This is no laughing matter. There used to be a Wikipedia category for scientists who committed suicide. (With a subcategory: Mathematicians who committed suicide.) Probably removed because it got overly broad or something.

Submitted it to Reddit's r/MorbidReality once, they just fucking removed it. Reddit mods are assholes.

In December 2009, I got Xbox 360, and played BioShock.

OOOH WHOAH. WATER EFFECTS AND REFLECTIONS. HOLY SHIT.

After this, I guess all of my upgrades have been "meh, more resolution" or "meh, slightly better effects".

Tumblr has user badges. You can earn some of them, others you can buy.

When Twitter's new idiot CEO decided you should just be able to buy the blue checkmarks, Tumblr offered a deal of the lifetime.

When you buy a blue checkmark, you get two! In fact, you can buy them multiple times! And what do the checkmarks do? Absolutely nothing.

Well that's not how names work. It's "New Mexico" because it's not Mexico of old, now is it, you dimwit, you absolute buffoon. If they had to change their name to anything "America"-related, they'd have to go with "Another Goddamn US State, Name Pending".

In Musk logic: it's not bad when he does it. It's bad when people start discussing it, because they might come to a disapproving conclusion.

Oh wow, Elon figured out how we'll finally get AGI. The key thing is to publish an automatic mobile client update every single hour of the day! That was the secret productivity metric that every single other company was missing. Thanks, big brain business boy!

Boomers in the 1980s: "Those damn robots took our darn jorbs"

Trump in 2025: "We're giving these jorbs to the robots"

Short summary: Elon gives Elon some Elon and congratulates Elon for being such an Elon, that big money boy he is. Money!

I didn't know that this is the perfect way to enjoy memes. Posted to Twitter, screenshotted, discussed further in Tumblr, printed out, faxed, scanned, and then posted to Lemmy.

This initiative sure would make things more complicated for the game publishers, yes.

Because they're currently not doing the bare minimum.

If they weren't so accustomed to not doing the bare minimum, maybe they would have different opinions! Just saying.

Edit: Just signed the petition. Didn't think this was necessary before because, as soon as I heard of it, Finland was already top of the list percentage wise. But I did sign it, just for the hell yeah of it.

What do publishers do? Editing, layout, other parts of design (e.g. covers), most importantly printing, marketing and distribution.

Oh you mean what do scientific publishers do? Um... that's a good one, huh... they just kinda take the money and leave everyone else to do the actual work?

a purely financial decision

🤨 ... riiiiiiiiight ...

Remember: even in the most repressive autocracies, the leaders realised that jesters serve a purpose. Because if people can't joke about how shitty things are at the present, they might see that as a sign that things are pretty bad, actually.

If the comedy is mucked with, that's a sure sign that the politicians are getting a tad bit touchy.

I'm a trans girl, and this shit is the only thing that has even mildly piqued my testosterones in recent years:

(Doom Mower: Lawn of the Dead mod)

This makes about as much sense as calling Linux users "Windows vegans".

Choosing to not use AI isn't some wacky contrarian position, it's a tame position that can easily be justified. (Don't want to use AI? Then don't.) If anything, trying to assert that constantly using AI for everything would be the new normal is the wacky position.

Well to be fair, there's not just neurodivergent people in the Fediverse.

There's also a bunch of queer people. And furries.

Also neurodivergent queer people, neurodivergent furries, queer furries, and neurodivergent queer furries. Duh.

"No HTML club" is kinda going too far on the Web. If you go there you might as well start a No HTTP Club and serve stuff over Gopher and FTP.

But we definitely need an HTML 2.0 Club.

(Someone on the interweb:) "Hey, you should try KDE Connect"

(Me:) Uh, I don't use Linux on my laptop and that's the computer that I use the most

(S:) "Well it also runs on Windows."

(Me:) Really?... Holy sh- HOLY SHIT, this is so much better than every shitty cloud sync package, and that Google app they keep renaming every time I look at it so I can't remember what it's called this week

Not to even mention "blew $500 on Claude credits and spent a whole day on doing something that a professional could have done correctly in 10 minutes for $50"

Oh good, the Bitcoin argument.

"Sure, Bitcoin wastes a lot of energy, but you know what else wastes energy? The Visa payment network."

Yeah, but Visa handles six quadrispillion transactions per megawatthour, Bitcoin handles two drug purchases. Not the same results, is it?

So yeah, training humans takes a lot of energy. But in the end, you get a coherent, capable and well functioning individual. Spend the same energy on training LLMs and you get a system that'll happily tell you to glue the cheese on pizza or something.

Notepad had one job. Operate on a damn text file. Operate on the damn text files I choose.

I knew it was going down the drain when I reopened Notepad and it opened the files that were previously open. No. Don't do that. That's overly helpful. You were only supposed to operate on the damn files I chose. These files I'm about to work with aren't necessarily the files I previously worked on. If I want this functionality I might as well open it in vscode.

I'm, like, screw it, might as well keep Emacs running if I need random temporary text editing.