Westerner’s depending on Amazon is such a simulacrum of where their country stands in the world. Reaping benefits from something you know is wrong and directly hurting someone. Only, while understanding the modern geopolitical landscape is complicated and takes determination/education, understanding that Amazon’s business model is untenable against humane working conditions is obvious on the face of it. You can see it when you drive past their warehouses.

So while I almost never hold people personally responsible for consumption habits, I find it extremely grating that Amazon is so successful specifically because people can’t say no to same-day delivery. Like, fuck, go down to the shops. Do you even need plastic junk delivered to your door today? Most people could benefit from leaving their homes more.

My bad brother. Should have been more charitable before hitting reply.

‘the backward group’ is pretty uncomfortable phrasing, if I’m being honest.

The root of anti-AI narrative on the left is reactionaries pining for the fact that automation has come for the industry that used to be artisanal.

We have, time and time again, seen the result of Luddism. It can come from a good place. It can be ethically relevant. It can be handled correctly. Yet - time marches on, and the proponents of it are seen as jokes of history.

I have no love for AI slop, but it’s a part of our world and the world my children will grow up in. You better believe I intend to have a good handle of it.

Surrendering generative AI and all of its utility to the ruling class because of its disruptive effect on intellectual/artistic labour is a folly, it’s luddite tactics that we know come from a good place but are ineffective and leave its advocates in the dustbin.

We are marxists and as such the material world and its realities are most important to us. The fact AI is capable of spitting out shortform content more efficiently than ever before cannot be neglected or the ruling class gets another cudgel under its belt. Why not produce propaganda using the same avenues as the elite? In addition, letting something like ‘fash aesthetics’ influence you is absurd. If I can eek one positive thing for the working class out of ‘fash aesthetics’ then I really don’t care about said aesthetics.

Another thing - the ‘cudgel’ under the belt of the ruling class - at the moment generative AI is dominated by paid services and companies controlling its input and output. Despite this, all forms of generative AI can be handled locally. AI running on your own machine truly is just another tool at your disposal. If we don’t utilize and educate about generative AI then the ruling class keeps its grip and knowledge of the ‘true democratization of art’ and any benefit is lost.

One great benefit of the stop killing games initiative is the spotlight being put onto EULA’s. we all knew this is the wild shit EULA’s tried to dictate for years now, but now we have media actually reporting on it. even if SKG goes nowhere, at least we’ve had a revival of this massive consumer issue.

Interesting that western media can’t seem to report any details on this game, some conflicting reports on if it’s a mobile or PC game. Frustrating that nowhere online seems to have any details at all. I want to see some game play of Yankee Hunter, or even get a download.

There’s also been a VR game developed there, which surprises me.

Kind of reeling that this app is only available for iphones. It says something, I’m not sure what, that this service intended to help those of sensitive immigration status, is only available on high-end premium phone models.

War is the enemy of humanity and I’m going to be existentially disillusioned if I witness the start of another global conflict.

north korea echoes popular sentiment

Sometimes users get a bit excited over inserting skips and you’ll get a video where honest-to-god one single word is marked to be skipped, or like, the intro is marked as self promotion - but! I still can’t use YouTube without it.

dibs

I remember when just ‘browsing’ the internet (google) was a pass time. Like you could just search random things into google and find something interesting or novel. The earliest iterations of google basically functioned exactly how you’d want a search engine to and needed zero improvement. we really do live in a fucked world where a technology or service can be perfected but inevitably made worse over time to the benefit of no one but the top

I love BE, I’m in that sweet spot of having never engaged with his online presence but occasionally watched his scripted videos. It makes everyone seem absolutely unhinged when they auto-nope out of any conversation involving him, when the takes usually in question is something like ‘genocide bad’

Just imagining that clap some teachers do in the morning to get their class doing the morning salutations.

"Good morning honorable judge presiding…’

russia is the no-no country for doing bad things, like starting pointless wars and terrorizing a civilian population. so you can’t support them. you’ll have to find other alternatives to your services that support bad countries doing bad things.

I hope my kids don’t grow up to murder me over unhinged conspiracy crap.

UberEats but for national defense. If you tip below the threshold they either don’t come or spit in your ammo.

sometimes when I’m in a real ‘shower thoughts’ mood I find it deeply amusing how we needed marxism to understand this, or at least have it defensibly asserted

He’s at my place. Just wanted to smash some cones in the shed but got lost in the smoko.