Are we sure the reporter heard Putin right?
Maybe he was saying “Give up, dumbass.” to Trump…

I’m a good 15 years younger than Steve Wozniak, but Steve Wozniak has always been a person I’ve aspired to become more like. He’s one of my personal heroes, and I hope to die a man as close to what the man he’s always been.

The “DPR” lol

Take your Russian propaganda elsewhere dude…

No but… Would you want to be known as the owner / inhabitant of Epstein Island? Would you enjoy staying there knowing its past?

The island doesn’t give a shit. But you and other people might.

280000 square meters of prime real estate, with palm gardens, mountains and tropical climate.

and bad memories, bad reputation and generally bad juju.

If I owned the place, I’d sell it quick: I just don’t know how I could be there and enjoy it, knowing who was there and what they did.

the people running the show are *also* bumbling fucking morons.

The morons in and around the White House aren’t the ones running the show. They’re puppets, and the puppetmasters are the Heritage Foundation. And THEY are anything but morons.

descent into a kind of fusion of tech and fascism

This isn’t new.

One of the defining traits of fascism is that the private sector is in cahoots with the government. In fact, that’s the root of the words fascism: fasces in Latin means bundle - the bundling of state and private interests.

Corporations have no principles and no morals: whatever will make them more money, they’ll ro-ro with. When it takes colluding with an authoritatian regime, they have no problems getting onboard.

The danger today compared to IBM helping the Nazis is of course that today’s computers are vastly more powerful than mechanical tabulators. This is going to turbocharge the dystopia orders of magnitudes.

And finally, people have been lulled into a false sense of security and convinced to give away a lot more personal information than they should’ve for the past 25 years - the “I have nothing to hide, why do I need privacy?” fallacy. Now they’re going to find out why they should have been careful. I almost want to say “I told you so” every day, having been called a paranoid crackpot for the past 25 years, but it’s so sad and so too late that it isn’t even anything to gloat about…

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I myself was made aware quite recently of just how fucking fascist the UK has become. I shouldn’t’ve been surprised, seeing as though any idiotic thing coming out of the US is parroted without fail in the UK 6 months later. So it stood to reason that the UK would become just as fascist as the US. But just how violently fascist really took me by surprise.

The bee took one for the team.

With any luck, there’s a hive of like-minded bees near the White House.

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This is suspiciously specific 🙂

Even if it was open source (it isn’t, because no model is really open source ultimately) and even if it let you review what it says it’s gonna do, AI is known for pulling all kinds of shit and lie about it.

Would you really trust your system to something that can do this? I wouldn’t…

I look forward to not installing it.

You can commit treason more than once.

Yeah… Fuck you.

Which one? Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Gummo or Zeppo?

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If you only have one survival skill on the internet, it’s this:

Never EVER click on a .su link.

Yeah but they have to set it up. It’s not sold to them ready to exploit - and crucially, Spez doesn’t get to make any money off my back.

My instance doesn’t sell what I write to train AI.

Of course, the AI sumbitches probably scrape Lemmy for content too like they scrape everything for content. But at least Lemmy doesn’t give them my content on a platter, nicely packaged up and ready to exploit and monetize. They have to do the scraping.

Write her a poem. Buy her flowers. Invite her to a nice restaurant. Do all of it and more.

Our marriage has lasted 35 years on non-commercial gifts. We enjoy being thoughful to one another a lot more than spending money on shit. Try it, if she’s truly your soulmate, she’ll appreciate, even if you go about it all awkward-like.