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DarkCloud ,

Her father was an Anthropologist, where as she seems to be more of a Sociologist.

DarkCloud ,

Hot take (not entirely serious):

Now that Presidents can't be prosecuted for official acts that are crimes, Biden should enact Project 2025 EARLY give himself unitary executive power, and refuse to leave office.

This would either destroy the country, save the country, or force SCOTUS to reconsider their ruling.

Of course he could just deem the imbalance on SCOTUS a threat to national security, and write an official law saying that all major parties must be equally repressented by the judges on there (a one out, one in law).

That would also work, and run less risk of tearing the country apart.

DarkCloud ,

Probably watch youtube because the mass media has been captured by Capitalism and its political forces.

DarkCloud ,

This is definitely a better memory than remembering James Woods was in this scene.

Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising (www.techradar.com)

Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...

DarkCloud ,

Hopefully they'll end up with an incredible amount of user telemetry telling them that they've created the least adopted version of Windows in the history of the company.

That's what Windows 11 deserves, they need a punch in the face from users.

DarkCloud ,

I hope someone sues Microsoft.

DarkCloud ,

Haven't read the article because I'm not interested in an app I don't use, but does it mean browser fingerprint? Because that's slang for the fonts/cookies/user-data of your browser, and lots of apps have access to that.

DarkCloud ,

There's also that team that built a mobile fish tank that the fish controlled, which proved that fish could learn and retain a task.

They taught the using food rewards, then the fish were allowed to just wander around places (although, they had to be supervised incase the drove in risky ways).

The study also showed that some fish (within the same species) were smarter or at least, better at the training than others.

DarkCloud ,

Having this experience right now with Aurora Australis.

DarkCloud ,

I don't get where do the "regular" balloon danglers come from... Do they just choose to go up with a balloon?

The balloons are stories right? Like it's a visual metaphor... But then does that mean people are only reading one story per person in the entire world?

How did people end up in the bog? Did they just let go of a story they didn't like? So are the danglers are people writing stories rather than reading them, and the danglers are the authors?

That makes sense.... A comic book author writing about an aggrandised version of themselves. That checks out from my experience hanging out with authors... But they don't give away or latch on to each others stories that I've seen, that doesn't seem common.

Where do the danglers come from again? Because the guy constructing the balloon wasn't dangling from it... Are the green people minions in some reading dimension?

I don't think I really get the metaphor. Maybe it's just not supposed to be examined. Lots of fiction collapses under examination.

To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules. (mullvad.net)

The most common argument used in defense of mass surveillance is ‘If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear’. Try saying that to women in the US states where abortion has suddenly become illegal. Say it to investigative journalists in authoritarian countries. Saying ‘I have nothing to hide’ means you stop...

DarkCloud ,

This is why you don't rig a fair system... Because your 'rig' may one day be used against you.

DarkCloud ,

I wonder how old the comic is.

DarkCloud ,

The problem is it doesn't let you catch them.

DarkCloud , (edited )

I'm not sure why they tried this.

'We made a VR games headset, but replaced the games with office related programs, like calenders and notepads'

Did any of them ever use an Oculus Quest? Like, why did they try this? Is this Apple's Google Glass moment? Did they really think that if you pay enough youtubers to wear it in public, normal people would magically go into car-level debt to emulate them?

In fact, I'll go as far as to say this campaign and price point was a bigger mistake, and a louder failure than Google Glasses.

DarkCloud ,

"Hey look what we could do at six times the price point" isn't a flex, it's stupidity.

Like why not just release Apple brand Skis, or team up with Nike and make some shoes, or Jewelry if you want to do high priced stuff rich idiots pay for.

DarkCloud ,

Could just be a compact model, the big one could just be stupidly pointing out the obvious to a far more advanced compact model that's just given a lecture on the history of robotic processors.

The compact advanced model might just be about to say "Very good, I'm glad you were listening".

DarkCloud ,

Let's see what you think when the next ten years also get hotter and hotter each year. It can get A LOT worse.... And with that heat comes more of everyone's favourite: Resource wars!

DarkCloud ,

Heathcliff, without "Heathcliff".

DarkCloud ,

Reminds me of Aporia Magazine. Here's the Rational Wiki on them:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Aporia_Magazine

DarkCloud ,

Windows 11 has been a big wake up call for consumers.

DarkCloud ,

Okay, so what's the plan?

DarkCloud ,

I can't accept death's fashion choices here.

Death has three options for their legs:

Floating (no legs)

Skeleton legs/feet

Ancient style cloth/rag shoes.

What I won't accept is death in high healed loafers. That's not death, it's an office worker at Halloween.

DarkCloud ,

Woke feminist marxist time travellers strike again!

DarkCloud ,

"this is where we throw our used triangles"

DarkCloud ,

Online multiplayer?

DarkCloud ,

Neanderthals and others existed contemporaneously didn't they...

... but also, so many parts of our brain are needed to do facial recognition that we're prone to seeing faces where there are none...

...so it's possible that what we're on the watch for is other humans trying to ambush us, which means regular people hiding = uncanny valley = fear.

