oooof, tried that famous Harvard intro to CS course, fucking **overproduced** my god, calm down buddy, we are all just grinding to get some knowledge so we can find a job, not everyone is a 19-year-old from a wealthy family who needs a youth pastor to walk them through what a logic gate is.
you know what immediately turns me off is job posts that start with "Are you passionate about..." no ma'am, i am not, i am just trying to earn some money, sorry if that makes me a sell-out.
it's like code for "we would like to find someone who for some reason enjoys doing this work so we can work them harder and pay them less."
i love doing numbers on Mastodon because you have to come by it honestly. it's not just that some whale account RT'd you, it's that dozens of people with 200-400 followers liked your post and showed it to their little circle of friends 🤗
i think we've all lost sight of the fact that Meta is a horrible company and the real villain when it comes to social media melting our children's brains and destroying democracy.
i think we've all lost sight of the fact that Meta is a horrible company and the real villain when it comes to social media melting our children's brains and destroying democracy.
@014b0bc7 there's a particular slice of the online American left that is vulnerable to conspiracy theories and reflexively contrarian, and bad actors like Putin have leveraged that **extremely** well.
@014b0bc7 there's a particular slice of the online American left that is vulnerable to conspiracy theories and reflexively contrarian, and bad actors like Putin have leveraged that **extremely** well.
@9cbde81a my hot take is that i'd rather smell cigarette smoke than some fucking cloud of jolly rancher bullshit. (this is for outdoors, indoors i'm leaving)
the liberals crowing and joking about the McCarthy thing is pretty jarring. this isn’t funny, as it seems to me the Republicans are getting exactly what they want (destroying the federal government).
it’s like, there’s this gang that comes into our house regularly with guns to take stuff, and this time everyone’s celebrating and yucking it up because they “only” took the microwave and the craziest ones in the gang shot the leader, and they’ll all be back in a month and a half. idk doesn’t seem that funny to me.
@920e00bc right wing wins again, consolidates its power in the GOP. it took 17 votes to elect McCarthy. how many is it gonna take this time? who would go through that? you think they’ll complete that and pick a speaker within 45 days so the gov doesn’t have to shut down? also, zero chance of a separate aid package for Ukraine now.
@920e00bc right wing wins again, consolidates its power in the GOP. it took 17 votes to elect McCarthy. how many is it gonna take this time? who would go through that? you think they’ll complete that and pick a speaker within 45 days so the gov doesn’t have to shut down? also, zero chance of a separate aid package for Ukraine now.
@6137fc92 yeah, **if** the vehicles are registered in DC (or if they're registered at all). DC has lots of nice-sounding rules that never get enforced or don't actually mean anything because of enormous loopholes.
i'm being a little obtuse, but the point of using real-world examples rather than like lists of integers or something is to make it **more** clear why we're doing this, not **less**
go on Facebook Marketplace and you can buy literally anything if you know where to look. stolen goods, counterfeits, etc. Meta doesn't care. same with sexploitation and scams on Instagram. **really** stopping crime and fraud on their platforms would mean crippling certain functionality, and earning a profit is more important to Meta than the health and safety of their users.
go on Facebook Marketplace and you can buy literally anything if you know where to look. stolen goods, counterfeits, etc. Meta doesn't care. same with sexploitation and scams on Instagram. **really** stopping crime and fraud on their platforms would mean crippling certain functionality, and earning a profit is more important to Meta than the health and safety of their users.
i keep thinking about how all the AI guidelines used by OpenAI, Google, etc. are self-imposed because they are trying to build a marketable product. but what if you don’t care about a product that’s marketable and you want to make a racist, horny AI that convinces people to kill themselves? Saudi Arabia could fund that on a lark just to fuck up the western world and it would be a **great** value.
@0429f127 and now with Meta putting AI chatbots on Facebook, woof. imagine, you can used a deceased loved one’s content to create an AI version of them that will live forever. 🤐
is it mediocre? sure, but most published stuff is mediocre. no one will be able to tell the difference between this children's book and a children's book written by a human. we are going to be buried under a pile of synthetic language and i don't how human culture survives this.
@46587e1e what about the energy he sucks out of children every morning with ancient chants to feed the cursed sack of rats he carries around under those baggy suits, that has to cost at **least** $5
i know it's hard to understand because the US system is not parliamentary, but there is a **fascist faction** of the Republican Party that has basically **taken over the Republican Party**.
you know Vox? Rassemblement National? AfD? Fratelli d'Italia? in the US, that's the Republicans. i know it's weird because it's one of the institutional parties, but that's how it works.
they want to cripple the federal administrative state and bring back a race-based caste system.
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