I've never even had artichoke hearts before, but this looks damn good.
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I don't really think so... Especially in an era of AI-generated slop that's devoid of the human touch, it's more important than ever to recognize the people who make things.
With that said, I do think that we should be able to accept flaws and imperfections in human creators. I think people should understand the fact that you can like someone's creations without endorsing every aspect of them as a person.
For example, the number of zoomers who I've met that claim that "the Beatles suck" because they have a problem with John Lennon's personal flaws is pretty wild to me. It's cool if people dislike the Beatles, whatever! Did John always practice what he preached? Probably not... But, like, even knowing that he was a bad father to his first son and a bad husband to his first wife, that doesn't really change the fact that his band was objectively one of the most influential musical acts of the 20th century. You don't have to like the guy, the band, or even the songs, but to ignore their once-in-a-generation skill and cultural importance feels like willful ignorance to me.
Like many people, I love Jamaican music: reggae, dub, ska, dancehall, etc. At the same time, I'm not a rasta, nor do I totally agree to some of the religious and political ideologies that rastas have typically believed in (judeo-christianity, African zionism, ethnostatism, the ideas of Preston Garvey, the cult of personality around Haile Selassie, etc.). I choose to look at Jamaica, Rastafari, and the endless library of amazing music that they in the context in which it was created. I try to understand their point of view and relate to their experiences to the best of my ability, even if I don't exactly believe in all of the things that they believe in. The Rasta's music is a window into their world, their culture, and their perspective on life, and I love that music allows for that.
In other words, I think we should be able to judge the work and the person separately, with our understanding of one informing the other, but not dictating it. We shouldn't expect artists and musicians to be any more perfect than any other human being. At the same time, it's fine to judge creators by the things that they say and do outside of their work, and it's understandable if someone has stances or a history of behavior that totally turn you off of their creative output.
If JK Rowling's stance on trans people takes away from your ability to enjoy her work, or at worst becomes a personal attack against your identity (her attacks against trans people are active and relentless), then I think it's perfectly understandable that you can't enjoy Harry Potter anymore. I near read, and was never emotionally invested in, Harry Potter so it's always been very easy for me to say "nah, fuck that shit", especially when she made it her life's work to attack trans people for simply daring to exist. I'm not trans, but empathy alone tells me that trans people should have a right to exist and define themselves as they see fit.
Graham Linehan (creator of some great Irish/British comedy shows that I love, like Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd) went down the same path of trashing trans people on Twitter, and I still watch and enjoy his shows for what they are, despite the fact that I think he's an idiot and an asshole for making his anti-trans hate the molehill he wants to die on.... I don't like him for being that kind of person, but why don't I hold it against him to the same degree that I judge Rowling? I guess probably just because I liked his work in the first place.
So, basically, I can enjoy works from flawed or controversial creators without totally divorcing their work from who they are as a person.
I'd like to think so. I'm not perfect, but I mostly do what I think it right and what I think is important for myself and for society at large.
Sure, but Bluesky did that by not really being federated at all, especially during the early rush.
Bluesky is certainly a step or two better than Twitter, but I would imagine it's still de facto centralized around the main bsky.social server, as that's what the vast majority of users are probably using.Nowadays it's getting more federated, but it seems to still be very far behind where ActivityPub is.
So they avoided the challenges of federation by not really being federated in the first place. Mastodon doesn't have that luxury, since it was fully federated and self-hostable from the start. There was no half step and nobody else to copy.
I'm not sure what can really be done about that; the fediverse is, by its very nature, pretty complicated. It's at least as complicated as http or email, and those things are widely used but probably not that well understood by the average person.
I think people are accustomed to using things that they barely understand the inner workings of (car, microwave, computer, etc.) during their daily life. So, I guess my question is, to what degree do people need to know "how the fediverse works" in order to use it?
If anything, we probably have to change the way we talk about the fediverse to make it more streamlined for people. For example, instead of suggesting that people "join lemmy", it would be better to send them directly to a specific instance that we would like to see grow.
Then there's the friction of actually joining an instance. Some instances won't let users view content without registering, and some require you to "apply" for registration, pending approval. Both of those things are reasonable and justifiable, but at the same time I think they do create a barrier of entry that we may not want if we are going to try to attract more users.
