the fact that the Internet Archive got into bigger trouble for lending books they paid for than Facebook did for reproducing books they pirated tells you everything you need to know about copyright.

#fuckAI

They are starting to get it ...

Facts!

#ZohranMamdani : “A society that produces billionaires while millions go hungry isn’t successful; it’s broken. I don’t think we should have billionaires. Full stop.”

We joke about vibe coding but we’re at the tail end of 30 years of vibe management, vibe leadership and vibe capitalization in this industry and we have to solve the real problem.

In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"

So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms. And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell... This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names

Look, I know AI is controversial, but just for a moment, let's set aside our preconceived notions, our biases, the environmental impact, the massive cost to train and run models, the labor exploitation, the intellectual property theft, the inaccuracies, the mania it causes in users, the destruction of search, the deskilling of professionals, the devaluation of creative work, job losses, and lack of economic value from enterprise implementations.

Wait, what were we talking about?

whoNeedsCodeReview

posted by @woodmichl@reddit.com - https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1lig3gq/whoneedscodereview/

codingAssistantsAreJustCasinosForProgrammers

posted by @TheChildOfSkyrim@reddit.com - https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1lk22bz/codingassistantsarejustcasinosforprogrammers/

why isn’t Iran a democracy? they once did have a democracy …

the answer: the #GreedyBastards running BP (British Petroleum) along with the UK government destroyed it over … OIL!

#OilandGas #DullesBrothers #democracy #Iran #ProfitsOverPeople #tyranny #terrorism #UK

A performative war started by two aging criminals, one willing to commit atrocities to stay out of prison and the other in the throes of dementia, motivated entirely by racism and greed, definitely feels like both the apotheotic praxis of modern conservatism and the opening chapter of a Warhammer40k story that gets criticized for being too clichéd.

Lets end:

fascism
capitalism
colonialism
war
famine
climate meltdown
and ecocide

And lets then celebrate those advances with a weekly holiday each.

The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

When I was a child in the 1970s, plenty of adults said this, and it was a completely uncontroversial thing for a person to say.

If saying that gets your post moderated, then the platform in question is a safe-space for Nazis.

I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

Was uns Politiker im Wahlkampf versprechen versus was wir nachher bekommen.

"how do i explain gay to my kids"

easy: some people choose to be happy instead of normal