[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 minutes ago

I agree that people tend to overstate his income due to misunderstanding his relationship with his father. And the story about him keeping emeralds in his pockets is murky at best.

But his wealth compared to the average income of any black person in South Africa in 1971, still makes him vastly better off than any 'colored' child born in the same country, making him institutionally old money by grace of being born white.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 1 points 18 minutes ago

Do you mean if he was born to black parents in South Africa in 1971?

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 2 points 17 hours ago

Would go well with my Zenit 11 SLR camera

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 4 points 18 hours ago

I like old tech

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 20 points 18 hours ago

Fucking brilliant every time

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Do not forget me user4616250

Look down, look down You'll always be a slave Look down, look down You're standing in your grave

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I absolutely don't agree with your perspective.

AI is just another way to ensure control of the means of production stays in the hands of capitalists.

It empowers the techno-feudalist monopolies to put further pressure on more industries. Not content to own a portion of every retail purchase, every digital payment, every house, and every entertainment property. They now get to own a portion of every act of creation, every communication that could possibly challenge their power.

They can subvert any act of independent impactful art by copying it and remanufacturing lesser versions over and over until the original's impact is lost. And they can do it faster than ever before, cashing in on the original creative's effort and syphoning returns away from creators into their own pockets.

You might think it's inevitable and inescapable, but that's what people once thought of the divine right of kings.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 77 points 3 days ago

Has anyone ever fucked up the political battle following an attempted coup as badly as Biden and Merrick Garland?

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 195 points 4 days ago

"can't give this thing away unless I lower the price to probably $79k. Sucks."

A brand new AWD CT from Tesla is $79,990.

Headline is clickbait. Seller is a whinger. Trash all round. Saved you a click.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 50 points 5 days ago

The atomization of society. The process of a society breaking down into smaller, isolated units, where individuals are self-interested and self-sufficient. It can lead to a feeling of being alone even when surrounded by people.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 23 points 6 days ago

There are no grownups left. Only revolutionaries.

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Rugrats, Pokémon, The Simpsons, The Clone Wars... There's a bunch of possibilities.

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OpenAI to spit out News Corp content (www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au)
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The Cult of AI (www.rollingstone.com)

...“We believe Artificial Intelligence can save lives – if we let it. Medicine, among many other fields, is in the stone age compared to what we can achieve with joined human and machine intelligence working on new cures. There are scores of common causes of death that can be fixed with AI, from car crashes to pandemics to wartime friendly-fire.”

As I type this, the nation of Israel is using an AI program called the Gospel to assist its airstrikes, which have been widely condemned for their high level of civilian casualties...

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I just donated to support Wangan and Jagalingou Cultural Custodians to continue the Waddananggu cultural ceremony on their lands near Adani's mine.

Waddananggu started because the protection of the land, air, animals and sacred springs are more important than Adani's destruction of the environment and cultural heritage for coal mining.

Harsh conditions, flooding rains, and fine dust mean they continuously need repairs for camping gear, vehicles, solar panels, and the communications tower. On top of that, they have ongoing costs for food, medical supplies, fuel, and transporting family to and from Waddananggu.

Our donations are needed and helps with the continuation of this important stand on Country. Will you join me?

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I just donated to support Wangan and Jagalingou Cultural Custodians to continue the Waddananggu cultural ceremony on their lands near Adani's mine.

Waddananggu started because the protection of the land, air, animals and sacred springs are more important than Adani's destruction of the environment and cultural heritage for coal mining.

Harsh conditions, flooding rains, and fine dust mean they continuously need repairs for camping gear, vehicles, solar panels, and the communications tower. On top of that, they have ongoing costs for food, medical supplies, fuel, and transporting family to and from Waddananggu.

Our donations are needed and helps with the continuation of this important stand on Country. Will you join me?

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In earlier eras, the manifesto was an important organ of radical political and aesthetic movements; prominent examples in the history of the genre include of course those of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, André Breton, or, more recent, the Dogme 95 group. These days, in which radical political ideas of the Left or the Right have only recently begun to become mainstream again, it is unsurprising that the manifesto seems to be a historical relic.

But the genre received a new entry with Marc Andreessen’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” published last October on the website of Andreessen Horowitz, perhaps the very bluest of Silicon Valley’s blue-chip venture capital firms. That apparently radical manifestos are now being produced by billionaire technocapitalists might be cause for alarm among our nineteenth- and twentieth-century ancestors. But it really shouldn’t surprise us, at least those who pay attention to the kind of rhetoric coming regularly from Sand Hill Road and its environs. Hardly content with the accumulation of fortunes unprecedented in history and their resulting political power, a small number of our new ruling overlords clearly want to be taken seriously as thinkers, too...

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Ah, it recently announced a $48,000 spaceship bundle, the latest in an ongoing line, which contains every ship in the game and is apparently only accessible to those who've already spent $1,000...

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