the RDR’s, because, yeah, fuck launchers.

‘deathloop’ love arkane, looks like kinda my shit, but will not tolerate denuvo on my fucking machine, especially because I don’t have particularly high end hardware. I’d love to give them my money, but they don’t seem to want it.

yeah, only way it could have happened; has to be the victim’s fault because they totally always respect crosswalks.

how much do they pay you?

yeah it has to be the victim’s fault. they totally respect crosswalks. how much do they pay you?

you’re acting like the problem here is the nature of not just the internet, but any hypothetical internet, but you give the game away right in your comment:

jump on x or facebook or whatever

big monopolized platforms controlled by megacorps that use algorithmic curation to decide what the products/hogs/rubes see. use a new computer-it can be a VM; I won’t tell. use it from a new connection-VPN is fine. create a fresh youtube account. search for a video of a random thing you don’t think is super politically polarized. space exploration, typography, taylor swift.

now click on the first recommendation. keep doing that. count how long it takes to start showing you literal nazi shit. if you need a bright line for that, maybe keep an eye out for the phrases “BLOOD AND SOIL” or “FUTURE FOR WHITE CHILDREN”.

see, the problem here is, it did actually work how you thought. briefly. it wasn’t clean or perfect. we got to see a lot of distended assholes in the process. some people ended up going down some crazy fucked up rabbit holes. pro-ana groups did not start on facebook. but this shit was, provably, not structural.

but, generally, the internet was moving things left. that had to be stopped. had to be butchered and dominated by a corporation. it was just a little less obvious what was happening at the time than when they did it for united fruit, with a smaller immediate body count.

giving an exception to tech companies gives an advantage to consumers

No. shut the fuck up. these companies are anti human and only exist to threaten labor and run out the clock on climate change so we all die without a revolution and the billionaires flee to the bunkers they’re convinced will save them (they won’t, closed systems are doomed). it’s an existential threat. this is so obvious, I’m agreeing with fucking yudkowsky, of all fucking people-he is correct, if for entirely wrong nonsense reasons.

good for writing code

so, I have tried to use it for that. nothing I have ever asked it for was remotely fit for purpose, often referring to things like libraries that straight up do not exist. it might be fine if it can quote a long thing from stack exchange from a program anyone who’s been coding for a decade has ten versions of laying around in their home folder, but if you want a piece of code that does something particular, it’s worse than useless. not even as a guide.

AI

HOLY SHIT WE HAVE AI NOW!? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!? can I talk to it? or do you just mean large language models?

there’s some benefit in these things regurgitating art

tell me you don’t understand a single thing about how these models work, and don’t understand a single thing about the value meaning or utility of art, without saying “I don’t understand a single thing about how these models work, and don’t understand a single thing about the value meaning or utility of art.”.

I have met and hung out with a staggering variety of monsters. so much so I might be doxxing myself if I really described the breadth. If you can think of a kind of monster that exists, I have probably met them. I might even have known one well.

I have never met anyone who can reach quite the degree of sadist or control freak as a psychiatrist. Psychopaths aren’t as willing to lie spontaneously and throw people away. future cult leaders aren’t as quick on the self justification trigger. I genuinely believe sydney gottlieb was one of the less malignant assholes that profession has ever produced.

which is a shame, because the pharmacology of the mind is something I’m deeply interested in. there’s cool fucking science there, and we will never see it done.

people, on the whole, don’t do that. no, this man buried his conscience in that little coffin. he cannot turn back. to turn back would, as you say; destroy him. that’s how this works.

he deserves it, of course, but why would he do that to himself?

of value to them? no, of course not. but it would be great for them to use to give away to cuba, police traffic into the gulf of mexico, and taunt certain wealthy tasteless americans.

the thing is, the ‘marketplace of ideas’ was very strictly controlled. when was the last time you heard a communist or socialist talk on a major platform? do you even know what anarchism IS?

there was no ‘fair marketplace of ideas’ there was liberals and fascists jacking each other off, murdering everyone else, and telling you they’re all that can exist.

how much do they pay you?

LOL, the stuff of nightmares.

counterpoint: what if we just make an exception for tech companies and double fuck consumers?

hard disk drives do still exist, and are useful for some stuff. mostly they’re cheaper. I think better for stuff you write to often?

SSD’s can overheat. but, again, there are usually sensors to throttle them when you’re in danger of this, and this idiot probably disabled those. because safety is for cucks i guess.

it is a thing, but any competently designed computer should have things in place to prevent this.

unless you’re an arrogant dipshit and disable all the hardware safeties on your computer to make it go faster and wear harder.

these companies do not provide data. they provide blatantly doctored ad copy.

and the engineers that design them have said there’s no way to make them follow traffic rules perfectly. that they do often sacrifice safety for efficiency when the choice can be made.

clever gambit. how long were you vegan to pull this off with deniability? will you go back to meat, or stay under cover?

it’s not the worst reason to go vegan. I’ve done stranger things for a bit.

oh, so it’s okay when he does “hitler wasn’t such a bad guy, really, just a little misguided”.

you just said why. also, I’m pretty sure saying “from the river to the sea, palestine will be free” is the ultimate antisemitic gesture.

I do not; I try to skip over the america bits in history stuff whenever I can.

if they could see reason in 2025, they wouldn’t be liberals anymore, I don’t think. the only thing liberalism ever had going for it was a big tent that could at least get its distasteful monkey paw version of good things done, and now they don’t even want to do that.