Though I have spent the last few months with a motorised private vehicle ( I mean https://www.segway.com/ekickscooter/products/max-g3.html but yeah ) and I have to confess it's pretty stupendous. One day a couple of weeks ago I went to the grocery store *on the way to work* to buy soup and bread. Unreal.
Private vehicles are bad, everyone should ride trains and public transit, big fuckn gas guzzling supercars are bad, electric vehicles are the future, oh my god that car is so cool holy fuck
The seats are red leather and plaid oh my god
Never do I feel more conflicted about my values than when I look at old cars. This is the most badass car I have ever seen in my entire life.
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Congratulations to Mike Morrice for becoming the new leader of Canada’s Green Party! He is a true champion for people and the planet. I look forward to working with him to challenge the billionaire class, deliver a BC working people can afford, and tackle the threat of the climate crisis.
You're as bad as leftists who croak about every goddamn thing being "neoliberal". Actually worse, because they don't do that really anymore and some things they were complaining about being neoliberal actually were.
This might be difficult for your average right wing person to comprehend, but not every single thing that you find distasteful is Marxist
I do maintain that Sinema taught us all a very important lesson, and that is that being a bisexual with cool dress sense does not prevent one from being a piece of shit
File under extremely no shit, but at least Manchin/Sinema didn't have the goddamn stones to *actually* switch parties. Fuck this guy.
John Fetterman Among Favorites to be 2028 GOP Pennsylvania Senate Nominee - Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/john-fetterman-among-favorites-to-be-2028-gop-pennsylvania-senate-nominee-12715932
I'm not Super Mr. Ultra Cheapass. I eat out! Not every day but I do! It just doesn't make sense to me to do it eeeeeevery day I'm at work.
Like I actively enjoy spending roughly $1.50 on lunch (tomato soup + half a baguette), or leftovers or whatever. Like why would I buy on the regular?
Like, I...always bring my lunch? I eat out at work maaaaaaybe...2-3 times a year, if that. I don't think it's necessarily an indicator of poor economic health.
Workers can no longer afford the economy they need to keep stimulating.
#Zer0Billionaires #socialsciences #poverty #USPolitics #politics
(Note: this is a subtoot of someone who got boosted into my feed, not of anyone I follow directly)
Yeah, and am I an "AI pusher" for giving my little talks and doing my small language model workshops? And so I deserve to lose my job? Get bent, dickhead. #LLM
Jesus Christ people there might very well be an AI crash - inshallah - but there is no goddamn way you are going back to 2022, viz, like erasing the whole caboodle. Stop dreaming.
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Personally I don't like copyright, and one big reason is that it is a law that is enforced according to the interests of the powerful. The supposed protections it provides have been shown to be as weak as the will of governments to prosecute 'AI' companies and Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, et al. for their egregious consumption of cultural works. This is to say: while we encourage people to use and derive from our work, it is clear that corporations and governments (becoming more and more the same thing, lately) care more about profits and the well-being of billionaires than people or culture.
Free-Culture Licenses are a good step in the right direction in regards to encouraging a thriving cultural landscape, but the protections they provide seem to be more nominal than material in the grand scheme of things. That's a bummer.
The good news is that the licenses also function as signals, as statements and as banners to stand behind, at least in regards to the principles and ideals they defend. Principles of community, of mutual aid, of sharing and growing together. Those are the principles Fodongo stands behind and encourages. It is not the licenses that protect our work -- it is us, as humans and as community, who do.
In conclusion, saying that open source participation requires monthly fees to private companies that run stochastic code generators means you’ve forgotten why anyone is doing this at all. Fuck this whole idea and fuck Linus in particular for pushing it.
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It sounds ... good? Are there any known concerns about it?