From a distance, it all seems very intentional to me.
Sociopath, most likely.
I guess. But shrinking the scope of their products doesnt exactly inspire the idea of infinite growth.
Chime in if you disagreee, but there's really only 2 reasons a company like OpenAI shuts down a core service like Sora:
- The service is hemorrhaging money to the point of financial unsustainability.
- The service is not popular enough to drive investor hype as a "loss leader"
We already know that OpenAI is losing money on their generative "AI" products across the board, to the tune of billions of dollars per year, and the economic woes that come from rising hardware prices, oil and gas shortages, and another pointless war in the middle east only make the situation worse for them money-wise.
And so that really just leaves me to conclude that Sora has not maintained the level of popularity and growth needed to impress investors as Q1 comes to a close. Whether it's users, subscriptions, or time, they must have looked at the numbers and really didn't like what they saw.
Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of the ridiculous "AI" bubble, and the start of a new tech sector correction.
People should just drive the car.
Jesus. People are still talking about self-driving cars?
I think you're a bullshitting con artist.
Mostly corporate tech people, or really suits in general.
It's certainly frustrating watching people make the same mistake over and over.
Midterms, like all elections, are run by the states. The states will be sending their elected leaders to Washington next year. I'm confident that the midterms in my state will be honest and free.
Good, get lost you shrimpy insecure cunt. Let's see what pile of trash they replace him with.
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I got into it by just committing to some projects in my free time. I built a relationship with the project, traveled to a few international sprints, and then eventually started working part time and gradually increased my involvement. I'm not sure how widely reproducible it is, to be honest, but it all starts with just getting into open source development and, like basically anything else, making personal connections in that scene. It's highly dependent on the funding of the project, and unfortunately fundraising is the hard part of open source software development...
Plus, if you're a senior developer, especially in the US, then you'll probably be looking at decrease in pay to something around Euro developer rates. It's hard to know if the long term prospects of this career are good, but I'm happy enough for now and I have a lot of agency. And it does feel good to know that you're writing FOSS code for everyone to use. I would treat it like a passion-driven vocation of sorts.
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Open source developer.
I'd say it's relatively unimportant in the greater scheme of things; nobody dies and the world would keep going even if I stopped.
But I'm mostly proud to do it and I enjoy working in the non-profit sector, especially since I don't have an asshole boss or corporate interests to worry about.
On the flip side, I make less money than I would in the corporate space. But I suppose I value the freedom more than the money
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Well... I'm not sure that anything is stopping people from having diverse opinions, right?
Like, there are definitely diverse opinions about AI on here. I know because I've had a lot of debates and discussions with people about it. I'm staunchly against it, and I believe it is built on the for-profit exploitation of human culture and labor. But I've seen plenty of people who seem to (naively, in my opinion) think it is going to usher in a post-capitalist utopia.
I think a part of the problem is that a lot of people prefer to stay in silos. Take the so-called "conservative" MAGA crowd, for example, they only want to engage in discussions in echo chambers like Truth social or subreddits where they control moderation and ban people for wrong think. So are they gonna come to the fediverse to engage in an actual contest of ideas? Probably not. I would love to debate with them because I think their ideology is incredibly fragile and weak, but it seems they're either not capable or interested in a good faith discussion anymore.
Regardless, I still think you can find a range of ideas and beliefs here.
I'm pretty much a democratic socialist, and someone who believes in a healthy mix of private and public ownership, favoring cooperatives, and a society backed by a strong bill of rights and a strong social safety net. This puts me at odds with the "tankies" and Leninists who believe in the establishment of a authoritarian dictatorship to somehow bring about "true communism"(tm), but probably not... It also puts me at odds with the diehard libertarians and anarchists who see very little role for government being necessary. That's alright, we can all agree to disagree.
In the end of the day, I don't think that people are being coerced into groupthink here. I do think that people here often l lean towards the left, anti-corporate, anti-establishment, etc., but I personally find the fediverse much more open to disagreement than reddit, where you will eventually get banned from subreddits or the site at large for making to many waves.
Good but a little tired! Had the weekend off but it was kind of busy: close friend's birthday on Friday, protests on Saturday, going out with old friends tonight. Made my first gunpla model kit too. 😄