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  • Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned

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  • It has been proven over and over that this is exactly what happens. I don't know if it's still the case, but ChatGPT was strictly limited to training data from before a certain date because the amount of AI content after that date had negative effects on the output.

    This is very easy to see because an AI is simply regurgitating algorithms created based on its training data. Any biases or flaws in that data become ingrained into the AI, causing it to output more flawed data, which is then used to train more AI, which further exacerbates the issues as they become even more ingrained in those AI who then output even more flawed data, and so on until the outputs are bad enough that nobody wants to use it.

    Did you ever hear that story about the researchers who had 2 LLMs talk to each other and they eventually began speaking in a language that nobody else could understand? What really happened was that their conversation started to turn more and more into gibberish until they were just passing random letters and numbers back and forth. That's exactly what happens when you train AI on the output of AI. The "AI created their own language" thing was just marketing.

  • Steam Frame (VR with Linux)

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  • I was hoping for a direct Index replacement, but there are definite advantages to making a headset capable of both - especially one that also seems like it can compete with Meta as a standalone system.

    My two hopes are that the one with the smaller storage will be cheap enough to compete with other PC VR headsets (which does seem like the plan), and that using it plugged in is viable. It's built to be modular, so there's plenty of room for modding later like adding features, so the price will be the make or break, I think.

  • If your lifes goal was to make life better for as many people as possible how would you go about achieving it, assuming you could get start-up capital for your project?

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  • Approach Moshe Safdie's company about building Habitat 2027, 60 years after the scaled down compromise was built:

    Habitat 67

  • Before mobile phones

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  • I also recommend the Netflix anime, Terminator Zero. It's made by Production IG, the people behind Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and SkyDance, and does a great job of being its own thing while being respectful of the first two movies.

  • Trump Says He’ll Defy Court Order, Withhold SNAP Until Dems Drop Demands and Reopen Gov’t

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  • This is literally how we got here. Dems capitulated over and over during Obama's presidency to keep programs like SNAP going, and Republicans have run the same strategy ever since. Stonewall everything as long as you can, and blame it on the other side the entire time. And people eat it up every single time.

  • Do you think school uniforms are a form of authoritarianism?

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  • I don't either, I think it's super weird and creepy, but most people that I've talked to about it have never even thought about it before, and the people around my parents' age consider it "patriotic."

  • Do you think school uniforms are a form of authoritarianism?

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  • This makes sense as I was in school before 2010, so my experience would've been from before more schools started adopting them. And my dad would've probably been in school in the 50s, so when he was wearing a school uniform with a tie everyday, it was absolutely a rich private school thing.

  • Do you think school uniforms are a form of authoritarianism?

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  • Counterpoint: Americans would say the same - "I suppose it probably seems strange to an outsider but in a country where it’s the norm for every school, it didn’t feel like that to me at all." - about pledging their undying loyalty every morning to the flag on the wall of every single classroom starting at the age of 6.

    Not to say that it's the same thing at all, indoctrination on that scale is completely different from a freaking school uniform, but the base is the same - it doesn't seem weird because it's what you were told was normal.

    As an adult, I can see some good arguments for uniforms in this thread, but as a kid, I stopped saying the Pledge of Allegiance in middle school and swore that nobody could make me wear a tie like my dad had to for school. One of the big things that bothered me about school dress codes as I got older was the inherent misogyny on display. Some rules from my high school dress code, for example:

    During Spring/Summer, boys may wear t-shirts and shorts. Girls must wear pants or skirts. Skirts must be below the knee. Girls are allowed to wear t-shirts, but only if the sleeves are at least 4 inches long and must be a unisex crew neck shirt. Shirts with a v neck or that show the collarbone are too revealing and are not allowed.

    Also in the US is the issue that school uniforms are universally a private school thing, and so create a divide of elitism as a clear signal of those whose parents are wealthy enough to send their kids to a private school vs kids who go to public schools. Those divides start at home, though, and I don't know how much a school uniform does to deprogram that kind of rhetoric from your parents and their friends.

