JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
IT KILLED YOUR DAUGHTER
AND YOUR REACTION IS TO USE IT MORE??? FEED IT MORE DATA??? HELP IT KILL AGAIN?!?
And how the fuck much are you directly paying them for a context window big enough to feed the goddamn thing YOUR BOOK??
Sam Altman, ChatGPT, and My Daughter’s Suicide | Vanity Fair
https://www.vanityfair.com/story/sam-altman-chatgpt-suicide-sophie-rottenberg
Can you all come up with some kind of common key word or hashtag for the Apple news so I can set up a filter for it please? :)
Seriously it's literally more than half my feed right now and I'm already sick of hearing about the latest shiny fascist baubles...
How many people does it take to change one value in one property file in a test environment at my workplace?
Seven devs, four hours, and still counting
EnTerPriSe GraDe!!
@fdroidorg proposed policy on secretly joining the slop farmers.
I dunno how I'm gonna get apps if they pass this but it sure as shit won't be from Fdroid anymore.
Interim Policy on Use of Generative AI (#699) · Issue · fdroid/admin
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/work_items/699
Is this project fucked because I'm involved, or am I involved because it's fucked and people here seem to think I know our infrastructure well enough to figure out why...?
...'cause I've been here fourteen years and I have NEVER understood our fucking infrastructure...
@EveHasWords shame the reply guys are opt out... :)
I think I'm doing that paleo diet thing.
...wait you're telling me a caveman *wouldn't* just pour a box of dry cereal straight down their throat if they had access to a modern kitchen? That doesn't sound right to me...
Progress on my STR-500 string sampler. Now I have made two! This makes it nearly twice as fun!
DOJ’s Frivolous Boasberg Complaint Dismissed—While Nobody Can Explain How DOJ Got The ‘Evidence’ It Never Provided | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/06/dojs-frivolous-boasberg-complaint-dismissed-while-nobody-can-explain-how-doj-got-the-evidence-it-never-provided/
How do we feel about Squarespace? Are there better options I can suggest to someone who needs a no-code website builder?
@rzeta0 @benroyce @mark @AeonCypher @john @ShredderFeeder Yup. And supporting them even though they suck is never going to get us a better option.
And hell, even once you get someone through the primary they immediately start shifting right. Dems assume anyone left of center is going to be forced to vote for them anyway, and there's no party mechanism to keep them in line, so they keep moving further right in an attempt to "expand their base". (Or maybe they just do what their big donors say, either way it's the same effect) That's why Harris was literally campaigning with Republicans, touting endorsements from war criminals like Cheney!
@benroyce @AeonCypher @john @ShredderFeeder choosing the lesser evil is not fighting, it is accepting evil. We need to put up an actual fight. On every front, not just the occasional election. And against every enemy, not just the worst of the worst. Anyone that's getting millions of dollars in bribes -- sorry, "campaign contributions" -- from Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Honeywell, Comcast, AT&T, etc are not our allies. They *are* the system we need to defeat and I fear their propaganda has captured you. "Acceptance" and "helplessness" is saying that we must play by their rules within their system, that we cannot possibly hope to create any alternative that isn't owned by the billionaires.
@benroyce @AeonCypher @john @ShredderFeeder because we all know MAGA fuckin sucks, but so many people pretend the DNC is our damn savior. They're not. They're mostly keeping people trapped in a cycle of voting for corporate stooges. They keep people voting for assholes like Manchin because "At lEasT he'S nOt a RepUbliCan!" and thinking that alone is going to be enough to save us.
Vote for the best person on the ballot regardless of which, if any, party sponsors them. Support the best person running regardless of how much money they've got. And support community groups beyond those owned by a party that's owned by corporate interests. We'd be in a much better place if people did some more of those.
@AeonCypher @benroyce @john @ShredderFeeder No, the party pulls the DSA to the right. I've been a DSA member since 2011, seen it plenty. Look at Mamdani right now. He got where he is because of a huge effort by NYC DSA, then he turns around and hires DNC folks to run his campaign, starts distancing himself from the DSA, says he doesn't stand for their platform, says in interviews that "socialist" doesn't mean anything about policy it's just about how hard he will fight...I'm not saying he's not still miles ahead of the other candidates, but we're watching in real time as the Democrats pull this DSA candidate further to the right. It seems like he could have won as a socialist and not had to water down his platform and not had to feed more power into the corporate Democratic party.
