You may be wondering: does all this VC money tied to the government come with a requirement to promote racial privileges for nonwhites (affirmative action/DEI)? Answer: yes.
@peligrietzer This is troublesome when applied to the golden age science fiction authors, who tried to set multiple stories in the same universe. One slip and it's all fantasy.
Asimov's Robots? Fantasy (same universe as Foundation who has a Gaia world-soul in one book)
Dario Amodei was so worried about Y2K that his high school teacher still remembers it decades later.
Heβs been a doomer for much longer than I thought!
Alice: buy me a legitimate license for this tool, please.
Eve: schedule a meeting to discuss it.
Alice: you will pay more for my wage for the meeting time than the license cost!
Eve: even so.
@TheAgeofShoddy I sometimes start political conversations by asking <do you believe there's such a thing as a legitimate right wing party?>
People who say "no" can't be reasoned with
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Alice: I want to "spice up" our relationship.
Bob: Oh god, is this the "open relationship" kiss of death?
Alice: No, I have edible body lotion!
Bob: * squints *
Bob: BW3 is not a legitimate source of sex toys.
"can i tell you a rumor in confidence?"
no
if it's important enough for me to act on, i have to make a real attempt to substantiate it
if it's not important enough for me to act on, i dont want to have to memorize what trivia i need to keep secret
This was known at least as far back as the 1960s (my mother did it) and then that bastard Lyndon Johnson decided to tell everybody that eggs were bad actually.
my *personal* opinion about this is that it's basically too late w/ deepseek flash 1017 and we should just rip the bandaid off and let everyone rip everything apart together
we need to trust in humanity and give them the tools to defend themselves, instead of baseline expect criminality
@devbelowstairs@daevera Oh yeah, I think actual explicit content is hidden* by default. Furry but not explicit isn't.
* hidden here means obscured with a label until you click through, not removed from the feed
So... the couple executed in Saudi Arabia got caught because some pervert filmed them, tried to blackmail the women into sex with HIM, and released the footage leading to her and her lover's execution when she refused.
And I'm supposed to be LESS horrified after this revelation?
@krokster7@daevera It existed before that but was mostly populated by dev types who cared about its technical agenda.
When Musk bought Twitter the worst people went there and ruined it