Just explain to the students that it’s like a calculator except the answers might be wrong.

You’re right of course, but we are talking about two different things.

plus as a park ranger you gotta be a fucking cop. no thanks, never. ACAB.

yes but ultimately perception is reality.

Well hopefully I would be ejected from the gravitational pull of Earth and sent into the far reaches of space where I would float for billions and billions of years. Eventually, I would be found by an advance space faring species and reanimated, thus starting my triumphant bid to take back my home planet, only to learn that humans died off billions of years ago and an newly emerging, yet rather intelligent homonid has evolved on a planet Earth that has healed from it’s homo sapien induced climate disaster.

By now, the planet’s tectonic forces will have moved the crust into a “neo-pagea”, in fact this has happened a few times over by now, and our old home’s surface is unrecognizable from what I would have left behind…

My first plan will be to plant an obelisk on the planet, to see how these new hominids behave.

Here’s my argument: tough titties. Everything Greg Rutkowski has ever drawn or made has been inspired by other things he has seen and the experiences of his life, and this applies to all of us. Indeed, one cannot usually have experiences without the participation of others. Everyone wants to think they are special, and of course we are to someone, but to everyone no one is special. Since all of our work is based upon the work of everyone who came before us, then all of our work belongs to everyone. So tough fucking titties, welcome to the world of computer science, control c and control v is heavily encouraged.

In that Beatles documentary, Paul McCartney said he thought that once you uttered the words into the microphone, it belonged to everyone. Little did he know how right he actually was.

You think there is a line between innovation and infringement? Wrong, They are the same thing.

And for the record, I’m fine with anyone stealing my art. They can even sell it as their own. Attribution is for the vain.

I mean, this isn’t that surprising as the algorithm is intended for full dopamine distribution. It’s like a fucking dopamine faucet and we are all just a bunch of apes.

I don’t think the idea should be to make the algorithm’s ungameable because I feel like that is literally impossible with humans. The first rule of web dev or game dev is that the users are going to find ways to use your site, app, software, or api in ways you never intended regardless of how long you, or even a team of people, think about it.

I’d rather see something where the algorithm is open and pieces of it are voted on by the users and other interested parties. Perhaps let people create and curate their own algorithm’s, something like playlist curation on spotify or youtube but make it as transparent as possible, let people share them and such. Kind of like how playlists are shared.

Meh, there is always some kind of feature it’s missing that I want from the official app or one of it’s competitors. I tried it for a while but ultimately went back to my regular apps.

This would be like creating a family safe environment and forgetting to require clothing so a bunch of nudists show up and you’re like “WHOOPS? WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF CLOTHING?” Then when the parents are like “what the hell?” you replied with “I MEAN THIS STUFF HAPPENS YOU KNOW?”

disallowing the nword in the username is like beginner level business requirements dude.

This could be an innocuous regex bug, but considering the founder and that there have already been reports of black users being harangued on the platform, I don’t think we should give any benefit of the doubt. It definitely helps that they fixed it so quickly… normally a shit company wouldn’t do anything for months and months or even years or try to fall behind some “free speech” simpleton kindergarten reasoning. People have been putting nword in their usernames for decades so I don’t think this is something where the devs can claim they didn’t see this coming.

Looks nice but I wouldn’t mind a light mode…

People act like facebook isn’t a hellspawn of far right hatred, fascism, and general stupidity in all of it’s glorious forms. I’m just fine with my instance defederating them because Im just fine with not seeing posts from Moms for Liberty, or proud boys, or ivermectin treatments, or whatever the fuck goes on over there now a days. If I wanted to see facebook shit, I’d go to fuckin’ facebook wouldn’t I? It has little to do with corporate or not corporate.