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People who aren't willing to put any effort into learning how computers and the internet work are free to stay on Xitter and Facebook. Not everything has to be for everyone.

I thought AI was supposed to get better and easier to use as time went on, so why should we bother to teach them now when it will be so easy to learn in the future?

To be fair, a lot of governments and pearl-clutchers actually are coming for your weed.

Thank you for volunteering to have a data center built in your neighborhood!

Isn't the simple option to just move time zones? If you're not allowed to swap to PDT year round, just change to MST instead.

On a Mastodon instance, there are also no steps you can take. Your account is banned on the instance — your entire identity goes down with it.

On atproto, it depend on whether you’re banned at hosting or app level.

If you get banned at hosting level (usually something clearly illegal would trigger this), you’d have to find another hosting (assuming apps haven’t banned you too).

This isn't as different as you make it sound. Most people on AT Proto are using Bluesky, so "getting banned" is fundamentally the same for them as getting banned from a Mastodon instance. Conversely, you can just run your own Mastodon instance and the only thing you'd have to worry about is defederation (an "appview ban").

Yes, obviously.

If it's the son's fault, then AI companies need to stop acting like their products are genius machines. Can't have it both ways.

It's an even stupider assumption, then!

A few high-profile Muslims spoke out against Harris. This means every Muslim American voted for Trump. Obviously.

Bacteria have souls?

Are you agnostic about unicorns?

In South Korea, turning 50 often marks a quiet but profound turning point for men—both native and foreign.

ChatGPT giveaway in the first sentence? I think that's a new record.

You have to care about something to DDOS it.

Apr 15 2026

Or, asking ChatGPT to describe images.

Foolishly, I clicked through thinking "wow, did they get an LLM to interpret their dog's barks and body language? That's actually pretty cool!" Look, I'm an LLM skeptic, but if they'd done that, I would have to praise the result.

But no.

They just told the LLM to try and find meaning in keysmashes.

No one said the Democrats are pro-freedom. Both parties are authoritarian. One is just less effective.

If telling something else to make something for you is a craft, I'm an artisan for hiring a webdev to build my site.

In one ear and out the other, huh? Do you think deliberately misunderstanding words makes you clever? Are you sticking it to those got-dang SJWs?

It's not "privileged BY using bad grammar", it's "privilege TO use bad grammar". But yes, we know, the privilege boogeymen kicked your dog and made you take a CRT class.

So many comments going "Well MY llm of choice gives the right answer". Sure, I believe you -- LLM output has LONG been known to vary from person to person, from machine to machine, depending on how you have it set up, and sometimes based on nothing at all.

That's part of the problem, though, isn't it?

If it consistently gave the right answer, well, that would be great! And if it consistently gave the wrong answer, that wouldn't be GREAT, but at least the engineers would know how to fix it. But sometimes it says one thing, sometimes it says another. We've known this for a long time. It keeps happening! But as long as your own personal chatbot gives the correct answer to this particular question, you can cover your eyes and pretend the planet-burning stochastic parrot is perfectly fine to use.

The comparison in one thread to the "How would you feel if you had not eaten breakfast yesterday?" question was a particularly interesting one, but I can't get past the fact that the Know Your Meme page that was linked (which included a VERY classy George Floyd meme, what the actual fuck) discussed those answers as if they were a result of fundamental differences in human intelligence rather than the predictable result of a declining education system. This is something that's only going to get worse if we keep outsourcing our brains to machines.

Another truly baffling entry in the "I want my AI to have fun for me" column.

Good luck with the grift.

A lot of people don't drink alcohol.

Thanks for telling us you would not be prepared to fight for freedom. Everyone should be so forthright.

No, really? I am SHOCKED.

If everyone followed the law we would never have revolutions, and Europe and America would still have slaves.

I see a grey square on the download button, no Apple logo.

KIKI supports Chrome and Safari. Other browsers can confuse it. Stick to those two.

If I have to download a brand-new browser just to use this app, what's stopping me from switching back to Firefox to evade the blocks?