It’s interesting to watch tech companies in recent years. The brands that used to be overpriced and over hyped are suddenly becoming the most affordable and highest quality. Not because they’ve necessarily improved, but simply because they haven’t embraced enshittification yet.

Jesus Christ, if that’s your reason for having kids then just fucking die and save them the trouble.

“Hey there Mr. Jambo!”

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I agree there are still good independent reporters. But the point is that they don’t fall under the category of “Every major news outlet”. Even when independent reporters make in-depth reports on what should be bombshell topics, major news outlets won’t even mention it. They have all been captured and corrupted.

Toilet paper is gross as fuck anyways, use bidets.

Seriously, toilet paper is on my list of things that in 50 years people will look back and wonder what the fuck was wrong with everyone. Assuming we’re still alive in 50 years that is.

“Every major news outlet” is fucking meaningless these days. Mainstream media has fallen so far that their articles are, at best, misleading and a distraction; outright lies and propaganda at worst. They don’t give a shit about verifying the truth anymore and will kill stories the moment it inconveniences anyone in power. The fourth branch is fucking dead. They have been defanged, declawed, and sold off to billionaires who keep them around like trained gimps.

And yes, random tweets are not better; but if you still think any major news outlet still has even a shred of credibility left, you haven’t been paying attention.

Why is the word “causation” photoshopped on? What word was there originally that would have changed the meaning enough to warrant pasting a different word there?

My point is that essentially ALL elections these days have blatant abuse. So saying “well if it wasn’t for the blatant abuse…” is pointless because it’s pretty much guaranteed to be present. It doesn’t really matter how close or popular someone gets because the powers that be have their thumb on the scale.

“Almost” only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

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Excuse me, but shouldn’t that be ColorAmerica, not Colorado?

People who are vehemently against any form of AI will be left behind. That may be difficult to hear, and even more difficult to accept, but that is the cold, hard, truth.

Its a tool, and just like any tool it has uses. It can be used inappropriately, and it’s valid to criticize those instances. But if you are plugging your ears and going “Lalala!” when people talk about actual valid use cases, or stubbornly pretending that it has none, you will be left behind.

You will be like office employees from the 80’s and 90’s who refused to use a computer and then suddenly found themselves without a job. It’s your choice if you use it or not. It’s also every company’s choice to not hire you because of your unwillingness to adapt.

If you haven’t learned it yet, this is your warning and your wake-up call: Learn how to use AI now, or find a different career. It’s not going away, no matter how much you may removed and moan. There will soon be two classes of people, those who learned how to use this emerging technology, and those who refused. Things will be much harder for that second group.

I don’t say this to be snarky or smug. I hate AI myself, but I also recognize how fucking stupid I’d have to be to refuse to use it. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but it’s also the truth.

Going to guess this is Number 1 in the past week, or 24 hours, or Number 1 downloaded recently, or some other limited metric because there is no fucking way the average user cares enough for MapQuest to unseat google or apple maps.

Which hey, that’s still great. But considering people don’t go to the app store to download Google/apple maps since it typically becomes pre-installed, I can’t help but feel this headline is misleading.

For me it’s one of those situations where I don’t agree, but I understand. Not for basic goods obviously, but I won’t shed many tears if someone gets killed while trying to steal someones phone/car/bike/etc. Like, look at Brasil. Are you saying it’s pathetic for someone to shoot a thief who just jumped off a motorcycle and tried to snatch their purse?

I just feel the more pathetic of the parties is the one trying to steal.

I’ve seen the story many times that the company never intended for the star to mean you won a free sucker, but I have yet to see an explanation for why the star is there on some, but not on others.

I love the ml users immediately rushing to China’s defense and ignoring their absolutely absurd claim that only 16 people are dead like we didn’t all see videos.

That’s not how AI works. The people claiming that AI models have to be trained on CP to make CP have a fundamental misunderstanding of how image generation models work.

If I ask an AI model to make an image of a sexy air fryer fucking a sexy, anthropomorphic, ear of corn, it will produce said image. I promise it was not trained on sexy images of air fryers fucking sexy anthropomorphic ears of corn.

That’s what makes AI so dangerous and difficult to regulate. We are not ready for this technology to be in the hands of everyone.

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Did people wash their hands? I seem to recall that hand washing is a relatively new thing that only came about in the last ~150 years coinciding with the discovery of germ theory. Like, to the point where doctors who advocated for it early on were shunned and ostracized by their peers.