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mrmaplebar

@ mrmaplebar @fedia.io

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  • How do you distract yourself from failure?

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  • Recalibrate your thought process.

    Life isn't a game even if too many people treat it as such. There are no winners or losers. Broad ideas of "success" and "failure" are social constructs, almost always tied to artificial things like money and status. You don't have to care about these things at all. You can simply unsubscribe from that ideology. All we need to do is live, and all we should want is to thrive.

    When it comes to failing to meet personal goals, it's better to think of your progress and establish milestones.

    Imagine a person learning to skateboard with a goal of doing a kickflip, how many times do you think that they will need to fail at the trick before successfully landing it the first time? Even after they land it once, what will their success ratio be for that trick over the next 6 months? Anyone who has tried skateboarding knows that it's hard, and that you have to be mentally and physically prepared to fall and maybe get hurt, because "failure" is just part of the learning process.

  • In the light of recent news regarding DLSS5...

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  • Honestly, I have not seen anyone who values art "be ok with" generative AI.The only people who think it is even remotely cool are lazy programmers with no friends.

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  • Well... I was referring to "It makes me wonder, if Epstein could sing and dance, would he have gotten a biopic too?".

    Obviously Melania's movie was essentially a corporate gift to the Trump family/administration, despite the fact that they were very close friends with Epstein. I don't think it was a serious attempt at telling a genuine story about a strange person's life, even if it could have been. Donald Trump has more proven connections to convicted sex traffickers than MJ ever had, just as a matter of fact, and even that didn't prevent him and his family from taking over the world or having a movie made about his fake-ass wife.

    That's not really the point... I should say that I don't know anything about either movie and I'm not that interested in seeing them. I never even heard that there was a Michael Jackson biopic in production until seeing this threat.

    But my point is that film-making is a storytelling medium. A good filmmaker can tell a compelling story about good people and bad people alike.

    Good or bad, Michael Jackson is an interesting character who lived an interesting life. As such, it would be possible to make a great movie about him, just like someone could make a great movie about Hitler, Kim Jung Un, Donald Trump, etc.

    Will this movie be good? How will this movie depict MJ? Will he be treated as a sympathetic showbiz kid who never had the chance to grow up and live a normal life? Will he be treated as a pedophilic monster who systematically raped and trafficked children? ...who knows... Ideally a good MJ biopic would drill down somewhere close to whatever the truth happens to be, depicting a complex and troubled person who lived an extraordinary (in the literal sense) life.

    If it's just a cash grab by his estate to whitewash his character and ignore all of the deeply troubling things that happened in his life (both to him and by him), then it's just not a good movie.

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  • Thinking that's the subtext of what I was saying is wild...

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  • Well... Melania got a movie too, and she and her husband were both best friends with Epstein and Maxwell.

    Michael Jackson was a complicated person. Extremely talented singer, songwriter, choreographer, dancer and performer from a very young age. Clearly had a strange relationship with his own race, age, and physical features. Clearly had a difficult time relating to people in a normal human way. Had a well-known child-like personality. A lot of rumors and allegations around him, and he did a lot of extremely questionable and problematic things that if nothing else, poured a lot of fuel on that particular fire. Fucked up his body with plastic surgery. Died of a doctor-supervised overdose...

    What I'm getting at is that a film is about telling a story, and I do think Michael Jackson had a fascinating life story with a lot of highs and lows. I'm not sure that he's comparable to Epstein, and even if he was, I think that it depends how the film portrays him and his life.

  • How does this platform work?

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  • Similar to Reddit:

    • Navigate to a website (for example, "lemmy.world") and register an account.
    • Search for communities to follow based on your specific interests.
    • Check back later and watch posts appear in your home feed from the communities you follow.
    • Bonus points for posting and commenting!

    Different from Reddit:

    • It's not a single website. You're on "lemmy.world", I'm on "fedia.io". Each site houses its own users and content, but cross-site communication happens almost seamlessly. (For example, even though I'm logged into a different site, I can easily read and comment on your post.)
    • It's not a single software. You're looking at Lemmy, I'm looking at Mbin, and other people might be looking at Piefed or something else. Moreover, I understand there are also custom UIs and apps to create even more options. This doesn't matter too much, but over time you might explore the different options and form a preference for the way some software works.
    • Under the hood, all of this happens thanks to a protocol called "ActivityPub", which allows all of these servers and software to communicate with each other. You don't need to care about this.
    • A good analogy for all this is email... If you have a gmail account and your friend has a protonmail account, your accounts and data will be stored on different servers, and your email inboxes will look different and have different features. BUT, because all email services use a shared communication protocol, you can still email your friend! This works exactly like that.

    Bottom Line...

    It can take a while to wrap your mind around this stuff, but the bottom line is that this is essentially infinite-reddit.

