Just to state the obvious, you should be bitching at your representatives, state and federal, all the time.

Yes, that includes me too. And no, I don’t do it either.

What I mean is it was obviously self-defeating. I’m not saying it’s a good thing.

Last October there was a user going on about voting for Jill Stein and I said something like well you must hate women if you’re letting trump win, and they said actually i identify as a trans woman and I’ve thought about them a fair bit in the last six weeks.

Gee I wonder who is at wrong here.

Wow

OpenAI loses money on every single paying customer, just like with its free users. Increasing paid subscribers also, somehow, increases OpenAI’s burn rate. This is not a real company.

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That’ll be $200 Billion please.

“Lawmaker”

Just say republican, for god’s sake.

First time? Yeah. The russian state is . . not . . . good.

The article is by Mike Masnick, founder of Techdirt. To wit:

Jul 29, 2023Mike Masnick, who founded Techdirt in 1998, writes for an influential audience of lawmakers, C.E.O.s and activists. Somehow, he’s still an optimist about the promise of technology.

Well if he’s got the ear of influential muckety-mucks what is he telling them? Who is his Senator? Also, not to nitpick but he doesn’t actually sound optimistic.

Ooh he’s credited with coining “the Streisand effect” so that’s cool.

Who, whom? Russian: кто кого?, kto kogo?; Russian pronunciation: [kto.kɐˈvo] is a Bolshevik principle or slogan which was formulated by Vladimir Lenin in 1921.

Oh. Uh, cool.

basically forcing facepals and the xitter to pay for moderation.

there’s three dems and three republQans on it, and it’s not the worst idea in the world, but it’s a vain attempt to have something, anything be bipartisan which - we all know how that goes.

If hell freezes over again it’ll be gutted by amendments and ultimately need to be cleaned up by whatever billionaire pays to run the US next.

Yeah, it’s still very Florida.

That many people shouldn’t be that hot that close together, I think.

Florida! Long time no batshit! Ha ha, j/k of course.

Yeah Apple is obviously to blame. Let’s put their picture on the story.

Clearly you support genocide. (/s)

. . . what’s that?

Edit: no, seriously, I don’t know what that is.

But, they’re allowing a 19-year old, with connections to hacker groups, with access.

Now now, you know that’s not exactly true. It’sa 19-year old nazi with connections to hacker groups.

Propaganda works.

We’ve been saying it since the 70s at least. It’s a giant conspiracy by - media corporations - to not reveal how powerful media corporations are.

Not a secret conspiracy mind you - anyone can see it quite plainly - but it will never be spoken of, at least, on popular corporate media. Not in any useful way. Why they would lose money if they did that.

My late-aughts XPS is a gem - milled aluminum, edge-to-edge glass, and the best laptop keyboard ever since Ye Olde Thinkpads. The glory days of chasing Apple with a Windows box and almost getting there. *pours 40*

That said, their QE went to shit, they pulled that bullshit RTO to soft-layoff everyone, laid off everyone else directly, and spent a ton to hire non-US replacements who aren’t up to speed so they can leverage the exciting benefits of AI (lol).

I’ll never understand why they didn’t put huge effort into backing linux when micro$oft started making hardware. Well - I know why they didn’t. Because they make poor managerial decisions. C’est ça.