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finally, i can livestream my ear canal 24/7

there’s a certain poetry to someone making an uncritical game about a technology meant to cheat drivers out of a fair wage using a technology meant to cheat other disciplines out of a fair wage. the venn diagram of people who would make a game about this and make a game with AI is probably just a circle

most european countries, and some countries in south america and aftica. outside of that you’ll need to look into AI-NTSC or AI-SECAM or get a foreign CRT and voltage converter

i gotta be honest, before it became a big talking point with AI, i didn’t realize em dashes, en dashes, and dashes were different characters, just different grammatical functions of the same character. i figured fancy word processors made them longer to make them distinct from minus signs, but that was it!

if this was about Number Go Up, they’d probably make more money selling the despined books or something instead of destroying them and selling (or do whatever they’re doing with) the raw pulp. this sounds like an expensive process and there’s no guarantee that expanding these datasets is going to improve their models in a quantifiable way, let alone a profitable one. they must just get some kind of perverse pleasure out of making the world a worse place

something very similar in mainframe land where they call files “datasets.” if you call a dataset a file, get ready to get an earfull!

which is ironic considering IBM themselves often call them files and one of the most popular dataset utilities is called FileAid. but if we acknowledge that, we lose a valuable opportunity to belittle and exclude newcomers

i would honestly have bought them saying that Nick Locarno is a pseudonym he used at the academy to not be known as an admiral’s son. like Mariner not going by Freeman in the show that ironically now makes this impossible

his genuine reasoning sounds like the kind of exaggerated strawman i’d use to mock AI supporters. if he only had a brain!

i think it’s an awkward way of expressing the sentiment that growing up is finding out the adults have no idea what they’re doing. Mount is thinking “oh shit, the monologue, how can I ever do half as good as Shatner” and meanwhile Shatner didn’t- and still doesn’t- even know what it is

yeah, i’m intrigued by the idea of a pseudo-“dumb” phone to reduce mindless usage, but this is too restrictive to really work as a phone for a lot of people. those banned work and social apps have and will continue to supplant the phone features of a modern phone. if i got one of these, it would have to be a supplementary device, defeating the whole point! and for those of us who can use a “dumb” phone, they can just got get one for a fifth of a price

oh yeah? if STO is so good, does it support the Super Action Controller?

Star Trek Strategic Operations Simulator for the ColecoVision stays winning

that’s how you end up on a chair zip-tied to the outer hull

yeah it’s fine we told starfleet command

it’s like that old IBM slide days. “A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision.” i find that quote meaningful in a lot of contexts but it’s especially relevant when we’re actually talking about management

if i like it, it’s canon. if i don’t, it’s not

life is much simpler that way

intelligence is knowing the AI is the tool, wisdom is knowing the user is the tool

“purity test” implies attention to detail which is the opposite of what i’m arguing. i’m advocating for a “stink test.” a lot of people here are arguing whether or not it should be ok to post art by a guy who stinks, but no one is arguing that he doesn’t stink. i don’t care if a comic inherently stinks or has the residual stink of it’s creator, i just want to open a window

that’s my whole point: regardless of if the comics were fine, later in life he was a jackass so who cares? we can look at every comic he ever made under a fine-tooth comb to see if those later values show up in dilbert at the risk of alienating the groups of people he hurt regardless of the comic, or we can just say “fuck that guy” and move on with our lives

i mean, yeah… let’s ban dilbert. even if adams was a saint when it was in serialization, posting it today platforms who he is today. we could pick apart edge cases all day but that’s a lot of work to maybe be able to post comics everyone has already seen, or we can err on the side of caution and spend all that time reading good comics by decent people instead

i absolutely adore this art style