Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman
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I have a hard time considering these types of things proper games just because they’re only about “make numbers bigger faster.”
Also, the sheer number of these types of games which are all basically the same in terms of what they do kind of makes it just another one in a sea (pun intended) of these kinds of games.
By fleecing rubes it seems.
There’s still a little time to get in at reasonable prices before they truly blow up and go insane. I’ve definitely started seeing increases such as a WD 8TB that went from $204.99 to $239.99 overnight after a short period of being out of stock. Depending on brand and size, some are still available at retail prices, but they’re quickly running out.
The PS5 DualSense is definitely the second-best choice if you can’t get a Steam controller. It has comparable features, although I personally feel like the touchpads are placed in suboptimal position compared to the Steam controller. It also has comparable build quality, unlike Microsoft’s various iterations of Xbox controllers that all have absolutely disastrous build quality.
Goblin mode makes its entrance
Jeeves apparently was classier than that all the way until the end.
Who gets bored when you can hunt poor people for sport?
There’s already a lot of evidence that the majority of the economy is currently functioning off the economic activity of the upper 10% of society. That 10% accounts for 50% of all economic activity. They just want to take it a step further.
Also Xbox controllers have garbage ass build quality. Valve seems to make pretty solid hardware. The only one I see as comparable is the PS5 dualsense controller, but it’s still missing some things like the extra buttons. It has a touchpad, but just one, and it’s not optimally placed, imho.
Cory Doctorow still uses pgp if you email him, I think his key is on his website, IIRC
That’s definitely a path as well, but considering how smart (at least in math and computer science) you have to be to be developing AI in general. Those are not easy people to replace because of their skill levels and skillsets. Them just leaving and refusing to do the work is honestly a lot better play than trying to get everyone in the company on board for unionization. Only OpenAI is strictly an AI company. Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Twitter all have their fingers in other pies, meaning you would need to get everyone in a massive company on board. Far easier to just get all your colleagues on board and just bail to build your own thing.
LMAO a hunger strike in front of companies who literally don’t give a shit if you live or die.
I think the scariest thing about Artificial Intelligence is the absolute fucking basement-dwelling, fart-sniffing, booger-eating, antisocial narcissists with zero ability to empathize with other human beings developing and “training” it. They spend their lives acting like a victim because they’re “autistic” but I have met plenty of autistic people who aren’t self-aggrandizing, narcissistic assholes, so it’s not because of the autism, it’s because they’re assholes.
We’re essentially letting AI learn socialization from the people with the least quality socialization skills and interpersonal skills available. That’s the scary part, the idiotic shit it will learn from these narcissistic fucking idiots.
Employees need to start figuring out that whining about it doesn’t change shit because you’re in a corporation, not a democracy. The only leverage they have is their numbers. They need to put up or shut up, the only way to stop this is for entire swaths of people to quit their jobs. Further, Google has plenty of people wealthy enough to start their own business, these people have options that a lot of others don’t. If they still care more about their paychecks than they do their ethics, I couldn’t give a fuck about their opinion that they won’t actually stand up to defend.
At least Timnit Gebru stood on principles (mostly anyway, she at least threatened to quit and they fired her), and the paper Google fired her over is more important today than when it was written in 2020. It was literally a prophetic document for all the issues we face regarding AI today.
Google pretended it fixed things by doing a lot of fake inclusivity bullshit (not that including people is bullshit, but rather Google’s methods are those weak and pointless corporate ideas of “inclusivity” are bullshit), and brushed the contents of the paper under the rug. The reality is that paper was way too on the nose of real problems for them to allow to be published as it was.
Anyway, if the employees didn’t figure it out six years ago when they shitcanned Gebru for standing up for herself (and humanity), I doubt they’ll magically figure it out now.
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I don’t want to live in this universe anymore.
Always has been.
Describes a lot of the Metro series
Also bandcamp gives you high quality DRM FLAC files (or really whatever audio filetype you want) and those files are yours to keep, forever. You can also stream stuff you’ve bought through the bandcamp website. They also still do bandcamp fridays where 100% of the sale goes to the artist. Next bandcamp friday is May 1st.
Another option is direct-from-artist sales if they have their own website and store. Do vinyls still come with codes for an mp3 copy? I remember my vinyl for The Mean Jeans - Are You Serious? had a code and a link to download an mp3 copy of the album.
I got into music piracy back in the day because it used to be that record companies paid artists badly so I spent money on concerts and merch, now Spotify pays artists badly for the record companies. Anyway, if used at all piracy is best used to find artists you really love and then spend your money on legitimately purchasing their music.
A long time ago now, literally years and years ago.