I’m on techtakes and I didn’t even know that.

Milky knots sounds like something a mammogram is screening for…

You know that people in the Sovier Union also faced consequences if they didn’t work, and did in fact get paid wages, right?

What makes people put in effort is a complicated mix of material, social and psychological incentives, and I don’t think sweeping generalizations like that are very helpful to understand anything.

I didn’t expect a Mastodon web client with monospace font could go as hard as it does. It goes so well with the cyberpunk theme.

You don’t know how ready I was to receive the most toxic reply ever conceived by man.

I declare your takes to be extremely good and correct and, frankly, you’re incredibly cool and attractive for having them.

I’ve been enjoying the writing of Zoe Baker recently. Specifically Means and Ends about the historical origins of anarchism. While looking for that, I also saw an essay on Anarchism and Democracy that references more recent thinkers. Might check that out too.

Anyway, one of the takeaways for me was this: the fundamental opposition to parlamentary democracy entered the (european) anarchist canon in a time, when firstly parliaments were typically created as concessions by monarchs to stave off revolution, and by design ineffectual. And secondly violent revolution was still very much on the table. In this context participation in state democracy was opposed categorically as a strategic error.

If you live in a country where these two facts are no longer accurate (okay #1 is debatable, but #2 generally no), the strategic conclusions should also be different. Even if you have a post-state vision of democracy, some level of involvement in state democracy (or at least not torpedoing those efforts on principle) is non-optional in my opinion. Not least because fascists are trying to capture those systems to suppress all of our movements even harder.

Who would win? 1000 long mugs VS the sun

Bro, what’s this (1+x)(1+x²)(1+x⁴)... ellipsis bullshit? You gotta get in on that big Π action!

--yes-i-really-know-what-im-doing would also serve. This juvenile bullshit one should grow out of in their 20s at the latest.

I’ve never seen that, but it was my first guess as well. People here are already doing Doner-boxes with fries, meat and sauce in a takeout box, I’m assuming for people under doctor’s orders to eat a veggie-free high-grease and high-sodium diet.

Derping around on TF2 trade servers. Not even trading. Just not being in the mood for a competitive game and rather fucking around with randos.

Sorry for being late to the party, but I had to give my two cents on AI detectors. (specifically GPTZero & co., watermarking is different) I think it’s a bad idea to recommend them. These companies are overpromising their accuracy and essentially selling false certainty. This will also not fade over time since the inaccuracy is baked into the tech.

Currently the performance may be good for basic use cases, but recent papers seem to indicate you can still dazzle them by burning more tokens or explicitly prompting against detectors. But from what I understand about GenAI training* this is an eternal cat & mouse game, since the AI vendors don’t want their output to be detectable.

Debian dads of lemmy, join me in an approving grunt.

Isn’t evolution beatiful? Each of these specimen has adapted to fit a highly specific niche, it’s knob optimized to predate a specific style of trouser pocket or even certain belt loops.

This is bullshit and not how pro-Israel influence in US politics works. Kirk was broadly accepted by the republican mainstream and didn’t stray too far from the party line. In fact he was for a while harrassed by Groypers in part because he refused to adopt bald-faced anti-semitism into his rethoric. This theory might well have originated in those circles.

Yes we are. Bitches (a.k.a. my wife) be thirsting for this dad bod.

Wow, no upvotes. None of you did, then? Shame, it really holds up well. And you will get my previous comment.

(DM me if you need access.)

So, who else did rewatch Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World recently?

This rational animation channel seems to focus pretty non-stop on AI-risk crank talking points. Can’t tell by skimming if they’re engaging critically, but it seems unlikely.

And now you’re apparently inspired to make a cutsiefied rendering of a slop machine running prompts, which is likened to a child being encouraged to explore.

I don’t wanna shit on the art or anything, but it seems like the general AI psyop is getting to you a little.

Just realized this is also how I feel about Element.