[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 day ago

Platform decay strikes again.

Bezos and the shareholders weren't happy with AWS already being one of the single most profitable products in human history, because capitalism demands unending infinite year-on-year growth.

Whenever you hear them cry that capitalism breeds innovation, the kinds of innovation they're talking about are this shitty AI profit-maximising algorithm that created OOP's problem. This isn't a crazy conspiracy theory either; I've consulted in the software dev teams of dozens of major multinationals and the projects were always, without exception, some variant on "how can we replace people" or "how can we reduce costs by doing something slightly worse".

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

the handful of upvotes I’m getting lets me know that others feel the same way

LOL, I don't know what the numbers were when you wrote that, but "appeal to upvotes" as an argument is hilariously bad for someone who's being ratioed as heavily as you are.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago

Found the Karen

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 days ago

What this also has in common with Iraq is that we already knew. People who changed their minds later on act like they were responding to new information and are therefore reasonable people who were just previously misinformed. But the evidence was always there the whole time, and those who were against it were doing their best to shout it out whilst getting shut down with accusations of being terrorist sympathizers.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago

This needs to be the second panel of one of those "Hey America how's it goin?" memes.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

What are birds? We just don't know.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

Speculating wildly, I think it was a lot more common back then for teenagers to just disappear off for hours on end without their parents knowing where they were.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 85 points 1 month ago

: goes to sign

: scrolls countries list

: no 'United Kingdom' option

: remembers

: sadface

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 75 points 1 month ago

Environmentalists in comic books are nearly always deranged villains, and the ones that aren't are still weak and naïve.

The only strong environmentalist hero in Western canon is Captain Planet, and he's got sus narc vibes.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 70 points 2 months ago

The terrifying thing is that this is just a temporary technical misstep.

Musk's response to this won't be to pack that shit in, it'll be to order his goons to figure out how to make it more subtle.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 85 points 3 months ago

I googled the author, he's a Tech Bro pretending to be a media critic. Shame on The Guardian for publishing this moronic clickbait guff.

I would say the guy clearly doesn't understand the most basic concepts of fiction, except I suspect he probably does but is ignoring them in order to push his agenda.

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