Like the implication that having an active sex life and bullying someone to death are basically the same category of thing or strongly related somehow

I might be remembering wrong but didn’t this webcomic invent or popularize the word “fap”?

exactly

So then we would tell the alien we use base 21?

We really need some strong reaffirmations and reinforcement of the 4th amendment

Many are worried that the archives liberated by Anna’s will be used to train generative models

I hope so, unlike text and image gen, there are not really good publicly available music models, only proprietary services now owned by large music industry rightsholders due to lawsuits afaik. Like the article mentions, unethical corporations such as Spotify itself are already on it regardless.

No, capitulating to people who are blindly anti-AI and crusading about it is dumb. Looking at the comments on that post, it seems pretty controversial whether it’s actually bad.

The two arguments that seem to make sense to me are, the appeal of the image leans on the idea that it might be real, and some people want an easy way to entirely filter AI content from their feed. I feel like there should be less heavy handed ways to address those issues than a blanket ban.

If someone is complaining about the reasonableness of the price of an Apple product, while using one (and presumably leaving on the features that advertise in messages that an iPhone was used), I think it’s fair to assume they are paying or going to pay those prices, especially because of all the stuff Apple does to maintain a closed ecosystem of products.

There’s also the implied expectation that an ethical company would be voluntarily using the money they get to make sure they are giving back to employees and the broader society, but that’s unrealistic because companies never work like that.

Sounds a lot like “how you feel doesn’t matter, your right to exist depends on being useful to me.”

Which calls for acquiring leverage and using it to set boundaries, more than it calls for a rational rebuttal. Just gotta systematically remove the power such people have over you, and then they won’t be able to talk to you that way anymore.

If they can turn off your ability to play the games you don’t own them

“Films, games, experiences, content – it’s the ability to craft one immersive world that is cohesively connected through all these interaction points.”

Maher said this approach changes the way audiences engage with the content they consume. He said this type of immersive world-building gives consumers an opportunity to become active participants in the stories being told through their favorite platforms.

How vague and ominous; no idea what this person is actually talking about but the way they say it makes it sound like a sure thing it’s some terrible crime against culture

Why is Claude sending emails to people who very much don’t want them?

How many routers are required for this? I see it mentions that they should overlap, and there’s a diagram that seems to imply 3 routers, but I’m not seeing it saying what the minimum is or if more makes a difference.

Fair, I’m not sure what the solution would be though, even if you explicitly want to optimize for getting as many people as possible using decentralized social media regardless of their politics or cultural preference, some kind of niche culture is going to form.

I see the rockets in its missile battery have red tips, so better be careful with it

Mine bloomed closer to thanksgiving, there’s a few buds left that didn’t yet but I’m not sure if they’re going to

It’s a shame that Nostr’s brand is tainted by its community in a lot of people’s eyes, there’s a lot to like about it as a protocol and as a free software project that is independent from that stuff.

Good thing it’s mostly reversible

Backs away slowly swearing to not have an opinion

Politics smut with content rules enforced via Discord and a wiki that people write 4k word essays about seems like it would make for a very intense can of drama worms