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  • Sony says it’s not done making Xperia phones just yet

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  • All the good phones are dying. I still quite enjoy my 1 IV, and honestly the Xperia line would probably be my choice in a couple years when I am ready to upgrade if they are selling them in the US at that point.

    I'm hoping Fairphone gets US support at some point because they seem like the best option.

    It really feels like design peaked a decade ago. Headphone jacks, micro SD card slot, removable batteries, front-facing speakers. Everything good has been removed and the phones are 5x more expensive. The few phones left with some of those features are the cheap weak models for people who only use their phones to call and text.

  • Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows

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  • https://fedia.io/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/2531490/-/comment/11832636

    You might be living in an echo chamber. Most Americans use AI at least sometimes and plenty use it regularly according to studies.

    You literally are right here accusing me of being in an echo chamber for thinking Americans view AI negatively, then when I back that up with a source you are now... Claiming that the article says that.

    Except that the whole "most demographics are positive on AI" piece that you toss in counters your own countering of my disagreement. You're talking in circles here.

    It's also worth noting this article is using a sample size of 700 and doesn't go all that heavily into the methodology. The author describes themself as a "social computing scholar" and states that they purposefully oversampled these minority groups.

    The conclusion is nothing but wasted time and clicks. You're in this thread telling people to "read the article" and I'm in here to warn people that it's not worth their time to do so.

    And this is part of a trend I've noticed on Lemmy lately: people posting obviously bad articles, users commenting that the articles are bad, and usually about 3-4 other users in the comments arguing and trying to drive more engagement to the article. More clicks, more ad revenue.

  • Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows

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  • We could argue all day over who is experiencing reality or who is in an echo chamber.

    Pew Research found that US adults who are not "AI Experts" are more likely to view AI as negative and harmful.

  • Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows

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  • The thing is, EVERYONE hates AI except for a very small number of executives and the few tech people who are falling for the bullshit the same way so many fell for crypto.

    It's like saying a survey indicates that trans people are more likely to hate American ISP's. Everyone hates them and trans people are underrepresented in the population of ISP shareholders and executives. It doesn't say anything about the trans community. It doesn't provide any actionable or useful information.

    It's stating something uninteresting but applying a coat of rainbow paint to try to get clicks and engagement.

  • What were your parent's rules on video games?

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  • For the most part they trusted me. It helped that my step-dad played videogames before he met my mom. It probably also helped that I never gave them any concerns. I was a fat nerd who never got into fights or showed any signs of violence. My parents were concerned about me spending too much time indoors and not getting enough physical and social activity, but never concerned with the content.

    I also was a smart enough kid that I knew the limits of what I could ask for. I wasn't going to ask them for Leisure Suit Larry or BMX XXX, for example.

    There were a couple of exceptions where my mom heard things about specific games through the media. I remember the marketing campaigns for God of War and GTA3 really leaned into the controversy. Although I did end up getting GTA3 eventually.

    Ironically, there was only one case where I felt like I was allowed to play a game before I was ready, but it wasn't one I asked for. My step-dad bought Twisted Metal Black. I had played a bit of the Twisted Metal series earlier, but preferred the much more whimsical Vigilante 8. I still remember getting nightmares about getting my head locked into a mask like the one character (I think her name may have been Dollface?). As I am remembering it now I realize it was probably a metaphor about identity, but as a middle schooler I was just freaked out about it.

  • A Society Governed by Whiny Rich People Throwing Tantrums

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  • https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#517324be3d78

    Just within the top-25 I see Jensen Huang, Mukesh Ambani, Carlos Slim, Changpeng Zhao, Zhong Shanshan.

    White people are over-represented in the list, but there's plenty of non-white billionaires that are just as problematic as their white counterparts. The vast, vast majority of white people are not billionaires. Racial division is a distraction that serves the billionaires.

  • Nailed it!

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  • From the comments, it appears as though OP may have originally posted a picture with Linda Lovelace, then changed it to Lisa Ann after reading this comment.

  • Didn't want to inconvenience anyone

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  • Yeah Louis's situation seems pretty unique. Not on the same level as someone like Epstein or Weinstein. He didn't do anything with his own employees or underaged fans. Sarah Silverman has been a big supporter of him and confirmed that he was always like that going back to when there was not a power disparity in their early club days together. His apology statement is one of the best I've ever seen.

    But... There's still some red flags, including some in just discovering as I am refreshing myself on the details now. If the 5 accusers, it looks like the first 2 were from an incident in 2002 at a festival where they escalated to to event organizers... And nothing happened. Then Rebecca Corry in 2005 on a TV show set who declined and reported the incident... And nothing happened. I can't find when the other incidents happened, but like... Surely after these first 2 cases someone would have communicated to Louis how this was bad, right?

