One Internet problem, which you can't entirely blame corporate platforms for is that humans are stupid about attention. And, worse, over the last 20 years, all the big tricks have been discovered. So, even if tomorrow facebook said "from now on artists get a cut of ad rev" it'd still be bad.
I suspect a lot of people will read this as "it's gonna be bad," but tbh I'm so extremely cynical about social media and general enshittification (in the original specific sense of using network power to degrade consumer experience) that I don't see this as obviously being worse?
Fantastic Four story premises are everywhere for those with eyes to see
![From a science.org article "Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet" ( https://www.science.org/content/article/shattered-skeleton-scottish-castle-first-confirmed-death-trebuchet )
Excerpt reads:
To solve the mystery, Buckberry scoured the forensic and medical literature and searched through anatomical collections for equivalent injuries. “It looks like he was hit from behind by something traveling at a great velocity. The most similar cases I was finding were car crashes and people hit by trains,” Buckberry says. “But how do you get from there to a guy in medieval Scotland? What is large and moving very, very quickly in 1304 [C.E.]?”
Buckberry found the likeliest answer in history books. During Edward I’s 1304 siege of the castle, English forces deployed the recently invented trebuchet, a weapon first documented in the 12th century. A cousin to the catapult, trebuchets were capable of hurling boulders weighing more than 100 kilograms hundreds of meters. One at Stirling, dubbed “War Wolf,” “was the biggest trebuchet ever built at that point,” Buckberry says. Eyewitness accounts confirm the giant siege engine was used during the 1304 battle, tearing through two stone walls “as an arrow would fly through a piece of cloth.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2pxxhwp2j3dybqa3mvyv6mwt/bafkreicgmd7aphwj5wfwm2d6soad3tkbp4v4szvdpku2op5bh42n6oweiy)
yeah, there seemes to be a shift where lots of the people who were pretty cool with derivitive works when it's Disney's copyright find the situation untenable when it's derivitive works of all published material on the internet, and it seems like that coincided with making everyone a Creator
Possibly things couldn't have played out this way, but it'd be interesting to re-roll history so that ai doesn't appear post crypto post social media, post enshittification generally. It's hard to convey how optimistic early Internet was.
People have sacrificed thier own children to religious visions for millennia, so it tracks. Acc is a religion, and a particularly bad one.
"Catharsis" is a storytelling technique in which emotions are aroused, and then released, in the audience. It is /cathartic/, which means it leaves the audience feeling lighter, and very much relieved.
A wise man once said "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." Full version of this new comic (plus bonus panel!) on Tinyview! social.tinyview.com/n5RT7Jiml5b
Windows Installer? The embedded SQL database built on top of OLE structured storage?
…but they seem to miss that a very large part of learning how to ask the right questions, is asking & playing w/ & sorting through & grinding out the "WRONG" questions, & learning WHY. That happens in training, in play, in conversation with other people who can & will challenge your assumptions…
I went to see "Odyssey" in IMAX 70mm at the 3am showing 30 miles away. I bought 3 seats just for myself so I wouldn't have anybody sitting next to me. This must've angered the Gods or violated Zeus's law, because after the movie I got lost, leaving by the wrong door. ...
literally dropping the scholarships on them instead of the bombs would have done more
I think once the AI bubble pops we're going to see a wave of private equity leveraged mergers among cash-poor tech sector firms. Who will then fail to build anything new, or even hold onto their users, because they've forgotten how to build products customers want and *we've already got enough*.
You're absolutely right, because they're working in an environment where deployment/reliance on LLMs is pervasive, where they have to use them continuously, and where their income is dependent on everybody believing in Tinkerbell (AI) with a side-order of transhumanist religious doctrine.
I think a big part of why xkcd was and has remained so popular is it's kind of the poetry of that culture. So, in addition to being a good comic, liking it was a way to identify these different threads of geekdom which nevertheless had a certain feeling in common.
I think it's time we get more "Half-Likes." Can we have some good, classic, single-player FPSs please? I think I'm ready for it now. Just a well crafted experience with that early 2000s look. Yeah, come on. Half-Likes. That's good. That's good that. Come on.
tbh very enamoured with this terrible plumbing job a contractor did while openly admitting he super fucked up because he was sleep deprived
it's hard to capture in photos because my phone keeps colour-correcting it back to normal, but the city is EXTREMLY yellow. and my smoke alarm just went off, even with all the doors and windows closed. not great, bob!
Problem seems to me to be that schooling is inherently fake, and kinda has to be. You're preparing people to do real stuff by doing easier stuff, and you need a way to check how they're doing en masse. This has been the standard system for over a century, because, well, how else could you do it?
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I love how the sea had such regard for this strip that it recreated it in real life.
Dude I saw you autosave before walking up to me whats up man we cool
Honestly I really like that you put comments on almost every trait bound on `paginated` to explain why the bound is there. Makes it much easier to understand!
