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The real question is where will everyone go now that Discord is enshittified?
After putting up with Slack... slacking... for a while, Ryver ignoring bugs and getting worse over time, I wrote my own system from scratch. No ads, no randos, no spam, no cost. I am running independent family and business instances.
It's got a decent set of features, including a broad range of text formatting (it does _x_ and *x* and emoji
Sometimes, if you can, you just have to say "nope" and put your nose to the grindstone a bit.
I wish I were rich and had a huge cock. I got over it. I didn't get upset at every display of ludicrous wealth and every guy with a bulge in his pants running down his leg.
Well, uh, you're clearly... sane.
There are lots of non-pretty people who dislike that more-pretty people can make an easy living by marrying wealthy partners.
There are lots of non-athletic people who dislike that more-athletic people can make an easy and wealthy living playing sports. Should we then ban the use of photos of athlete's faces?
There are lots of people who can't act and/or aren't good-looking that dislike that actors can make an easy and wealthy living playing roles. Should we then ban the use of photos of actor's faces? Should I go on? Models? Politicians? Firemen? Cats ?
Who will protect our feline friends from the outrageous exploitation of the fact that they are cuter than almost any human who ever lived?
I mean, honey, you may be cute, but cats have you beaten like a grievously dusty rug in that department.
The entire trend of "oh no, can't see / say / look at / admire / leverage" [a photo of a face] is absurd, and would actually be funny if it wasn't so outrageously wrongheaded.
Imagine a big lab where male researchers put playboy pictures on the wall.
That's not even a remotely reasonable take or example for what's happening here. This is a woman's face . It's a "Playboy picture" only in the sense that yes, it appeared in Playboy. It's not a nude. Pictures of, just for instance, Peter Sellers and Steve Martin have also appeared in Playboy. Should we now ban crops of these gentlemen's faces from those photos from appearing in an image processing example? I mean, seriously. It's puerile. Stupid. Regressive. Ridiculous.
Do you think that is professional ?
If a person's face, even, OMG, a handsome man or beautiful woman or other, should be used for an image processing example? Yes. Absolutely. 100%. Is it professional? Yes. Absolutely. 100%. I'm not in the least offended by the idea, nor should I be. It's a picture of a face. As for beauty, again, not offended regardless: male, female, trans, androgynous.
Do you think female researchers would feel comfortable working there ?
With pictures of people's faces on the wall? Even, OMG, women's faces? Well, if they don't, they need some therapy. What they don't need is for the walls to be sanitized so they can pretend that good-looking people don't exist, aren't interesting to others, and are somehow offensive in and of themselves.
What about people who fear cats? Should we then ban all pictures of cat's faces from lab walls and studies? How far do you want to take this? What about agoraphobics? Would you have us ban pictures of the outdoors from lab walls and studies? What about amathophobics? Should all labs have privacy walls so no one sees powders on the bench? What about, OMG, a picture of a pile of powder on the wall? JFC, call the Powder Police immediately.
Look, if you — or whomever — don't want to appear in Playboy or some other publication, I'm 100% behind you. Don't. Don't sign a contract that gives them rights to any photos. As for what other consenting adults have chosen to do, just fuck off, please. The only one in need of your take is you. As soon as you start telling me what I can do with a picture of someone's face, presuming copyright issues are squared away, I'm going tell you to fuck right off.
And what is triggering you ? Are you afraid they're going to come for your porn ?
Quite aside from the neurotic absurdity of the anti-adult-porn movement, no, this is something else entirely. This is moving normal things into the realm of moral panics. It's a bad thing. Entirely. On its own.
Trump and his american taliban allies are the ones you should be afraid of.
I am about as anti-regressive and anti-Trump as you can get. Lefter-than-left in almost all social and economic aspects, conservative only where it seems to me to be logical to conserve already-achieved progress. An outlook that includes conserving the achievements of separating personal liberties from absurd moralizations insofar as we have managed that thus far.
The problem here, what makes it worthy of comment, is that this particular moral panic in-a-teacup is straight-up regressive.
The thing is there is a moral panic
A perfect storm of toxic feminism and neurosis.
The copyright holder is okay with it, and they own the rights to the image. The researchers using it are okay with it. The only "offensive" thing [cough] about this image is that she is beautiful, and that is what is actually triggering these people.
With this system in place, the first really cloudy day would shift the day around based on when the sensor can see light.. you'd get all kinds of time paradox errors when it shifted backward with no warning. These things need to be planned.
Also, if you are resynchronizing a clock every day, it doesn't have to be an atomic one to stay accurate, it just needs not to have its power interrupted. It barely even has to be an electronic one.
That's.. impressive.
We have positive leap seconds scheduled. Couldn't they just be cancelled out and/or postponed instead?
There's no problem with control if you don't give it too much power.
The not-very-subtle issue is that regardless of the limits put on hardware, the people using the hardware may not be subject to effective limits. Which is how we got Putin, Hitler, Trump, Pol Pot, McCarthy, McConnell, Stalin, Mao, etc.
People have a disturbing habit of taking up crazy and harmful ideas regardless of the source. All an AI really has to do is source the ideas. There will be people who will be delighted to take it from there.
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