    And Dave Becky, Louis's manager at the time, sent letters to the victims threatening them to try to silence them. He later apologized and dropped Louis as a client, and Louis later publicly supported Becky and apologized to him as well. I'm not sure what to make of the whole mess, but if Becky was threatening victims that kinda feels like it should be worth some jail time, and if Louis ordered him to do so... Yikes.

    Also I don't think there's an objective answer as to whether he should have retired, or how long he should have stayed out of the spotlight before returning. If I were him I probably would have just retired, but at the very least I would have spent a few years out of the spotlight. The initial article with the accusations came out in November 2017, and his next public appearance was August 2018, not even a whole year. And there was no easing in with less controversial material - he jumped into School shootings. He has since released a special called "Sorry" where he didn't apologize but instead kept getting more controversial and used the F slur.

    He's also very good friends with Dave Chappelle, a certified piece of shit, and Jerry Seinfeld, famous for dating 17 year-old high school girls. And I get it- he got his break early on by opening for Seinfeld, but ya know maybe just tone down how public that friendship is given the circumstances?

    I don't feel the need to break out the torches and pitchforks for Louis, or pretend like none of his earlier works ever existed, but i'm also not in some huge hurry to defend him and restore his career either.

  • Didn't want to inconvenience anyone

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  • I know Luis CK has gotten a bit problematic for other reasons, but I always liked his take on this in particular.

    Apologies as I couldn't find an original video, just this weird channel animating the original audio. But every time my wife and I are in a car and see someone cross multiple lanes to get to an exit they almost missed we look at each other and say "but that's their FAVORITE way!"

  • Democrats in the House Oversight Committee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files

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  • Anti-pedophilia is antisemitism

    This kind of reminds me of how every several years it seems like a group of pedo's tries to portray themselves as an oppressed minority, and try to "join" LGBT+ spaces. Hard to say how much was genuine vs anti-lgbt astroturfing. I wonder if they will pop up again in all this.

  • Recession Indicator? Queer People Are Drinking Dairy Milk Again

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  • Not just that, but they even get the sexism and racism wrong. It's suburban, middle-class, straight white women who are supposed to be associated with $9 lattes.

  • Trump’s 22-year-old DHS director has ‘one foot in the Grave’ as past trouble resurfaces

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  • I don't believe for one second they are actually letting this guy do anything. He's a fall guy. He's going to get fired when something bad happens and they need someone to fire.

    So either someone else is running it behind-the-scenes (like how Musk wasn't technically the head of DOGE) or the department ceased functioning (they could be inviting a terrorist attack as an excuse- go to war, declare emergency powers, cancel elections, etc).

    Or they just actually gave this guy this job. But that just seems so incredibly unlikely.

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    60% of Teachers Used AI This Year and Saved up to 6 Hours of Work a Week

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  • Is there enough value in AI to justify burning down the planet for it?

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  • Perhaps i'm too optimistic, but I think these conflicts tend to be resolved much earlier on. I don't think someone just wakes up one day and says "hey I want to be an evil selfless despot".

    Not a dictator, but I think a close enough example is Mackenzie Scott, formerly Bezos. I don't know her or Jeff personally of course. We know about Jeff's privelege of course, but Mackenzie was the daughter of a financial planner and granddaughter of a natural gas executive herself. The two of them met working at a hedge fund. I hate hedge funds and think they shouldn't exist, and I suspect there was some nepotism and privelege that helped them both get there, but i'm not going to call everyone who works at a hedge fund or benefits from privelege evil.

    Then they quit to start Amazon. Privelege aside I am sure there was a lot of hard work and risk in those early years. She reportedly did a lot of work while also having 3 children (and they adopted a 4th), and she also put off her passion of writing novels to do so. I've known a lot of people who own their own small businesses, and there's a lot of hard decisions and sleepless nights involved. I'm sure they both made mistakes and learned lessons, and occasionally made selfish decisions.

    To use a scientifically inaccurate idiom- the frog boiled. Amazon became more ruthless, certainly unethical, and most likely violated antitrust laws that never get enforced. They applied more pressure to everyone - their employees (which led to union suppression tactics), their suppliers, their customers, governments, and that's just what I know about.

    It's possible that Mackenzie knew about all of that and was fine benefitting from it until Jeff cheated or grew distant or whatever. But from her quotes and her actions afterwards, it seems like she had enough of the exploitation. She divorced him in 2019, getting half of Jeff's net worth and making Musk the world's richest man instead.

    She signed the Giving Pledge, which at face value is basically a promise to give away most of her wealth to charity in her lifetime. The efficacy of the Giving Pledge is beyond the scope of this comment, but according to her website she's given away over $19 billion. Philanthropy like that can often be a shady scheme to funnel money to friends and family, avoid taxes, or lobby governments for favorable legislation. It's possible that she is doing some of that too, but I haven't seen an expose yet. So maybe she actually is giving that wealth back to the world.

