I used to be excited about rocket launches. Fuck you, SpaceX, for taking that away from me by destroying the sky, the atmosphere, and dropping shit on me because of your terrible safety and nonexistent environmental practices. https://flipboard.com/@spacecom/spacex-6lea8r50z/-/a-uqOOTanZQHe-8X_AdQQaMw%3Aa%3A1693190246-%2F0

#QuestionOfTheDay what's a scorching hot take you have about a hobby/genre/piece of fiction/work/etc that you're into?

This has to be an actually hot take, bonus points if it's unique to you (as far as you know) or fairly weird/idiosyncratic

#sports #fiction #anime #manga #writing #coding #videogames #gaming #ttrpg #ccgs #boardgames #comics #comicbooks #webcomic #music #musicals #books #tv #television #movies #film #art

Que está bien que los del Burrikín hayan cortado la colaboración con el incel famosete ese que ya sabéis, escribiendo ahora:

“Queremos dejar claro que sus declaraciones en ningún caso representan los valores que defendemos como marca y pedimos disculpas a quienes se hayan podido sentir ofendidos por la colaboración”

La pregunta es: ¿y no sabían ya con quién estaban firmando una colaboración? Más bien queda claro que les importaba muy poco el sexismo, el racismo y demás... No me creo que una multinacional que se forra con el público objetivo que sigue al tipejo ese no hubiera evaluado esa acción promocional.

La responsabilidad corporativa debería estar antes, ser preventiva, y queda muy muy mal ponerse dignos cuando la jugada de marketing te sale mal.

https://www.eldiario.es/rastreador/burger-king-cancela-colaboracion-xokas-ultimas-polemicas-no-representa-valores_132_13385893.html

Regarding AI slop permeating everything...

It's incredibly important to know that right now there is a MASSIVE amount of money and effort by corporations, financial institutions, and governments to get people to use it.

(There are motivations behind pushing that use that go well beyond just making a buck. AI is a layer of abstraction over information control, it's a method of locking in compute control, etc etc)

But that use is still heavily subsidized - from cheap tokens and use subscriptions to local governments subsidizing power and water and taxes for their data centers.

That can't last.

And nor can its current heavy use.

I have no idea how it will look moving forward. So much of AI is propped up artificially on one hand that it will fall if left to its own devices. But on the other hand there is so much money and power behind it that it can last artificially for a long time.

Anyhow. Don't give up hope. Every act of resistance increases its cost and therefore its ability to withstand.

SpaceX will launch Starship, the world's largest rocket, on critical Flight 13 test today. Here's what to expect.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starship-flight-13-starlink-v3-satellites?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@Orb2069 he is already imprisoning "Antifas" for 50 years. Protesting against facism has become a terrorist activity in trumpistan. @hembrow @urlyman

@TodePond I do not expect common ground here. In the language of McKenzie Wark's "A Hacker Manifesto" (2004, https://hackermanifesto.org/en/english/ ), local-first is attempting to redirect as much as possible of the vectors of communication&reliance&control away from their current routing directly through the narrow chokepoints which let them be commodified, and to restore power to those subject to those vectors. That commodification IS the first step of accumulation and value-extractration of vectoralist ownership. The freedom being fought for is incompatible with that mode of exploitation.

Je viens de créer mon compte mu social, mais je ne sais pas trop pourquoi 😅