[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

Why don't you move to North Korea, tankie?

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

You're what's wrong with the world.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

You best start believing in ~~ghost stories~~ cyberpunk dystopias. You're in one! - cyborg Captain Barbossa

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When Spotify announced its largest-ever round of layoffs in December, CEO Daniel Ek hailed a new age of efficiency at the streaming giant. But four months on, it seems he and his executives weren’t prepared for how tough filling in for 1,500 axed workers would be.

The music streamer enjoyed record quarterly profits of €168 million ($179 million) in the first three months of 2024, enjoying double-digit revenue growth to €3.6 billion ($3.8 billion) in the process.

However, the company failed to hit its guidance on profitability and monthly active user growth.

Edit: Thanks to @Zerlyna@lemmy.world for the paywall-free link: https://archive.ph/wdyDS

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Originally from @mikemathia@ioc.exchange

Description: Top text: The packing insert for our robot vacuum looks like it should be guarding a temple somewhere. Image: A cardboard packing insert that is shaped like a stereotypical Mesoamerican temple guardian mural.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 18 points 7 months ago

From what I remember, AI facial recognition tech was already being used by police and agencies worldwide, like the FBI, PRC police etc, or am I misinformed? I remember something about Chinese and American facial recognition software.

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Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports. The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks, uses technology from Google Photos as well as a custom tool built by the Tel Aviv-based company Corsight to identify people affiliated with Hamas.

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A good summary of the current classes and their meta. I would note that the guide seems geared towards players in the US, EU, AU, and other wealthier regions, so depending on your starting location some or all of the best classes might not be available for you to spec into. Note: doesn't cover multiclassing or dive very deep into each category's subclasses.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

I feel like you didn't actually read their comment before posting, !dipshit@lemmy.world

It has nothing to do with Lemmyshitpost being their "favorite community" and they never mentioned "investing" or "value". That's all from you. Stop strawmanning their position. They were criticizing the ease with which entire communities can be taken down by single individuals. Additionally, it seems you are contradicting your own post from 20 minutes prior to your current comment. Perhaps you responded to the wrong comment?

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[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

Slava Ukraini. Now to deliver more of those F-16s for Ukraine.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How about the following examples:

  • Autonomous weaponized drones with automatic targeting (Terminator)
  • Mass surveillance and voice recording (1984)
  • Nuclear weapons (HG Wells, The World Set Free)
  • Corporate controlled hypercommercialized microtransaction-filled metaverse (Snow Crash)
  • Netflix to create real-life Squid Game (Squid Game (speedrun!))
  • "MoviePass to track people's eyes through their phone's cameras to make sure they don't look away from ads" (Black Mirror)
  • Soulless AI facsimile of dead relatives (Black Mirror)
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cross-posted from: https://nom.mom/post/121481

OpenAI could be fined up to $150,000 for each piece of infringing content.https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/report-potential-nyt-lawsuit-could-force-openai-to-wipe-chatgpt-and-start-over/#comments

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

Muskovy needs to get the Japan/Germany treatment - entirely demilitarized and culturally rewritten from the ground up over three consecutive generations until they're more associated with absolute pacifism a Muskovite version of anime than anything else. The rest of the RF needs to be culturally rewritten until they don't even remember what the word "Russian" means other than synonymous with "Nazi".

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Want this the case when Reddit was tiny and Digg was huge too?

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

"Democrats" is an amazingly broad term that mostly encompasses "almost anything that isn't Republicans". It isn't so much a unified monolith as an alliance of often polar opposite interests banding together only because the GOP is the only real alternative. Were the GOP to disappear tomorrow, I guarantee the Democratic party would almost instantly split into dozens of smaller parties, or possibly into two again. Compared to most of Europe, an American "Democrat" is a centrist or even a right wing neoliberal. People like Bernie Sanders, who is viewed as a far-left outright communist in America, would barely count as center left in most of Western Europe.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

This honestly. Lots and lots of magazines in a basket on the wall.

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