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  • Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand

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  • You may be right. Disney sent a cease and desist to Google right before this "partnership" with OpenAI was announced. Seems like Disney wants to integrate and control AI using their IP on their own terms.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • Despite writing about dark topics - apocalyptic events, oppressed populations, the failures of heroes, etc. - he is missing the edge that you get from other authors who write similar stories.

    You know what, I think you're onto something here. I don't need Scadrial/Cosmere to be the darkest and edgiest fantasy world ever, and a lot of fantasy readers read for escapism. But there is a certain friction you expect in the genre that just isn't there for me in the first Mistborn trilogy, or the Stormlight books I read. Again, I can't quantify it (and maybe I don't have to), but the best example of my feeling is when I recall reading The Magician's Nephew with my younger cousin around the same time that I started the Stormlight Archive, and man was I way more invested in Diggory and Polly's reactions to the dystopias they were visiting than who/whatever was screwing with Kal again (free my boy from suffering, Sanderson).

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  • I had an English teacher that had us read The Prince along with the Life of Castruccio as a parody of the Medici/Italian ruling class, and how it made Italy worse as a kingdom. Much more enjoyable that way tbh. Fantastic teacher, I hope she's living the life in retirement.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • Oh good! I just want everyone to know this fact because I want more people to commiserate with about how we got to where we are in 2025 :')

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • This is probably divisive here, but I just...do not care for Brandon Sanderson. As someone who has read a lot of fantasy before getting into him, he's always praised for having a coherent magic system, but that isn't really enough to make it an enjoyable fantasy story. There's just a lack of.... something in his writing (and I've tried to read Mistborn and his shorts) that I have a hard time quantifying to others.

    Also I was really surprised that I found his writing weirdly bland in the same way I found Stephanie Meyer's writing bland, considering that they write completely different genres. Then I found out they were both had Mormon upbringings, and I can kind of see why I found the blandness similar.

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  • but the writing is ass. the politics more so

    You will not be surprised to learn that the author, Eliezer Yudkowsky, started a cult called LessWrong, which had members that would spin off into ANOTHER (more murder-y) cult, the Zizians.

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  • I bought the illustrated version in high school because I was taking an art history class and liked looking at the pretty paintings. The story itself did not leave any impression on me lol

  • AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents

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  • It's dudes in the Philippines this time, actually.

  • Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists

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  • "Do as I say, not as I do" has been the motto of conservatives since like forever. It's not that surprising.

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  • I mean ofc, but it's always nice to see it laid out with sources. Some people in this thread are confused about the acquisition terms.

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  • CNN is apparently the third watched news network after Fox and whatever MSNBC is calling themselves nowadays, according to this PBS article. Paramount wants CNN to be combined with CBS under Bari Weiss, a Zionist, anti-trans "left-leaning centrist" activist/"journalist". John Oliver covered her a couple of months ago on Last Week tonight, if anyone is curious (youtube link), but basically the Paramount-CNN acquisition is meant to capture and reduce whatever "left wing" is media left in the US and make it controlled opposition.

    edit: jesus christ I just realized we're discussing this in the meme community, what has the world come to 😒

  • Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla

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  • Librewolf is my stopgap atm. We'll see that the future holds.

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  • Ok, let me clarify then: I'm black. It comes from American black culture.

    Anyone who watches a Kai Cenat stream would immediately clock it just by his and his friend's speech patterns. This is why reading a Wikipedia line isn't really enough to understand the breadth of culture. See: everyone in this thread who is making fun of Gen Z/ Gen Aloha/"young people" slang while simultaneously not understanding it actually developed a lot from black and gay culture of Millennials and Gen X globally, and has become mainstream due to these communities becoming more prominent in the media landscape.

    Sorry to write a mini-sociological essay, but I don't care for the "it's not that deep" aspect of Lemmy when it comes to non-STEM popular culture stuff. It's pretty deep (and interesting) actually.

  • Windows 11 Finally Fixes "Update and Shut Down" Functionality After a Decade

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  • I thought that they were joking, as stuff like this also happens in open software and can take ages to fix (if it's even kept up to date for a lot of niche software), and most of us use SOME sort proprietary software even if there's a bigger % of open source enthusiasts on Lemmy.

    That's why the Android/iOS comment was even more out of place.

    But then again, this is Lemmy...it might have been literal...

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  • "Washed" is from sports, though. "X athlete is washed" has existed long before being used in Twitch chat/gaming/esports spaces.

    Basically what I was trying to (poorly) convey is you give Twitch chat too much credit, they come up with nothing original in the first place lol

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  • "You participate in society yet you criticize it ☝️🤓" comment.

    Furthermore, what do two different mobile OS have to do with a desktop one?

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  • Yes, KaiCenat, the most popular African American youtuber. Where do you think he learned it from?

    Wikipedia even has a picture of him bro 😭

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  • Rizz isn't from Twitch chat, it's AAVE co-opted and then overused incorrectly to the point of making it uncool by suburban teens (like most slang).

    See also: gyatt

  • ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

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  • Thank you! This was what I was hoping someone would suggest.