Completely fair, and I definitely agree with your point.

I did. As well written as it is, I don’t think the premise of “the REAL doomers were the CEOs!” is going to spread far enough to dethrone the present, much more popular understanding of what an AI doomer is. It didn’t seem worth addressing. We’ll see though; perhaps every time someone says “AI doomer” on Lemmy, some wag will reply with, “Um a-kually, I think you’ll find the tech CEOs are the real doomers, LOL.”

As to the the notion that the dangers these techbros have released are now coming home to roost: it’s overstated. In my opinion, the techbros will continue not to give the merest shit about the harms they’ve caused, and one misguided soul with a molly isn’t going to change that – or bring back all the dead people LLMs contributed to killing. Will it increase the CEO’s feelings of paranoia? My dude, the wealthy are already maximally paranoid.

LLMs are responsible for more deaths than doomers are.

He’s-a Luigi, number 1!

He really came into his own. I feel like it’s a shame people slept on Revengence, where he really shines. (And it’s fun!)

buying multi-TB drives like they’re nothing!

😭

Surprise surprise. If you go through Techdirt’s archives, you can see Mike Masnick has spent thousands of words losing his shit any and every time Facebook has faced ANY criticism. I don’t know if he has a financial interest in them (like he does with Bluesky) but the moment someone suggests reining them in, here comes Masnick to defend one of the richest, most lawyer-ed up companies around.

What a thrill…

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Mindfuck Steve

Leak? Surely they mean “unintended emission.”

Mm, I’ve tried leaving mastodon.social, and quickly found that a lot of the people I follow and my followers form an elaborate web of blocks/de-federations that meant I would inevitably lose contact with many people. They’re all good people, but I don’t think they’d change their own instances just for my sake. I could join like, three different instances just to keep in touch, but if forced to choose at this point, I might just give up on Mastodon altogether.

Here’s hoping 🤞

The thing that bothers me about switch to “it’s just a branded PC now” is the loss of the Xbox as a low-end performance target.

That’s one advantage of being a console gamer: Your games may never look the best, but new AAA games will come out and run acceptably well on your system, long after low-spec PCs are left for dead by publishers.

“After carefully considering the matter, we have determined that we have done nothing wrong.”

It feels that way. Every ongoing product MS has feels decrepit and ready to collapse.

Tide goes in. Tide goes out. Kamiya says wild shit on social media. 🤷

Ring: Fuck it, we Flock now.

Sure, why the heck not 🤷

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“Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand, Oh Wait There’s a Working One Right Next to It.”