    She also has written and released a couple of novels. Maybe she hired a ghost writer, and I'm sure her money helped her get published, but it does kinda seem like that was her dream and she followed it. She also married (and shortly thereafter divorced) a private schoolteacher- not skme celebrity or politician or billionaire.

    Maybe it's just a well-crafted facade, but from a distance it looks to me like a rare case of someone actually realizing that such wealth accumulation was bad for the world and stepping away from it. She's still quite wealthy, allegedly with a net worth over $30 billion left, but that kind of money takes time to get rid of and she seems to be making progress.

    Questions like "how much money should a person be allowed to have" are details that are going to change over time and I'm not sure what the answer is right now, but at the very least i think the world would be a better place if more billionaires did what Mackenzie Scott is claiming to be doing.

  • Trump might ‘take a look’ at possible Elon Musk deportation

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  • Oh yeah it's setting the table for a terrible hellscape.

  • Trump might ‘take a look’ at possible Elon Musk deportation

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  • I moreso meant that Elon won't be the first. Whoever the first is will of course be a terrible precedent.

  • Trump might ‘take a look’ at possible Elon Musk deportation

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  • For what it's worth, from quotes from Kimball Musk, Elon himself, and their associates, it seems as though Elon may have been an illegal immigrant himself at one point. Snopes has collected a lot of the potential info, though they don't go so far as to reach a conclusion one way or the other.

    I think Trump is going to revoke citizenships and deport people anyways. Which is terrible, but I don't think him doing so to Musk will be a precedent. If anything it might be interesting to see if he gets any pressure to deport Melania too.

  • What's a really popular game franchise you just can't get into?

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  • God of War. I played 1,2, and 3 and they were all pretty much the same. I think a lot of the hype was from marketing and edge lords who were thrilled to have so much blood and some low-poly tits on the PS2. Once you get past the spectacle, the combat is a slog of mashing the Square button until the game decides to stop spawning HP sponges for you to hit. The puzzles are tedious and annoying. The platforming they try to force in just doesn't work with the physics and controls. The music is bland and generic "epic symphony" stuff that may as well just be from a stock music library, with no Greek influence at all. The story is a generic and modern story with a thin vineer of Greek mythology. Kratos is less of a character and more of a reason to move the game along to the various locations. I know it's not a completely fair comparison, but Hades used Greek instruments to create greek-influenced and interesting music that I still find myself humming and drumming to years later. Hades also did a way better job of using actual Greek mythology to create a narrative that would actually fit in that cannon.

    I remember playing Knack 1&2 and thinking "wow, this is like if the old God of War games were fun". Knack is far from perfect of course, but is largely a similar series that cares more about being fun than being mature.

    I'm playing through the 2018 God of War now. Completely different, and honestly a few hours in I'm still not sure why they chose to make this a God of War game staring Kratos instead of just making it a fresh IP. Maybe more lore reasons will be revealed, but so far it seems it was just to capitalize on the brand for marketing reasons. The music is still not a strength, but it's better. The environments are better. The combat is still pretty boring with way too many boring enemies with way too much health, but it's better. This is the first game where I'm starting to get tired of the same UI and over-the-shoulder perspective that other Sony games have used lately (Ratchet and Clank, Uncharted, Horizon, Spiderman). GoW, like most of those games, has an unnecessarily complicated itemization and leveling system that just bogs the game down, and feels almost inspired by MMO's or gacha mobile games.

    It does a great job of characterization, with plenty of small, subtle, beautifully written moments that grant insight into personalities. The boy is annoying, but I can see that's the point so I mostly don't mind. It's really annoying how the game won't shut up- there's always someone saying something, and if you even just stop moving for a second someone pipes up to remind you of what you should be doing. It doesn't have space to breath. The puzzles are better than the prior games- they are an acceptable tool for pacing but aren't great by themselves. The story seems a lot better, with much more attention given to original Norse mythology.

    With Uncharted I could push last the mediocre puzzles and bullet sponge enemies because the cutscenes were really good and the stories were fun. For Ratchet and Clank I can ignore how the humor has gotten worse and more juvenile over time because it's still fun to platform, dodge, cycle through weapons, and kill tons of enemies. For Horizon Zero Dawn... Actually I don't have many complaints, that was a solid title. For GoW (2018) there's just nothing pulling me back to it.

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  • Twilight Princess is worth mentioning too. It was rated Teen, and had this scene (no gore or sex or anything, just weird surreal horror).

    Zelda is such a diverse franchise it really depends on the game. I love Twilight Princess and Majora's Mask, but didn't like BotW or Windwaker at all. It's almost like 2 or 3 different franchises crammed into one.