The stuff those things eat, they’re surely toxic as fuck. Plus, they’re parasites, animal cruelty shouldn’t apply to them. Exterminate them with extreme prejudice. Also, they’re birds. Should’ve gone extinct 65 million years ago with the rest of their ilk.

just throw them away

If I get my hands on one of those things I’m not throwing it away before repeatedly smashing it as hard as I can against the most solid surface I can find in the vicinity. Or against another seagull, if possible.

In the conditions in which they made it, porridge was often also beer(ish).

They’re called sperm whales because of the spermaceti organ, which is probably used to make them loud as fuck, and which contains a liquid which whalers mistook for sperm.

But we made bananas (and most other fruits) the way they are!

Fucking good for nothing gods, always taking credit for things we humans did all by ourselves…

From the anime adaptation of the manga Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End.

Because…

No, laziness is good. Laziness begets engineering.

The issue is that “generative AI” (which is neither generative nor intelligence) is built upon the stolen works of countless artists.

The issue is that it consumes massive amounts of resources and energy to produce mediocre results at best.

The issue is that it threatens the livelihood of whole segments of society, especially the ones who contribute the most to human culture.

The issue is that it’s not sustainable. Once it runs out of new content to plagiarize it will be unable to produce anything new. It can’t replace what it’s destroying.

The issue is that it’s so vastly inefficient that the data centres needed to sustain it are becoming a major contributor to global warming.

The issue is that its bubble is causing massive price increases in consumer computer parts.

The issue is that when it pops it’ll take the rest of the economy with it.

The issue is that it’s a gateway drug. It’s being sold at a loss to destroy the human competition, and will inevitably increase massively in price once it’s become a necessary part of everyone’s process.

The issue is that it’s being forced everywhere regardless of its uselessness for the task, replacing technologies that were actually useful and making everything less useable and more inefficient.

The issue is that it’s making everything less reliable, and will inevitably cause massive damage and loss of life.

The issue is that LLM use has been demonstrated to cause brain damage, yet they elude regulation and the companies selling them have yet to face consequences.

The issue is that all of this makes it an existential threat to humanity, and a significant contributor to the ones we were already facing.

The issue is that, once you’ve taken into account all the pros and cons, doing everything possible to ensure it ceases to exist as soon as possible in any way, shape, or form, together with the companies selling it and the CEOs responsible for them and any politicians and investors enabling them, becomes an evident moral and ethical imperative.

Changes course swerves erratically before continuing in the same general direction.

earth, fire, water, wind - it’s not hard

Forgot the most important element of all: surprise.

Damn, I miss when games came with manuals… the anticipation when reading them while coming back home from the store…

torrenting/P2P was the first mass scale digital piracy method.

IRC? Napster? Edonkey? Emule? Kademlia?

And, hell, before that there was that guy in class who for five bucks would burn you a CD with any game you wanted, which he probably got off usenet…

And of course for music there was the old double deck cassette copier…

(Personally the first software crack I remember was dismantling Monkey Island’s “dial a pirate” wheel so I could photocopy it to share with friends after copying the diskettes…)

Last I checked it still works.

…

If you’re not in a hurry, that is.

In science fiction I’ve often seen the term VI (Virtual Intelligence) to refer to machines that look intelligent, and could probably pass a Turing test, but aren’t really intelligent (normally VI coexists with actual AI, often used as interfaces, where it would be a waste, or too risky, to use a proper AI).

LLMs look a bit like that, though they’re probably too unreliable to use as an interface for anything important.

Neil Gaiman (yeah, yeah, I know, but death of the author and all that) also had a good video on how piracy actually improved his books sales.

Thing is, you’ll talk to people about the shows and movies you liked. You’ll recommend them. You’ll discuss them online. Maybe just upvote a post talking about them, make it more visible.

And someone who doesn’t pirate will see that, and pay to watch it. (And, in turn, also promote it like you did.)

If the product is good enough (and if people are pirating it it probably is), piracy is free publicity.

And if it’s not good enough, people won’t be pirating it anyway.

So, given that you wouldn’t have paid for it anyway, it works out that piracy provides a net benefit for the producers… and for society as a whole, since it incentivises them to make their products good enough to attract pirates, thus raising the average quality of entertainment.

EDIT: also, for the same reason they should be giving their product for free to reaction channels and even paying them (like game companies — Nintendon’t excluded — already do with YouTube reviewers), since it’s cheaper and more effective than normal advertising.

My god, it’s full of pixels!

Sorry, the app hadn’t auto updated and I hadn’t thought to look for an update on google play.

It’s working perfectly now, thanks!

Mussolini was more honest about it (inasmuch as a fascist can be honest). Despite having practically invented the term, he admitted that fascism should really be called corporatism, as it was a merger of state and corporate power.

Of course he still called it fascism, though, because it was a (then) meaningless name with roots on the Roman empire which could be attractive to his supporters. If he’d called it by its proper name probably no one would have supported it, other than the oligarchs in charge.

Trump’s hands are drawn way too big. Other than that, yeah, that’s about it.