@mamouneyya @bjb @carnage4life

He explicitly addresses this in the video, saying this bullying is a made up situation that never happens in real life; it is purely an imaginary exaggeration that feels like it is real because that is how people can feel if their preference is no longer the major social choice, but rather just an option among others (let alone one that may now not be viewed as the superior options to those others).

This is a great analysis of why conservatives feel persecuted for others simply existing or being acknowledged.

It’s fear their identity and choices will stop being mainstream or normal. That’s why they get upset at Happy Holidays (acknowledging other religious celebrations exist) versus Merry Christmas.

@tef

Something I think about -- okay let's say consuming all of this stuff is not copyright infringement, because you aren't reproducing it. So then the stuff you are generating is your own stuff, which means you are responsible for it.

Of course GenAI has been a constant stream of "this works in my favor, and the opposite works in my favor too" contradictory positioning.

@faraiwe @lauren

"Nobody is blaming the user. I am saying people should know how to use tools."

And people who don't RTFM and make sufficient effort to figure out how to do stuff, are...?

"Do you let an infant just grab a steak knife, or do you teach them first?"

Oh they are infants with a steak knife. You are not blaming the user because of that so they aren't to blame? So blame is one the one who gave them the steak knife?

Or they could learn not to be an infant, and blame is on them?

@zsmb13 @Kents @saket

You just managed to hit a very sensitive nerve of mine. :) Literally an almost 20 year old nerve -- from the very beginning we had lots of arguments on this topic, in fact originally there wasn't an Application class but that was created due to some of these arguments.

@Kents @saket @zsmb13

I've had this discussion enough in the past that I will totally believe it is real. :)

@zsmb13 Um you really really want that to be this.getApplicationContext(), or else you are retaining the Activity Context after it is no longer valid (after the Activity is destroyed).

But given that, you might as well just store the Application in a static field when it is initialized?

@michaelgemar @Em0nM4stodon @runsmooth

In fact, this was the reason for AOSP's "anti-fragmentation agreement". The value of an OS is in the app (and other) ecosystems around it, but hardware manufacturers don't really understand that. So to keep up the value of that app ecosystem, it is important that devices shipping different variations of AOSP maintain compatibility with the application APIs, so apps written for one will work on others.

@michaelgemar @Em0nM4stodon @runsmooth

For operating systems, there certainly is a general force at work -- how many different operating systems do you expect app developers to target? Two is already tricky.

The situation was even worse on desktop; Android was actually designed to improve from that, by making the core OS open source so that other variations could be done independently -- as Facebook, Amazon, Huawei, and others have done.

Forgot to cross-post this a few days ago:

Following up on the "dining while Black" thing, and how Black people know and have always known, how many white folk in the US would have supported this Trump admin, while white Dems greatly underestimated it.

Imagine these 4 men are servers at a restaurant.

White diners don't notice a difference🤷🏿‍♂️

I wrote about Ida B. Wells’ experience with the white supremacist press during her antilynching campaign—an experience which suggests that social media is not the first media to inculcate fascism in the US. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/ida-b-well...

Ida B. Wells vs. Social-Media-...

This @eric-reinhart.com piece was clarifying. Reinhart argues that there is no saving the cultural norms and edifices that held our society together, and the only choice is to build new institutions fit for our times. newrepublic.com/article/2015...

Why Shame No Longer Works in A...

I broke down the “Antifa Roundtable”—which amounted to an immersive horror experience to entertain one person: Donald Trump.

All dictators need conspiracy theories and “invisible enemies.”
If this one takes hold, the results will be no different.
https://www.mind-war.com/p/the-antifa-experience-millers-immersive

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social

They started cancel culture, with their boycotts of various things that they considered anti-Christian, such as: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-07-02-fi-20591-story.html

The much-hyped SIM farm the Secret Service seized uses readily available off the shelf tech that, very interestingly, has also become critical to ticket scalping. I, like others, am extremely not buying the idea that this was intended to take down the cell network

https://www.404media.co/the-sim-farm-hardware-seized-by-the-secret-service-is-also-popular-with-ticket-scalpers/

@davidgerard

"Economic Inequality Is Creating Two Separate Americas"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZOqvpVHzWc

@JohnLAlford @lauren

I find them the opposite, Star Trek to me is too idealistic to feel at all possibly real; B5 instead has clear (and growing) problems but is ultimately about the ability to overcome them.

Also these days I find it a little disturbing how much I see tech folks pointing to Star Trek for their inspiration in ways that aren't really that great.

@AnarchoNinaWrites

Is your answer then is that we should convince people that they need to give up good voice recognition and other very useful things on their devices because "AI" just needs to be banned? Or what are you saying we should do?

@AnarchoNinaWrites

I certainly agree the economic issue (and would also compare it to the .com bubble), but don't think it is useful to just blanket dismiss its value.

If we take ML==AI, there are many examples of clear utility: speech recognition, image search, etc. It's just that utility can be used in good and bad ways -- image search or facial recognition to track people.

"It all is bad" doesn't fix the problem; what is needed, as with so many things, is thoughtful regulation of its use.

New York Times plagiarizes The Onion
"N.Y.C. Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say"
https://archive.is/HOFpJ