…appeals court sent the issue back up the chain because of the business name aspect. “Since this claim [the use of the name “Taylor Kia of Lima”] does not fall within the scope of the arbitration agreement…

Bravo. What an interesting way to anull arbitration… now I wonder how this could play with online services’ arbitration agreements…

No! Don’t be humble about that, that’s just simply how this country was founded… and I don’t mean the exploiters, I mean the countless immigrants who form the working class since then. That is more than something to take pride in.

I had a little “debate” where it was being argued the US was never a melting pot, and if it was ever, it isn’t anymore. How defeatist is that? To let the undeniable presence of so many cultures wither just as these ethnonationalists intend… You have to be bold, else you lose what you once had, or worse, never achieve anything greater.

I think you’re forgetting how much 100 billion is. The top 1% globally starts at about 1 mil USD in savings, which if a recall, even the whitest Americans are far enough from. And here a handful of multibillionaires escape to let your reductive worldview ultimately contribute nothing to any semblance of progress and further their torching of our lives.

Not only are you wrong, but you sound like a psycho with a very limited understanding of the world, no different than the uberwealthy perpetuating this.

That’s what you get for being funny on Lemmy! This is a serious people only place 🫡

They’ve neeeever let us down. Or commit any crimes for that matter. I’m sure this is just another excellent step in their beautiful vision for humanity.

I argue its worse, in the end whatever is being regurgitated from what they see on youtube ends with the video duration, but these people are to believe that these things think - hell they think the AI is smarter than themselves and defer all judgement. I wish it remained an internet phenomena but I’ve met too many true believers already 😑

/anecdote

Guy in one of my code classes, would not just fucking tell me if he wrote his code, or the AI did. I knew the AI did, because you don’t come asking why it’s not working when he didn’t declare any variables, big red error “variable not declared”. It was the end of that semester, I was there with him every single period. The audacity to have me debug the shitbot’s chicken scratch, claim its super helpful, but also cover its dumb ass by being an even bigger dumbass and fail probably the easiest javascript course you could’ve asked for. I am honestly still in awe.

I eavesdropped on a project manager really trying to convince upper management to make IT let him install an AI program that (by what I heard) would read from the screen and interact with our PMS. Straight up suggesting to have himself replaced.

I wouldn’t say this compares to say the Satanic Panic, but I mean look at how it’s being advertised - especially Apple Intelligence (seriously look it up) - this is very much the way they expect AI to be used (write my friend a birthday text, etc).

Not to mention the real material concerns over the deployment of now even more massive and power intensive datacenters, running on gas turbines because the grid can’t feasibly power it, to feed psychophantic language generators designed to keep users hooked and reaffirming even their most violent thought, even leading kids to suicide by way of delusions - again because of how these models are designed in particular, and how they’re pushed to consumers. To say there’s absolutely no actionable concern is a farce.

I wouldn’t wish the worst of dementia on almost anyone…

Lemmy tends to forget that we’re almost exclusively computer nerds. I’ve been the voice to my family and friends (hopefully not to a religious point lol) about these such issues, and they’re generally pretty receptive. But they aren’t going to go out of their way to learn what I have, nor should they. I am merely my network’s trusted IT pro, be it game servers for friends or most recently Immich for extended family.

If claiming our digital rights is framed as a free for all, we will never secure any protection before it’s too engrained to object. Together, hell look at Lemmy itself, we can not only educate people on these issues, but be the IT role that actually knows how to run whatever service in a secure and truly private manner.

PS I have to give Immich some love here, no matter how many stories like OP’s you show to someone, they aren’t going to settle for less. And now that Immich is an option for my network, its features make it barely a question for those moving off of google. Another TB of storage? That will be 40$ one time. No nags, no bullshit. And the context search is freaking amazing, without ever having to train some corps model off of (more) of your images.

Meta gets to pirate books to train on and I don’t? That’s bull honkey

Yeah fuckin bombardio crocodillo is art, come at me

I started on LW, changed to here for a more local feed but I’ve been astonished that every midwest user I’ve seen has been a gift to humanity (and my time online). So thank you for harboring such a fantastic community, it’s a nice change from larger instances. I will continue doing what I can to support and will have my eye out in case more is needed :D

I sincerely envy your wishfulness

And I haven’t been pessimistic enough to expect everything that’s already happened

God this sucks

John Leghorn is now stuck in my mind, thank you :D

I am so morbidly curious, please elaborate

You aren’t wrong about the abuse, but that doesn’t make it any less a cultural melting pot for those who, you know, don’t partake in hate crime or are themselves immigrants. Believing such has been taken or never existed only assures that they will in fact take that from us, as we do not have something which to continue fending for.

We call their evolution lazy just cause we’re jealous they finished their homework when it was assigned, and we waited until the day it was due. I was evolved to be a primate but now I have back issues because we’re bipedal. Smfh

Home assistant + frigate has been serving myself and my family on separate sites for about 2 years. It has definitely kicked my ass, but seeing “privacy friendly” reolink cameras constantly phone home on my firewall assured me it was worth it. Wireguard tunnel in and you have remote access with practically no security concerns*

Of course the AI defender uses AI to argue, because they don’t need to understand shit if their AI girlfriend takes enough time and energy from their naysayers

Nazis have always appropriated culture, since they lack the prerequisite humanity to make art of their own