    Don't like the moderators of a certain community? Make a new community on whatever server you want!

    Don't like the admins of a certain server? Fire up a whole new server!

    Don't like the way Lemmy works or looks? Use an alternative GUI or give a server running Mbin or Piefed a try!

    This is part of the "fediverse", and it represents a new form of social media that puts the community in control, instead of corporations or billionaires.

  • The FBI Director Is MIA

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    Is there a place on these platforms were you can post old news..?

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  • How do you do this?

    My server (fedia.io) is running different software from yours (programming.dev), but I believe you click on "Create Community" on the top menu bar of your server.

    Its about you init. I am so tired of nothing boogers

    I have no clue what this is supposed to mean.

  • Do you wash your hands after going pee?

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  • Yes, always.

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    Is there a place on these platforms were you can post old news..?

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  • I'm not sure, since I'm not super interested in that.

    But the good news is that you can always make a new community dedicated to "old news" if you'd like to.

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  • I'm not sure the law is as settled as you're making it out to be here... We're still watching a lot of these questions slowly trickle up the courts.

    In my opinion, the idea that someone can feed a bunch of unlicensed copyrighted material as input into a generative AI meat grinder and produce public domain outputs doesn't really pass the smell test to me.

    For example, could I take use an LLM trained on GPL code to rewrite Linux in a legally distinct way, and then treat it as permissive or proprietary code after minor modifications? Likewise, can you train an LLM on someone else's proprietary code and rewrite it as a GPL program?

    This sort of copyright/license laundering seems like an existential threat to the way that copyleft FOSS has existed for decades. I think it makes a lot of sense to be extremely cautious and skeptical of AI-generated code submissions.

    Edit: I also want to point out that the issue of whether or not it can be considered "fair use" to train generative AI models on unlicensed copyrighted works is very much an open question. If it was determined that it isn't always fair use, then I don't know what that might mean for many of the existing models that have been trained that way, or the outputs that they produce.

  • Mine would basically be white tiles

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  • Workplace theater comes to the shitter.

  • Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S.

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  • Remember folks, age verification is personal identity verification.

  • Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 400%

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  • I'm gonna disagree with you. I think it's only gotten dumber with things like Robinhood and communities like wallstreetbets.

  • Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 400%

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  • This stock market is so unbelievably detached from reality it's not even funny anymore. It's all "meme stocks".

    At least back in the day there was the thinnest guise of this stuff having some semblance of a connection to the ground-level economics of business. (You know, old fashioned stuff like employing people to make products and selling them for a profit.) My parents generation could at least be forgiven for believing that it was driven by serious people making logical decisions about money...

    But today it's just so clearly based on vibes, algorithms, hype, and an unhealthy dose of total randomness that you might as well get into cryptocurrency or take your paycheck to the casino.

    The whole thing stinks. It's like one giant ponzi scheme fueled by ketamine and hopium.

  • Trump, 79, Posts Himself as Christ After Bonkers Pope Attack

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  • I love how he's doing the highest form of Christian sacrilege so close to Easter. In fact, he's doing it on Eastern Orthodox Easter...

  • How do we reduce toxicity on the Fediverse, and on the wider internet?

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  • I'm not positive that you can do much outside of simply (temporarily or permanently) banning people who are acting shitty.

    On the flip side, banning people because they disagree with you is how we end up with the kind of echo chambers that breed other socially toxic problems like strict partisanship, and cults of personality... so it's a fine line.

    Generally I don't see a lot of people on Lemmy acting like straight-up assholes. I don't always agree with people, and I think there is a potential for "flame wars" and arguments, but as long as everyone is acting in good faith and being reasonable about what they are expressing I feel that's generally an acceptable level of conflict.

    I've never wanted someone banned because they said something I didn't like. Like... If someone wanted to come here and make the case for why Donald Trump is a great president, I would love to see them try. The real problem is when people resort only to trolling and forego any attempt at having a real good-faith conversation. That's when the relationship breaks down and the conversation is no longer conducive to running a real community. When people start acting like assholes, making personal attacks, or continually arguing in bad-faith, then I think it warrants at least a temporary ban.

    The goal of the internet should not be conflict avoidance or group-think, but mutual respect and treating each other like human beings. For the most part, I think the Fediverse is pretty good about that.

  • Have you seen Neon Genesis Evangelion?

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  • I saw it after watching and loving FLCL, in the early-mid 2000s.

    I love it, and it's now among my favorite media "franchise". I didn't love the final rebuild movie, but it's hard to imagine anything ever topping End of Evangelion.

    I've watched a bunch of other anime before and after.

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    On the day you hear the news about Trump, how will you celebrate?

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  • Loud music, weed, alcohol, big dinner, good dessert.