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[-] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 48 points 9 months ago

If we're talking about the same thing, it was melamine to cheat up apparent protein content in baby formula but yes, three people got a death sentence for it

[-] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 43 points 9 months ago

the guy's not just getting a paycheck, he's doing pretty well and even founded a (Star Citizen-esque) movie production company, all while lifting his content from marginalized authors that often struggle financially themselves (or are dead, in some cases)

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[-] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 45 points 10 months ago

it's pretty fucked watching the consent being manufactured right in front of your eyes and you can scream your head off, it's just proceeding

[-] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 74 points 10 months ago

He did say he'd go on an adventure

[-] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 47 points 10 months ago

I feel like a dog that finally caught its own tail, like, I should've prepared something for this occasion.
I can only hope others planned ahead where I didn't. Looking forward to some cream of the crop RIP Bozo content

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Did you know? (hexbear.net)

love that 'make up a bullshit article about anything' LLM "encyclopedia", it's a wonderfully useful creation with many real world applications

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net to c/podcasts@hexbear.net

Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation (1976) by Joseph Weizenbaum displays the author's ambivalence towards computer technology and lays out the case that while artificial intelligence may be possible, we should never allow computers to make important decisions because computers will always lack human qualities such as compassion and wisdom.

Weizenbaum makes the crucial distinction between deciding and choosing. Deciding is a computational activity, something that can ultimately be programmed. It is the capacity to choose that ultimately makes one a human being. Choice, however, is the product of judgment, not calculation. Comprehensive human judgment is able to include non-mathematical factors such as emotions. Judgment can compare apples and oranges, and can do so without quantifying each fruit type and then reductively quantifying each to factors necessary for mathematical comparison.

Part 2 here

[-] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 58 points 10 months ago

No, just the economics wanna-be Nobel prize

Peter Nobel describes the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel as a "false Nobel prize" that dishonours his relative Alfred Nobel, after whom the prize is named, and considers economics to be a pseudoscience.

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text they're talking about: Between the Sea and the Security Fence

In each case, the abstract works to optimize and rationalize all of the violence that relentlessly circulates, to classify life so as to better calculate and complete its destruction, to give form to a war and peace that only promise to annihilate you at different speeds.

[-] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago

very funny even. With an added "LOL. LMAO, even" at the bottom.

Must be some positively hilarious fascists over there

[-] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

I think it just lists us there because some instances block hexbear? Like, isn't the point of Fediseer that there isn't one one-size-fits-all blocklist but you can sort of aggregate your blocklist based on which other instances you trust (and populate your blocklist with their blocklist and vice versa)

Also, I found this album of receipts regarding the bad behavior of hexbear. Check it out, it's a hoot

[-] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago

you wouldn't believe how excited germans get, when they hear someone else out there is supposedly doing a bit of a genocide

they fall over themselves to condemn, of course. Turns out, most of the world is actually worse than hitler, huh. Convenient, I guess

[-] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

michael-laugh the telsa thing has got to be a micro-bit too right

[-] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Yea, and also, like - the human eye is incredibly good at noticing any deviation from perfectly flat, especially if you're talking about a semi-reflective bare-metal surface. Any little imperfection will immediately draw your eye because light bounces off it weird. There's a reason every car manufacturer ever only evokes the sense of flatness, but usually incorporates some more complex bends, light lines, stuff that both serves stability functions, helps when the panel will inevitably contract or extend due to thermal differences annnnd makes you not see little imperfections in the geometry as easily.

[-] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

There are 40 vanguard parties.

We're gonna found the ultimate revolutionary vanguard party to unite all vanguard parties!

There are 41 vanguard parties.

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The invasive species is one concept among many inculcated by capitalist ideology, sublimating our intertwined social and ecological crises, transforming them into problems amenable to various kinds of security regimes. From border walls to fish dams, from militarized police departments to invasive species eradication campaigns, the capitalist state can only do so much to tamp down the mounting symptoms of an economic order at war with the planet’s ecology, and therefore its own survival. Consigned to leaving the roots untouched—that is, to ensure the reproduction of capitalism at all costs—the masters of humankind are vigorously pruning the branches that support their own weight.

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