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mindbleach ,

Nevermind that it’s ink on paper. What the ink on paper says still sounds like a threat.

mindbleach ,

Neat, and how’s it run in the browser?

mindbleach ,

Then it’s not for what Javascript is for. It’s not in contention.

I don’t care how nice your favorite truck is if I’m going across a lake.

mindbleach ,

I can name several countries that tried to do a communism, and wound up being what communists insist doesn’t count.

mindbleach ,

Just like China.

And Cuba. And North Korea.

One of those funny coincidences that keeps happening.

To be perfectly clear: I’m not strongly opposed to what any “14-year-old white girl” means when she promotes communism. I understand leftist goals as distinct from what these countries actually did. But the fact these countries had those goals, and then did this shit instead, demands a better explanation than ‘that doesn’t count.’ Especially when leftist philosophy has a lot to say about liberals and capitalism inevitably producing terrible outcomes.

mindbleach ,

Such as the Russian revolution that modern communists have mixed praise for until a dictator emerged and so it doesn’t count.

Or the Chinese revolution that modern communists have mixed praise for until a dictator emerged and so it doesn’t count.

Or the Cuban revolution that be serious you know goddamn well what we’re talking about. I wasn’t being coy. People call these dictatorships communist because they’re the only countries that were ever called communist, and - generally speaking - they became dictatorships after genuinely attempting to implement communism.

If you want to say it’s like shitting on democratic republics because of the French revolution, hey great sure, that’s an attempt gone terribly wrong. Revolutions are pluripotent and dictatorships can emerge from nearly anything. But advocates of secular democracy can point to examples that went right.

mindbleach ,

Just like China.

Which is also a dictatorship.

Turns out literacy or whatever doesn’t cancel out being a dictatorship.

mindbleach ,

It’s a dictatorship of the Castro family, in a way America’s representative democracy isn’t one at all.

It was literally modeled on the Soviet Union, well after all y’all insist the Soviet Union stopped doing anything communism-ish and was a straight-up dictatorship. Again - quoting the initial mook I replied to - “just like China.”

Boring goddamn tankies think it’s a zero-sum game where one thing being bad means the other must be flawless.

mindbleach ,

Fidel is dead and Raul is 90 and you’re playing gulag apologia.

We will never speak again. Waste someone else’s time.

mindbleach ,

> Wade Wilson appears with CGI tape over his mouth

“… no loving god would allow this.”

mindbleach ,

Four years under The Idiot destroyed any assertion that conservatives are trying to be reasonable. It’s all just a word game to these people. And they think it’s all anyone’s doing, because they think that’s all there is.

The most damning evidence for this is when right-wing bastards of the highest order get booted out for not playing the game. Mitt Romney was the fucker who wanted to “double Guantanamo.” He’s also now called a RINO, and he’s running away with his tail between his legs, because he acted like we kept fucking imagining “real Republicans” were supposed to. He asked what happened to all the talking points he ran on… because he believed that garbage. Nah, Mittens: it was ad-hoc justifications then, and it’s ad-hoc justifications now. (And he still voted to absolve The Idiot on most counts, the useless bastard.)

mindbleach ,

GamerGate was an alt-right propaganda operation from the very start, and the victims had receipts the entire time. There were approximately two weeks between the initial libelous accusations - about a review that did not even exist - and the targets revealing they were in the channels where this fraud was planned. And it turns out that doesn’t matter! The liars can just keep doubling down, and some people will never catch on.

I will reiterate: the unethetical review the whole thing was about DOES NOT EXIST. Kotaku never did the thing these frauds keep screeching about. There was no inciting incident. They made it the fuck up.

mindbleach ,

I used reddit exclusively in the browser, but the admins declaring their empty box full of free labor would not tolerate the slightest backsass from that unpaid workforce was a sign to head for the exits.

Not aided by how many communities there (and here) think “be nice or else” is a sane policy. Appropriate behavior often involves telling someone they’re being an asshole and they need to stop. If moderators want to be the only ones who get to do that… they better be on that shit immediately and always. Otherwise the rule just shields deliberate abuse from conversational rebuke.

