Cyrus Draegur

A mall is a private real estate instrument built by speculators to extract rent from businesses and it’s actually rather predatory. This is fundamentally not real estate and fundamentally does not exist to extract rent, so it’s more like “what if you took a mall and removed all the mall-ness from it”.

If malls were collectively owned by the stores that comprise them and pieces of the mall could appear and disappear at will of whoever’s participating… Is it actually even still a mall really???

the only thing I’m hoping for is that this can serve as a proof of concept that human brains might be able to learn to control limbs made of synthetic muscles like that…

Maybe they’re attempting to make it ‘learn’ how to move itself using neural networking instead of programming discrete movement presets.

… how do you get a whole ass damn culture that can’t just fucking LEAVE WOMEN ALONE

It’s like the Taliban are the embodiment of every incel’s worst impulses

I can’t believe these fucking losers haven’t been strung up and gutted by their own neighbors at this point

Hmmm. Actually maybe it can be leveraged.

There should perhaps be a default instance that it funnels everyone into but makes a “power user” option available from a drop down where they can CHOOSE an instance. Make it an opt-in thing instead of a mandatory hurdle.

If they don’t like the way the default instance is managed (content moderation, defederation) they can think “oh wait, there’s a solution for this! Well, now that I know what I’m getting into it’s not intimidating anymore”

Mastodon needs this too.

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Mastodon needs this ESPECIALLY.

Yup.

“they can’t do that, that’s illegal!”

Shame the law doesn’t mean Jack Fucking Shit now.

The law is whatever they want it to be at any moment.

The coordinated enshittification is rather disheartening.

I’m still daily driving a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 because all the phones thereafter felt like a downgrade, and the problems like the one referenced in this article have only convinced me further…

I miss 2014, when the note 4 was the flagship. Note 4 kicked ass.

‘dig’ is, after all, literally in your name :3

preface: i acknowledge that you are correct. However, I still want to meme. So,

cool motive

still sending their troops into a nation that is fighting for independence from a complete whole-ass other nation’s foreign occupation

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

it’s crazy watching north korea attempting to do for russia in ukraine what america attempted to do for france in vietnam.

just utterly myopic.

it’s basically content-aware-fill. but the scene and its elements are simple enough that it’d just be better to draw it from scratch for oneself.

You’ve heard of the Dead Internet Theory, now get ready for the UNDEAD Internet Theory!

as amusing as the irony would be, it’s clearly too clean, sharp, organized, and consistent to be AI.

as someone else very recently posted elsewhere on lemmy:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c81a4a7c-865c-4250-b89c-96e0105af62e.jpeg

Actually, on that point, I love it when a game becomes a platform for continuous content. Minecraft is a bit trite as an example but it fits: You buy it once, and you can beat it in a couple hours if you really want to, but you can extract as much enjoyment out of it as your imagination will allow, and the developers are constantly adding more stuff to do (although not all of what’s added feels great all the time…)

That’s the fun part: you don’t! :D

That is to say, they tried. And now there are basically no fucking games on whatever they’re calling the latest X-turd, and barely anything worth note on the PS5.

All the best games I’ve played recently are deliberately low poly models, low res textures, and 100% focused on JUST satisfying gamefeel and fun gameplay mechanics.

Fuck graphical fidelity and fuck “AAA” studios for wasting our time and money on it.

I WANT SHORTER GAMES WITH WORSE GRAPHICS MADE BY PEOPLE WHO ARE PAID MORE TO WORK LESS AND I’M NOT KIDDING

A technology will also continue to be slow and expensive when you have rich and powerful entrenched and ossified business interests (the fossil fuel companies) who BENEFIT from said technology being slow and expensive, and doing everything in their power to KEEP it slow and expensive, up to and INCLUDING fraud, graft, bribery, and blackmail.

Fossil fuel exec calls up his criminal friends in whatever legislative bodies he can reach “hey yeah I need this delayed and I need it to cost more in order to make my own business plans look less stupid and toxic. I don’t fucking care how you do it, rubber stamp some no bid contracts for your cousin in law’s consulting firm or something. Of course your family can expect some very lucrative careers, incidentally…”

there is nothing in there but two arms.

one of them is the United States government

the other one is the Samsung corporation.

if not for the arms inside it, the puppet would be a limp hollow tube of colorful cloth.

i mean, it sucks and it should stop, absolutely the United States should fuck off, but I’m saying that if/when it ever does, it won’t be pretty.