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Some people are wired such that altruism makes them feel good and gives them a sense of purpose. Maybe it's evolutionary, but it doesn't change the fact that they don't think of it as 'virtue signalling' or personal gain when they do it.

In fact the ones who can only classify the behavior as such because they can't even comprehend it look like the real sociopaths.

Fascist autocracy is unwieldy. Freedom is the natural state. It will win in the end. How long that takes is up to the people.

Right up until it knocks on our own door.

I guess I don't get what's wrong w/ using generated art if it looks good. Where was the rage about clip art in print & digital media? Stock photography? Are the people who are mad outraged on the behalf of artists? Are they artists themselves? I know artists who enjoy working with generative art and are finding new ways to use it.

Like I said, I guess I just don't get it.

It's a lot less effort than changing every nth word because of an aggressive autocorrect.

It's only a matter of time before we're right back there.

Yeah, that's war in a nutshell.

Most of the massacres alluded to here used some variety of misinformation, secrecy, or euphemism to keep the calm and quell any heroics. Think "relocation" or "re-education". Even in the cases where they knew their fates, the settings were likely too swift or chaotic for any chance of successful resistance and there are countless stories of these attempts.

Frankly, this reeks of victim-blaming and shows a real lack of imagination for what has gone on in the world that you don't know about.

Satanic panic kind blew it up into something it wasn't.

Ozzy leaned into it a little and I think it helped his profile.

So real reporting of happenings from news outlets that don't comport with your desired reality : misperception. Got it.

That's some strong shit yer smokin

You don't need rights to view a work and caption it. You can walk into a library or gallery today and take your own notes on everything in there.

Giraffe-ics interchange format

I don't think anyone is arguing for a pure democracy where we all vote on every bill. Nice strawman tho

"Some people might not enjoy writing their own code. If that’s the case, as harsh as it may seem, I would say that they’re trying to work in a field that isn’t for them."

I've tolerated writing my own code for decades. Sometimes I'm pleased with it. Mostly it's the abstraction standing between me and my idea. I like to build things, the faster the better. As I have the ideas, I like to see them implemented as efficiently and cleanly as possible, to my specifications.

I've embraced working with LLMs. I don't know that it's made me lazier. If anything, it inspires me to start when I feel in a rut. I'll inevitably let the LLM do its thing, and then them being what they are, I will take over and finish the job my way. I seem to be producing more product than I ever have.

I've worked with people and am friends with a few of these types; they think their code and methodologies are sacrosanct. That if the AI moves in there is no place for them. I got into the game for creativity, it's why I'm still here, and I see no reason to select myself for removal from the field. The tools, the syntax, its all just a means to an end.

Sounds like you're ready to give up that liberty for some 'security'

I think at this point self-determination has eclipsed a great salary from someone else as a priority. Plus I'm fairly certain I can have it both ways.

At my last gig someone that my team unanimously rejected as unqualified showed up one day the following year as our new technical lead and boss. It went about how you'd expect.

Much later I told my skip boss about the kind of feeling of disregard that may have fostered as he pushed me for insights. And he remarked that it sounded like I had a chip on my shoulder. All I could come up with was 'guess I was born with it.'

Yeah cynical. And much happier working on my own things that are meaningful and interesting.

I won't be rehired anywhere near what I was making if I do find something, that's fairly certain. So I've put the onus on myself to generate the income I'm looking for.

Yeah I don't doubt there are roles out there if I really grind for one. I'm just happier now.

I never stopped developing. After getting laid off in April 2023 after 13 years as first a full stack then mobile dev, I just started working on things that interested me. I did apply and interview a few times, but I started to realize that pushing 50 and being as cynical as I now am, I'm pretty much unemployable as an IC.

So I released my application to the App Store this month, and while savings are dwindling, things are starting to finally move into the other direction now.

Probably could have avoided it by choosing less noisy "governance".

You're falling for the sleight of hand if you think this is where bulk of the waste is.

Chump

L'État, c'est moi

I guess that would be what we have today.

We already tried it in the 70's. People hated it. It was switched back.

If we're going to bother again, we should at least go with standard time this instance.

Zinn is extra credit for people that actually know history. He says it right in the preface, it's one-sided, it's the history that is generally left out of your textbooks. You guys have your panties in a bunch over anything that challenges your hierarchical worldview.

We really need a hero on the inside to drop the code

If you wanted to project an appearance of having read the article before injecting your opinion, you failed wildly.