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A post from the Balatro guy:Comments
The choice was simple. It was hardly a choice at all, really. I loved programming. I wasn’t any good at it, nor was I aware of what may await me after graduation, but in the months since that Intro to Computer Science course I had created a few programs that convinced me this is the thing for me. I want to make things with code.
I’m feeling so pessimistic now that I’m not sure making things with code will be a job anymore. - Comments
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I got into an argument with some guy on Zulip about whether or not a pro-AI blogger using AI art is likely to be respectful to artists. Because I don't want to keep engaging with him, I'm not going to reply, but I'll say why his latest comment has problems. He said:Comments
Should we think that a school teacher who needs a cat holding up a whiteboard for a handout has a negative opinion of and respect for Art or artists? Is an 8-year old who is making pictures of Mario for birthday invitations spitting in the face of illustrators everywhere?
The case of the school teacher and eight-year-olds are different because they don't know where the images are coming from and how the models are trained. They don't even know what a model is in most cases. It's no different than clip art to them.
The companies making AI image generators aren't going to tell them. That's the absolute most advantageous position for those companies.It's possible to respect artists greatly, even donating to them and whatnot, and still want to adorn your blogpost with a picture of a cartoon cat wearing a C64 as a hat while eating a stick of RAM.
This is a case of not letting anything stop you from taking what you want, even though you know that someone else is paying the cost. This is not the eight-year-old that wants a Mario birthday invitation. It's a guy who knows how AI image generators are trained.
Plus, I really doubt even 0.1% of them donate to artists.
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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive linksComments
"There is consensus to immediately deprecate archive.today, and, as soon as practicable, add it to the spam blacklist (or create an edit filter that blocks adding new links), and remove all links to it," stated an update today on Wikipedia's Archive.today discussion. "There is a strong consensus that Wikipedia should not direct its readers towards a website that hijacks users' computers to run a DDoS attack (see WP:ELNO#3). Additionally, evidence has been presented that archive.today's operators have altered the content of archived pages, rendering it unreliable."
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Twenty bridges, fifty wall squats. I haven’t found much else I can do.Comments
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Tired of hitting unsubscribe on Nextdoor emails only to find out I only unsubscribed from one of their many subcategories, I just logged into Nextdoor to uncheck about thirty boxes. (In retrospect, I should have deleted my account.)Comments
They showed me “local stories,” one of which was about ICE raids on churches. That they’ve raided churches should be a surprise to no one, considering they’re fine with shooting people because they think someone is a “bitch.”
So, I clicked just to see if maybe this is a thing even Nextdoor can’t get behind.
Of course they can! You knew it.
Someone commented that this was fake and that ICE hadn’t raided churches. Then someone else said that in fact, anti-ICE protestors had raided a church because they hate religion.
Someone really said this. It sounds like something a right-wing Ralph Wiggum would say. It got something like 20 likes.
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Via Dan:Comments
Wesley R. Dingus, 48, is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday at 10 a.m. in Mansfield Municipal Court. The alleged offenses involve sniffing the previously worn underwear of a minor relative in his care. Both instances were recorded by a small video camera, according to a Richland County Sheriff’s Office report.
He’s the pedo counterpart to Alan R. Sex. - Comments
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Impossible not to think here of the rise of labor unions in the tech industry and the subsequent rapid (and surely coincidental) deployment of so-called AI which—unlike nearly every prior technological development in software—arrived with mandates for its use and threats of punishment for the noncompliant. Elsewhere, Gorz talks of the trend of workers being reduced to “supervisors” of automated systems that are doing the work for them. But simply watching work happen, without any of the creative, autonomous activity that would occur if they were doing the work themselves, gives rise to a degree of boredom and stupefaction that can be physically painful and spiritually debilitating.
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My technique for getting out of bed with intercostal muscle strain. Unfortunately necessary!Comments
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Via Three Bean Salad, I learned about the dragons of the Welsh flag and the Bhutan flag.Comments
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