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Linus Torvalds reaffirms that Linux is not "Anti-AI" & not a "Social Warrior" project

I used to see anti-AI people as myopic and foolish, but seeing how it's being developed and implemented is really eye-opening. They're pushing an unfinished, unrefined technology that often adds to the ecological crisis and might be poisoning people's drinking water, so they can roll the dice in terms of what it'll do to the economy while using it to spy on everyone. The public face of all this is these companies telling us that we should be terrified of what it'll do to the job market, but we need to invest in it big time, right now. I apologize to anyone I spoke down to. I get it. It's not a way forward, but I get it.

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Meta Is Dying. It’s About Time.

Is "dying" the right word? They're struggling, but I won't be surprised if this administration or the next bails Meta out, since fb and insta are essentially public services for a lot of people, as much as I hate that. The smart thing for the fed government to do is to nationalize Meta's platforms.

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Anon makes sacrifices for the family

If I had to guess, it's probably because for a lot of people being a NEET is depressing state of being. No direction or control over your life and you're at the whims of whatever happens to your family, economically. People with nothing to look forward to tend to wig out over petty shit like one less tendie.

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Stop telling me AI is the future [Still Vreni]

None of those things were new technology. The assembly line didn't go away when people were angry about being laid off.

If you're talking about a specific product of AI ("art" for example), you might want to make that clearer. If you're talking about AI in general, you're treating this one thing like it's a reason to try turning back the clock.

The rational thing to do would be getting politically involved to get AI out of corporate ownership.

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"If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out"

A lot of people in the comments are remarking on the tip culture in America. Friendly reminder that it's not the culture that necessitates tipping here. We have a tipping economy when it comes to a lot of service work. $2.13 is the minimum wage for servers in the states. This is less than what could rightfully be called a starvation wage, so tipping is a social necessity. You might think that's crazy and we should change it, and you would be correct.