it was black monday

we’re all fighting an existential fight against the machines

no, you’re fighting the ruling class. the machines are just their weapons.

a lesson for the kiddos. you can look old and still have a very long time left. it’s called mid-life for a reason =)

the eu is a neoliberal project and always has been. two things can be true.

depends on what you mean by “heal.”

nature can bounce back surprisingly quickly. we saw that during the lockdowns. it’s a thing that gives me hope.

but also, so much irreversible damage has already been done; we’re in a mass extinction, after all. it will be millions of years before we have a similar level of biodiversity as we did before humans took over the planet.

not a terrible idea. there’s more than one way to make these things inviable.

dumping a pile of human waste on them would be at least partly effective.

quite a few marginalized people do actually support these services, and will absolutely have their voices heard in their support if regulation starts knocking (if).

it’s a testament to how badly we’ve failed them as a society that their only use is as cannon fodder for capitalists, and that’s still better than what we’re offering them.

the world’s richest man, backed by the full military and economic authority of the united states, israel, and russia, is probably relishing how much “he’s getting himself into.”

the dude is probably creaming his pants at the thought of being the ancap god he’s always wanted to be.

so’s trump, and yet here we are

i have news for you if you think there are going to be red states and blue states for much longer.

This is you saying you want this.

yes. does that say “we need age verification”? it says we need to acknowledge legitimate issues if we’re to have any hope at consensus.

age verification is not the answer, it’s just the only one being proffered… you want to make this go away? find a better answer to the problem and espouse that.

here’s a small one: no use of internet connected laptops for school work since that is widespread and directly undermines a parent’s ability to keep tabs on their kids.

the answer is not “you’re just a prude afraid of boobs, loser.” that’s how you drive people to the right wing, because at least those guys are saying “the internet is dangerous for kids.” and that’s how you end up in the funnel.

eta: sorry about the insult if you saw it. it had no place here

you need to re-read everything i wrote because you clearly did not understand it when i twice said that i don’t want id verification. you’re not arguing with me, you’re arguing with someone else in your head

i’m already keeping them off the wider internet. that’s not the point. the point is that even if i do that, society as a whole makes it very, very difficult.

i’m not saying anyone should give a website id. one of the major things i repeat is: “never give a website a face or an id”

but the idea that it’s just reactionary “omg my kids can’t see boobs” is flat out wrong. the internet is a dangerous place for everyone, but especially children. pretending it’s not is hiding your head in the sand. at the same time as it is incredibly dangerous, basically all the forces of modern society are trying to force our children on to it.

this is a battle i fight daily, and have been fighting for many years, and i’m tired of people trying to pretend it’s simple when it is anything but.

you are not going to win over people rightly concerned about their kids by telling them it’s actually simple when it isn’t. you’re going to drive them away.

you want to tackle this, you have to acknowledge reality, and that reality is that on the internet, your children are prey.

tbh, i’m more scared of the pedos that haunt roblox and every other platform for children rather them seeing boobs.

i don’t like age verification either, but that means my kids aren’t allowed to use the internet except in a very restricted fashion. meanwhile every single one of their peers is left to run wild, so they’re socially isolated as a result

don’t pretend internet anonymity is an unalloyed good. fuck, just look at the bot farms for a less rapey problem of enormous magnitude.

there’s more than one company doing this, they’re doing more than just this, and they’re all basically in cahoots

eta: the original reply was meant more generally, though i admit i made that clear as mud. however, it should be read as a general statement, and not just about ai companies but the new era of grift hyperreality that we live in.

did the stock price go up? it’s not stupid. is everyone talking about this impossible scenario? it’s not stupid.

fundamentally, these people are marketers and need to be understood that way. you can’t evaluate their words or actions as if they are what they say the are, and treating them as if they are anything but subterfuge is giving them legitimacy which they not only don’t deserve, but will be immediately leveraged into more of this shit.

this is just the advertiser’s version of “the big lie”

we should have learned our lesson after they did and done our damndest to create protocols immune to capture. there were excuses in 1989, there aren’t now

Regardless, the potential for a company to dominate the implementation of a specification is not a reason not to create said specification

yes it is

and they would never violate your trust and later force this onto you because the love their users.

the more apologetics for this shit i see, the less i trust it.

it’s incredible how many godfathers ai has. i’ve lost count

weird i never hear about the godmothers though. wonder why that is?