This is a great point. They’re vague concepts, used as shorthand to communicate someone’s philosophies in very broad strokes. They’re not philosophies or even true political movements in and of themselves.

That’s called the black swan fallacy. “I’ve never personally seen it, therefore it’s not real.” That just sounds like cope and projection. You feel like this “loud minority” is preventing you from being so open about your love of AI, and so you pretend like everyone is secretly on your side.

If you were to get specific, people are generally receptive to very specific use cases, like tailor-made models for assisting medical diagnosis or security analysis of code. What people almost universally hate is the slop produced by generative AI, particularly in creative niches where what these machines produce isn’t art but a pale shade of it. Yet, these billionaires keep trying to shove GenAI down everyone’s throats at every turn, all the while ruining hobbies (see the RAM/SSD supply chain), livelihoods, health, rights (see Palantir; see who owns these tools), and the planet.

So yeah, if you don’t have a visceral reaction to someone shilling AI, I don’t believe you’re really that far left. The tools that broadly exist are not the tools of nor for the befit of the people.

A few years ago, I had an acquaintance that was trying to join the CIA. She got several rounds into the interview process but ultimately took a job at Meta (who she was also interviewing with). She got fired in one of the later mass layoffs, but she chose to work there. She knew the kind of company they were and are, and she was like, “They gonna pay me lots of money? Then I’m in!” And look how that worked out.

There is no world in which these companies are doing anything good, and if you think they are, then you’re the ignorant rube they want to help bring about technofascism, and they’re fine tossing you into their grinder as meat as they please.

Descending into mass AI Psychosis?

The correct questions

Stop spreading doom and gloom before the fight has even begun. That would be a good start.

Meshtastic does not have the bandwidth to replace the internet. It handles message just fine, but the amount of data you’d need to send for even a quarter of what the current internet can provide would feel like trying to surf the modern internet on a 56k modem.

Cool, so I guess you’re just okay with an authoritarian State. Just gonna roll over at the first opportunity?

Or bribery. Though with this administration, probably both.

Eww, Reddit. No thanks. However, !linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works exists!

You’re tilting at the wrong things. What NASA does is science. Science benefits humanity, and we always learn something by going to space, and we’ve been able to do experiments that would be otherwise impossible to do on Earth. In this capitalist hellscape, it unfortunately costs money to do science, so I can understand balking at the $93B + $4B price tag (spread over 7 years) but we currently spend trillions of dollars (over 7 years) just on the military and if ICE were to get their current budget over 7 years, it would also be over a trillion dollars.

We could absolutely feed and provide childcare for every child in this country for under $100B, but we don’t need to defund science to do it. The annual budget of ICE alone could take care of all of that and still have some leftover.

The problem isn’t spending $13B/yr on space science, it’s spending $85B or $175B on ICE and the military (just as two needlessly wasteful examples; there are more).

Never heard of this, but it seems like an interesting idea. Probably not something I would use myself, but I wish y’all the best of luck!

It’s not an exploit. It’s a built-in setting in Signal, and the Android options are identical to the one displayed above. You can turn off notification history in Android as well, so it has no stored record of cleared notifications at all.

Neat, I thought this one was Windows-only.

Yeah, they’re a bit territorial, so that would be something to see!

He knows Trump can’t be long for this world, so he’s trying real hard to be a global bully.

Too bad for him, nobody buys it. He’s not attractive, he’s not funny, he’s not winsome; he’s a lame duck with no chance of filling Trump’s fetid shoes.

Never heard of it, like ever.

Seems like such a great investment, therefore. /s

I don’t like this April Fool’s joke. A bit too close to reality.

Just an idea:

• Get an HDD
• Use dd to clone your NVME Windows drive.
• Install Linux on your NVME.
• Boot Windows from the HDD as you find you need it (which I suspect would be a lot less than you think).
• If you find you need to go back to Windows, just reclone onto the original drive.

I bet you’ll eventually reclaim the HDD, though. I kept mine for about two years, and I nuked it last week, because I hadn’t even opened it, much less booted it, in over a year.

The irony is that this is like Skynet, but if it had Alzheimer’s.