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[–] [email protected] 169 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

[–] [email protected] 205 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Traditional instruction gave the same result as a bleeding edge ChatGPT tutorial bot. Imagine what would happen if a tiny fraction of the billions spent to develop this technology went into funding improved traditional instruction.

Better paid teachers, better resources, studies geared at optimizing traditional instruction, etc.

Move fast and break things was always a stupid goal. Turbocharging it with all this money is killing the tried and true options that actually produce results, while straining the power grid and worsening global warming.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

The fundamental question is, “Do you trust Facebook?” They have the resources to manipulate the story and twist the truth. They have the capability to spy on you with mics, but they say they don’t do so. Do you trust them?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Fire-making factory burn down again. Grunk miss bonk with rock and take. Bonk was good.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago (4 children)

"Meta does not use your phone's microphone for ads and we've been public about this for years," the statement read. "We are reaching out to CMG to get them to clarify that their program is not based on Meta data."

Ah, yes. The tried and true defense of "we've denied it for years and continue to deny it" must be credible coming from a source as trustworthy as Facebook. I hear they're planning on holding a press conference to pinky swear they're not listening to the microphone they demand access to in order to show you ads that make them money.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Bell Riots would have happened if Biden stayed in the race, and we were looking at Trump/Vance being in charge for four years. Biden changed the timeline.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

That phenomenon isn’t exclusive to AI. A societal structure where a minuscule number of people amass all wealth and see themselves as gods is an inherently evil system.

Everything they do and everything they create is a means to increase their wealth and power at the expense of everyone else. At the expense of the planet itself. Regulators, courts, the government, and every other institution become captured vehicles that exist to increase their wealth and power. The people are made poorer and poorer while being distracted by bread and circuses.

The only war is class war.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

Reforms to restrain the rent-seeking class were always an alternative to the preferred method of killing them and redistributing their wealth.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

In that case, Bernie’s executive orders would have blotted out the sun. How do courts strike down student loans being forgiven under a new legal theory every month?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

I’ll burn books and publish the same books. I’ll ban abortion and perform one myself. I’ll cut taxes for the rich and… well, let’s not go too far.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

17th century white people: Women who can read are witches and should be burned.

Current Wahhabists: Women who can read are witches and should be stoned.

Project 2025 GOP: Women who can read are witches and should be sent to breeding camps if they’re white. Burned if non-white.

[–] [email protected] 128 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

There’s an alternate timeline where Bernie won in 2016 and restored the middle class in America. Living wages, affordable housing, affordable everything, universal healthcare, and a common sense foreign policy.

I’m not saying he’s perfect. He would have made mistakes. But he would have been the best president since FDR.

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