Kevlak: Science Unit Blarkblark, your report on the Sol system?

Blarkblark: Eight planets circle a mainline yellow star.

Kevlak: So nothing interesting then?

Blarkblark: Well, there is something that confuses me.

Kevlak: Elaborate.

Blarkblark: The third planet harbors life.

Kevlak: That’s hardly unusual.

Blarkblark: The dominant species on this planet…

Kevlak: Get on with it.

Blarkblark: They made their planet hotter, then decided they didn’t like it hotter, so they built devices to make their planet colder.

Kevlak: Seems reasonable enough.

Blarkblark: But they never stopped what made it hotter.

Kevlak: Doesn’t that act against their purposes?

Blarkblark: It gets stranger. The devices also make their planet hotter.

Came here to say this. N64’s a close second, but the re-releases of N64 games on the Gamecube helped a lot with that too.

AI’s no joke.

Shit, you’re totally right.

OP: Go fuck yourself. Unless you didn’t realize it was fake, I guess, in which case I guess we can commiserate.

So, I’ve been able to find sources confirming the fence, but the “restricted area” signs, razor wire, and guard towers are just a joke, right? And is the fence really that close to the pool itself?

It’s not very nice calling RMS a “cow”.

(/s)

The Guinness Book of World Records credits Gareth Griffin of Harrogate U.K. with the record for growing the world’s heaviest onion at 8.97kg or 19lb, 12.4Oz.

But it seems they need to update their record given the size of the onions people are eating in this thread.

Seriously. Why are we still calling him a Democrat?

Just because he hasn’t formalized switching parties, I guess.

If he still caucuses with Democrats, that shit has to be super awkward.

Schiff: “We’d better capitulate even more to the Republicans. It’s always worked out so well for us in the pa-”

Fetterman: “WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKE!!! <mocking voice>‘I wanna steal your 3-year-old son’s testosterone.’</mocking voice> That’s what you sound like right now.”

Everyone else: “…”

We must do the communal chant to summon him.

Someone remind me how the chant goes again.

SMCF is easily among the most recognizable names on Lemmy, and not just because their username-choosing skills are god-tier. And I have yet to see them troll.

Yeah, he banned me recently too.

And they had the gall to be like “no u”.

I don’t know that I can give much insight except to say it feels like there have been more folks coming to Lemmy lately saying they’d been banned from Reddit, which makes me think Reddit has started being more aggressive about banning people.

Can you point on the doll to where the bad penguin man touched you?

I’m onboard, but only if I control the model.

Criti-hype intensifies

What do you think of terms like “fictionkin” and “copinglink”? (Have you heard of those terms?)

Who’s gonna ban it? The government?

Anarchists should fight against all oppression, including religious oppression. But any religion, spiritual community, or other related sort of thing, if they aren’t oppressing anyone (and I figure “not oppressing anyone” is basically what you meant when you stuck “voluntary” in your post body), why TF would you go and make it your business what they do?

Beyond that, one could argue that without being able to oppress people, religions would die out over time as people wake up to what they really are. To the extent that that happens, great. But I do think there’s something deep in humans that has spiritual sort of leanings. Whether what remains once oppressive religions are gone will qualify as a “religion” or be more of a set of secular spiritual practices or some such really depends more on your definition of “religion” than anything else.

I’m probably the most anti-AI person I know, but I agree discourse around how “AI is theft” is a bit shallow.

Copyright is often erroneously conflated with plagiarism. While the two do sometimes coincide, they’re very different concerns.

I, myself, believe copyright is so broken we’d be better off throwing it away. (The only thing I believe I’d miss about copyright if I woke up tomorrow and it didn’t exist would be copyleft.) But I do deeply believe in a right to attribution. I don’t think AI is theft. I think it’s plagiarism.

And I believe that listing the names of all those whose works were included in training data for a model would still be a great disservice to the artists buried tens of millions of names deep right after some dumbass “NFT artist”. Meanwhile, asking an LLM or image generating model which training data was involved in generating one particular piece of output it produced is futile the same way as asking a stage strongman which rep at the gym allowed them to lift that car.

And if someone objected that giving what I would consider “sufficient credit” to artists/authors/whoever would make AI models completely infeasible, then my response would be “that’s exactly my point.” If it can’t exist without taking advantage of huge numbers of people without their consent, then it shouldn’t exist at all.

Finally, one more point I want to make is that if AI didn’t make billionaires a huge amount of money, the legal system would have put a stop to the mass scraping of training data and made a very visible example of whoever undertook to do mass scraping in the first long ago. (Never forget what they did to Aaron Swartz for scraping on a vastly smaller scale than OpenAI or Twitter or whoever did to make their LLM models.) As terrible as it is having to deal with the shitty IP laws we have, the greater injustice is that the laws (IP and otherwise) only apply when billionaires want them to.