And it was a disaster. It turned into the samurai armor into cylons. When I first saw the screenshots I thought it was somebody making fun of AI instead of actual AI slop. They have the pull the game from steam.

So yeah we know it's being used in the industry and it's laughably bad and it's damaging the industry and costing the industry money for very little or nothing in return. Stop it already.

They know what they're doing. This is France telling American social media companies to fuck the fuck off and stop fucking with our political system.

This is them kicking Facebook and Twitter which are both owned by fascists out of their country. If America can't do that themselves France is going to do it for them and try and let America go to shit. Of course that didn't work out really well when the rest of the world ignored Germany in the 40s so but you know how that goes

America can no longer be trusted and American tech companies especially cannot be trusted. This is Europe cutting them off but not in a way that could be challenged in their courts.

America elected orange pedophile twice now. The first time could be chalked up to a fluke but the second time not so much especially with threats to invade Greenland that carry the implied threat of invading the rest of Europe. That's a real thing that orange pedophile did and I don't think we freaked out anywhere near enough about it.

I think Europe was hoping that orange pedophile getting elected would just give their billionaires a leg up on the markets as America's economy collapsed. I don't think they were expecting full on fascism and neo-nazis in the White House. And they certainly were not expecting threats to invade Greenland that orange pedophile doubled down on several times and only backed off when Congress finally said knock it off.

I don't know if you're up will be successful with cutting America off and they probably need to do something about Russia running roughshod over our voting system but at the very least they're trying to do something about Russia running roughshod over there people. And these moves against social media which is really what they are are all about that

It's painfully obvious he was hoping that attacking Iran would get us a second 9/11 and he could ride that into a third term in office.

Trump put completely incompetent people even by his standards in charge of anti-terrorism. One of them is literally a 20 year old grocery store employee. That's who's in charge of keeping you safe from terrorism at the federal level at least.

Iran isn't stupid so they didn't bite. Trump is of course doubling down because that's all right wingers know how to do. But Iran has pretty good control over their non state actors.

Bush Jr would never have gotten the second term without 9/11. Trump looks at that and says hey that could work for me. A couple thousand dead Americans isn't even a price to pay in his eyes.

Particularly a situation that you have given up on having any control over.

And left wing spaces we call this complying in advance.

The implication isn't just that you're looking down on the person making the comments, the implication is that you don't have to care about the comments they are making. That you're above all that.

It's painfully obvious that we are not above the decisions Sam Altman makes. He gets to decide how our lives go. He's making serious decisions about the future of society, america, and the human race in general.

I think that's too big for most people to wrap their heads around and deal with especially because most of us have figured out we don't have a place in that future.

That's why I always use football fields for everything. American football not any of that foreign stuff...

Mod parent funnier.

Of course the corporations aren't liable for whatever problems they cause. Didn't you read the EULA/ToS/<whatever> when you signed up? No excuse that you thought it was longer and more boring than War and Peace .

What we have here is a compatibility failure. The corporations have the singular motivation of increasing profit. No profit is big enough. No limit, and therefore any concern about harms is a limit on profits that must be circumvented. The new business plan is to create goods and services that the customers MUST have. If they don't think they must have them, then the corporation must buy more ads. But in exchange for buying the goods or using the service the customers agree to the game of "Heads we corporations win and tails you human beings lose." (And just too bad that exponential growth is incompatible with geologic time.)

Sometimes the law gets in the way. In those case the politicians must be bribed into submission or replaced with politicians who are cheaper to bribe. Never forget that profits must be maximized, which means the bribes count as costs against profits, so cheaper politicians are ALWAYS better!

Now powered by AI! It's an offer you cannot refuse! No one may refuse!

Which leads to my sick political joke of the week to come:

Point me to the 'same grade' CPU equivalent of the M5 Pro and M6?

I mean, they literally show the use case for it on some of their the videos. It's not a general purpose one by any means, but this one is an actual Pro box, not a "I'm a consumer and just want the name Pro on my device" box.

The current use case is music production. Logic Pro. I have an Akai MPC Gen 2, with a touch screen for moving around the DAW and manipulating the virtual instruments. Logic Pro with the same level of interactivity would be fantastic, and no the iPad version doesn't cut it. I'm actually very interested in it for this specific reason.

Price? Well, I paid around £4k for my Intel 4Tb beast in 2019 to store all the sample-based instrument libraries I have. It's not a "let's buy this to look cool at the coffee shop" machine, although I'm sure some people will. I'm actually very interested in it for a serious step up in the way music production works.

Headline from 1845.

Who's going to hire plumbers when everybody is a plumber you ask?

Why other plumbers of course!

It's plumbers all the way down.

There are 24 hours in the day and therefore 1440 minutes in a day. 1/10 of 1% of that is 1.44 minutes or 86 seconds.

For the rest of us I think we're okay but in your a case you might actually be over toileted...

This post is low effort engagement bait. Apple hasn't done anything out of the ordinary. The only questionable choice is that silly touch screen and that's harmless enough. Most of their energy right now is focused on their processors and seeing if they can get in on controlling all of AI and the massive automation push coming from that but that's what every single tech company on the planet is doing.

Nothing to see here just lazy rage bait and that comes from somebody who is not really much of a fan of Apple

Millions of dollars stolen is a tiny fraction of just the money Trump got to sell pardons.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't stop fraud but if all you can come up with is a few million bucks there are much better places to go after fraud. Like how the IRS will go after you for forgetting to include the right paperwork for a deduction but they'll cheerfully let Elon Musk skip paying billions of dollars of taxes he's owing.

This is not an accident. People in power have long since set things up so that they don't have law enforcement against them but you do.

Fascism requires an in group that the law protects but does not bind and an out out group that the law binds but does not protect. If you're reading this you're in the out group