Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

This puts it nicely into words what I have been thinking is happening over at the Reddit HQ: https://mitchw.blog/2023/06/14/reddit-is-speedrunning.html
#lemmy #kbin

Other sites with a large centrally stored body of user contributed text suitable for AI training might be next.

every time someone has been rude on Steam in a place where I can see them recently it's been someone who was VAC banned

it's almost like cheating in multiplayer video games and being rude in conversation are in some way correlated

If you see "parental rights" or "parents' rights" in the context of the autonomy and medical and social welfare of a child within the federal jurisdiction of Canada, it may interest you to note that that concept is fairly antithetical to the established legal approach (as imperfect as it often is). According to practice here — as far as I understand it, based on conversations with lawyers and social workers — the welfare of the child comes first and foremost, and the concept of parental rights is not really a thing, but in the eyes of the courts and the law should be framed rather as parental responsibility. Parents don't have the right to do whatever they want with their children. Parents have the responsibility to the welfare and wellbeing of their children.

"Parents rights" is a gender critical, queerphobic, and ableist dogwhistle. Be on guard when you see it.

To be frank, I think the absolute best thing you can do in the era of social media collapse, the enshittification of the internet, and chatGPT turning informational websites to grey goo is to find real people and stay in contact with them

as we lose the ability to Google things easily, to find easy answers to problems, to buy things online, to communicate easily online knowledge, skills, and services will be lost; knowing the right person can be a literal lifesaver in that scenario

“The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.”
— Utah Phillips

I remain deeply suspicious whenever code "just works" on the first attempt.

What would science and discovery look like, if we approached ideas and concepts as living entities to befriend and interact with, as opposed to commodities to extract and exploit?

I am so damn tired of corporations in every sense

the snacks I buy keep getting smaller

the flavors keep fading in prepared foods

corporate social media keeps pulling features and shoving in ads

the ads on tv are at least a decibel higher than the content

the billboards along the roads are so bright and colorful they overwhelm my eyes

the endless cracked concrete downtown radiates the sun and makes walking painful

the endless cars are too loud, I can't stand to be outside

most of my friends don't even know the name of a single politician for our region, be it federal, provincial, or municipal

the lights in Walmart are too bright and they buzz

there are no affordable local grocery stores in my city, they died out to Walmart and it's like before I was born

every brand of bread has way too much sugar and it aggravates my ibs

I feel so suffocated and demoralized but no one seems to care

Every programming language needs a cute mascot that can be used as a substitute for the actual language name

hey admins please understand that if a local user is misbehaving and you limit their profile, that doesn't federate. Only your local users will stop seeing them, and they are now free to piss off the rest of the fediverse with impunity

Cool idea for art schools: block IPs of Adobe license verification servers for one week each semester to simulate the future.