skisnow

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

By that logic, most of those countries' official names don't start with I, so the map is still wrong whichever way you do it.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Quite.

Is there a word for the type of ragebait when it's specifically posting something wrong, so that you get engagement from people telling you why you're a fucking idiot? It should be bannable offense regardless. OP going straight on the block list. Actually skimming their profile they look like a low-effort repost bot anyway

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

oh look, another votescold so thoroughly convinced that everything would have been fine if only everyone followed their campaign strategy, that they're literally blaming anti-fascists for fascism. How about blaming actual fascists instead?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 points 17 hours ago
[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 13 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Is it safe to start calling Trump a fascist yet? It seems like forcing people to name publicly owned buildings after yourself is pretty textbook what fascist leaders love to do.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago

Be careful not to fall into the “I hate Elvis” trap. He’s getting more attention and money as a result of people wanting to see him beat up as he is from his actual supporters.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

You don’t even need to bring income into it. Inflation is the whole point of the “things were cheaper in the old days” trope, if you adjust for inflation then all you’re saying is we’ve seen zero progress. Even on its own terms it’s still not a brag.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I already had a good few years academic and professional experience in both NLP and ML before ChatGPT came out, and since then I’ve been doing some consulting in gen AI.

I don’t feel safe posting or commenting anything about AI on LinkedIn because of the sheer strength of the cult of “if you criticise AI you’re a Luddite who doesn’t understand the modern world, and should be shunned professionally”. Pointing out that the Emperor has no clothes makes you unemployable in the eyes of at least half the hiring managers in my contacts.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I don't think it's so much a "policing" thing as a side effect of other platforms whose algorithms will avoid boosting certain sensitive topics. People do stuff like this to bypass it and then other people see it happening and think that's just what you're supposed to do.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don’t actually regret that it worked.

Are you sure though? What actual good did it do in the end; did it result in you doing anything of value or changing your mind on some topic? Or did it just make you a bit angry for a while before going about the rest of your day? (I'm not having a go at you by the way, it's the bait I'm irritated at)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9

As the party fielded more and more candidates who championed economic-right policies in order to attract corporate donations, the idea of "purity testing" was turned into a stock phrase to attack critics using labels, instead of justifying it on its own terms.

Phrases like "moral purity" now serve two functions: firstly, to dismiss criticisms from the Left wholesale without having to discuss them directly, and secondly, to blame them for the rise of fascism.

In theory it was also supposed to serve a third function of bullying the Left into voting Democrat, but that didn't work.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by skisnow@lemmy.ca to c/SpyxFamily@lemmy.ca
 

Not keen on mentai, so I bit into Yor’s Black Buns instead.

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