  • The American dream feels impossible for many young voters, who see no political fix

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  • Millennials have been saying this since 2008, and they're only seriously considering it now??

    I'd say I'm surprised, but after almost two decades of being told that my concerns over housing prices, student debt, poor wages, unaffordable healthcare, etc aren't important right now because Dems need moderate Republicans to vote for them, I'm really not.

  • After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence

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  • So long as they aren't the ones getting turned into the new fountain on the campus, they couldn't care less.

  • Why liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns

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  • One thing about this is that it seems to labor under the assumption of a symmetrical (or near symmetrical) fight, and that is exactly the last thing that a resistance group should be doing.

    The most effective strategy for a resistance group is to be as expensive a problem to deal with and as difficult to get rid of as possible. Defend the community for sure, but the real fight is against the logistics of an armed force. The more time and money they have to waste, the better. Certain kinds of paint are impossible to get off of glass, like the glass used in bulletproof windshields that would need to be completely replaced, or the kinds of clear plastic used in things like riot shields and visors. At the extreme end, there's options like paying these fascists thugs a "visit" in the dead of night. All these human traffickers have homes to go back to at night, and if enough face repercussions, it will quickly become difficult to find people willing to stick their neck out and possibly become yet another new fountain.

    All this to say, I don't think anybody who actually knows what they're doing or intends to do something thinks that they're going to help form a standing army and fight the US government. Sporadic and random acts of self defense or defense of the community? Sure. Suicide by cop? I would be surprised if people weren't thinking about that eventuality. But Rambo is not gonna happen and any violence will definitely happen alongside the peaceful protests that we've been seeing for months now, and not instead of them (at least, not until things get very very bad).

  • Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC

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  • Ironically, one of the things that I'm moving to Linux for is the gaming performance boost that I've heard some people report due to the lack of Windows bloat and telemetry running in the background all the time.

    Bazzite, the Linux version I keep seeing people recommend for gaming and people new to Linux has had a big boost in users in the past 6 weeks or so, apparently, that people are completely attributing to Microsoft.

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  • Breaking news

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  • The 30s would be in the upswing after the Great Depression, which hit the entire world hard, and right in the middle of WWII. Post WWII was incredibly hard on almost every European country, as well. The founder of IKEA was inspired during the reconstruction period by Swedish socialists and a simple idea: that everybody deserves to be able to afford furniture. Before IKEA, the Swedish were largely using hand-me-downs of generational pieces or improvising wooden shipping boxes into tables and chairs. True furniture was generally custom pieces made for the wealthy by artisans. IKEA is still banned to this day from buying materials (like lumber) from a number of Swedish companies because they were black marked for providing affordable furniture to the masses by outsourcing the assembly labor to the customer with their innovative flat pack design. Much of Europe in the Cold War was massive concrete prefab buildings because the need to build large-scale housing quickly was so dire. Many cities were practically levelled by the air raids.

    On another note, I think a lot of the conversation on the topic of birth rates ignores or under-values the impact of sex ed, safe sex, and the rise of accessible home entertainment. Teenage pregnancies dropping has had a major impact on the birth rate, as has the reduction in accidental pregnancy. Combined, they probably make up a lion's share of the difference between the present and a century ago. There's a reason that so many people are born in the summer/fall, and it's because 9 months before - in the winter - people are cooped up inside more and have less options for things to do for fun, which leads to more "Netflix and chill" and more accidental pregnancies as a result.

  • I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider

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  • As another LGBT person who grew up during the advent of the internet and learned that there were words for things I had felt for years thanks to the internet (despite living in a very liberal area), I completely agree with both of you.

    However, I want to make one counterpoint that reframes these movements to where I think these people are coming from: People like us here on Lemmy, who are aware of FOSS projects and the like are a minority group.

