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TurtleJoe

@ TurtleJoe @lemmy.world

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  • Relationship advice?

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  • This guy essentially founded modern "rationalism." He has millions of literal followers, not just the Twitter kind. His dumbass is the one that spawned the Effective Altruism cult that has become extremely popular with tech bros. Sam bankman-fried, Sam Altman, Elon musk all subscribe to this "philosophy." It's all batshit insane and incredibly stupid.

  • Amazon Prime Video won't offer Dolby Vision and Atmos on its ad-supported plan | The company is now facing a lawsuit over its decision to charge $3 more for ad-free viewing.

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  • Back in the day, before streaming was a thing, there were lots of people saying that they'd gladly pay for content if it was served to them in a convenient way.

    It wasn't just people saying that, it was backed up by studies.

  • This Website Tracked Hate Crimes in India. Then the Government Took It Offline

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  • No, the Indian government can't do anything to a website that isn't based in Indian territory.

    A good example is a recent giant investigation by Reuters into an Indian hacker-for-hire company, and the man who founded (and made hundreds of millions of dollars off of) it. The man sued Reuters over it, and an Indian court found the article "indicative of defamation." I believe Reuters is appealing, or there is something ongoing. In the meantime, they took the article down worldwide. Why? Because they have offices in India, and employees there, and the Indian government could punish those branches if the article stayed online in other parts of the world.

    In this case, they've deployed similar tactics to pressure international companies to block the website.

    Meanwhile, the New Yorker and The Daily Beast have large articles up based on the Reuters investigation, because they have no branches in India, and thus give no fucks about what their courts say. The original Reuters expose is also still available on the Internet archive.

  • ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything

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  • It is a word coined to describe a specific capitalistic process, yes.

  • AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’

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  • It's just as likely to make some shit up as it is to be any kind of helpful.

  • Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built

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  • Non-native lawns are a huge reason for the native bird decline across NA in the last 3 decades.

  • Kids Don’t Think Congress Has Their Best Interests In Mind With Their Grandstanding ‘Protect The Children’ Hearing

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  • I think KOSA is a terrible bill. I've written both my senators about it. It only takes a couple minutes.

  • Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature

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  • It'll be nothing but AI spam.

  • My new landlord sent me an email that containts only ads for other companies.

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  • That's actually pretty convenient; my old landlord always charged a fee for large furniture/appliance/child removal.

  • HP CEO Says They Brick Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … Hackers

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  • And the stuff they put in chemtrails are the original RNA packets that will change your DNA. The covid vaccine is what activates them.

    (But seriously, pretty much every covid vaccine conspiracy is just the chemtrail conspiracy repackaged.)

  • AI shouldn’t make ‘life-or-death’ decisions, says OpenAI’s Sam Altman

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  • People only thought it was the former before they actually learned anything about them. They were always this way.

  • "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?"

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  • This was a case where you needed the sarcasm tag. Up to then, it was a totally "reasonable" comment from an AI bro.

    BTW, plug "crypto" in to your comment for AI, and it's a totally normal statement from 2020/21. It's such a similar VC grift.

  • 505 of 700 OpenAI employees tell the board to resign.

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  • It's my opinion that every single person in the upper levels is this organization is a maniac. They are all a bunch of so-called "rationalist" tech-right AnCaps that justify their immense incomes through the lens of Effective Altruism, the same ideology that Sam Bankman-fried used to justify his theft of billions from his customers.

    Anybody with the urge to pick a "side" here ought to think about taking a step back and reconsider; they are all bad people.

  • My favorite Calvin's dad comic

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  • When you read this comic, it makes you realize that it shouldn't have been surprising that Bill Waterston retired the strip suddenly and moved to a remote cabin in the middle of nowhere to paint watercolor landscapes.

  • Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer

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  • Tell them you were deathly sick.

    "Yeah I had skin cancer. Nothing major but I had to take it easy and after beating it we all went on vacation to celebrate"

    It may depend on where you live, but it may be illegal for an employer to ask about anything medical in an interview. I have a two plus year gap and if I get asked about it, I just say, "illness." They can't ask any follow up questions.

    I have occasionally expounded on it, saying, "I'm fully recovered now." Just to reassure them that I don't expect to miss work due to illness in the future.

  • You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault

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  • Yes, but I once saw a cyclist run a stop sign. These two things are obviously exactly equal, and bicycles are just as dangerous as cars. I am very smart.

  • No rights no pussy rule

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  • I bartend. I was working on Easter, and one of our semi regulars came in with a guy that she was obviously on a drink date with. They'd been at at least one other bar before they came in; they'd had a couple drinks, but weren't past maybe tipsy.

    At one point, she mentioned that the reason the last place they'd been to was slow was likely that it happened to be Easter. At the mention of the word the guy interrupted with,

    "I REFUSE TO TALK ABOUT ANY POLITICS OR RELIGION!!"

    To me this was a sign that this dude cared very much about religion and politics, but just like how scientologists don't drop the Xenu shit on you right away, he wanted to wait until any prospective partner was in too deep before revealing how abhorrent his views are.

    That regular isn't my favorite person, but I was proud of her for pretty much ending that date after that.

  • r/dndmemes mod u/Dalimey100 is a fucking legend

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  • Why are all those people giving Reddit money by buying awards for that post?