VampirePenguin
Want to help? Plant pollinator gardens. Easy peasy. Even some pots of local wildflowers on your patio. It all helps.
If others don’t have rights, you don’t either.
For the first time in awhile, I’m proud of my dumb state. Way to send Elon home crying!
Excessive wealth concentration is an existential threat to humanity on the scale of the atomic bomb or supervolcano.
Be peaceful but prepared for the possibility of violence. There has to be a threat behind the protest or it is for nothing. It has to cause pressure. It has to make life difficult for power. Sometimes that means disobeying police and causing damage. By no means, start a riot, but if the police order you to disperse, make them make you disperse. I recommend people to open carry at protests. It sends the message that we aren’t afraid to fight.
Ha! I’d love to read a hillbilly lotr
Vendor lock in is the reason I went to a fully open source workflow like fifteen years ago. When you rely on these companies for tools, they own your work. They can jack up prices, change TOS whenever they want, paywall features, train AIs on your work, and jerk you around on a chain at their whim. I don’t mind a little jank or having to do some workarounds for a certain result to keep my freedom. And also, when a new release comes out that fixes an issue ive been having, I feel grateful! In the closed ecosystem you feel entitled and resentful and powerless. It’s not worth it.
JD Vance is such a little bitch.
You’re assuming there will be a next time. When the AI bubble bursts, and it will, the whole economy will go down with it. AI companies are massively in debt and have a product that ranges from utter shit to kinda okay, and absolutely no sane way to monetize it. Everyone outside of tech, you know, the customers, fucking hate AI. It has stolen their work, jeopardized their livelihoods, wasted their resources and made the most insufferable asshats in history very wealthy.
Yes and that is not sustainable, eventually you gotta pay the piper. At some point you have to be profitable. LLMs are great at a very limited use case, but these tech charlatans want to shove it everywhere for everything and it pisses most of us off. I can’t imagine any regular person paying for it.