Or ad campaigns! Don’t forget terrible products that are popularized by ads alone!

Link without the tracking string attached

https://youtu.be/RLqXkYrdmjY

Without the tracking string on the end.

https://youtu.be/Dr-kyeaUDr0

That’s because all the good shit* comes from humans.

*but also so much bad shit. So so so much bad as well.

Thank you. It needed to be said.

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For anyone else wanting a link. Here’s the YouTube address in usable form.

IMO, the video is fine. The presenter’s constant interjections get pretty tiring, but yes. Orange man makes a right fool of himself. As always.

That’s a good point. However, less is better than more, and some change is better than none.

Celebrate progress.

I’m sorry, but preemptive apologies are fine.

Anyone telling you otherwise is anti-Canadian. 😜

I mean, this isn’t cute, but it’s at least a little funny.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s horrifying for sure, but it’s also pretty funny.

Think the world might collapse? Maybe NOW you’ll consider buying into the crypto grift! I swear it’s definiely a good idea this time. I super-pinky swear it’s a good investment.

Just ignore the countless times crypto has shown it’s really only useful for scams, and money laundering.

I know this post “addressed” this point, but not to the extent that anyone with a partially functional ability to reason will be convinced. Here’s my problem… I find it excessively hard to believe that in a collapse scenario anyone would be interested in trading goods for crypto.

You didn’t need to insinuate anything intentionally.

If you choose to define someone’s humanity as their ability to procreate… You’re already, intentionally or otherwise, laying extremely dangerous groundwork.

The exact same kinds of reasoning people have always used to dehumanize others.

I don’t have to assume anything about who you are in your heart to tell you that you are employing bad and dangerous logic. Maybe you’re a saint, maybe every day you do 1000 times more good than I could do in a lifetime.

Doesn’t matter.

It’s still bad logic.

Scary to imagine that someone out there might actually believe that if we forcibly sterilized a group of individuals, we are (not only committing a heinous and evil act, but also) removing their status as a human being.

Wait, I’m actually really curious about this Babylon 5 tidbit. Who was that? What happened?

Barely relevant, but does anyone else find that article thumbnail is absolutely terrible? I was genuinely confused for a moment, not sure what I was looking at.

FWIW, I got it now, I’m not quite that inept.

Tangentially related. Does anybody know if there’s a browser extension or database that collects the obviously LLM generated websites?

I run into lots of websites where all I think is “this can’t possibly be a human writing this, right?” All I can do is show it to my friends and family for validation.

Makes sense. Only consoles I have are the switch, and the best console (because it’s not a console), the Steam Deck.

I haven’t played the new one, but I’m also a heretic who enjoyed Agents of Mayhem quite a lot. I’ve almost 100%'d it.

I also played SR:4 and Gat Outta Hell. Loved 4, never quite finished Gat Outta Hell.

My main gripe with the new Saints Row? It was a FortniteLauncher™ exclusive. I won’t buy it until it’s on a deep deep sale on Steam. I chose Linux, and they support my choice. Exclusives aren’t good for an open market, and I hate what Epic has done so brazenly to young audiences with predatory monetization, intentionally addictive systems, and dark patterns.

Alt-right playbook is, and always will be incredible

I quite like what Cory Doctorow has to say about it. (Author of Little Brother, coiner of the term “enshittification” (and much much more obviously))

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