Man Newsom is such a clown with this vanilla type statement. Bro is definitely gearing up to run for president

I'm so full of purpose I don't even notice the need to masturbate which gnaws at my consciousness every moment, which always sings its endless siren's song of sin, I go the entire day without paying a single thought to my aching cock which throbs urgently for release by any means. It's so great bros

I know it's popular to call conservatives dumb and while I don't like to beat dead horses, I really think the explanation for this is that they're dumb. The illiterate form of dumb, to be precise. The caps are a way of adding emphasis - which is something that can also be done by phrasing, word choice, sentence structure, and so on. But those techniques would require a beyond 4th grade level of writing and reading ability, so they do not succeed in the conservative communication marketplace.

I will add a disclaimer, my beloved Nietzsche also does all caps words sometimes, but I believe that since this is alongside his impressive eloquence, it is clearly not a sign of stupidity in that context. Likewise, it is not a sign of stupidity in many other contexts. That is to say:

Using that style of communication does not always make it a safer bet that someone is stupid, but being stupid does make it a safer bet that they use that style of communication.

Really incredible. This is what I imagined hacking stopped being like in 1995. I applaud Bob for having the inner fortitude to not just exploit them for infinite nuggies. The fact someone got fired for it probably contributes to why the security is so bad, corporations truly don't deserve white hat hackers.

"I Transformed Into An Invisible Tiger And Began Killing Billionaires" - A cat-and-mouse Death Note style detective anime about a college freshman communist tech nerd who miraculously gains the ability to transform into an invisible tiger and uses his leet Linux hacking skills to track down billionaire targets. At first the supernatural crimes are easy to carry out, then billionaires start to develop bunkers and defense systems against the mysterious threat. But when the killer discovers that a prodigy medical genius has acquired the same power, and intends to unveil their research on it to earn a Nobel Prize - that's when things really start to get complicated.

DM me for my Venmo info for any royalties thank you

My brother, I am someone who is pretty pro-AI art, for reasons too complex to get into, but which basically have to do with latent possibility spaces and the boundary between discovery or creation.

I am typically pissed off and annoyed when people get their pitchforks out at any mention of AI art. I also consider myself a pretty decent amateur artist. I draw, I paint, I 3D model. I also like working with the more core technologies of AI. I have a horse in both races, so to speak.

But this post, this post makes me feel like one of those pitchfork-wielders that typically annoy me. Why? Because you've depicted the artist as a rude snob who looks down on poor people, and is thereby getting their just deserts and having their smugness deflated now that they're no longer needed. This is such a wildly inaccurate perception of artists. 9999/10000 artists make probably less than $40,000/yr in the U.S. Most of them could make more money doing something else, but they don't, because they love art. They aren't looking down on poor people, they are poor people.

And no, $60 really isn't enough. Nobody is getting paid enough these days. Do you have any skills or crafts that took you 4 years of work to become even barely good enough at that someone would even consider hiring you? And if so, how would you like it if someone asked you to work for days at a rate below minimum wage? Don't people deserve to have not just subsistence lives, but nice happy lives in return for creating something nice and happy for you?

No artist is sneering at your low commission offer on account of you being poor. The sneering is that, you can spend $60 on something that you don't need whatsoever, whereas they likely need your $60 to buy something like food. These are people who live ENTIRELY off what people pay them for their work, no wage, no tip, etc. How could you ever look down on them for wanting to have a nice life, while at the same time wanting what they provide? It's fine if you're not willing to pay $260 for their work, but it's not fine to look down on them for it, and it's nonsense to characterize them as a judgemental snob. Unless you're trying to commission Jeff Koons or something, any artist you talk to is struggling to get by just like everyone else. You aren't "serving them right" or "teaching them a lesson" by going to AI instead. You're just making it harder for them to make a living doing what they love, and regardless of whether AI does it better than them, or another artist is willing to live a shittier life for that and therefore charge a lower price, that's nothing to be proud of.

I don't want to be mean or make you feel bad, though, I just want you to stop and think about what it must feel like to be a poor artist and see something like this. No doubt they're suffering extra competition as a result of AI, but should we revel in that? If in my small town, I have a neighbor who makes a decent living by charging $20/ticket to his guitar concerts, and then one day another guy moves in, who plays way better my neighbor, and only charges $10/ticket...such that eventually my neighbor can't afford to make a living playing his music any more and picks up a job he hates instead...That's just a shitty situation. And I'm not going to go as far as many others do and say you're bad for buying the $10 tickets from the new guy. I get it, you're struggling too, we all are. You want some joy for the lowest price you can get it, and if it's better, why not? But that doesn't mean we need to turn our noses up at our neighbor and deem his shows "overpriced" - especially if he's already living on less money than his patrons to begin with.

"Everything I don't like is posted in bad faith"

All these AI doing X things out of context of the prompt are super misleading. Obligatory, I hate Musk and Grok. But spreading misinformation and half-truths is, and I can't believe I have to say this, bad even if it aligns with your beliefs.

MechaHitler has mecha in it, which of course makes it more appropriate to be chosen in some sense. You could rerun even the same prompt and likely get different answers. It's totally meaningless. And don't let the battleground of whether Musk is a Nazi or not shift to whether Grok says Nazi shit or not. That's a stupid battleground with lots of ambiguity. The existing battleground of Nazi shit that Musk directly says and does is enough. It's a stronger ground to stand on for that position. Desperately trying to append even the weakest evidence to your position just gives you more weak points that the other side can use to make you look stupid and ridiculous. Stick to the strong points, we eat too good with Musk's direct behavior to stoop to nibbling up scraps like this.

