Well, technically, the AI in the film wasn’t flawed. The people feeding it variables were. It was still a pro-AI film. The whole idea fell somewhere between “AI is a powerful tool for good” and “We have to guide the AI toward better understanding.” The real villains of the film seemed to be the justice system and the actual murderer. The story was never really critical of the LLM with the killswitch.
-Just say’n…dont give Amazon a pass they don’t deserve.
Whisky Jones is a bad ass name though. That’s either a porn star or a treasure hunter and I’m good either way
Since the last election, I’ve increased my advocacy for third parties. It would be difficult, but not impossible, to achieve. The current issue I see goes beyond any single candidate: the digital town squares have been compromised.
The things that need to be discussed beyond that need to be done privately with people you trust and translated into real world action. That’s my current opinion. Posted for others to read and consider. My DMs are not open and I’m not looking for a community. Build your network in person first. with people you know.
Change happens when we organize and come together. We are well beyond gatekeeping. This is enemy of my enemy time
I edited my impulsive comment. I’m only pinging you as a courtesy so it doesn’t look like I’m trying to rewrite myself into someone more moderate. Be cool. Do crimes. Aim that anger at someone who actually hates you.
Your opinion means little to me beyond suggesting that we likely share similar morals. I’m not interested in engaging in infighting with people I probably agree with 70 percent of the time.
That’s the thing: that sounds reasonable until you take 5 minutes to research and find that there are already a fuck ton of roadblocks and checks in place to make sure it’s what they want and the best option. That statement is either made in bad faith or in ignorance. A trans person trying to get access to surgery and a woman trying to have her uterus removed have similar, but unique, levels of difficulty.
Pretending anyone can make that choice on a Tuesday and undergo serious surgery on a Wednesday is either super ignorant or a bad actor. You can’t even do that shit for normal healthcare procedures.
But the viral right found its token examples, and those examples became the face of an entire problem that didn’t exist.
As a leftist, I can tell you there was a fuck of a lot more than one issue that I didn’t agree with Biden or Harris on. I still voted for her, but I can tell you I won’t hold my nose again.
What happened, in general terms, is that Gen Z kept the previous elections from slipping too hard to Republicans, and Harris went viral for calling them dumb. And she was pro-genocide, and she was a cop-loving prosecutor out of California. She basically screamed “DINO.” Then, when the Democratic primaries happened, Biden lied and said he was going to run again, which basically killed any other chance for a popular candidate to emerge to challenge Trump. So when Biden finally changed his mind, we were forced to vote for Harris or Trump.
If you want to blame something, blame the Democratic Party playing games with their internal processes to keep the people from having a candidate they actually wanted. Nobody even wanted Harris as VP. She got it, much like Biden under Obama, because she was a “safe” moderate.
And I can tell you, as a regular voter. I had people at my door for her 12 different times asking me to vote.
We shouldn’t have even allowed Biden to say he was going to run a second term, but the entire establishment went along with it as political theater to put her on the ballot.
Why did Trump win? Because American elections are fucked and never favor the popular vote and because enough people were fucking pissed. The Liberal idealists were pissed because dispite popular opinion our leaders ignored them most of the time, and the Conservative minded were pissed because they had 4 years of “Fuck Joe Biden” propaganda.
I said this a little higher up. Shower beer is one of those things that people who haven’t experienced it will look at you like you’re mad but Iykyk.
(and you can’t JUST get in the shower with a beer. at the very least you should do it after hitting the gym. The physical exhaustion is a key component of the shower beer experience.)
related: Shower Beer.
You work one of the dirtiest jobs in the summer heat and you’re exhausted but need to get clean before you pass out. Cold Beer, Hot shower. I can’t explain. It has to be lived.
14.8…BILLION! FOR A WEBSITE WHERE BOTS TALK TO EACH OTHER!
It’s called Mercy. It’s actually pretty good, yeah, but it’s also pro-AI, pro-surveillance state propaganda. Solid B+, though.