I’ll reiterate a comment I made earlier today:

Peaceful protest is only a meaningful choice when violence is also a real option.

Otherwise you’re just holding a pointless rally. Might as well show up with handcuffs on already.

I’m not sure if I should bring up the homeless vets with PTSD who’d love someone to talk to, for hire or not, qualified or not; or if I should make light of asking my own friend for hire about coping with the depression and anxiety of living in a world that the ultrawealthy have immiserated for their wealth.

The rich are worried about people hating them for being rich while everyone else is burning out from the stress of coping with living in situations that are literally depressing.

Maybe people don’t need to feel better about it? Maybe the rich should be afraid and feel like shit? Maybe the poor should be angry and upset? Maybe people on the internet use humor to cope with difficult situations and being a wokescold finger-wagger about it is counterproductive?

Reminds me a bit of the old default Gtk look. Or maybe early Java Swing… The flat look, primary colors, and some other elements to me; it’s very nostalgic. Not sure of any themes that fit it though, sorry, haha

Only right now. I’m sure someone will have it running on Wine or Proton by next week. Steamdeck subsystem for proton for Windows subsystem for linux

I doubt they’ll get anywhere with weak action like that. “Stop forcing copilot on us or we’ll be very sad and we’ll strongly consider moving some of our hosting to another site.”

GitHub is a disaster for open source software. MS controls some insane amount of all the code created on earth, and even with self-hosted forges being more prolific and easier to access than ever, people act like their projects can’t live without Big Daddy MS’s social media for coders.

I saw someone the other day, on Lemmy and in full seriousness, proclaim that the world really needed distributed version control. To avoid censorship, like how the fediverse is decentralized.

This is what GitHub has done to a generation of programmers. For those missing the joke, git is already decentralized. You don’t need a central Hub of some kind for your code. You do for your issues, releases, and all that, but not for the code. And if we’d collectively moved to a well designed, intentionally improved system like Fossil, all that woukd have been decentralized and distributed too.

But no, easier and more efficient/profitable to keep using the one C library that’s compatible with Torvald’s pile of old Perl scripts. My website can’t live without a built in Travis CI bot and nonstop PRs from dependency bot, but allowing every moron on earth to submit AI generated content, at last we’ve found the step too far.

A pretty large amount of people don’t own a PC at all, though I’m finding it surprisingly hard to get a good number on it. Just anecdotally, most people I know who aren’t IT professionals have either no PC or 1 old laptop, often from college or on loan from work. Most folks use their phones for everything. People I know with kids have school issued Chromebooks, which barely counts.

As to exact numbers, I’m curious what others can find. I turned up between 74% and 94% of adults in the US owned a PC, which seems insanely high to me. But on the same page claiming that 89% of all households have a PC, I also saw

In the United States, the number of households with computers is projected to surge from 4.7 million to 120.45 million between 2024 and 2029, indicating a substantial increase in computer ownership.

Which… That’s bonkers. They expect the number of PCs (in homes) to go up by a factor of 30 in just 5 years, presumably that guess was before tariffs as well. I’m wondering if these household and per capita numbers somehow include corporate spending because businesses and schools do purchase literal tons of computers.

Objects don’t “have” colors either, if we’re being pedantic. They reflect/absorb/transmit/emit different combinations of wavelengths. So “pink” objects just reflect some wavelengths that we classify as in the range of “red” and “blue”. Color is an interaction between emission, detection, and the brain’s interpretation.

Its not even a unique trick. The ears combine various wavelengths of air vibrations to create sound, with combinations of pure waves merging into distinct timbres (sometimes called “tonal color”).

One of my favorite books! Great world building and quite thought provoking!

Oh so like the music industry where every artist retains full rights to their work and the only 3 big publishers definitely don’t force them to sell all their rights leaving musicians with basically nothing but touring revenue? Protecting the little guy like that you mean?

Or maybe protecting the little guy like how 5 tech companies own all the key patents required for networking, 3d graphics, and digital audio? And how those same companies control social media so if you are any kind of artist you are forced to hustle nonstop on their platforms for any hope if reaching an audience with your work? I’m sure all those YouTube creators feel very protected.

https://youtu.be/bEXefdbQDjw

I figured rule of threes meant it was funnier to leave it out. 2017 would have been sad gooning to pornhub during the first trump nightmare.

Then 2027 could be sad gooning to ai hyperporn during the second trump nightmare.

Maybe I should have used 20 year jumps, but "2037, I am jerking off because there’s no food, and the internet is nothing but ai porn.’ didn’t seem as funny a point for the “time shattering” bit.

I thought this was going to go Watchmen for a moment. Like…

It is 1997, I am a young boy, I am jerking off to a grainy porno playing over stolen cinemax.

It is 2007, i am in my dorm, i am jerking off to a forum thread full of hi-res porno.

It is 2027, i am jerking off to an ai porno stream that mutates to my desires in real time. I am about to nut so hard that it shatters my perception of time.

Like all good sci-fi, they just took what was already happening to oppressed people and made it about white/American people, while adding a little misdirection by extrapolation from existing tech research. Only took about 20 years for Foucault’s boomerang to fully swing back around, and keep in mind that all the basic ideas behind LLMs had been worked out by the 80s, we just needed 40 more years of Moore’s law to make computation fast enough and data sets large enough.

This is just willful misunderstanding of history. Several of the founders were against political parties, but since game theory hadn’t been invented yet they put in place a system that would force a two or one party system. Which it quickly did. There have been two parties from the very beginning, just not the same two parties. But arguably, the same two broad positions: the Federalists favored elites, while the DRs favored liberalism.

Words also just rotate around in popularity like any other fad. Remember synergy? Paradigm shifts? Thinking outside the box?

Academia isn’t immune to memes, far from it. In the semi-contained world of higher education, trends in words and phrases are even more pronounced and likely to spread.

If this is evidence of LLM usage, it could easily be the machines reflecting back trends. These things pick up on subtle cues in your prompts to match tone with you as well so I wouldn’t rule out human influence either in prompts or the RLHF process.

Why? So they can betray you at a critical junction to claim power for themselves, or so you can betray them without feeling too guilty about it?

Because you sure as hell can’t work with them on any leftist projects. They have zero desire to unconcentrate the accumulated power in Washington, only to claim it for themselves.

Imagine being a director at this company. One of your employees brings you a report showing that your most active users, who are the backbone of your business, have a huge overlap with rape reports. This will destroy the company, and you know they’ll fire you for bringing it up and suppress it anyway. So you just… forget… to bring it up at the next quarterly. You used to work at Uber, and before that covering up how gambling and gaming companies float on a raft made of addicts, so this is well practiced blindness.

Ah sorry bud but You were Time’s person of the year in 2006 so now we’re all complicit!

In a rich man’s house, there’s no where to spit except for his face.

Seems like the cross post isn’t displaying quoted content (for me on Voyager mobile anyway) so I just wanted to add that in the original post, there is a long discussion I wrote highlighting some interesting aspects of this output. Please click through if you’d like to know more!