Still wild to me that paying for multiplayer was normalized on consoles.

Literally just do it anyway. states use 'illegal' districts all the time. The last 10 years have clearly shown that 'laws' and 'judicial rulings' aren't worth the paper they're printed on.

I do my best to have solidarity with the entire working class, but 👉👈

“I'm mixed on Al. On one hand, I really enjoy using it to write software. On the other hand, I'm really nervous about its impact on the world,” the engineer wrote in an internal forum for coders.

Yeah, that's the catch isn't it? On one hand, we're ceding skills to oligarch-owned chat bots that are working day and night to create to neofeudal police state where their air conditioned bunkers can survive the climate apocalypse, but on the other hand, it makes your job slightly easier (until you're inevitably laid off).

It's a really tough spot to be in.

I mean, fuck Elon, but of course he's not going to attend a voluntary police interrogation. Who would?

Just arrest his ass.

Not that I want to defend Plex which is definitely enshittifying, but I don't think most people are buying Plex to stream their own media. They're doing it so other people can stream their media. Not wanting to buy a domain and set up port forwarding or a reverse proxy or whatever doesn't seem unreasonable to me. My grandparents are never going to use Tailscale, and even if they did, I don't think there are any Tailscale smart TV apps.

Disclosure: I run Plex and Jellyfin (and Navidrome) in parallel, and bought a lifetime pass years ago.

Hard disagree. We aren't hating AI and it's users nearly enough.

It's complicated because 'social democracy' and 'democratic socialism' are two distinct ideologies, who's definitions have flipped throughout history, and who's biggest proponents (in the US at least) get it backwards.

Social democracy isn't a form of socialism since it's still capitalism, albeit one with guardrails. Most people that identify as democratic socialists -- aside from social democrats misusing the term -- are socialists that want to draw a contrast with Marxism-Leninism and other perceived 'authoritarian' forms of state socialism. But it's hard to define a concrete definition for the term since people use it as an umbrella term, including it's adoption by some state socialists.

After how badly she botched multiple DC grand juries, having Jeanine Pirro in charge of the prosecution seems like a slam dunk for the defense though.

I appreciate the article, I guess, but the NYT comments are depressing. 'Thank you for bringing the this issue to light." Seriously? Israel's use of rape as punishment is nigh universally known. Israel literally just had mass protests in defense of the right to rape Palestinians prisoners--something the article dutifly mentions--and people are pretending like this is some recently revealed shock?

We need a maximum voting age. People that won't be around for dinner shouldn't be in charge of the groceries.

It's ironic that arguably the best way to de-Google a phone is to get a Pixel and use GrapheneOS.

Not just that the next generation of experts will hypothetically be employed as baristas, but I don't think people take the risk of deskilling enough. The next generation of would-be experts won't be as good at whatever because they've learned to rely on AI. We risk effectively transferring valuable skills from humans to Musk- or Altman-owned chatbots. That should horrify everyone.

The gun laws we need most are gun laws to disarm the police. Magically, they're always exempted, even in personal capacities, even in the context of red-flag laws. It's not like the police have a documented history of collective domestic abuse or anything.

I appreciate this for bringing the clankers out for me to block. Butlerian Jihad Now.

Not even duplicity. She ran as an anti-labor candidate. Unions were wrong to have expected differently.

Bots are trying to gaslight to into thinking that slop acceptance is inevitable. It's just bullshit. Everyone hates slop art. Everyone hates slop music. Everyone hates slop text. Everyone hates forced slop integration.

The only people that like AI are the people that own the chatbots that want to deskill you.

Until the Motorola deal sees fruition, Pixels are the only way to use GrapheneOS. I don't think that using GrapheneOS makes the project more difficult.

Sometimes I don't think Democrats are up to the task in front of them...

Your local chat bot is still trained on data stolen at an astronomical scale, and, even if we accept your use case as 'less' bad, it still drives demand for 'worse' chat bots owned by oligarchs that want to destroy the world.

The tool is evil even if it has interesting niche applications.