A community about knitting can expect “friendly.” Politics are different. If you expect political discussion to be both polite and constructive, sometimes you are mistaken. If assholes can keep repeating ‘well I don’t see the problem!’ in the face of repeated explanation, and you don’t let people speak like adults in the face of that childish trolling, those assholes are who the forum is for.

mindbleach ,

From the outset (2008 account, lurking a few months before that) they had a policy of “so long as it’s not illegal.” I found this admirable at the time. After T_D, yeah, not so much.

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mindbleach ,

The video “Rosanne of the Conners” underlines how much of that show was radical working-class perspective on the sitcom formula.

Then again it also highlights how Rosanne herself was kind of a nightmare to work for. That makes the heel-turn amidst the reboot less of a shock.

mindbleach ,

… and the niceness of television homes is more about ease of filming than plausibility. Seinfeld did a decent job compressing the soundstage so it looked cramped from most angles. Friends… not so much. Where the hell do you find a sunken living room in an apartment?

Meanwhile the downstairs in Fresh Prince was probably no larger than the Central Perk set, but it’s given angled walls that imply enormous rooms centered on the cameras. And a fancy staircase leading offscreen. And giant windows onto a hand-waved lawn. Everything is wide and open in a way the camera shows, as opposed to TV apartments, which give actors room to move but look cluttered and tight.

mindbleach ,

Experts: “If absolutely everybody stops coughing on each other for like two weeks then this can still be another non-event like H1N1.”

Morons who didn’t mask or quarantine or do anything different whatsoever: “TWOOO WEEEEEEKS!”

mindbleach ,

It is humiliating how much damage has been done to digital rights, in the name of sportsball and old movies.

mindbleach ,

> against intolerance

> against intolerance

somehow this is a contradiction

mindbleach ,

On Netflix. The service infamous for two-season dead ends.

mindbleach ,

It’s his alone, so don’t blame him.

What?

mindbleach ,

And the budget was a curse placed on him by a witch?

The man can’t be intrinsic to the show, and “part of its DNA,” and also absolved of the concrete reasons it got the usual Netflix treatment of two seasons and stone dead.

mindbleach ,

Responsibility doesn’t mean ‘only the good parts.’ The man made a show that cost a lot, for a tightfisted company that hands out third seasons approximately never, and delivered an incomplete story in two seasons. Who else on the face of god’s green earth is at fault for fans expecting a third season they definitely won’t get?

mindbleach ,

I’m not expecting anything except consistency on your part. You, personally, here, now, said: can’t blame him for the outcome.

Why.

How.

It was entirely under his control.

It was a tiredly predictable situation.

What other human being could possibly be to blame for this outcome, moreso than the guy who italicized-for-emphasis IS the show?

Instead of answering, you’ve chosen to make up a conversation you’d rather be having, with some imaginary idiot who says a bunch of things I sure didn’t.

mindbleach ,

You aren’t listening, at all.

just because you are unhappy with the outcome of the situation

I’ve never seen this show. I’m probably never going to. Apparently I wouldn’t be getting a complete story anyway, and for reasons yooou have outlined, that aspect is the director’s fault. He had two seasons to tell a complete story. He did not. He did not, knowing full well Netflix doesn’t like doing third seasons. He did not, knowing his show was unusually expensive and complicated. He did not, knowing the viewership wasn’t about to skyrocket from the known figures for season one.

And for some reason you said he’s not to blame for the incomplete story he told.

Are you suggesting he’s an idiot? Because even idiots knew about Netflix’s two-season limit. It did not sneak up on him. It was tiredly predictable. It was, and remains, the most likely outcome for any Netflix series lucky enough to get a second season. No crystal ball is required for this basic pattern recognition. Sneer all you like; it is common knowledge.

Cliffhanger endings at the best of times are a frustrating gamble against cancellation. Creators are as responsible for them as they are for every the rest of their story.

mindbleach ,

Sneering harder won’t make Netflix’s long-running habit any less predictable.

All I’m on about is what you’ve said. You refuse to say Fincher is responsible for the state of the show: incomplete and dead. Even though he’d be an idiot to expect a third season, knowing his budget and viewership numbers, and he is so thoroughly in charge of writing that he IS the show.

