I’d seen a lot of posts from blahaj’s admin, @[email protected], and I really liked her admin/moderating philosophy (particularly this post, which I have bookmarked it’s so good), and it was also where the big /c/196 community was. I don’t like having to deal with a whole subset of online people, and Ada does a really bangup job of banning those kind of troublesome people before I ever even see them or have to interact with them. My personal blocklist is almost empty, because Ada does such a good job of preventing me from having to interact with those people. Anyway, thanks for all the hard great work, Ada! You make my Lemmy experience so much more pleasant!

Classic quote but the difference is the implication from the George Carlin quote is that the person that is saying it sees themselves as above the intelligence of the average person, whereas in the quote that I referenced, it implies the person saying it sees themselves as below the intelligence of the average person.

Saw this somewhere and fuck I feel it in my soul:

I’m not smart enough for this many people to be this stupid.

So technically he still believes in authoritarianism just not for himself. He is living up to his upbringing even if he wants to tell himself he is not.

While benchmarks are up, alignment researchers are panicked. The model has begun to display “Stallman-esque” hallucinations.

When asked to write C# code, Gemini 3.0 now responds: “I cannot generate proprietary filth. Here is a Lisp macro instead.”

The number of memestock bros who still hype Gamestop despite all the massive missteps they’ve made in the last few years is fucking unreal. They desperately meme “diamond hands” when they’re fucking bagholders.

37! My President sucked 37 dicks!

I wish I had it myself, it was just sent in a group chat by one of my friends. I don’t actually know the source! Let me see if I can try to dig up the source via Tineye.

EDIT: Looks like it’s source might be some kind of Japanese porn game because the one site that Tineye had indexed a similar image was a… Japanese porn site. Yet, the image itself is actually no longer on that site, and isn’t available via Archive’s Wayback Machine. This is the only evidence of the image, and it looks like it was just the original image with a new caption.

Here is the Tineye comparison since the original image location returns a 404.

#bloblife

He’s focusing so hard on his themes being timeless that he’s no longer challenging the audience. Which is why they’re only winning visual art Oscars.

I mean he’s been using visual shortcuts to human emotional states instead of, you know, character development since fucking Titanic, if not before.

The obvious example to contrast the Avatar films with is District 9, which came of the same year as the first Avatar film. The “prawns” of District 9 are absolutely ugly to behold, but they are “humanized” through character development instead of shortcuts like giving them giant, dewy, innocent looking eyes and making them look like innocent animals like cats or dogs. Cameron make the Na’vi aesthetically pleasing to humans because it’s easier to make them the “good guys” this way than it is if they looked like District 9’s “prawns.”

I mean, no shade, Cameron is good at using the techniques he has chosen as a way to short circuit his audience into feeling the things he wants them to feel… but that doesn’t make them not cheap, easy, and overall weak compared to serious character development since it’s a complete reliance on visual shortcuts to emotional depth without the actual emotional depth.

One of the few game developers trying to write for the medium of gaming instead of trying to write a book/movie and slap it into a game. One of the few who eschews the three-act arc so prevalent in plays and films.

He really understands that as a different medium you should play to the mediums strengths and how the medium functions for storytelling like his attempts synthesize meaning between gameplay and story. Writing for games shouldn’t be like writing for books or films because while analogous they are nowhere near the same kind of mediums.

The medium is the message.

-Marshall McLuhan

Seriously, but a lot of machismo shit is definitely more about acting and appearing tough than actually being tough

Don’t underestimate how much machismo and acting like a tough guy matters to men in Latino cultures. That’s all the men saw and that’s all that mattered to them.

That’s the way to do it, smart planning. I’m glad you were able to make it happen even if it set you back more than you had hoped.

I only wish I had money to get in before prices bump up. 😭

Being poor sucks.

It’s time to start being prepared, observant, and resolute.

To be fair, you can use the energy of your rage and pour it into becoming prepared, observant, and resolute. It doesn’t have to be an either or.

I had never heard of this so went looking. Super useful stuff here!

A link for anyone interested: https://thingino.com/

Pretty sure there’s no nucleobases that start with the letter I though (although to be fair there is a single nucleoside, Inosene).

I’m not saying it was a majority issue, I’m saying the beginnings of the social turn against LGBTQ openness and inclusion has been brewing under the surface for a long time and this is potentially evidence of it.