I know that when I’m playing cards in a dress that’s melted into my skin, with my favorite half-bracelet draped over my wrist, I love to intimidate my opponent by flashing them two face cards. Who wouldn’t be shaken by the Kinmb of Back of Card and the Quing of 21s? Especially when I’ve already played my oversized red card.
This is what happened with plastic bags in some stores in the US. We passed plastic bag bans and while in a lot of cases the result was a combination of low-quality paper bags and legitimately reusable plastic totes, in the past couple of years some places have started giving out plastic bags that are way thicker than the ones we used to have and just calling them reusable. Like, yeah, they’re strong enough to be reused, but that definitely doesn’t seem to be the norm. We just ended up with single-use plastic bags that literally use more plastic.
I picked up a projector on sale for $50 on Newegg, usually I think they’re like $80 or something. Only problem is, I don’t know how to get the dust out of the inside of the projector lens. I’ve tried spraying canned air into the cracks around it, but it didn’t work. I even took the thing apart intending to wipe it down myself, but I couldn’t figure out how to get to the back of the lens.
Still, for $50 it’s not too bad. The little bits of dust are kind of annoying, but they’re not in focus and it’s pretty alright for watching movies.
Considering that it also extends to charging stations, that some of the Teslas are privately owned, and that people have been doing things like shooting at dealerships? I’m thinking not.
Quite the pattern. Notice how once something happens a few times, it becomes a normalized course of action. In a month or two we went from not hearing about this at all to seemingly many people across the world jumping in specifically on lighting things on fire. There have been some other approaches too, but burning things down seems to be an increasingly common response.
It’s interesting to see how specific kinds of resistance become sort of a behavioral trend. A few people lead by example and suddenly it starts to snowball. I wonder what other kinds of similar situations we’ll see play out over the next few months.
I’m not sure the US saying “okay, Putin gets whatever he wants” is going to be as effective as Trump would like to think.
Nah, inability to produce the actual image is the point. All the “artist” did was type in a box, so that’s all the purchaser gets.
It would be kind of funny to offer AI schlock for sale and then give the buyer a framed copy of the prompt instead of the print itself
What’s wrong with archive links?
Looks like it’s just a picture of something sitting in relatively still water that’s just been flipped upside down.
I would also like to know this. I’d rather not start making content only to realize I picked an instance with insufficient resources or that’s just going to disappear in a couple of months.
It is incredibly obvious that CAPTCHAs are at the very least a way of exploiting distributed labor to train AI.
Stract seems kind of bad. Results are mostly irrelevant. It seems impossible to get information about any sort of local stores or anything like that. I literally can’t search up a youtube page. Like, the ways in which google actually still functions don’t work on stract at all.
Literally none of that changes the self-destructive stupidity of letting Trump get into office.
It isn’t about whether the Democrats are exemplary or even decent. It’s about the actual result of your actions. Are the Democrats to blame for failing to act, for failing to prevent a second term, and for all the other mistakes and capitulations they’re guilty of? Absolutely. Does that absolve voters of responsibility? Not even a little bit.
At the end of the day, voters still decided that they were willing to let others suffer. They decided that Palestinians don’t matter, that health care doesn’t matter, that trans rights don’t matter, that immigrants don’t matter, that the environment doesn’t matter, that access to food and housing doesn’t matter, that reproductive rights don’t matter, and on and on and on, because it’s more important to send a message that they don’t approve of the Democrats.
Everyone who spread the narrative that they’re no different is complicit in everything Trump does, because this is what you chose. This is the supposed lack of difference. This is what you said doesn’t matter and isn’t important.
Nothing you say about the Democrats will wash the blood from your hands.
Literally. This is the result of the level of discourse on the internet and of petty one-upsmanship with a complete disconnect from reality. All that matters is being ‘right’ not what actually happens in the world. Therefore it’s a race to the bottom while doing everything possible to shatter any political power that might have resulted in a coalition with any chance of saving anything.
So we get the worst because people are too busy shitting on anyone they can point a finger at for not being their idea of perfect.
We are apparently incapable of learning how to get along with one another on the left and are utterly susceptible to atomization, while the right is capable of banding together with absolute moral bankruptcy to light the planet on fire, commit genocide, and destroy every social service we ever had.
Fucking infuriating that this feckless performative bullshit is the best we can muster. That we literally are too divided by pointing out everything wrong with everyone else to ever get together and accomplish anything.
The stupid thing is, the people directing the bot farms that started this? They fucked themselves too. The right fucked themselves, the center fucked themselves, the left who couldn’t get it together to work with anyone lacking ideological ‘purity’ fucked themselves.
Humans are too stupid to exist. Fucking checkmate. We all lose.
Gloat? Hello? I’m furious. The people who pushed this angle successfully fucked the world up for a bunch of people including themselves.
They may literally have wiped us out. All of us. They almost certainly doomed millions to die of entirely preventable environmental disasters.
For what? Hyperbole? Spite? Fucking really?
This guy heard people talking about China being more repressive than the US and took it as a challenge.
Thank goodness the literal heroes who refused to vote for Harris prevented this.
So brave. So admirable. So incredibly thoughtful. What foresight.
I’m not sure that checks out. I mean, fair, I do think that someone being habitually cruel toward AI might not be the greatest indicator of their disposition in general, though I’d hesitate to make a hasty judgement on that. But if we take AI’s presentation as a person as fictional, does that extend to other fictional contexts? Would you consider an evil play-through in a video game to indicate an issue? Playing a hostile character in a roleplay setting? Writing horror fiction?
It seems to me that there are many contexts where exhibiting or creating simulated behavior in a fictional environment isn’t really equivalent to doing so with genuine individuals in non-imaginary circumstances. AI isn’t quite the same as a fictional setting, but it’s potentially closer to that than it is to dealing with a real person.
By the same token, if not being polite to an AI is problematic, is it equally problematic to repeatedly say things like “human” and “operator” to an automated phone system until you get a response? Both mimic human speech, while neither ostensibly have a legitimate understanding of what’s being said by either party.
Where does the line get drawn? Is it wrong to curse at fully inanimate objects that don’t even pretend to be people? Is verbally condemning a malfunctioning phone, refrigerator, or toaster equivalent to berating a hallucinating AI?