false dichotomy. the opposite of wishing someone ill is not tolerance.

showing empathy to people who don't share your empathy is toxic. it's toxic empathy is what it is.

…some people make horseshoe theory look real attractive. but really it's just wilhoit's law in action. the only seemingly workable politics left is conservativism.

i have it on good authority from about half of lemmy that china is a wonderful place where everyone feels safe and actually there never were any uyghurs, since that's just western propaganda

itt: people confirming the premise. ni hao baybeeee

it's way creepier to ask for consent to look up the stairs in a staircase than it is to just do it.

"ma'am, i don't want to be a creep, so i need to know if you ENTHUSIASTICALLY CONSENT to having my eyes look in the direction of my travel. I AM NOT A CREEPER"

did microsoft just lock up a good chunk of open source behind a (stochastic (for now)) login wall?

this feels like it should violate the gpl, but i bet it doesn't. truly devious.

historian fails to understand that the company "palantir" was named by someone who, in fact, knew exactly what it meant, and it excited him.

that’s because they’re looting. everyone knows the jig is up, so it’s a smash-and-grab.

incredible. i hope you’re paid well

police love a police state, film at 11

amtrak joe!

local models don't appear out of the ether. using a local model solves one problem around privacy of your prompts, does little about consolidation of power, and nothing about the thousands of other problems genai brings.

if your organic coffee is made with slave labor, you still have a massive problem.

and they may not be of the devil, but they definitely are of the humans who most resemble the devil.

are we finally done with “slammed” and have moved on to “torched”?

deleted is a column in a database

the goal is to keep people on a knife's edge of destruction, so that when some rich turd rolls up and offers you a tiny amount of security to do something reprehensible you'll do it.

and if you live with deep, personal shame for it for the rest of your life, that's just an extra little treat for them.

exactly. he spent 30 minutes calling the irish ignorant, but the words "gulf stream" never tickled his neurons.

the extra-irony is that up until the last 10-15 years, "gulf stream" is what everyone in the usa called it, too. hank's just so tech-pilled he can't see anything else.

the common ground he’s referring to is scrooge mcducks diving board

forgive them lord, for they know not what they do

remember when this guy was like "i dunno, maybe intelligent design is real"?

but ai is inevitable! it can't be stopped! it's impossible to regulate!

it's telling that these things are treated light-heartedly. more telling than the one-size-fits-all translation into "pedophile", even.