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And it also doesn’t make sense.

Shit, I remember degaussing monitors. I also remember picking up a power supply I was working on before lunch, not remembering that I had powered it on earlier to test it, and the shock throwing me against the wall.

Ah, the good old days.

Yes. But, we are conscious beings and we can choose our spoonness.

Are you trying to accomplish something? Some work you need to do? Be like spoon. You have one purpose—to accomplish that objective.

Choose to be like spoon, and have a blessed day.

Fuck no.

Fuck all these motherfuckers.

Fuck, looks like it’s time to start looking at more alternatives to Android phones.

Already got an old one rooted. We need a solid Linux alternative or potentially a European company to start development.

If any of y’all know of a good, usable platform, I’d love to know about it.

Digital piracy can get you at least one of those happy things.

Most of the identification of things like ‘horses’ falls in line with the identification of things like ‘crosswalks’ and ‘motorcycles’–in other words, the majority of the words associated with particular images in Google maps comes from people like us filling out Captcha, not from AI.

lol

I think the fact someone would need to explain this to you makes it pointless to try and explain it to you. I can’t tell whether you’re honestly asking a question or just searching for a debate to attempt to justify your viewpoint.

The consumer-side AI that a handful of multi-billion-dollar companies keep peddling to us is just a way for them to attempt to justify AI to us. Otherwise, it consumes MASSIVE amounts of our energy capacities and is primarily being used in ways that harm us.

And, of course, there’s nothing they direct at us that isn’t ultimately (and solely) for their benefit–our every use of their AI helps train their models, and eventually it will simply be groups of billionaires competing against one another to form the most powerful model that allows them to dominate us and their competitors.

As long as this technology remains determined by those whose entire existence is organized around domination, it will be a sum harm to all of us. We’d have to free it from their grips to make it meaningful in our daily lives.

Is this a free trial followed by a monthly subscription?

Pirate everything. Pirate streams, torrents, whatever.

Pirate. Everything.

*unless it’s an independent artist of some sort. then, just buy some merch from them or something.