Hypothesis: Powemongers only do what they do because they're incompetent at anything except manipulating other people.
They're not even competent enough to realize they could benefit more, over the long term, by manipulating people to do things that add to the general good (instead of just pilfering it for their own short-term benefit).
@closeted_unionist They (anyone who is in a position to do something but isn't) are the systemic problem allowing Tr💩ump be even slightly relevant.
@Researchbuzz I really, really want to understand why anyone would deploy AI in production without at least a week or two of testing.
What is the hype-juice they're drinking, and why are they swallowing it? :spiral_eyes:
@Lana It would probably hate itself.
(You can take that as either "a lot of fedi users have big self-negation feels" or "a lot of fedi users really hate AI", though I was thinking of the latter.)
@artemis I've found it disturbing to note the extent to which authoritarian followership seems to have embedded itself in the mass news media. :-/
@artemis I've always said (at least since the G+ era) that it would be nice to have more contact with people outside of the Western cultural zone (...such as super-"foreign" places like Iran).
I'm seeing a lot more of that on fedi, especially over the past half-decade or so, but there's still a long way to go.
(Free/easy access to good-enough machine translation does help.)
@artemis For me, just knowing that {(a) Iran was once fairly egalitarian and secular, and (b) a lot of people there are working to get it to that point again} is sufficient to think of them as other people-like-me.
I'd say it's also good to have a plan; outside of capitalism, it's easier for plans to include things like "spending time following up creative impulses until you feel like you're done".
When people are working together, some of them might even want to be available to help others with their impulsive projects -- and from that, new plans, new branches, or new solutions can emerge.
@Tattie Ironically (if that's the right word), my conception of ideal femininity has always been firmly rooted in the idea of rebelling against conventional social expectations of femininity -- and my attraction to it was never about clothing, because I liked it better when girls wore neutral-to-masc clothing. That's what I found attractive and what I secretly wished I looked like.
(FWIW: the obstacle for me was that I had been taught that gender was entirely socialized, therefore the idea of wanting to be a different gender was a logical contradiction and also probably indicative of secretly being a rapist or something.)
(And anecdata, in case it's useful: I never went through a Nazi phase; was always a feminist. I never even went through the more common phase of trying extra-hard to perform masculinity -- I always hated it, knew I hated it, and saw nothing wrong with that.)
@CptSuperlative "and oh, uh, I had to make eight of these" makes me think of Dilbert*'s "you can just engineer up a thousand for me by Monday, right?"
(*Not to glorify a wingnut -- but Adams is dead now and therefore won't profit from my referencing his work.)
...but are you promoting it enough, is the real question? When you look back on this moment in history, will you be wondering if there was something more you could have done? Will you be able to look your great-great-grandkids in the eye with a clear conscience, knowing that you gave your utmost to properly shape their cuisine with all the love and care that they deserve???
I have been working on a "move slowly and build things" basis for some time now -- arguably to excess [insert rant here] :blobcatupsidedown:
Unfortunately, as you noted, Life keeps going at its own breakneck pace regardless of whether I'm interested in breaking any necks 😅
I do appreciate a good deep-dive, though, and hopefully I'll have time to absorb more of it :rainbow_left:
@Profpatsch
cc: @eryn
I had the same feeling watching an extended ISS spacewalk during Tr💩mp's first reign of error -- "yes, Virginia, competence still exists in the universe!"
@amcooper This seems like the kind of thing someone should write a library for. The mapping data changes over time, of course, but I'm pretty-kinda-sure there's an API somewhere...?
Makes sense! I agree about trying to get major [non-Microsoft, cuz that's not happening and even if it did there'd be EEE issues to worry about] software-makers to join the party... and also hoping the deep rewrite of WINE's GPU stuff fixes those performance issues.
