Yeah, it’s so unbelievable. The acre is much too large a unit to fit into the astrophysical canon.

Credit where credit is due, if we define a generation as a 15 year period of time, and we decide that Gen Z started in 1995 (for easy math), you do, in fact, land on 1665.

I don’t know why the author thinks that Gen D doesn’t exist yet, when the pattern of X, Y (Millennials), and Z make a pattern that both implies that the Latin alphabet’s use is coming to an end for this purpose (ignoring that Gen X was named not as part of a sequence of letters, but by Douglas Copeland’s book, which was titled itself using an existing phrase), and that can easily be extrapolated backwards through time.

Ugh. I feel dirty for defending economists, but…

Laws are just commonly observed relationships, and observed relationships always exist within a given set of boundaries and assumptions.

Change the boundaries or the context, and the law may no longer apply.

Consider Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation:

F ~ Mm/r^2

This observed relationship doesn’t hold under very large M or very small r. In those contexts, a different relationship is required. That doesn’t invalidate this one, though. It just maks it situationally useful.

Which all of these laws are.

I see someone is asking to be dumped in the middle of the atlantic alone to test whether they “cut it” or not.

Damn, five figures. Nice! 912800 here.

I had the app on my phone, just to check in on my friendslist. None of them had logged on since about 2004 or so, at the latest.

Don’t tell me you Lost it

It’d feel better if I was paid the full value of my labour, and if the ownership didn’t keep trying to hamstring the people trying to do good with products I help make by locking them behind weirder and weirder licenses.

I’ve watched chunks of society freak out over everything from basic food ingredients to vaccines because they contained polysyllabic words that people decried as “chemicals”.

And I’ve spent my whole damn life listening to people abuse the word “theory” until the the Christofascists and neo-nazis managed to become mainstream.

People abuse technical words with a purpose. Don’t play apologetics for them because you believe their understanding of words is more nuanced than they are.

Honestly the most impressive part of LLMs is the tokenizer that breaks down the request, not the predictive text button masher that comes up with the response.

Yes, exactly! It’s ability to parse the input is incredible. It’s the thing that has that “wow” factor, and it feels downright magical.

Unfortunately, that also makes people intuitively trust its output.

It “knows” as in it has access to the information and the ability to provide the right info for the right context.

It doesn’t, though, any more than you have access to the information in a pile of 10 million shredded documents.

Actually, you know what? With that bullshit attitude, yeah, maybe you shouldn’t be allowed to use technology to get your “chores” done faster. If you’re picking destructive and disturbing over leaves-on-the-ground, then you’ve proven yourself incapable of making good decisions at this time.

It can be applied to any hegemonic class, really.

But yes, it’s rich people. Public schools may have originally risen out of defiance of the hegemony, at least in some notably locations, but they were quickly captured by it.

Schools over a place where the rich of the past can be aggrandised, and the rich of the present can ensure the workforce gains the basic skills to keep making them money, while also hearing about how it is right, and natural, and inevitable that they get to keep the product of your labour.

Ooo, is it made by the people I work for? Because this story sounds incredibly familiar to me.

Leave me alone! You already took the kids! What more do you want?

Federated means you shoulder the cost of hosting the bits users care about, while they harvest all the value in what you post!

South America was robbed blind by Europe and North America.

The Misskey forks are definitely the best UX as an end user I’ve tested out. And I found them easier to set up than Lemmy. But I also found that they caused frequent CPU spikes on my VPS.

I’m not sure if Mastodon does that or not, as I didn’t try running it, but I didn’t have the same experience with Akkoma or Friendica.

That said, I found Icefish’s implementation of the Mastodon API a godsend for mobile use.

Self-promotion is not charity. And neither is putty porn. It’s just the cost of doing business when you’re your own brand. And philanthropy is a scam promoted by the rich to help justify their wealth hoarding.

All of it ultimately ends up personally furthering the rich person’s personal goals. It’s all just a way of saying that the rich deserve to determine what society goals should be, and how society should use its limited resources.

It’s taking control away from the masses, and keeping it in the hands of those with money.

9 times 6

* Tilts head *

These days, they’re selling software solutions, not just lectures. Now they get to charge a subscription fee on top of everything else!

I work 2000km away from the office. I’ve been there once. When I walked up to the front door for the first time, after 3 years of working there, I was greeted to a locked door and a sign reminding me to “check in on Envoy”. Apparently, they wanted me to reserve my desk a day in advance, online.

No one had ever bothered to show me what that was, or how to do that, because I, uh, work 2000km away from the office. And I wouldn’t have known which desk was next to the microwave because I, uh, work 2000km away from the office.