SreudianFlip

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[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

FTA:

most fears about AI are best understood as fears about capitalism

  • Ted Chiang, being, as usual, succinct
[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OS/2, surely. Or maybe BeOS?

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

It really is a matter of degree, though. Even fancy perfume has horse piss in it. It doesn't mean you might as well wallow in the pigpen.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

No maybe Mullvad can't control the flow of that money into dangerous hands. But the customers can, if they organize.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

This is the core running gag of a lot of the tv series The Good Place.

The answer, of course, is just keep trying.

Critical thinking is based on treating problems as opportunities to improve. Endlessly.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Yes, absolutely! I have an ever shrinking list of suppliers for my business and the household.

It’s not an on/off situation.

The point of any such action dealing with complex consequences is simply a statistical approach. Deny custom with the oligarchs whenever you can, and it adds up in aggregate.

Buy local, barter, buy from vetted independent companies, use boycott apps, keep a shitlist and consult a company family tree if you are wondering about a product.

Smaller scale family farms are less likely to poison themselves, they live close to the fields; buy direct from them when you can. Farmer's markets. It's less convenient. It’s culturally richer.

There are hidden costs in cheaper products. It's not as big a sacrifice as it seems to avoid oligarchs whenever you see them.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Nope. It's Lions Bay, British Columbia, Canada

Most likely maps based on Natural Resources Canada data.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

It keeps sending people up my driveway to a place that doesn't exist. Labels my neighbour's driveway as a road too.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

Read more product reviews from more varied publications. You will see that there is a range of accountability in the sourcing of the product. Not all of it is direct marketing.

However, you can expect all of it to be ideologically consumerist.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

That definitely happens some of the time, in some places. Journalism still exists, however.

Product reviews require more than a 'test drive'.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Nike's new IrisNet profit-sharing plan nicely puts a stylish glow on my shoe logos when the fashionably discreet LaceCam notices the right eyes noticing my shoes, and at this rate I will pay the shoes off in 54 months!

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