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kibiz0r

@ kibiz0r @midwest.social

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  • It's barely a science.

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  • Of course it is! We’re just animals, after all. Is documenting the behavior of different species of beetles a science? The only difference is that we can replicate behavior through culture, not just genes.

  • Deep Time

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  • Chronologically, sure. But are years really the appropriate measure of accuracy here? Biological evolution moves a lot slower than cultural or technological evolution does.

  • I'm good, thanks

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  • Is Minecraft piracy really piracy?

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  • All IP laws are fundamentally “honor system”. The idea of digital locks is a pipe dream, only possible as long as legal threats scare people away from looking too closely at how the lock works.

    But every digital lock can be broken, because we only know how to make one type of computer: the turing-complete universal von neumann machine. It can run any program, as long as it’s presented the right way.

    So yes, it’s piracy. Just like how the crime of “breaking and entering” means “breaking the seal” and entering without permission (not necessarily breaking a physical lock), piracy just means unauthorized use of IP-law-protected content (not necessarily breaking a digital lock).

    Breaking a digital lock is an additional crime on top of piracy, under the DMCA. 5 years and 50k fine for a first offense, I believe.

    Now as to whether we should even have a concept of “piracy” to begin with… that’s a reasonable question.

  • Removed

    LocalSend – Open-Source AirDrop Alternative (Offline & Cross-Platform)

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  • I was gonna say… “no internet connection required” is not the key attribute of AirDrop. AirDrop doesn’t even require a network connection. It’s a weird comparison.

  • Trump's Super Better Health Organization coming soon.

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  • The only thing that betrays this as satire is the idea that Trump would be in the same room as someone who washes dishes

  • New He-Man Movie

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  • Jared Leto is method-acting again

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    He’s playing a corpse

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  • Why I'm Leaving Big Tech

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  • Beautifully put.

    I especially like that they called out the “it’s just a tool” BS:

    Yet technological artefacts cannot be separated from the conditions under which they are created, or from the realities of who controls and profits from them. Today, developing these technologies expands racial capitalism, intensifies imperialist extraction, and reinforces the divide between the global North and South. The technology is inseparable from the labour that produces it — the expropriation of work by writers, artists, programmers, and peer-production communities, as well as the highly exploitative crowdwork of data annotation.

  • landparasites

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  • “The buy”

  • 🪟 Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable

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  • A little crazy, but not a lot crazy. ARM adoption may provide the spark necessary to ignite this fire.

  • Why AI coding tools shift the real bottleneck to review

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  • Big agree.

    But also: people seem to only focus on the output side of the task of writing code, and forget that the developer also receives input from the codebase in return.

    Even if you end up with exactly the same code artifact after completing a work item, you’ll have a better understanding of the codebase without delegating swaths of it to AI. But bosses tend not to consider this.

    Tech bros have successfully convinced people that mental states do not exist, or at least do not matter — for laborers, anyway, cuz they’ll happily claim that their superior thoughts are exactly why they deserve to be billionaires.

  • Why AI coding tools shift the real bottleneck to review

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  • Saddam Hossain's hiding spot

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  • Hussein is it anyway?

  • First US Sale of Seized Venezuelan Oil Goes to Company of Trump Megadonor

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  • Are there any oil industry heads that aren’t Trump megadonors?

  • Saddam Hossain's hiding spot

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    • Hussain
    • Hussein
    • Husain
    • Hossain

  • How to learn history without giving the wrong impression

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  • Okay but “Kafka, Esq.” goes hard.

  • 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

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  • Embarassing rule

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  • Trump uses Peace prize snub to justify war on Greenland

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  • So wait. Did he deserve the peace prize but not get it? Or deserve it and get two of them? Or not deserve it and not get any? Or not deserve it and get two of them? How many realities can they try to make exist at once?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL the phrase "Do Not Split", meaning leftist pacificists and leftist radicals shouldn't condemn each others' tactics

    www.teamhuman.fm /episodes/329-matthew-remski
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    AI is draining water from areas that need it most

    www.bloomberg.com /graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    kibiz0r @midwest.social

    Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X

    www.404media.co /elon-musks-grok-ai-will-remove-her-clothes-in-public-on-x
  • [CLOSED] Demos, intros and related tunes @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
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    .kkrieger: Making an impossible FPS

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Trump taps key Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head budget office

    www.reuters.com /world/us/trump-taps-key-project-2025-architect-russ-vought-head-budget-office-2024-11-23/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    kibiz0r @midwest.social

    Ali Alkhatib - Destroy AI

  • Technology @midwest.social
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    To Stop AI Killing Us All, First Regulate Deepfakes, Says Researcher Connor Leahy

    time.com /6564434/connor-leahy-ai-risk-deepfakes/
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Cain and Abe-rule