Moreover, legitimate fascists and reactionaries are not the same as "well-meaning but misinformed" people
Yeah, this is the big point. If they're "...[invalidating] your humanity, and the humanity of people you love," they are just abusing your patience, and don't deserve it. Fuck those people.
Using pine for flavoring is not weird, it just sounds like Scandinavia must not use as many/as dangerous chemicals on their trees. I imagine they wouldn't have to, because every tree can be a Christmas tree up there lol
Every game borrows from other games' ideas and mechanics
It's not only games, this is just straight-up how art works. Culture develops over time. Of course capitalism had to get a middleman in there lol
Yes, a pleb that clicked a link that brought the org to an expensive screeching halt for weeks, would have been fired
Where are you that you could face such a steep punishment? Setting up safe, automatic tormenting is really easy
Here's an article from the IEEE about the issues with AI energy consumption. This article specifies that they're discussing the requirements of LLMs and new generative AI. The article we're commenting under wasn't that cut and dry about it, but a basic understanding of the context of the world should be all a reasonable person needs to figure that out
If you want to talk about machine learning in general, that's a different conversation. Like it or not, colloquially, AI is LLMs and chatbots
If the next new industry is an energy hungry propaganda machine, yes I will
One industry? People are so mad at AI because it's just another industry, a new one with massive environmental impact, and basically no real use outside of generating misinformation and stealing from artists. It's the absolute worst face of the tech sector, and totally deserving of all the hate it receives.
That platform could be used by anyone though, so long as they look suspicious enough.
That just doesn't exist. Probably the biggest obstacle to large-scale fediverse adoption at the moment is just that it requires a little more effort to sign up. Lots of people get turned off by picking an instance