Software developer by day, insomniac by night.

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Are you sure that’s what they’re trying to do?

    I often see people waving away the incremental enshittification of social systems in my country by saying “at least it’s not like the U.S.” but to me that’s burying the bar.

    China and the USA are both run by nasty regimes, they suck in different ways (albeit increasingly less so), but you couldn’t pay me to live in either place.

    Apples to oranges, but since they’re both rotted what virtue is there in accepting either one?


  • It amuses me that expressing understanding with the retaliation is forbidden. I definitely understand why a militant extremist group has arisen after decades of oppression and genocide.

    Like, how do you negotiate your way out of that peacefully? Where in history has oppression on that level been defeated through diplomacy?

    I seem to have forgotten the part where the allies defeated Nazi Germany by asking nicely. Surely no war was fought for recognising black people as humans in the U.S.

    Perhaps Ukraine should put down their weapons and ask Russia to pretty please stop invading their country and killing their people.

    Ugh.











  • Was listening to my go-to podcast during morning walkies with my dog. They brought up an example where some couple was using ShatGPT as a couple’s therapist, and what a great idea that was. Talking about how one of the podcasters has more of a friend like relationship to “their” GPT.

    I usually find this podcast quite entertaining, but this just got me depressed.

    ChatGPT is by the same company that stole Scarlett Johansson’s voice. The same vein of companies that thinks it’s perfectly okay to pirate 81 terabytes of books, despite definitely being able to afford paying the authors. I don’t see a reality where it’s ethical or indicative of good judgement to trust a product from any of these companies with information.