archagon

What we get paid for is entirely socially determined, not some immutable axiom.

And AI is not an abstraction.

And the other side is convinced that there’s nothing truly special and mysterious about humans, which feels inherently disturbing. Like, these people would swap their brains with a computer in a hot second if they thought it would make them do X a little better. Shudder.

Some laws are very obviously unworthy of consideration, with broad consensus from the public. See what happened when Napster came out. Literally no one cares about some red-faced RIAA suit flicking spittle over some shared Metallica albums.

Same thing here. This whole situation is just comical.

Outrageous only to the died-in-wool corpocrats.

Not OP, but copyright law is an absolute joke. No, I don’t care one whit that someone’s TOS was violated. In fact, I find it hilarious. And it’s not “theft.”

If that's all we wanted, we wouldn't make them talk like humans and pretend to have a sense of self and emotions.

Maybe the "left behind" rhetoric stems from the underlying anxiety of this whole thing imploding and taking the economy with it.

The true hackers have long left this site, I'm afraid.

What's left is an audience devoted to power, money, and being the boot that stamps on a human face.

No conspiracy, just someone who loathes white supremacy with every fiber of my being. And yes, this is exactly the core platform of any Western party pushing for ethnic cleansing and “remigration.” (Deportation of anyone considered not Swedish/British/etc. enough even if they’re squeaky clean and integrated into local culture.)

Sorry, but we’re all in this together. Anyone who disagrees won’t get a cent from me.

Also:

unfettered and uncontrolled migration

Bullshit, immigration is already massively down: https://archive.ph/20260720101017/https://www.economist.com/...

Same lie far-right parties around the world use to enact their sick agendas.

“Ignoring this bit of gutter racism is the only way to move forward.”

No fucking thanks. Not an inch. Here’s a politically savvy idea: maybe somebody should make an immigration-skeptical party that’s not frothing at the mouth about ethnic cleansing.

Also, it’s just one VPN out of hundreds. The free internet will somehow survive, I’m sure.

So you say.

This is how we get psychos like Alex Karp running the world.

Of course his ire is useful. You just don’t want it to be.

Nobody's gonna change their mind about AI wastefulness from an obviously AI-generated infographic. The author should have realized this with about 5 seconds of thought.

The medium is the message.

I flagged your comment for adding zero additional information to the discussion. Let's see if it also sticks around.

"Hordes," huh? Is that how your mother taught you to talk about other people?

Someday soon, I trust the present tide of white supremacy will turn. What will racist creeps like DHH do then? There’s no taking these dehumanizing words back. They are opting themselves out of participation in a future world.

At the very least, it’s utterly boneheaded business acumen. If I was working at this company, I’d run for the door.

I don’t think it matters. My Studio Display XDR has pretty bad motion performance (similar to Macbook, maybe a touch better) and you can still play first-person shooters perfectly fine. In the general case you don’t notice it much. It’s only a problem with fast planar movement, e.g. strafing along a wall and trying to read some text that’s written on it. (Spelunky 2 is much worse than CS in this regard, but still not a massive issue. Just a bit ugly.)

In my experience JetBlue and American Airlines usually fly Airbus.

Sure there is. Just fly carriers that use an Airbus fleet. It’s honestly pretty trivial.

Exchanging messages with an algorithm that pretends to have a concept of self and emotions is inherently disturbing.

I strongly agree that written text should be from humans to humans. Yet I still write all of my texts with LLMs.

Hypocritical garbage. Into the blacklist you go.

If you can’t even use your own words for basic communication then there’s absolutely no reason for me to take you seriously.

This is a non-sequitur? ATProto was explicitly designed to not be compatible with ActivityPub. They shot first. So why are you focused on tone-policing ActivityPub?

A bizarre exaggeration. In my feeds, maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of the people I follow use non-.social instances. The same cannot be said of Bluesky.

Yeah, but people aren’t uploading high quality music to begin with. It’s probably like two or three levels of compressed by the time you yt-dlp it.

The hacker intelligentsia is long gone from this site. It’s little more than a VC/tech merc mixer.

Everyone thinks they’re an expert, but AI is brand new and nobody knows what the fuck they’re doing or what the ramifications are going to be. I see a lot of people cheerfully deskilling. I think it’s going to end up being a costly mistake to employers and employees alike.

Well, DOGE and their ilk killed all those sick/starving people and managed to increase the debt somehow.

A patient is in the middle of surgery. The surgeon is informed that the patient's insurance no longer covers the procedure. Should the surgeon leave the patient sliced open on the operating table, pull their tubes and IVs, and slam the door on the way out?

This is effectively what DOGE did by "feeding USAID into the woodchipper" rather than developing a plan to gradually taper aid. Thousands of people in the middle of medical treatment just died. Thousands of children relying on USAID food and supplies just died. There are plenty of articles with first-hand accounts of this.

Worst part is, Musk and his boys did it this way for shits and giggles, or maybe for the adrenaline rush. Monsters.

Death and suffering on an unfathomable scale will be the ultimate legacy of these people. I wish they would be confronted with their crimes in front of a tribunal, but they’ll probably get away with what they did, at least in a legal sense.

People who do this are no longer engineers in any real sense. They’ve switched careers to technical management.