/month streaming subscriptions directly to artists and journalists.

I hope you ate this with your hands!

I’ve been impressed with F-Droid’s press releases. If they have a snowball’s chance in hell of stopping this, they are certainly giving it a clear and concise effort.

“Grokpedia” is so dumb, it’s just page after page of LLM slop. I find it hard to believe even the most bad-faith arguer will treat it as an authority.

At the risk of sounding like a conservative, most people do find meaning in doing work and would not be content to lay around eating and watching TikTok forever. Just because someone does not find meaning in laboring to make their bosses wealthy does not mean they don’t find meaning in the work itself.

For example I think a lot of “low level” jobs would be quite enjoyable and rewarding if we weren’t forced to do them in order to survive. I’m thinking things like carpentry, running a small grocery store or even waiting tables.

So to answer your question, yes, the Earth can provide far more than every person needs to live a fulfilling life because all we need is food, shelter, community and freedom to find how we can best contribute. Those things are not expensive or resource intensive. But they are kept from us and replaced with plastic things we don’t need in order to further enrich a small few.

Climate change is actually a great example of what I was getting at, because it has a relatively simple and known solution, and humanity has possessed the technology to implement that solution it for essentially as long as we have known about climate change itself.

To put it in context of this conversation: climate change has only increased the “complexity of our times” for working class people, because the people with power and money chose this path. They could have been building windmills, and nuclear power plants and hydroelectric dams to power our electric cars, but there was less profit in that.

The mental stress of “ethical consumption” doesn’t exist in a world of ethical production.

Siri is bad but at least it has natural language processing. I think it’s so funny how CEOs have no idea how LLMs work.

Over a year ago Apple literally ran an ad showing off an “Apple Intelligence” feature that you could tell nobody at Apple ran by the actual engineers before deciding it was possible. It (of course) has still not been released.