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DegenerateSupreme

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  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter

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  • CEO complains that his blatant circular investment infinite money glitch isn't convincing people that these perpetually unprofitable businesses are actually worth further investment.

  • Take the plea deal

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  • Like, there's no way in hell these files haven't been doctored, right? Months of obfuscation and deflection, and then suddenly Trump's fine to sign their release? There's no way.

  • Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

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  • Why the hell did The Guardian include comment from an Amazon Spokesperson? ''Nuh uh, that's not true'' no fucking duh that's their response.

  • Discussion: Your recent privacy wins?

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  • Got a secondhand Pixel phone and installed GrapheneOS. I love it.

  • Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

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  • I know it’s not for everyone, but my Light Phone III arrives soon and tech headlines of late aren’t making me regret my choice.

  • Demand has been 'very strong' and 'outpaced supply' for AMD's RX 9000-series cards according to CEO Dr. Lisa Su, as anyone who's tried to buy one can attest

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  • I'm so confused by this common sentiment in the community. I've been gaming on Arch / NixOS for the past several months with an NVIDIA card after I switched earlier this year. Basically no issues.

    Meanwhile, my buddy converted to Manjaro, and has a Radeon. He's been having awful issues. Several of the games he plays crash constantly, especially if they are multiplayer. He tried switching to openSUSE recently; no real improvements.

    I wanted to buy AMD for my eventual next card, but now I'm terrified of doing so, and deeply confused why everyone says AMD is better for Linux.

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    New Report: Employers in the USA Have Stolen Over $50 Trillion From Workers Since 1975

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  • Precisely this. Leftist rhetoric about wages is often framed for other leftists, without addressing the core arguments underpinning centrist and conservative views on why the rich “deserve” their wealth. People say “theft” without making arguments for why our definition of theft needs to change.

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    New Report: Employers in the USA Have Stolen Over $50 Trillion From Workers Since 1975

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  • I’m in complete agreement with this perspective, but rarely do I see discussions like this address the sticking point centrists and conservatives get hung up on: they don’t believe this is “theft.”

    When I told my coworker about the historic productivity-to-wages gap, she argued (paraphrasing), “Could it not be that gap is reflective of the CEOs innovating ways to make their workers increasingly productive, while the value of those workers’ labor hasn’t actually increased, therefore explaining why the minds behind those innovations deserve the wealth?”

    This conversation will go nowhere if we keep throwing around terms like “wage theft” and skipping step 1 where we argue the moral determination as to why that is true.

  • Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'

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  • I feel conflicted. On one hand, people can regulate themselves, and Facebook becoming a bigoted cesspit may bring more people to a moderated Fediverse.

    On the other hand, these major platforms having such user monopoly and influence can cause unfettered hate speech to breed violence.

    I’m conflicted about the idea that an insidious for-profit megacorporation should be expected to uphold a moral responsibility to prevent violence; their failure to do so might be a necessary wake-up call that ultimately strips them of that problematic influence. Thoughts?

  • Trump details plan to ban gender-affirming care for minors and adults

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  • I was naive to think they'd try easing into this stuff, but — perhaps fortunately for public outrage and taking action — they are being loud and clear about it. Really just no subtlety whatsoever to the fascist horror.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump details plan to ban gender-affirming care for minors and adults

    tribune.com.pk /story/2508882/trump-details-plan-to-ban-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-and-adults

  • Trump wins.

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  • Watching the count last night, I remarked to my friend that Democrats lost people in the middle—the undecided voters whose existence I struggled to understand a few months ago—because they don't actually have any principles and convictions; if they did, they'd eventually have to address issues that neoliberal capitalists want people to ignore, so they remain ineffectual and uninspiring.

    Thus, white middle-class centrists who don't actually comprehend the threat to minority groups drifted back into their nostalgic dreams of 'smaller government' and 'lower taxes', regardless of being presented no evidence those things will be delivered. In their minds, those theoretical ideals are more exciting than another establishment Democrat with no values who does nothing to speak to their woes.

  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    New World: Aeternum, for the game players love to hate and hate to love!

    lemmy.zip /c/new_world_mmo
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    The New World: Aeternum community is live!

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  • Not everything needs to be Art

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  • Agreed. The problem is that so many (including in this thread) argue that training AI models is no different than training humans—that a human brain inspired by what it sees is functionally the same thing.

    My response to why there is still an ethical difference revolves around two arguments: scale, and profession.

    Scale: AI models’ sheer image output makes them a threat to artists where other human artists are not. One artist clearly profiting off another’s style can still be inspiration, and even part of the former’s path toward their own style; however, the functional equivalent of ten thousand artists doing the same is something else entirely. The art is produced at a scale that could drown out the original artist’s work, without which such image generation wouldn’t be possible in the first place.

    Profession. Those profiting from AI art, which relies on unpaid scraping of artists’s work for data sets, are not themselves artists. They are programmers, engineers, and the CEOs and stakeholders who can even afford the ridiculous capital necessary in the first place to utilize this technology at scale. The idea that this is just a “continuation of the chain of inspiration from which all artists benefit” is nonsense.

    As the popular adage goes nowadays, “AI models allow wealth to access skill while forbidding skill to access wealth.”