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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • If this isn’t sarcasm I’m really sorry for this person.

    A core value of scifi is re-contextulizing real life moral, ethical and social situations into fantastical settings where we can look at them without all the baggage.

    Here’s the thing. Trill aren’t real. The whole thing is made up… but it is a great example how someones outside appearance and personality can change… even a major part of their biological makeup… But they are still THEM.

    it’s called allegory and it’s everywhere in scifi




  • I think reasonable people know it won’t work like that and ultimately you can’t make this stuff without humans.

    The real answer is remembering that ALL of this stuff, even the farms full of AI running Nvidia cards are RUN BY HUMANS.

    The “means of production” (I’m sure that won’t piss brigaders off) is still controllable by the masses.

    Like wake the fuck up. Either you sleep walk into a few decades long mess of boring LLM stuff and destroyed commercial art. Or you form unions at every level.

    Right from the power company that cuts power to poor areas to power server farms or the developers at EA writing the pipelines for LLM training.

    Every single group needs to say no or stop or whatever.

    It’s totally possible. Anyone that tells you differently is stealing from you and destroying your future.

    https://cwa-union.org/ here’s one to start…

    Anyone one of you reading this that could get affected by this (can’t think of anyone who isn’t honestly) needs to stop and take 20 mins to find something to do about it, or you’re just complicit by inaction. (And in my mind a shitty person)






  • I installed Slackware from 24 floppies I downloaded from a Volkerdings personal server, because I didn’t have a CD ROM. I installed using documentation printed on a dot matrix printer that was versions out of date… It took a day to compile a kernel. I’ve had to manually patch drivers (3c509 baaabyyy).

    I dreamed about a future where I never had to do that again. Arch pisses me off.