I would only support Gavin Newsom's candidacy if he became homeless for a few years and demonstrated personal growth and a capacity for empathy from the experience.

From the mass employee layoffs to being caught using ChatGPT for subtitles

So caught using ChatGPT and then doubling down on using AI for subtitles in the worst possible way? Wow...

People pay for an anime streaming service to do better than fan-based translations, not worse.

When I was being raped and tortured repeatedly by a younger male family member for over 2 years and cried for help, being told that it was something I imagined or made up to stir drama was extremely heart-shattering.

It didn't matter how much physical evidence I had gathered, nobody in my life would recognize the seriousness of the situation or even take the smallest steps to prevent the abuse from happening.

I was too afraid to call the cops because even my parents refused to believe me. I lived in a very rural town which likely never encountered a situation like mine. Nobody was on my side. My abuser poisoned my family and friends against me before/during/after the abuse, to make sure I had no one to go to.

Corporations have been already making profiles of various types for a while now in the form of adtech, social media, data brokers, people search websites, credit scores, devices and services that harvest sensitive and intimate data (e.g. mobile phone apps, watching habits from smart TVs, driving data from cars).

Our society has been set up for mass surveillance in a thousand different ways as a form of social control and dominance by those who wield power.

It's time people realize that privacy is a right instead of normalizing abuses of consent.

Of course it wasn't a glitch. CNN is no longer trustworthy, not even a little bit.

This is obvious bait, but I'll bite a little.

The real experts, that sound the alarm and call us to action, are largely silenced or ignored. These people are not in leadership or positions that hold any meaningful power or influence. Our actual leadership is mostly unqualified and playing team politics and tug of war while nothing gets done and the plane crashes.

Can you blame people for raising their hands and suggesting that the pilots, who are crashing the plane through their apathy and inaction, be removed?

Direct democracy would be a wonderful concept for humanity to explore. And the experts who are on the side of progress should be allowed to spearhead initiatives to solve the various crises our species and planet faces.

Involuntary psychiatry is a violent practice that strips its victims of all human rights and effectively all due process. It is an unimaginable horror that can possibly lead to coercive psychiatry or medicalized rape.

“who appear to be mentally ill and who display an inability to meet basic living needs” could be taken against their will to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.

Not being able to provide for your needs is not mental illness. An appearance of mental illness is not proof that somebody needs involuntary commitment. First responders are not equipped to diagnose mental illness - this is a stripping of rights and imprisonment.

If somebody is unable to provide for their needs, give them the ability to do so. Provide food, real housing, actual medical care, and an option for outpatient mental health care for them to recover if they are not in crisis.

I understand some people are severely mentally ill, are in crisis, and are a DANGER to themselves and others and need care ASAP, but this is just targeting impoverished individuals, who may be homeless, based on what is effectively hearsay.

We can do better than this as a society.

I always felt like when Amazon acquired The Expanse that it was likely Bezo's fantasy to have an underclass of chronically ill, resource-starved people in space - to serve his interests and make him richer.

Glad to know I wasn't off-base.

As a US-based person, just no. It is not desirable to host anything here or to trust any US-based service for a number of reasons.

Why is our planet so boring and stupid?

Because billionaires want it to only be interesting and beneficial to themselves and their class.

People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that 'he died rich' will not be one of them

I'll just save time for my future self: He died complicit, supporting and enabling the system that creates inequality and blocks progress, and he directly stagnated technology by engaging in monopolistic practices.

Bill Gates quite obviously pays a lot for PR, and giving away wealth to those in need is obviously positive, but if he used his influence to call out Microsoft for using their technology/AI and infrastructure in war, called out the imperialism and destabilizing influence of the US empire, and so on; maybe I would have a more charitable forecast for his legacy.

I would be more than happy to be wrong and I hope I am.

How about taxing the wealthy instead of food? Taxing cars is nice too.

[Hakeem Jeffries] also, as the Blue Rose memo suggested is effective, cast the federal takeover as a “distraction” from Trump’s unpopular policies.

The future of our country is at stake...and this is our leadership?

I feel like no matter how angry you are at the state of the world or at other people, how outraged you are at the injustice and self-destructive trajectory humanity is on, empathy is a solid foundation for radicalization.

Crowd-sourcing the collection of data in a controlled, natural fashion through a non-scientist user is likely a lot more valuable and realistic than observing or collecting data about non-wild Pokemon in a laboratory, by themselves in the wild, or through other known resources.

If you didn't organically and intimately interact with a Pokemon without bias/filtering the situation through the lens of science, how can you truly claim any understanding?

From the user's pespective, the lack of available data by default ensures that the user collects the best data, even if it does briefly explain the Pokemon upon observation - likely to serve as a warning of potential danger or to provide a brief explanation to avoid user bias to appearances.

It's ALMOST like factory farming isn't a profitable or a sane practice. /s

Unsurprising that he uses slave labor, too.

I usually do my best to have substantive layman takes on topics like these, but truly, fuck the economy - the AI bubble bursting will solve nothing for regular people.

I doubt they 1) pay well 2) have decent working conditions 3) are looking very hard 4) want Americans at all - instead wanting H-2A workers to replace the undocumented immigrants they are used to exploiting.

I know it's tough. Apparently I was ahead of the curve of most people and hit where you are at over a decade ago — with everybody around me and online calling me paranoid for thinking corporations/et. al are making people sick through their greed and apathy.

Corporations surely have known this stuff is harmful for a long time – but all they care about is selling a viable, cheap, scalable product, and marketing it to the masses to achieve wild success.

It gets better, I promise. Glass is my personal answer to plastic.

Control what you can, don't spiral into hopelessness, and advocate for real regulation and higher standards for corporations — so they can't simply go to market with harmful or toxic products.