And now it sounds like you are trying to cope with the show being stone dead, by suggesting a third season is “not out of the question.” To paraphrase an annoying comment I recently saw: are you expecting everyone and their grandma to come running, so he can fix everybody’s schedule on a vastly lower budget?

Because I don’t.

mindbleach ,

Its not an ad hominem if it accurately labels you.

It is, though. The fallacy is an insult in lieu of an argument. Nailing the insult doesn’t count. You still forgot to have a point.

mindbleach ,

NFTs were the perfect technology to identify people who didn’t understand crypto. The only reason Bitcoin et al. even almost work is that nearly anything can be a medium of exchange… so long as it’s fungible. Which is the F theses Ts are N.

But if all you saw was numbers going up, and you don’t know what a Ponzi scheme is, yeah sure it makes total sense to buy a genuine commemorative plate of the Brooklyn Bridge. Why’s everyone on your case? It must be worth money! It’s (a receipt for a link to a picture of) the Brooklyn Bridge!

Fanbros compare stocks, but stocks are slices of a real company. You control one-zillionth of an actual business. If you own enough, that company will do what you say, because you are literally their boss. No amount of “authentic” Brooklyn Bridge tokens will ever mean you get the bridge.

Everything signifying that the exchange was worth your money is a fiction created by the people who took it. That’s how scams work.

mindbleach ,

Greater fools.

mindbleach ,

Yeah it’s almost like software-freedom ultranerds don’t buy the claims. Weird. What could it mean, for a technically-literate community with no financial interest to reject the technical claims of people who’ve bought in? Which conclusions might we possibly infer, from people who obsess over the details of decentralized systems, when they treat an allegedly decentralized ledger like pointless garbage? Who among us could theoretically derive elucidating information from the eventuality wherein diehard open-source coders dissent against conservative-adjacent libertarian tech bros vis-a-vis the merits of the latter’s supposedly relevant magic beans? Whence springs any hint of insight, whereupon a community collectively obs

mindbleach ,

NFTs were a drunken hackathon project that got wildly out of hand. They don’t even do the one thing they intended - storing tiny images. They had to settle for links.

Payment processing has literally nothing to do with NFTs.

Y’know how Inglorious Basterds spends ages humanizing individual Nazi soldiers? You get whole-ass backstories for some of them. Meanwhile the allied hit squad and resistance saboteurs are brutal, merciless, dishonest, petty, and sometimes just plain dumb. It’s like making a whole movie about the casual war crimes at the beginning of Saving Private Ryan. By giving audiences every possible opportunity to empathize with these enemy forces, Tarantino was asking if there was any point where they’d feel bad about about killing Nazis, and the answer is a pretty resounding “no.”

NFTs are like that for scams. Every possible excuse for taking them seriously has been stripped away, and some people simply do not care. You don’t get anything. You don’t really control it. It has no intrinsic function, purpose, or value, beyond what you already had before paying for it. It’s a receipt for a link to a thing that does not matter in the first place. But you slap words like “genuine” and “decentralized” on there, and it breaks people’s brains.

There really is an “official” NFT of the Brooklyn Bridge. Which means nothing. There’s no relation. It’s technically not the classic bridge-selling scam inasmuch as nobody’s selling you the bridge, but they are absolutely taking your money in exchange for fuck-all.

mindbleach ,

My guy - reality is not a team sport. It’s not zero-sum.

mindbleach ,

Needlessly serious take: the conservative worldview is loyalism. There are no objective means for evaluating claims. You can only accept or reject them based on interpersonal trust.

So the negation of “doubt everything” isn’t “don’t doubt everything.” It’s “doubt nothing.” Calling a service trustworthy is not a conditional judgement. It’s a label that means, whatever they say must be right. Reasons don’t exist. None of these labels, ours or theirs, are consistent moral judgements, or falsifiable claims. They’re allegiance. They’re statements of loyalty. They’re slogans.

We keep searching for ‘what conservatives really believe.’ But conservatives don’t believe things. Conservatives believe people.

