None? I don't debate that Blue Sky is corporate-owned while Bitcoin and the Fediverse aren't. Rather, I'm saying the thing they all have in common is that they like to think of themselves as "decentralized" federations of independent systems and users, but in reality they are all "centralized" systems with shared weaknesses. This is the "ideological contradiction" I thought you were referring to.
HarkMahlberg
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This is the same criticism that was made of cryptocurrency's claim to fame regarding decentralization, consensus, and resilience to authoritarian takeover.
"If you take all these different parts of your identity, all the games you play, all the things you buy, all the groups you join, and stick them into one system, that's a central system. It doesn't matter how many servers that system spans, you've pooled all that data in one place."
And ultimately we can make the same criticism of the Fediverse itself. It's nice that there are different platforms, different instances, different communities... but it's still just one entity at the end of the day. This is especially apparent with the spam wave we just saw. Misskey, Mastodon, Lemmy, even kbin was not invulnerable. You don't need to attack them individually, you can attack them all at once, and then they will naturally spread your attack to other instances for you.
Super bowl ads don't mean anything. The crypto world also ran ads before/at the super bowl, look how they're doing now.
New Hampshire is pissed that someone used an AI Biden voice to spread voter disinformation.
If it's not already there, AI is quickly approaching the FO phase of FAFO.
Locked out of hotel rooms
How does that happen? Concierge assumes you're not the person on the booking?
Almost makes me nostalgic for the way clothing used to work in Cyberpunk 2077.
"We have Fandango at home."
Fandango At Home at home:
The value-add is the comedy of a man pretending an Intel Q6600 is better than a Ryzen 3600X.
Yeah that's the guy. Hilarious to see he thinks his garbage biased opinion is worth any amount of money.
I love my Grados for that exact reason
Poor Duolingo. Once upon a time I used it to learn Japanese, but by the time I could start reading kanji and noticed that duolingo was still constructing sentences entirely out of hiragana, I knew I had outgrown it and moved on to Anki.
Using AI to learn a new language has to be incredibly frustrating - you can either tell where's messing up, or you can't tell at all and then you learn incorrect information..