fwiw this link didn’t jump me to a specific reply (if you meant to highlight a particular one)

so is corbet the same kind of fucker that’ll complain “everything is so political nowadays”? it seems like they are

I, too, have done the “all communication is manipulative”, but in the same way as one would do a bar trick:

all communication is manipulative, for any words I say/write that you perceive instantly manipulate (as in the physical manner / modifying state) your thoughts, and this is done so without you requesting I do so

it’s a handy stunt with which to drive an argument about a few parts of communication, rhetoric, etc. because it gives a kinda good handle on some meta without getting too deep into things

(although there was one of my friends who really, really hated the framing)

I’d pipe up and go “uhhh hey prof, aren’t you being paid to, like, impart knowledge?”

(I should note that I have an extremely deficient fucks pool, and do not mind pissing off fuckwits. but I understand it’s not always viable to do)

the terrible tryfecta

jesus fucking christ do you even understand where you’re posting? how are you this goddamn oblivious?

you do not, under any circumstances, have to “give it to them”

there is no requirement to carry water for this awful shit

do not surprisedpikachu when someone calls out your weird posts

my my, those boots sure must be tasty

goddammit now I want a taco, and there’s no great options near me

curse you, average of extremes!

may my revenant embody the stuff vc nightmares are made of

lawns in addition to other things are fine, but also all the stuff self said applies pretty hard

we’re lucky in ZA that we’re pretty good with getting a lot of this stuff out, which I’m often pretty happy about, but that’s an incident of geography (and personal location)

I wonder how long until these clowns start posting kagi signups with referral links embedded

No, it’s supposed to be “firefox with all the weird mozilla pitch decisions removed” but it seems they still struggle to catch some

The Quantified Self

(e: damn lemmy for posting to the wrong chain)

today’s a fucking trip and a half

in a mall I saw some Honor laptop[0] ads with “AI” pitch sauce slathered all over it

later walking between art galleries I saw a roadsign ad for a property sales company promising “more effective strategies using AI” (more effective strategies for… selling… houses…? I guess…? (x up for doubt))

and now I get this shit in my mailbox from someone who absolutely purchased a dataset with this address in it:

From: Ai Everything GLOBAL <newsletter@event.aieverythingglobal.com>
Subject: Join the AI Elite—G42, TII, DIEZ, Dell & More!

[0] - I didn’t even know they were in ZA, but nope, 2-floor hanging banners and ads allllll over elevator doors and shit

Ah, copilot is so extremely popular that MS has decided to bundle it into O365 for free a moderate “depends by region” price increase

I’m sure that’ll totally make people want it even more! hordes at the gate!

what do anthropic, aws, and palantir all have in common? except for being the fucking worst, of course

the dollar signs in their eyes seem to share a bit of a glow…

lol, no, but this was good post

some inane fucking thing from bloomberg or NYT or someone’s Bad Visualisations Department. it’s at least 35 points of psychic damage

10 centibasilisk simtime units in old money

I have been having this feeling in a couple places too, heh