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-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

I'm so glad they got Ted Chiang -- a wonderful writer of science fiction and thinker about technology, in my opinion -- to write this essay. My favorite line was this:

Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.

thatsthat24

Rental House or Escape Room? 🏠

secondlina

The suspense in palpable.

theonion

Honestly, I don’t get why anyone wouldn’t like me. I do cool stuff. I make cars. People like cars, don’t they? I make stonks go to the moon. Isn’t that cool? Isn’t making stonks go to the moon something people like? Seriously, c’mon. Appreciate me. I was on Rick And Morty. Wubba lubba dub dub, right? People love that show! I like to hang out. I microdose acid, a cool drug. Remember that time I went on Joe Rogan’s podcast and smoked that joint? Who else would be crazy enough to do that but me?

God, I’m lonely.

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mitchipedia

1903 Mugshot Of Bertha Liebbeke, who would approach rich men in crowds, pretend to faint in their arms, then relieve them of their valuables in their pockets.

She does not look the least bit remorseful.

mostlysignssomeportents

teal-chimera

i hate seeing people now making fun of those who care about privacy online. i've seen people saying things like "well they already have your data. what are companies going to do with it" and it's like, that's not the point. it's that companies /shouldn't/ be able to have my data and sell it. am i aware they probably already have my data? yes, absolutely. but i'm still going to try and keep them from monetizing it any further, why are we defending companies selling data they shouldn't have to begin with though?

teal-chimera

adding this to the post because, 100%, just there's a fire doesn't mean you should pour gasoline on it

hunter-rodrigez

I have like ten different ad and/or tracking blockers on my PC and phone... just out of pure spite

coolestglalie-intoxicatedinkeep

Can link it? I wish to hop aboard that train.

hunter-rodrigez

@drunkenbartend

Firefox with build in tracker protection

Ublock Origin adblocker for Firefox

Adguard adblocker for firefox, for everything that gets past Ublock

Mullvad VPN, one of the most reliable, cheapest and safest VPNs at the moment

DuckDuckGo android app that blocks trackers for every app on your phone

DuckDuckGo for firefox for blocking trackers and the likes

SponsorBlock for firefox, skips the sponsor segments of youtube videos

Adaway Adblocker for android (works much better with root access but doesn't require it)

Is there any benefit to using multiple ad blockers at once? I honestly don't know, but I haven't seen a single ad on the internet in ages and I get to use this image:

freakrho

you can add tracker control for android, it acts as a vpn and blocks all trackers on any app

k-eke

Cursed cats!

theonion

Calling the findings of its comprehensive survey of American workplace practices “total bullshit,” the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment issued a report Monday concluding that you should be able to retire after, like, six years of working full time. “We evaluated the data around current U.S. employment rates, and our research shows that it’s basically crazy that we have to waste our whole damn lives working before we can retire,” said report co-author Sarah Middleton, who explained that six years is actually a really long time and that it sounds like more than enough labor for one person. “Our research found that people have to work and stuff or else nothing would get done, but anything more than half a decade or so seems cruel and excessive. That has to be hundreds of hours of work, right? And after consulting with experts across the field, we determined that six years was a totally reasonable amount of time to pay your dues before you get to kick back and chill.

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ultimopanart

Here is a bunch of fantasy/D&D inspired Mayor Arcana. Why 24 and not 22? Wouldn’t my players like to know…

64 minor arcana may one day arrive, of Scrolls, Gates, Hammers and Jewels. With ten numerals, a beast, a knight, a cleric, a queen, a king and an ace.

Meanwhile, enjoy some pretty colors

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jackisreallycool

trailerparkburgerslut

Me in job interviews

probablyasocialecologist

With the IPCC report and climate change in the news, a couple of reminders are due:

"The wealthiest 5% alone – the so-called “polluter elite” - contributed 37% of emissions growth between 1990 and 2015."

The so-called “polluter elite” must change their lifestyles to tackle climate change, a report says.

"Luxury consumption by the rich concentrates economic activity and delivers negligible extra wellbeing, yet sucks up vast amounts of resources."

Demand would shift from luxuries to necessities.

"Affluent individuals can emit several ten thousand times the amount of greenhouse gases attributed to the global poor."

The billionaire’s new book, a bid to be taken seriously as a climate campaigner, has attracted the usual worshipful coverage. When will the

"Half of all our economic activity – all the mines, all the factories, all the power stations, all the shipping, and all of the ecological impact that’s associated with these things – is done to make rich people richer."

Ecological breakdown isn’t being caused by everyone equally. If we are going to survive the 21st century, we need to distribute income and w

"The wealthiest 0.54%, about 40 million people, are responsible for 14% of lifestyle-related greenhouse gas emissions."

We need to move towards ‘sufficiency-oriented’ lifestyles.

The rich are primarily to blame for the global climate crisis!

The Leeds University study looked at 86 countries and came to broadly the same conclusions about the rich.

"The world’s superyacht fleet uses over thirty-two million gallons of oil and produces 627 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year . The world’s superyachts consume and pollute more than entire nations."

Mansions, superyachts, luxury cars, and private jets produce more carbon emissions than whole countries. Researchers are calling it “green c

"The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither the physical nor ecological space for everyone to pursue private luxury."

Increased spending power leads to environmental damage. It’s time for a radical plan, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The wealthy pose our single biggest obstacle to environmental progress.

They coarsen our culture, erode our economic future, and diminish our democracy. The ultra-rich have no redeeming social value.

"The people who are actively cranking up the global thermostat and threatening to drown 20 percent of the global population are the billionaires in the boardrooms."

As the world faces environmental disaster on a biblical scale, it's important to remember exactly who brought us here.

There no undivided, undifferentiated "humanity" that caused climate change. It is the fault of the ultra-rich, of capitalism, and of an economic system that prioritises growth over all else.

A better world is possible. It doesn't include rich people.

infectedwithnyanites

evanotheraccount-deactivated202

She iS A HUGGER

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Sigmund Freud: All men secretly REALLY REALLY want to have sex with their mothers

It’s the Oedipus Complex

Oedipus: (Who literally gouged his own eyes out and killed himself when he found out he accidentally had sex with his mother) I’m sorry it’s the WHAT complex