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FlashMobOfOne

@ FlashMobOfOne @lemmy.world

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Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.

I'm single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.

ACAB, Anti-War, and I hate Democrats, Republicans, and billionaires. (Yes, even your favorite billionaire: the pop star, the philanthropost, the legendary athlete, or the soft-spoken investment guru who cosplays as middle class.) With each passing day I get a little closer to hating everyone.

Also, I refuse to use Donald's last name out of hatred for the man and his brand, FYI.

  • I visited Meta's metaverse on the day it was supposed to shut down. I ended up in a horribly designed car park with no cars, for a restaurant that can sell no food

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  • That's what got me about the metaverse too: an astonishing wealth of junk content. I got through all the games and videos and experiences I wanted in less than six months, and clearly I'm not the only one.

    I do love VR documentaries though and hope those continue to thrive.

  • People training new AI models admit they just get chatbots to do it

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  • We can tell. This method definitely reflects the quality (or lack thereof) in the output.

  • Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly

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  • That's interesting. Thank you.

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  • That would be nice.

  • Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly

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  • Lots of bad headlines for Ford this year. This one comes after they admitted publicly that if Chinese cars were allowed in American markets they wouldn't be able to compete. (Compete in this context really means: "Couldn't price gouge".)

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  • Don't look at me. I purposely didn't have kids. Kids are awful.

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  • I understand there's a little variance here in terms of the timeline and specific causes, but I don't think it matters much. Even if tech were to fail completely (unlikely) there'd still be a sizable number of humans who survive by living in caves and falling back on bushcraft. Where I live in the US there are 2500 caves within a few hundred miles, and those are just the ones we know of.

    That said, I have a similar expectation with regard to technology. Necessity is the mother of invention and a combination of technology and necessary social policy changes will help mitigate the effects of climate change, though it won't happen worldwide and it's going to be a cataclysm for the human race for sure.

    Makes me glad that I didn't procreate.

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  • You're not wrong, but guns are a civic religion here in the US. There are lots and lots and lots of guns that are easily accessible by toddlers.

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  • Also fun: your own household furnishings or a toddler with a gun were always a greater danger to you than terrorism, speaking in terms of probabilities.

  • Scalpers are already selling the Steam Machine for over $3000 on eBay despite Valve's efforts

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  • Rich people ruin fucking everything man.

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  • Well, if watching the various resistance movements do silent sabotage this year wasn't heartening, the following facts might make you feel better.

    Dems are polling 14% over Republicans right now, and if that holds until November, it's likely that the November elections will be overwhelming and rig-proof. Further, nearly every Donald-backed candidate has lost their election against a Dem in 2025 and 2026, and most of those elections occurred in states and districts Donald won by double digits in 2024. The only good election news Donald has had has occurred in Republican primaries, but that doesn't matter due to his having a lower approval rating than Jimmy Carter.

    The upside is Donald thought he had a mandate to revive Nazi Germany and learned that people literally just wanted illegal immigrants deported and not to see 5th graders chased down and cuffed by masked thugs, and yes, those are two different things. People voted for immigration reform and affordability, and Donald has not only failed on both, he's failed spectacularly on both issues while getting us into a war no one wanted that has made the cost of living worse.

    The downside is we can look at the last 40 years of Democratic politics and conclude that nothing will fundamentally change and, more likely, the majority of Democrats will coopt the power Donald has seized and embrace the new fascism.

    It is nice to see that centrists are finally coming around on socialism, though. All it took was them having to live in their cars.

  • What movie are you ashamed you love?

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  • Read it again, please.

  • What movie are you ashamed you love?

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  • Maybe read what I wrote a second time.

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  • Civilization has collapsed several times. So has climate.

    None if this is new. It only seems that way because people don't read history books.

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  • The whole country just lies down and accepts the decline into authoritarianism.

    Objectively untrue and demonstrated in LA, Portland, Minnesota, and Chicago. Even better, it was demonstrated in bipartisan fashion. People who voted red were part of the silent sabotage that took place in Chicago and Minnesota.

    And then there's all the attempts by people to delete Donald too.

    The country is doing what it can and also trying not to descend into chaos and survive at the same time.

  • What movie are you ashamed you love?

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  • All Quiet on the Western Front, specifically the 2022 Netflix version.

    It's one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen in terms of its cinematography, which kinda just feels wrong given the subject matter.

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  • No.

    Our species has endured much worse than this.

  • ‘Cost Me the Election’: Data Centers Trigger Voter Backlash

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  • Your lack of scruples cost you the election, motherfucker.

  • A24 Fans Mourn Its Death Following $75 Million Google AI Deal

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  • This is a weird move for A24.

    I have to imagine that the vast majority of A24 enthusiasts are analog people who like art that was created organically rather than stolen.