And next year, it’ll be worse. And the year after, worse than that, until the planet’s lungs and beating heart we all depend on begin to seize up and die, irrevocably.

1. At least on Lemmy, this is definitely what I’ve observed. If you look at any thread that’s full of sturm und drang, it’s usually a tiny handful of accounts that are creating all of it (and then roping other people into their hostility, like a little chain reaction, like Chernobyl.) If you look at the impact, it just looks like everyone’s an asshole, but if you look at the root of the trouble, you realize most people are fine and a tiny minority are noisy and hostile and they can just get everyone else spun up.
2. I agree, if you’re in NYC right at this moment in history and you can’t see a bigger picture of things worth getting heated up about than White Lotus, you should talk with people in your community more.

It definitely is hilarious to see people legitimately considering backing Adams and Cuomo, both of who are well known to be profoundly corrupt and personally unpleasant people with no real plans to deal with issues that huge portions of the electorate are facing.

I think a lot of the people in a position to decide about this kind of thing are backing Adams (Cuomo is cooked at this point) because he is profoundly corrupt, and has no plans to deal with issues that huge portions of the electorate are facing.

The people who are reading for example the newspapers and podcasts constructed by that first grouping, and then deciding to vote for Adams for example instead of Mandami, are either confused or horrible, in a way that overall is sadly hilarious, yes.

They might actually just care about the moral issues involved (or at least be worried enough about pushback to fake it).

They’re going to make a river of money regardless, and so maybe it’s not worth taking a reputational hit or risking some kind of legislation, just to preserve the 0.00000001% of their revenue stream that is deepfake porn based.

The continuation is meant to be “or I’ll ban you,” but since you’re not on his server and he has 0 social capital outside that little environment to leverage against you, he is impotent.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-weak-strongman applies equally well to Trump, Putin, and the Lemmy.ml mods. I wonder why the similarity.

Did these guys actually have soap on their shoes, or they just do that anyway?

It’ll “fix” the adblockers. As in “we had our dog fixed.”

Grok responded to X users’ questions about public figures by generating foul and violent rape fantasies, including one targeting progressive activist and policy analyst Will Stancil. (Stancil has indicated he may sue X.)

When you fine-tune a coding AI on code that has deliberate flaws in it, and then switch it back to having conversations in English, it starts praising Hitler and constructing other deliberately hateful content. It wouldn’t surprise me if fine-tuning Grok to be Nazi also led it to “generalize” some additional things that weren’t intended by the operators.

I have no real idea about the details of manifest v3, but they’ve already made it come true and it didn’t stop this from happening, so that tends to lead to me believing not.

There are too many plaques developed in his brain at this point for him to be able to remember the words “flood” or “policy,” is what it sounds like to me.

Computers

It seems unlikely that their participation here is going to be productive lol

You’re a modern marvel.

I literally can’t tell if you are a bot designed to gin up conflict, or if you’re legitimately someone who has this much difficulty in having a normal human conversation with anyone for personal reasons or something. If it’s the latter I hope you get better as time goes on.

Me: I like killing IDF people

You: HOW DARE YOU TRY TO CENSOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO KILL IDF PEOPLE

Me: What? I am not censoring anyone, I actually listed that censorship as a reason not to go to lemmy.world

You: IDF DESERVES TO DIE YOU MONSTER, HOW DARE YOU

Is there someone else near to you that I can speak with? Maybe I can explain it to them, and they can explain it to you.

When did I advocate for censoring the people who express that right? I think you maybe have me confused with someone else here.

Somewhere out there is an article by someone who walked around a games conference and came away from the experience horrified that so much of the content he was seeing was from small indie studios who weren’t in a position to hire wastes of oxygen like himself, and was furiously nail-biting about what this would do to the state of the industry.

Related news is the authors of Dave the Diver having to explain that they are in no way an independent studio, and they do not deserve the award they just received for “best independent blah blah,” because “indie” has at this point simply become completely synonymous with “original and good.”

Jeez, I thought I took Lemmy too seriously.

I’ll happily advocate for the Palestinians’ rights to kill as many of the IDF as they can manage. It won’t solve their problems, but they’ve got every right to do it, and nothing else that I can see will solve any of their problems other than better leadership in the US.

I think you’ve probably understood me pretty well, what you decide about me is up to you just like it is for everyone else.

Don’t go to lemmy.world, it’s a silly place, for this among some other reasons.

The whole thing of treating people who are victims of drug addictions within the same system that’s designed for people who are robbing houses or whatever, is fucked.

Of course, the ability to criminalize random people especially if they are members of the underclass is a feature, not a bug.