DarkCloud , (edited )

Carnap's statement is false, humans find all sorts of non-verifiable beliefs and experiences cognitively meaningful. Dreams, religions, ancestor worship, coincidences, hypothesises, potentials, the future, stories....

Carnap is falling into the fallacy of scientism, in neglect of anthropology, sociology, fiction writing, and any number of other humanities subjects and activities.

Humanity being interested in unknowns and unverifiable understandings and forms of belief is vital to having a broad human experience which is vital to having a good life, and a good understanding of humanity.

We are not a solely rational species.

DarkCloud ,

Did you run this by Clippy? Or at least, by the history of nation states and religious wars?

Because some very unverifiable and in that sense "unreal" beliefs have had some very meaningful and pivotal roles in history and civilization.

Thought-acts and speech acts can make the metaphysical meaningful, and have done so throughout human history.

..... remember how I said our species wasn't soley rational?

DarkCloud ,

You're ultimately just re-expressing the fallacy of scientism though, because in your example you're just going to end up with aliens who have religions, or stories, or ideas about the future, or ideals, or dreams, or other unverifiable yet alien versions of everything we've already discussed.

Hell, there's already suggestions out there that animals have such beliefs.

It's a natural product of information systems when they get complex enough, there will be confusion, false commitments, compressions, duplications, signs without signifiers, and errant beliefs.

I get what you're saying, you're saying physically A = A, and that "all is all" is all that should concern us, and there is nothing else... But that's not true for information systems theory.

You just have to accept that information systems are a factor of what is, even though information isn't technically physical... It's more, trans physical. My brain fats are currently typing some information, and it may be stored in another couple of computer languages before it gets to you ... but it's still information, as it willbe inthose other forms and places... In terms of information systems, a container can hold more than it's capacity... Because there's information about the information... And that's difficult to comprehend. But there's information about the bible that isn't contained by the bible for instance... Information about someone's brain that isn't necessary within that person's brain.... It's heady stuff.

So what you're claiming (A = A = all that matters) shows your beliefs off as a rationalist belief-minimalist realist and logical positivist. It shows you value science and the scientific method ...but that's not the whole of what is, or what can be thought... That's why philosophy outranks science in its capacity for defining the world...

...and why sciencism is still a limiting beliefs, regardless of its metaphysical ideals of obtaining total one to one accuracy (yep, science has its own metaphysical ideals).

Science is one of the most powerful tools humanity has, but you should hold the tool, not the other way around.

DarkCloud ,

I didn't introduce the term "cognitively meaningful" - it's in the comic we're all replying to.

This pretense that myself and others don't understand what's trying to be said is faulty. The comic would have worked had it said "substantively meaningful" instead...

...but my point (fuck Carnap, he's not here, and people need to think for themselves and present their own opinions from time to time) is that in human collective societies, truth claims themselves are as meaningful as they are broadly believed - or at least discussed.

That is dealing in some sense of human social meaning (and is also a statement on how hard it is to avoid each other these days). Where as logical positivists are trying to approximate some statement about the validity of perceptions of the universe, perceptions which which themselves can't escape our human contexts for understanding them.

So the logical positivists are discussing tools for gathering meanings the universe immediately cooperates with, where as I'm discussing what humans will co-operate with (and hence what is cognitively meaningful to our social brains). Which I find more interesting... As logical positivism is a boring, old, basic, and unavoidable premise for any reasonable person.

I'm superior, because I found an errant word in the comic and made a bunch of commenters online actually have an interesting discussion. :P j/k

Either that or I'm a kind of troll.

DarkCloud ,

They why, it's a verb now! You can why too.

DarkCloud ,

Today's tech business model:

First you get the power, then you extort the money.

DarkCloud ,

I call them goo goo.

DarkCloud ,

Flavour your glue people!

DarkCloud ,

What's helpful to Nancy is up to Nancy.

DarkCloud ,

Especially if we manage her expectations in that general direction. That'll help her come to the right conclusion. :)

DarkCloud ,

Lgbt nation being surprisingly anti-lgbt by refusing to tell everyone the best social media website for lgbt folk.

DarkCloud ,

AI has barely started infecting things, it's still avoidable... Yet even at this early stage it's obvious these companies have no morality and are willing to break laws and violate social norms.

It's obvious they're evil and they've barely just begun.

Aarrr (lemmy.world)

4 panel comic by War and Peas. 1. Panel shows two pirates, the first pirate speaks "Captain, our rivals have been calling us names again." 2. Panel: The pirate continues, "They said we were a bunch of handicaps." 3. Panel: The captain himself says, "That's ableism! And we don't tolerate that kind of talk here". 4.Panel: The ship...

DarkCloud , (edited )

I've heard of women who were pirate captains, ex-slaves who were pirate captains, gay pirate captains, and pirate captains of pretty much all races...

...so yeah, pirates, surprisingly open work place.

I think they were also known to attack privateers, who were state authorised pirates run by the monarchies and colonial governments of the world.

DarkCloud ,

To Marko:

The stache makes him look too much like monopoly guy and throws the joke off (try a push broom moustache with stripes indicating hairs).... Also a frame of him looking up in the shadow of the game would help.

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