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Artisian

@ Artisian @lemmy.world

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  • None of this "what are you thankful for" shit today. What's something you hate?

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  • I think you are right about what causes things to go bad irl, but I actually most dislike what these reactions do to media. And there I think emotional regulation would not be sufficient for better results. Disliking would need to not be engaging in the way it is.

  • None of this "what are you thankful for" shit today. What's something you hate?

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  • I deeply hate the notion that hating things is cool, edgy, or more interesting than liking things.

  • Why does it feel like there is currently less new games, songs, YouTube videos, valuable articles and creations in general?

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  • Not my experience? Search and community have both gotten worse though, and these were great for finding good stuff.

  • In the future, there will be a sad scene of a widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse

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  • Thank you!

    Yes, TB was an example for a kind of error we make in morbid, culturally heavy places, I agree it is not a perfect analog.

  • In the future, there will be a sad scene of a widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse

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  • The claim that: avoiding grieving a pet by cloning it is bad for your mental health.

    I'm also interested in how it is bad, and how it compares to and with other treatment. I have the same gut instinct as you, I think, that pet cloning is not a good grief strategy. But I don't have data, and wasn't online much when pet cloning was a big topic. Cultures deal with death in a variety of ways, yet we have strong gut feelings for how grief should be done. I also find the idea of eating the recently dead pretty gross, for example, but this is a key step in the grief process for several cultures (and they seem to deal with grief fine).

    Not all that long ago, tuberculosis was an incurable and slow killer. People thought it was the coolest death, that the pale complexion was beautiful, and that lying in bed slowly dying of TB was the best way to write poetry, discover truth, and understand philosophy. Humanity had a lot of cope around TB. Now we can eradicate it, and I think the romanticized view of TB looks pretty bad today. No sane person gets TB intentionally to write better.

  • In the future, there will be a sad scene of a widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse

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  • Just checking: do we have a source on this? Or is this like accepting death by tuberculosis: we've romanticized a bad time.

  • In the future, there will be a sad scene of a widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse

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  • Not your weights, not your wifu. Self host your dead relatives.

  • In the future, there will be a sad scene of a widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse

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  • Where is the lie?

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  • Part of the joke I wanted is that there are several kinds of leftists, and a bunch of them view the others as liberal or conservative. I see it didn't read.

  • Where is the lie?

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  • Maybe add that leftists don't bother telling conservatives, liberals, or other leftists apart?

  • If it were possible to travel back in time and manipulate events, we could take a book back in time and publish it before the author historically does... as a prank...

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  • idk; when you talk to writers they complain about ideas being cheap and written works hard. I think for many concepts, there were poorly done versions well before something made literary history?

  • The future is now

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  • Inspired by: not your weights, not your wifu

  • The future is now

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  • Not your parameters, not your parents.

    Be sure to self-host your loved ones.

  • I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X.

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  • (Shame that the folks most institutionally able and interested in AI regulation are on the musk propaganda machine. That bothers me. But I get that many people are tired of AI being shoved in their face.)

  • I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X.

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  • There are relatively small communities that have network effects there. For example, folks working on AI research are very clearly not welcome on mastodon or bluesky. So conference announcements, new results (and hot takes on them), and funding opportunities are best found there. Used to be a functional subreddit, but the exodus and spam killed that. I assume there are a dozen similar topics.

  • How do you respond to unwanted advice?

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  • When possible, I like asking them to show me. That way you at least get to skip one work task.

  • Why do Republicans hate the poor so much?

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  • I see a lot of people answering what the Republican leadership seems to believe and do. This is very different from what the average Republican voter believes.

    Let me cover just a couple issues that drive an otherwise functional person to vote Republican:

    1. abortion. There are a shocking (and tragic) number of otherwise reasonable people who get a strong ick response to the idea of abortion. They rarely research the issue. This is an opinion so immediately visceral that they believe it is a moral law (and there are many communities that strongly reinforce this belief). I know of many folks who see the Republican corruption and the damage it's doing, but can't get through their anti-choice gut feeling to vote blue.
    2. economic interest. There are a nontrivial number of people who could lose a lot of money depending on how democratic policies are implemented. The left is a fractured mess, so no particular implementation is guaranteed. But if you keep the system around, historically you won't get harmed specifically (we all get leeched to death slowly instead). Think rent control for a family whose retirement depends on 3 rental properties. The grandkids will vote Republican to, they believe, keep Grandma solvent. (This wouldn't be an issue if large sweeping reforms were on the table. They aren't. Also these calculations are often vibes based, because who has this kind of data.) See all the incentives around NIMBY Democrats. Some previously union areas fall under this; globalization policies felt like they destroyed their communities.

    There are more. And polling will tell you about them. No need to ask other leftists (we call this an echo chamber).

  • What’s contributing most to the death of the open internet?

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  • My gut says capitalism. So I would be extremely interested in examples where:

    • There was a large open community, hosted not-for-profit
    • The community is now thoroughly dead, with no serious capitalist alternative or clear successor

    4-chan isn't dead, is still pretty open, and doesn't have a real competitor for what it is. Certain forums and chatrooms would qualify if reddit didn't exist (but reddit really clearly killed several of these).

  • I get a lot of ideas in the shower. Do any of you use any kind of waterproof note taking pad and pen so you can catch those ideas before they vanish in the steam?

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  • Haven't investigated it much, but I've been wondering if you could set your phone or something to transcribe audio and just talk out loud.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What's the Bechdel test equivalent for images?

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bechdel_test
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Men who feel like fully functional people, how did you get there?

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    What does a federal ban on price gouging look like?

    kamalaharris.com /issues/
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    What are diabetic test strips made of?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Pets are mental health barometers

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    Medlife Crisis: Should Doctors Help People End Their Lives?

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    Why can't I see posts in some local communities? (But I CAN see posts when I'm on a different device)