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by toofy 2mo ago
of course there are other factors at play here. has anyone tried to hide their motives? look, i use llms for some work and for some hobby projects, but lets not pretend like the companies behind the llm bubble would ever fight fair. that wo
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by toofy 2mo ago
if i’m understanding what you’re saying correctly, it sounds like you think parental involvement is a) lacking, and b) would be effective in its own. i’m not sure either of those holds true. it takes a village, even with fantastic family li
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by toofy 2mo ago
the time thing rings very true to me as blocker. when i get off work i would absolutely (and do) shop at stores that are open. i stopped 90% of online shopping a couple years ago so once i regained the lay of the land of where to get what,
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by toofy 2mo ago
i definitely have internal debates on the idea of eminent domain and the nuances of wether i think its ok or not. that said, i think i lean to it’s absolutely not ok to use eminent domain when the receivers of the benefits of the taken prop
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by toofy 2mo ago
> … are we going to accept this same rhetoric for anyone that films others in public and/or commercial spaces? yes, please. i think that is exactly the direction we should be pushing. this creepy compulsion to record random people i
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by toofy 2mo ago
yeah i’m not sure where people are coming from when they imply the best way to fight off an extremely addictive thing is to use it. we warn kids about the impacts of heroin, we don’t shoot them up with it.
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by toofy 2mo ago
> practically speaking, a phone is a necessity. no. it isn’t. my apologies for sounding more blunt than im meaning to, but, im not at all sure where i would fall on the idea of banning kids from having social media powered phones, but i
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by toofy 2mo ago
indeed. cause the problem then complain the problem exists. that’s been their intentional platform for years and years.
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by toofy 3mo ago
a24 was great, they’ve definitely slipped though. as soon as they won their first oscar they’ve been chasing money rather than quality. their old catalog though, incredible. i’d say like 80+ percent of the movies they released were fucking
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by toofy 3mo ago
it’s been this way forever. the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00, etc… all had generic trash movies and music too. stop getting recs from algorithms and the entire world will open back up to you. just like top40 music and generic movies from b
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by toofy 3mo ago
and a toyota camry can’t compete with a lamborghini but the camry vastly outsells them. you’re far far far more likely to see a camry or equivalent in an americans driveway than you are a super car. you’re also more likely to see an enthusi
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The internet does not want readers. It wants livestock(grumpywelshman.com)
42 points by toofy 3mo ago|18 comments
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by toofy 3mo ago
found on the always amazing bubbles.town gareth sounds like my kind of guy lol.
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by toofy 3mo ago
it really is wild. i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again. the companies will have no one but themselves to blame when they’re regulated in and out. if the companies don’t care at all about people and society to take actual material conc
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by toofy 3mo ago
> ... there is a reasonably strong argument that it was wrong to use copyrighted material for AI training without paying royalties nor even asking for permission. But equally, every country wants to have the most powerful models and enfo
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by toofy 3mo ago
yeah, the answer lies exactly there. the monetization is what killed blogs. great blogs still exist, but they’re almost entirely people writing about whatever their passion is, because they’re passionate. it’s as old as time, my dad uses
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by toofy 3mo ago
those days are still here, people just want to know where the information is coming from. the rallying cry from hackers has never ever been “information wants to be free from sources” and hackers have also never implied “information from a
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by toofy 3mo ago
> i believe that in the future technology will be so advanced that protection of privacy is impossible. the only way to counter that is… i’m not sure why so many of us have fallen into this… “there is no other future” thing… there are ot
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by toofy 3mo ago
yep. seeing it here as well. i’d be curious to know more details as well. is this a targeted mass reporting or something?
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by toofy 3mo ago
let’s not forget the marketers who work for the same companies we do. how many times have we all seen marketing departments or sales departments in our companies entirely misrepresent the abilities or purpose of a product we built? it’s fuc
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by toofy 3mo ago
yeah, he seems to have the same issue a lot of these guys have. i’m convinced we’re going to find out at some point they’re all on some kind of modern meth type drug that entirely breaks their reality. the similarities between so many of t
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by toofy 3mo ago
well it could be limited to companies who are entirely dedicated to surveillance and massive data collection on citizens like palantir. particularly with that and how ideology based palantir appears to be. i’m sure they wouldn’t be nearly a
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by toofy 3mo ago
if you take the time to read karp’s manifesto and look into thiels beliefs, then maybe it wouldn’t seem “vibes-based” for you. an example that may cure you of your “vibes-based” confusion, karp, palantirs ceo, argues clearly for authoritari
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by toofy 3mo ago
> Have some personal responsibility for once. its probably a bit unrealistic to expect children to "Have some personal responsibility for once." id agree with you if a 50 year old said, "omgolly meta, you used trickery on
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by toofy 3mo ago
i agree with the sibling comment here. someone in a comment section somewhere is crying foul about everything.
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by toofy 3mo ago
sometimes a statement is just a statement. not everyone is taking a “position”. sometimes a conversation is just a conversation and not a debate.
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by toofy 3mo ago
and honestly, i think we need more of this online. we shouldn’t feel this incessant need to constantly chirp back at someone if we think they’re wrong. i’d personally like to see us get to a place where we say more often “huh. i disagree w
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by toofy 3mo ago
yep, i just wrote an overly long comment that was trying to get across what you said in a paragraph. if its a random online, dont over think it. i started to pay way more attention to the real world people in my life and im much much much h
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by toofy 3mo ago
the main pieces that i had to truly understand in order to recognize and stop most online arguing were: 1) performativeness. if the person responding to you is performing for other readers rather than having a genuine good-faith discussio
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by toofy 3mo ago
> Literally every unmanaged… > This is why we can’t have nice things. i think you’ve hit the nail on the head. it’s the unmanaged part. it isn’t clear to me how We collectively are shocked when these marketing and execs convince us “o

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