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sapphicsnail··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
They can make higher density buildings that generate more income and house more people on the same amount of land.
sapphicsnail··on LGBT tolerance slumps in the Netherlands as debate turns vicious
If that were the case than international beliefs should stay static and rarely change but that's clearly not the case.
sapphicsnail··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
Do you adjust audio settings in the terminal? I've been moving away from using my mouse but anything related to audio or display settings intimidates me.
sapphicsnail··on NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
They've been protesting Israel and have been facing way harsher punishment for it.
sapphicsnail··on Nobel economists throw support behind California billionaire tax
https://archive.is/sMlSP
sapphicsnail··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
Feel free to link the whole article through a different site
sapphicsnail··on Google AI Studio fakes data deletion. VRP auto-banned me in 60s for reporting it
You could just not put a delete button in the first place
sapphicsnail··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
I assumed the "poorly understood" part referred to the nondeterministic nature of LLMs. Clearly you and others understand why they do that.
sapphicsnail··on AI safety is mostly a sex cult
Don't think it was a full on orgy but I've seen some cringey Yimby parties
sapphicsnail··on Senate Blocks Cryptocurrency Regulation
Then why do crypto companies spend so much money on lobbyists?
sapphicsnail··on Alberta First Nation invokes treaty clause to set up gender-affirming care
The gender affirming care in question did not include surgery.
sapphicsnail··on Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America
What's wrong with empathy?
sapphicsnail··on Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
Would someone smarter than me mind explaining why FF on iOS can't use extensions? I know every browser has to use WebKit but I've heard Orion is able to use FF and Chrome extensions.
sapphicsnail··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
> I think the worst thing that happened to him was AI skepticism becoming a political position.

It is a political issue in the sense that the discussion around AI can't avoid material and cultural issues. Ed Zitron definitely has an ax to grind and I'm personally turned off by his hyperbole, but I don't think something being a political issue means it's not worth discussing. I've also noticed the pro-AI crowd pivot to accusing people of not having actual reasons for hating AI, being victims of Chinese propaganda, etc as a way to avoid actually talking about specific issues that people have about AI and DCs.

sapphicsnail··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
My girlfriend worked in IT and people would frequently complain that Microsoft was down whenever something went wrong.
sapphicsnail··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
The only people who say this are people who don't actually know anyone who is antifascist. Hell, most of the people I've met who strait up identify as antifa are probably closer to democratic socialist than communist and they tend to be pretty dweeby.
sapphicsnail··on The teenage girls behind a $25 minimum wage fight in rural Alaska
If a business can't pay it's employees enough to live on it shouldn't survive.
sapphicsnail··on Alphabet stock sheds $700B as AI bills climb
You could just tell us
sapphicsnail··on Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days
The smart reason graphing calculators are banned is because students are meant to be learning a concept. You don't learn how to graph to pass a test you take a test so you're pressured to learn how to graph.

Same with AI. Having AI generate a for loop doesn't mean you understand the concept of a for loop. You can argue that it's a waste of time to learn about for loops because an AI can write one for you but that's a separate matter.

sapphicsnail··on CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
> Almost all decisions that businesses take have nothing to do with the proficiencies of technologies or engineering finesse, or even the best options, but mostly on “incentives” and who can take/own the “blame.”

This argument always confuses me because it seems like lower level employees are the ones that get quickly dismissed when things get bad while a lot of C level executives seem to have some sort of compensation even if they fuck up.

sapphicsnail··on The "Hate Speech" Psy-Op
Is this a bit? This whole article is one emotional rant with a bunch of claims that don't follow.
sapphicsnail··on Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
Labour pivoted way to the right on immigration and it didn't get them any more votes. There's nothing they can do to get that part of the electorate and it's a waste of time to try to cater to them.
sapphicsnail··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
I think it's important to make a distinction between actual porn sites and sites that just have people talking about LGBTQ stuff. I'm trans and me and my spouse don't want our kids to watch porn.
sapphicsnail··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
Do you know many religious people? It's pretty common in the evangelical Christian community I grew up in.
sapphicsnail··on Donation Controversy
> You should read my other comments to get a bit more context of why this is an issue in Sweden.

I have.

I'm sorry but I'm just not persuaded and you don't seem to be engaging with anything I've actually said. I get that your from Sweden. I think we just have different political views.

sapphicsnail··on Donation Controversy
I read his blog and did some research before posting. I'm sure I don't get the intricacies of Swedish politics but anyone talking about the West being invaded by migrants is a big red flag for me. Maybe I would have had more tolerence about it in the past but my home country (US) has masked goons rounding people up and I've gotten burned from so many people who claimed to want sensible migration policies only to turn out to be virulent racists when they got in power.

Also, there are ways to keep companies from using migrant labor to undercut wages that don't involve mass deportation.

sapphicsnail··on Donation Controversy
"Large-scale remigration" is quite the euphemism for "violently remove people in the country from their homes and send them to God knows where."
sapphicsnail··on Donation Controversy
I'm really sad about it but I'm not going to renew Mullvad once the 6 months I already payed for are up.

I'm fine supporting companies that have people with poliical views I initially interested in Mullvad for political reasons and one of the founders giving a significant amount of money to a political group that wants to restrict the rights of other people is too much for me.

Not everyone is cynical. Some of us have actual values we act on.

sapphicsnail··on Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign
> Help me understand this attitude, because I've mostly seen women wearing these types of products, and they stand to gain a lot in terms of security from wearing them.

How? This is just going to give a bunch of creepy men an easier way to film me. I'm dreading these getting mainstream adoption.

sapphicsnail··on Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]
We have central planning just not by a government
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