@benroyce @john @ShredderFeeder The DNC is a large and wealthy institution with its own influences and agenda and which is not accountable to the voters. That is the problem we need to change. But you can't just vote that change into existance. That's not how the party is structured. It is not a democratic institution. It's not clear how we can actually make that change happen.
And sure, we can sometimes overwhelm that influence, but perhaps it would be easier if we weren't constantly fighting against these entrenched oligarchic systems.
The Democratic party knows that running independent is not a lost cause. They do it all the time when a progressive wins the primary. Now suddenly that progressive has all the baggage of their party, while the newly "independent" Democrat gets to pretend to be the outsider. They've proven they can win with that strategy. Why don't we use it too? Because they tell us it's impossible while they prove over and over again that it isn't. Because they tell us to "vote blue no matter who" while they fuck off and vote corporate no matter who. We need to stop pretending that those people represent our interests. We need to stop feeding their machine.
@benroyce @john @ShredderFeeder Voting for an organization that is trying to keep you out is acceptance.
Things will change when we participate in the work of actually organizing our communities and building institutions we can trust. The voting part matters but it's far from the most important thing. It won't do shit until we fix some of these other structural issues first.
"If voting changed anything they'd make it illegal"
@benroyce @john @ShredderFeeder Not everyone has the time to do that research. It ain't always easy. I'm regularly voting based on literally nothing more than a four year old interview on local radio from when the person was running for some different office. And for some races even that would be a lot of information. In at least one election all I could find to go on were photos of the candidate putting up yard signs! You only even get *claims* about what they want to accomplish at the highest level races, and even those require carefully watching their past history to know if they actually believe a single damn word of it. I struggle to figure this shit out and I'm invested enough to be taking classes on how to research candidates!
It'd be great if we had a party that actually held their candidates to some standard; an organization to do some of that vetting for us; instead of Ds and Rs that switch parties like an NFL draft without actually changing their positions...
Running under either party is basically just running with a corporate sponsor at this point. The only thing it proves is money and/or connections. And if you truly believe that people can all independently determine and vote for the best candidate then why does it matter which party? Why do we need parties at all? These organizations are either irrelevant or failures. Or they're highly successful as gatekeepers against us.
@Tattie @thiswomanswerk Yep. Speaking from experience, white men are trained to isolate. Not just from those with less privileged though, it's really isolation from *everyone*. And yeah, that'll lead to anger, resentment, frustration, and generally hating the world.
We get taught that emotions are bad and need to be hidden -- although that doesn't necessarily apply to *all* emotions, anger and aggression range from forgivable to laudable depending on the situation, but the only person who should ever see you cry or even share so much as a hug is a romantic partner. *Maybe* a parent. Certainly not a friend.
And there's the whole fetishization of the myth of individualism, taught to take pride in doing as much as possible "by yourself" -- but of course that actually just means having a big salary and buying yourself a lot of expensive toys...neither of which happen without a whole society of other human labor but making that labor invisible is kind of the point.
Pretty sure even the white picket fence whites only suburbia is less about only wanting to interact with "your own kind" than it is about wanting to be around people who similarly value non-interaction. That's why you have a big yard instead of public parks; a home bar instead of going to a bar; a backyard pool instead of a community one; no transit because you shouldn't be going anywhere and CERTAINLY not *with other people*!
I think it might be related to the sterility of large corporate shit, just generally the culture of capitalism perhaps...but whatever it is our culture is *fucked*...been trying to dig myself out of some of this shit, but I still can't figure out why or how most of this crap even got into my head in the first place...
@coyotemo @ElleGray Yupp...watched a video of some protester throwing a damn bicycle into a line of riot cops in France during the floatilla protests. They pretty much backed up a step and lifted the riot shields a bit higher and that was it. American cops regularly kill people for less...and don't even end up in court for it. And the racist American public has mostly just let that happen (and often encouraged it) *for decades* because the cops were mostly killing minorities...
@shadowfals I mean we had to fight the organizers of the one up here to get them to (hopefully) stop harassing pro-palestine contigents so yeah they probably don't care. Unfortunately, that group is mostly a DNC op IME, more money than actual on-the-ground community organizers.