Funny, that's what I hate about Nano. The key binds seem completely random to me and the programs solution to this is to display a cheatsheet on the screen
not for me. I'm on mobile fwiw. and on my screen there's no way to close the subscription call to action
Or Brazil. That's the eight largest economy in the world. They headline BRICS for a reason. Sure, China is the true headliner there, but the fact is that Brazil is included in those 5 countries for a reason (multiple actually). There's absolutely no way for a single individual to eclipse the value of the world's 8th largest economy. Pick a country with a lower GDP than Hungary and then we'll talk
You need to let go of your overall attitude that people who have different preferences and opinions on things are misinformed. You might learn something. As it stands your takes I've come across of yours across the fediverse are those of someone who hasn't seen much of the world but needs everyone else to know how much you know.
My hatred of AI comes from seeing the double standard between how mass market media companies treat us when we steal from them vs when they steal from us. They want it to be a fully one way street when it comes to law and enforcement. House of Mouse owns all the media they create and that remixes work they create. When we create a new original idea, by the nature of the training model, they want to own that, too.
I also work with these tech bro industry leaders. I know what they're like. When they say to you they want to make it easier for non-artistic people to create art, they're not telling you about an egalitarian and magnificent future. They're telling you about how they want to stop paying the graphic designers and copy editors who work in their company. The vision they have for the future is based on a fundamental misunderstanding about whether or not the future presented in Bladerunner is:
a) Cool and awesome b) Horrifying
They want to enslave sentient beings to do the hard work of mining, driving, and shopping for them. They don't want those people doing art and poetry because they want them to be too busy mining, driving, and shopping. This whole thing. This whole current wave of AI technology, it doesn't benefit you except for fleetingly. LLMs, ethically trained, could, indeed, benefit society at large, but that's now who's developing them. That's not how they're being trained. Their models are intrinsically tainted by the double standard these corporations have because their only goal is to benefit from our labor without benefiting us.
I saw a rebel flag popup stand in Jefferson county that I found deeply offensive. They were selling stars and bars and trump flags. I was like "motherfucker, what the fuck do you think this state was founded as an act of resistance against?"
Some of those that work forces...
ding ding ding we have our winner for "understanding how the world works"
My view as an anarchosocialist is that we have to do everything we can to get the best possible result every step of the way. We don't live in a country in the US that allows us to vote any way but strategically. We must always be assessing what the best outcome we can get in any given situation is. Unfortunately in electoral politics that often means the most compromised candidate because anyone else will result in a regressive. The question becomes "what do we do after the election to press the government into actually representing us"
In a lot of ways I think that's voting blue no matter who until the regressive party is made irrelevant. Once the regressive party is irrelevant we can start treating the dems as the regressives they truly are and working on getting election reform and ranked choice voting. We can't get any of that if we allow for any room for a Donald Trump presidency. He wants to blow up the entire system and fill the power vacuum with his own self. For the rest of us who want to dismantle the entire system, the purpose is not to have a dictator, but rather to eliminate hierarchy. We are in an extremely dangerous position this year. If we're ever going to disrupt the powers that be, we can't ever allow for any kind of monarch as that's a step 300 years backwards.
So my advice? Vote for Harris, and then take to the streets and protest the ways she doesn't represent us. Palestine deserves to be free. Oppressed peoples deserve reparations. The cold war was a modern race to rape Africa a la the late 19th century and the peoples harmed in the mad scramble to see if capitalism or Bolshevism was more effective at spreading cannot recover until we fundamentally decolonize the world. The cost of the suffering we inflict doesn't even need to be viewed abroad to be seen. Appalachian coal fields and fracking operations are acts of violence against the land and the people who live on it. Prison labor is a form of slavery and is only palatable to our modern sensibilities as we contrast it with the peculiar institution of chattel slavery instead of comparing it with the history of slavery throughout time. The only opportunities we afford native Americans to live on the land we stole from them is if they pay us in money whose value is rooted in the value of that very stolen land via the mortgage system.
Don't let Donald Trump be president. Don't let President Harris off the hook for the violence the position she is taking over is responsible for.
I've really appreciated the work the admin team has done to document issues with how the Lemmy World instance is being run. I've been thinking lately about how when you look at how the world operates what you see a lot of is tribes. We all align ourselves into tribes according to convenience, upbringing, and environmental needs (which could be argued to be an factor of convenience). Part of being human is staying up to date on the news that impacts your tribe (who might include your family, school, local community, work, or other online communities) including what other tribes are doing. For the Lemmy federation the two biggest places to keep a journalistic sort of eye on are Lemmy.ml (where the developers of Lemmy operate) and Lemmy.World (where the majority of Lemmy's population operates) because what those two instances do will have substantial impacts on any instance participating in the federation.
I've seen some people complaining about our slrpnk admins being who documents this but the fact of the matter is, someone has to, and who's more likely to do it than someone with the most invested (via time, emotional labor, and material resources) in the overall topology of the federated system. It was probably always going to need to be admins doing it because they're who's put in the time and has the technical expertise to really dig into this stuff, and I applaud our admins for stepping up to the plate. It is also my observation that I don't think they could have realistically handled it any better than they did. They're not being trollish, they're not being JAQoffs, they're asking relevant, data informed, questions about how instances are to be run so that people can figure out if maintaining their main instance is right for them.
Now for the bummer thoughts I have from observing all this. First. The bummer that is the way Lemmy.World as an institution has handled all this. Having interacted with Ruud in the past before his instances got so big, I can't help but say he got lost in the excitement of seeing his little hobby project to host part of the fediverse to donate to something he loved and is now stretched too thin without recognizing the harm that being stretched too thin is doing to both his users and to users who interact tangentially. The fediverse works best when individual instances stay small. That may have costs early on when you join finding interesting people to follow, but it also means that every admin staff and every instance can maintain their own unique moderation stance and every individuals philosophical views on proper online moderation can be met, even if that means doing it on one's own. The .world ecosystem indicates a view of online moderation that devalues the worth of staying small and emphasizes the importance of market capture.
The .world ecosystem, unfortunately, cannot ever be one of the best run sets of instances on the fediverse because it doesn't put the emphasis on giving people incentives to be their best selves, but instead in setting up a low barrier to entry into the fediverse. I think there is value in this to get people started exploring mastodon, misskey, Lemmy, or mbin, but I think in this current moment, that low barrier to entry is starting to do harm that ripples across the fediverse due to .world's sheer scale. The moderators cannot possibly avoid getting overwhelmed simply because there's too much to moderate. They can't spend time making reasonable decisions because they feel pressure to always be taking action lest they fall behind on how much moderator action is genuinely required.
If Lemmy.World is to be a good instance in the long term, I think they need to move away from fully open registration, and to put restrictions on community creations until they can get their scale nailed down better. There are other instances out there and if new people want to join the threadiverse, it doesn't need to be via Lemmy.World
Yeah that's what I mean. And systemically the way the system was developed encourages such behavior. Which... In a way is I guess what I've been trying to say for long time about "letting tankies be who develops your platform has consequences for the systems they develop"
Which probably seems like a non sequitur to you. I'm just making connections between what you're saying, what's going in this specific situation, and overall with Lemmy as a construct
Dog whistling. Its not about actually wanting the candidate who elocutes the most effectively, its about telling their core audience "yeah we don't think black people are capable of intelligence either, just like you"