Obviously this isn’t ideal, and fuck the massive amounts of destruction (environmental, economical, societal) of AI, but these stories amount to ‘book owner does what they want with books they own’.

I don’t disagree with any of these responses, and I’m not saying reporting on this to make people aware of it is bad or pointless.

So now what do we do about it?

large municipal projects take time

I think Mamdani has been working tirelessly to dispel this notion.

Except when that thing is giving rights to or protecting women, minorities, or marginalized groups.

I actually really hate the bullshit fluff they add to the permissions request. It’s not cute, permissions should be concise and clear.

Yeah, leaving one authoritarian removed where you have no rights for another authoritarian removed where you have no rights isn’t what I imagine most scientists are looking for.

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You need to meter these jokes.

His wealth is stolen. He is the enemy.

Yes, their knowledge is locked behind the iron gates of ivy laden stone walls. Bestowed upon only for those whose Daddy’s could afford to unlock it. Mere intelligence, artificial or otherwise, simply couldn’t comprehend the 200x worker value they provide.

To be fair, too many people are using your account. 0 people should be on it.

I am simply following my programming.

Some guy made a customized lemmy frontend.

He decided to be a fascist justice warrior and secretly embed filters that blocked users he didn’t like personally.

Someone noticed and said wtf?

He framed it as protecting lemmy and new users - anyone asking why a frontend should even be doing this, let alone in an obfuscated, default enabled manner, were met with his whinging.

Instead of accepting the unpopularity of his extremely poor choices, he instead decided to commit the crimes of disturbing malicious software.

Send him to breathing tuberville

My comment was actually just sarcasm, which apparently didn’t translate well.

And do those viscious thugs stealing jars of artisanal honey happen to include a tiger, a small pig, and a yellow bear who wears a red shirt?

Didn’t you read?? People were stealing organic avocados and fresh multi grain toast, not gruel and powdered milk.

Edit. Apparently it wasn’t clear that this was sarcasm.

Da ba dee, da ba di

A chain pipe cutter is a quiet mechanical device that is great for cutting pipes. This doesn’t answer your question but they are interesting and relatively cheap tools for any workbench.

for animals

or, you know, don’t use reddit