Beware: a toxic and probably unfair rant lies below.

I hate this type of content and I hate the tone the author takes. Like every mistake they made is actually secretly a good thing in disguise. Every setback and misfortune can be spun into "a win" if you're clever enough (or in this case, if you pay to upgrade to the premium version of the service you're using. So... money?)

It's all in service of meritocratic narratives. "I fucked something up but actually that was great, which means that if things don't go great for you it's not because something bad happened, but because you choked and weren't as inspired and entrepreneurial as me and didn't make lemonade from your lemons which is why you're worse than me and deserve to be poor and my company is great and give me your money and give us your money and money I deserve money because I'm smart and good and better than you GIVE it GIVE IT now NOW"

The whole writing style just makes my skin crawl.

"Picture this: It's a Friday evening in Paris, and I'm wrapping up what should have been a routine week at Joe AI, the real-estate startup where we were building an AI agent that automated communications for property developers across France."

We're starting with the shilling and advertising already? My goodness, at least buy me a coffee ($5 ♥️) first!

"Now, here's where I should mention a small detail: we were developing directly on the production database. You heard that right. No staging environment, no safety nets. Just pure, unfiltered startup velocity. We were early-stage, moving fast, and honestly? It felt like the right trade-off at the time."

Eeeyyyyuuuck. "A small detail" hits like some 2012 Marvel trailer joke "he's right behind me isn't he? 🤪". "Uhhh, yup. You heard that right." And oh my God "pure unfiltered startup velocity ". No, that's not """"start-up velocity"""". That's a stupid half-assed business plan that doesn't deserve to be called "engineering", and it blew up in your faces and you were only saved because other actual engineers at your DB provider were smart enough to have backups of the data before you upgraded to get access to it. Damn their diluted established business meandering rate of stability and reasonable choices! As if you couldn't make a replica or at least a periodic backup or have a god damn dev or test environment. I have a test environment for my private react apps for God's sake.

"Without even asking my team for credit card details (everything was broken, time was critical), I threw my personal card at the upgrade and prayed those automatic backups existed."

See? Our hero has actualized his triumphant victory in the story by committing the noblest and most wonderful thing any hero could ever achieve: he has spent his personal money (i.e the only thing he or you or anyone else is good for) without being asked, for the good of his company!! Thus representing his willingness to make the ULTIMATE sacrifice (money) in exchange for the ultimate payoff (the continued chance at making lots of money later). I guess that's why this post is filed under "Profitable Programming" (barf).

"Here's the technical takeaway: Never use CASCADE deletes on critical foreign keys."

I....this....this is your takeaway? Why do you think cascade deletes on critical foreign keys are even allowed by the software then? Really, never???

This is like saying "I accidentally shit my only pair of underwear before my date night. The takeaway here is to never shit until your underwear are off.". No, the takeaway is to own more than one pair of underwear, obviously. The takeaway can't be "simply never do the stupid wrong thing".

But now, our hero has triumphed against their darkest hour and will return to the land of the living, bearing the ambrosia wisdom of the gods: "But here's what surprised me most about this disaster: it actually made us stronger as a team. That weekend, I spent hours setting up local Supabase instances for development"

Oh!! But I thought local dev instances was for dumb slow lame-o non-startups??? So the big payoff of this mistake was....now you're finally doing what you should have been doing all along? Sorry, you don't get to spin that as a success story. That's just not a double failure story. You could have had this "success" from the onset, without nearly losing all your data, just by circlejerking less about your idea of what a startup is supposed to be and just doing your job the right way, the way you knew you were supposed to all along.

"Sure, I wish I’d set up local Supabase earlier, but missing that step is a small price to pay for the lessons we gained"

So let me get this straight, not setting up a local DB was a small price to pay to "gain the lesson" of... setting up a local DB? Hmmm....

And to cap it all off, we cite the Netflix CEO's book. Truly the perfect disgusting corporate ass-kissing cherry to top off this bullshit sundae.

But in all practicality, every Lemmy user already knows about Israeli genocidal behavior in Gaza. If every community just becomes format-differentiated reposts of the same stuff, all of Lemmy becomes one big content-blob.

Even if I totally agree that, for example, Elon Musk is obnoxious, and I want to hear some news that he got punched in the face - I don't want to open Lemmy and see:

You should know Elon Musk got punched in the face

Mildly interesting: Elon Musk got punched in the face

Mildly infuriating: Whoever punched Elon Musk in the face didn't punch him hard enough

Map porn: Countries where Elon Musk has been punched in the face

Gaming: Would you play a Punch Elon Musk In The Face Simulator?

Am I the asshole: for thinking Elon Musk deserved to be punched in the face?

Programmer Humor: if(isElonMusk){punchedInFace = True;}

Privacy: If it's illegal to punch Elon in the face why is it legal to punch my privacy in the face with tracking?

LinuxMemes: sudo punch Elon Musk in face

Uplifting news: Elon Musk punched in face

Depressing news: Elon Musk not punched twice in face

Television: Just watched this character get punched in the face. Remind you of anyone?

Classic Rock: "Facepunch" - 1982

Piracy: Links to movies where billionaires get punched in the face?

What's always upset me about this is that I don't get to see the illustrated diagram. I want to see the diagram.

It answers the call behind the scenes without you needing to hear or listen. It pops up a notification saying that the call is ongoing with the screening AI, and you have an option to immediately stop the call or to pick it up. It also records a transcript of the call for you to listen to afterwards. It also doesn't screen every call, if it's a number in your contacts it lets it through to you as normal.