This is every frustrating dead-end conversation you’ve had about Wikipedia, or CDC advice, or Elon Musk. Loyalists are not arguing. Argument is a process. There are rules. Rationally working from premises to conclusions is visibly not the brain activity they are engaged in. Any similarity is mimicry, like claiming “facts and logic” are on your side, or appealing to “common sense.” Disproving those words will never change anything. They’ll pick different words for the same conclusion. That’s all they think we’re doing. That’s all they think there is.

mindbleach ,

Right-wing politics are only the direct expression of this worldview. Conservatism in the sense of loyalism can exist under any philosophy… because the words don’t matter. On the left you get tankies.

Incidentally there are right-wing cranks who aren’t conservative. They sincerely believe their stupid arguments. They’re the dolts longing for “real Republicans” to come riding over the hill and boot out this sudden intrusion by… the supermajority of their peers. At some point, they bought whatever bullshit those loyalists pushed to justify the latest ingroup-uber-alles vitriol. That’s what they think “real conservatives” believe. They’re as confused as we are, when those loyalists reverse course mid-sentence to betray their stated ideals.

Those critical-minded right-wing cranks include prominent figures like celebrated Schwarzenegger, Romney, and Michael goddamn Steele. The former RNC Chairman! They rubbed elbows with loyalist cranks, for decades, and neither side recognized the other. They all think everyone’s doing whichever one they’re doing. But unlike tankies promoting strict hierarchy in the name of… not doing hierarchy… right-wing politics are so closely aligned with conservatism that they blend together.

mindbleach ,

it was the original ‘killer app’

That’d be VisiCalc from all the way back in 1979. The slam-dunk argument against Steve Jobs wanting the Apple II to be a glorified appliance with only built-in applications. A lesson he still hadn’t fucking learned by the time the iPhone came out.

Lotus 1-2-3 was the IBM PC answer to that 8-bit microcomputer program. VisiCalc had a DOS version, but it was a deliberately identical port. Bugs and all. Lotus bought the company within two years of launching its properly modern competitor.

mindbleach ,

Adoption is a feature you can’t design.

mindbleach ,

I’d use it to kill platforms.

HTML5 is a fine executable format. Electron sucks because it bundles a browser with each webpage. The technical hurdles are smaller than the mountain of usability issues we’ll have to sand down, to make “web apps” Just Work. Native apps will always be better, but we’ve accidentally done a Java with write-once-run-everywhere, and it’s ridiculous how poorly we’ve used that.

On the back end, we have nearly-invisible translation layers like WINE and fairly efficient emulators like BOCHS, so there’s no reason Windows apps shouldn’t run on everything. x86, ARM, RISC-V, whatever.

SPIR-V should already let you treat the GPU like a zillion-core CPU. Nvidia’s CUDA bullshit has gone on too long.

And then drop in some not-quite-emulators for consoles, since they’re just PCs anyway. End the charade.

mindbleach ,

You should get an air conditioner. Even just a little window unit, so there’s one room of your home that’s tolerable.

mindbleach ,

Apparently a lot of these major streaming services are discovering that they can make more from ads than people paying for the service.

Nah. They’re discovering they can make people pay and shove ads in their face.

Which is worse.

mindbleach ,

No. ‘This is trolling’ is not something trolls get to go ‘Ah-HA!’ over.

mindbleach ,

Engage with what, the childish insults?

mindbleach ,

I refuse to believe TD was ever insincere. I think sane people are just unfamiliar with how willfully stupid fascists sound as a form of cover.

The leader of the KKK refers to themselves as wizards and dragons.

mindbleach ,

Aw, did Bash.org go down?

mindbleach ,

One time I had to teach multiplication to Patrick Star.

mindbleach ,

“Dragonite again?”

“Shut up, Joy.”

mindbleach ,

I like the concept. I don’t like Nvidia making up neat gimmicks as anti-competitive behavior.

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Yesterday, popular authors including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, and George Saunders joined the Authors Guild in suing OpenAI, alleging that training the company’s large language models (LLMs) used to power AI tools like ChatGPT on pirated versions of their books violates copyright laws...

mindbleach ,

Suggesting this is a contradiction, a betrayal of stated ideals, is a damning insult.

mindbleach ,

The difference between any made-up image and actual child abuse is insurmountable.

Copy-pasting a real face onto such an image is still not the same kind of problem as child rape.

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