    I see these groups as a reaction based on the belief that you either have to deal with the corporations or give it up entirely because nobody else can offer what they do, and the corporations need us a lot more than we need them. They're effectively a general strike against the nightmare of corporate walled gardens that the internet at large has become in order to force a correction in the ecosystem, and I think if these groups were made aware of the alternatives out there, we'd probably see a large swing in adoption.

  • Friends with babies

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  • The fastest action that we could take that would have the largest effect is to cut out all the waste that companies get away with. Stuff like using water in California on cash crops unsuitable for the climate and on grass lawns and golf courses, or telling people in Texas to shower less and drink less water because they're using it all in new AI data centers. Stopping practices like that will reduce strain on the system from multiple points by reducing energy and resource consumption both. Couple that with the ever increasing green energy use (solar/wind was cheaper than coal for the first time like 10 years back), better efficiency, and more effective materials and we'll eventually make fossil fuels too expensive to use (legislation would also help big time there). There are sustainable farming practices that have been used for centuries in areas of little farmable land that have been replaced with harmful nitrogen fertilizers shipped and sold from countries like the US. Fast fashion and consumerism, loose regulations around hazardous waste disposal, the list goes on and on.

    There's massive amounts of waste in how our society works, and there's tons we can do towards fixing the world without giving up and murdering half the world so the billionaires can keep destroying the rest of it.

  • Friends with babies

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  • I have also been part of more than one conversation on Lemmy where people have used the term breeder

    Ew, that's 110% some dehumanizing language there. Gross.

    The big hostility I see isn't from 18 year olds who don't want kids, it's from 30 year olds being told that they're wrong and they will want kids. I'm with you in the "it doesn't affect me so I don't care whether someone wants kids or not" department, but some of the conversations that I've seen have given off the same vibes as when a former coworker told a young lesbian that we worked with that she "just hadn't had the right dick inside her." That shit ain't okay and I totally get the hostile response people have.

  • Friends with babies

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  • Indefinitely. Overpopulation is a lie that corporations have fed you so you blame the average person for the repercussions of corporate greed. It's the same propaganda campaign they used with littering so you don't blame the companies dumping chemical waste in rivers, and the propaganda about jaywalking that shifted the blame from car companies for lethal pedestrian accidents that eventually saw roads being designed for cars first instead of people. Recycling programs started before we had a realistic way to recycle in order to get people used to the concept for when practical ways to recycle were actually developed, but recycling companies never bothered with that. They just shipped most stuff overseas to landfills in China.

    The largest freight ships in the world each individually put out more emissions annually than every car on the planet combined. During the COVID lockdowns, vehicle used dropped dramatically across the globe - by something like 80%. And yet, global emissions barely budged during that time. Because the freighters and factories and all the other things that produce substantially more pollution were still running like normal. The US throws away 50% of the food it produces every year, and most of that waste is from companies and stores throwing away perfectly good food.

    Corporations are the biggest factor in climate change and the death of every ecosystem on the planet. But they have reshaped the question and shifted the blame from themselves and the wealthy to the common man.

    I'm not saying that we don't have to change how we live, but while us using paper straws instead of plastic is a net good thing for the environment, even if every single person were to switch entirely, it would barely be a drop in the bucket compared to the excessive plastic waste generated by companies through single-use packaging. We need to question why companies are allowed to get away with it, not discuss how we're going to uselessly cull the population so companies can keep doing what they're doing.

  • Americans, what do typically have for breakfast?

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  • If I'm working, I don't have the energy to do more than a toasted bagel with cream cheese. On the weekend, especially if I manage to sleep in, I might do something like an omelette or egg sandwich of some kind. If I have the time, I might go big and break out a can of corned beef hash, cook that up and poach an egg in the middle of it, then have that with some toast.

    If it was easier to get and keep fruit without it spoiling before I can eat it, I'd probably throw in a mandarin orange or something as an easy to eat side to my usual bagel, but American supermarkets make it hard to buy small batches of food more frequently rather than making a trip twice a month to stock up on groceries.