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All they had to do was put up a furry character going between two frames, mirrored, and the occasional slow scroll over a Wikipedia page, but somehow they would prefer to play with the keys the billionaires are jingling in our faces while they loot the planet for the last hundred years of capital it's capable of producing.

I used to think he delegated to dead relatives, because I didn't think anyone else would be interested in watching. Literally believed my grandma was watching me for years.

This is just one of the things they're trying to take from us

Yeah I'm with you. I'm disappointed, but everyone will disappoint you in some way some times. Hell I'm disappointed in myself plenty of the time.

I agree, we try our best, but we've got to focus on the truly existential issues.

You don't need animal products to live, but I don't disagree with your point about food. At least it's actually for people.

AI is only for extracting the last bit of marrow from the bones of workers before making them completely obsolete.

My complaint is at least before the individual stealing the idea and recombining it was the one getting paid.

Now that's just a SaaS that benefits a handful of overvalued superscalers. They get to sit on their horde of data and charge for access.

The main problem with the output of LLMs is people not checking results, but there are ethical problems with the effective use of it too. Especially if you're you're dealing with the major platforms, who have shown no qualms allying themselves with fascist governments, surveillance capitalists, or just generally being cavalier about workers rights. (And obviously extracting value from the commons and renting it out on a scale never before seen, but that's the obvious one.)

I would say the same thing about hosting services on AWS. The corporate world does it because it just makes financial sense, but all they care about is outputs. I expect better from individuals who are trying to send a message.

Never been more proud to be on the fediverse than when I saw the reaction to threads

In my experience if you start a niche community and tend to it then people will eventually come and start filling it. Not as much as on the mainstreams but still enough.

I feel like without something like reddit, capital would try to worm its way into places like this, which would be disastrous if it was successful.

I'd like to know what the objection of the collaborator who actioned that ban was

Yeah I was thinking of this as a half measure. But less secure than just wiping