blaine

joined 2 years ago
[–] blaine@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@jwr1

Can I use this app with the kbin.social instance?

[–] blaine@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@helmet91

@Ragdoll_X

The biggest favor you've ever done for anyone in your entire life is.... Buying a pack of cigarettes?!

LMAO

[–] blaine@kbin.social 157 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (26 children)

@ocassionallyaduck

@The_Picard_Maneuver

Not true in the US. They could ban anyone born in the entire month of April, or anyone who "looks like a pot smoker" if they wanted to.

Applicants, employees and former employees are ONLY protected from employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability and genetic information (including family medical history).

[–] blaine@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

@peter

@PixTupy

+1 for SponsorBlock. I absolutely hate when videos spoil themselves within the first 3 seconds thanks to those fucking intros.

[–] blaine@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

@Yannik

Is this game still exclusive to Epic?

[–] blaine@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@Soggy

@naturalgasbad @voidMainVoid @GiddyGap @aodhsishaj @mycatiskai @coldasblues

Unless you live on the West coast! Maybe we can join up with Canada to become the new superpower?

[–] blaine@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There was a hearing in the Senate too? I only saw the one in the US House. Does anyone have a link?!

[–] blaine@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@nobleshift

Remember the end of every Mythbusters episode where they went wild trying to see what it would take for the myth to actually be true? Let's apply that here. What would be the best way to vaporize an entire 30-50g of live resin and get an entire room of people high using household materials?

[–] blaine@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

What if we made a Star Trek movie, but with a smaller 50-100M budget so we can gear it towards existing Star Trek fans instead of hiring JJ Abrams to churn out another generic summer Blockbuster with a thin veneer of Star Trek branding.

In this movie, there will be no violence and the ship won't even fire its' weapons. The script will be thought-provoking with a heavy focus on space and science interweaved with humanist philosophy where the crew overcome some sort of moral or ethical dilemma.

In other words... a Star Trek movie, for fans of Star Trek movies, made in the style of the first Star Trek movies.

[–] blaine@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

@whofearsthenight

No doubt - the advertisers are 100% right to pull out. I was only answering the original commenter that asked how the MM report could be considered defamatory. I definitely didn't intend to come across as a Musk apologist.

[–] blaine@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

@communication

I agree that the core claim of the MM report is not under dispute. But take a look at their article now that you know the context around how those ads were generated.

https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/musk-endorses-antisemitic-conspiracy-theory-x-has-been-placing-ads-apple-bravo-ibm-oracle

I don't know if it's defamatory, but you have to agree that it comes off as a bit disingenuous based on the new info from X. Of course that info from X could be BS, which is why I said we'll have to wait for the court case to know for sure.

[–] blaine@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

@u_tamtam

It doesn't really matter if Microsoft/OpenAI are the only ones with the underlying technology as long as the only economically feasible way to deploy the tech at scale is to rely on one of the big 3 cloud providers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft). The profits still accrue to them, whether we use a larger/inflexible or smaller/flexible model to power the AI - the most effective/common/economical way for businesses to leverage it will be as an AWS service or something similar.

Are you saying you're cool with neofeudalism? Or just agreeing that this is yet another inevitable (albeit lamentable) step towards it?

 
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