They are a billion dollar company because they made decisions like these over the last several decades. They could have gone the easy route and make decisions that fuck over the consumer, and make billions of dollars in more insidious ways, but they didn’t.

Steam Deck and their commitment to Proton are the reason why we can even have a conversation like this, talking about the rise of Linux Gaming in the year of our lord 2026. Without those two components, we would still be talking about how Windows 11 is fucking us over (while still using it), how nobody likes to switch to Linux because they still want to play games, how the whole “Year of the Linux Desktop” is the same tired fucking joke it’s been for the last 30 years.

Instead, we’re in the timeline where we have enough Linux gaming developers to form their own fucking collective! Because of Valve!

Veritasium does a good deep dive into Clickbait:

Veritasium is owned by an private investor firm and has his own problems with propaganda.

It’s amazing that this is now a downvoted opinion.

The overall concept seemed fine, but it’s mired in some truly dogshit design decisions.

Valve has done more for Linux gaming than all of these people put together.

It’s kind-of funny. Nowadays, I find the AI search assistants (I used the one with Kagi) work better than search results with all of these shitty AI sites.

We’re back to the age of pre-StackOverflow, when Expert Sex Change was always plaguing my search results with fucking pay-to-view bullshit. Except it’s free-but-useless websites now.

Meh, it won’t be long before Reddit admins will crackdown on posts and start their usual censorship campaigns.

Who the fuck calls Instagram “IG”?

Copyright as it is now is an injustice.

At best, copyright with a limit of 25 years, the law before Mark Twain fucked all of us over, would suck a lot less.

At worst, corporations would still exploit it to totality, because they have money, and you don’t.

Copyright was created with an agreement that the public would receive their public domain dues in a timely manner. The corpos broke that contract with the public. Therefore, piracy is not only justified, but a moral duty to preserve what corporations casually throw away, or exploit with mindless memberberries.

I would not be sad at all to see the entirety of copyright completely abolished. Open source is already doing a damn good job, and AI might end up hammering the final nail.

whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.”

I kind of get what he’s saying here, especially when draconian California laws can put 18-year-olds in prison for daring to have sex with a 17-year-old, when they are both in high school. (I think they finally fixed that legal gap, but it existed for a long time.)

But, completely outside the whole age and human brain development “debate”, there’s also power dynamics at play here that aren’t even considered. Epstein is a powerful man that used his influence to coerce girls to have sex with other powerful men. Even if she was 18 or 25, a woman in that position is still being exploited, with human trafficking in the mix.

The “you bow to no one” scene is worth the whole trilogy.

It’s not easy, but it’s done all the time. New models, new LoRAs, and in some cases, the training data doesn’t even need to be very large for a specific task.

You don’t need the entire training dataset that the model was built from.

The good thing about open models is that you can train the biases and rules out of them. The weights are not concrete.

it’s a government agency enforcing immigration law, not goose-stepping brownshirts.

“Enforcing immigration law” = Deporting anybody they think looks too brown

And yes, they are goose-stepping brownshirts, or at least they wish they were.

Well, “laid off” and “fired” are two different things. It sounds like this is closer to being laid off.

But, regardless, nobody gets laid off for reporting sexual harassment.

Tell me you’re a corpo lackey buying into the “synergy speak” without telling me directly.

“Made redundant”? WTF, BBC?

Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

No. See also: Shareholder Primacy.

Brexit was a Russian op.

The company’s response was an auto-reply: “Legacy Media Lies.”

Funny, that seems to be the correct answer to the headline.

My point is that xai is making the case for AI regulation for us.

Ha, regulation? With what governing body? Congress is hopeless, because apathy has griped a majority of the voting public, and there’s still a large portion of morons who thought MAGA was a good idea.