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This city doesn’t know what’s coming
She doesn’t feel the heat
This city won’t know what hit her
What knocked her out into the streets
This city’s thinking that it’s over
And she’s already fast asleep

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: June 18th, 2023
  • Kill_joy@kbin.socialtoTechnology@kbin.social•Google Bard hallucinates a solar sail that travels "100 times the speed of light"
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    1 year ago

    I recently remembered a song I enjoyed in high school but couldn’t remember some lyrics. It was an old punk song - not super popular but also had a video on MTV and was a big hit amongst fans of the genre.

    I asked it for the lyrics of the song and it said “sure here are the lyrics for the song by the band” and it literally made the whole thing up. I asked 5 more times for accurate lyrics and it just kept apologizing for making them up and promising the next one would be right.

    My wife was also watching old episodes of shark tank the other night and asked me to find out if a product was successful after no deals were made. I asked Bard and it told me about how 2 investors fought over the product, a successful deal was made, and the company did 2 mil in profits in 2022. Knowing that they did not make a deal, I just did a regular bing search and learned the company actually went bankrupt before that episode even aired in 2012.

    Bard is literal horse shit and if people do not check their facts after engaging with it they will be fucked. It is 100% confident in the information it fabricates.

  • Kill_joy@kbin.socialtoMusic@lemmy.world•What are some songs or albums that transcend their artist or genre?
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    1 year ago

    Gonna just drop John Frusciante in here.

    Vastly known as the on again/off again guitarist of the red hot chili peppers, few realize he’s an extremely established solo artist whose discography blows minds as he dips his toes into so many genres.

    I’ve been a fan of JF’s solo work for over 15 years now and it still hits just as hard.

    Curtains - classical/art/folk
    The Empyrean - experimental/psychedelic
    Shadows Collide with People - indie
    To Record Only Water for Ten Days - lo-fi synth pop
    The Will to Death - alt rock
    Maya - jungle electrnica

  • Kill_joy@kbin.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.world•What does defederating from Meta's Threads.net actually accomplish?
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    1 year ago

    From what I have read, I think it’s all of the above.

    • a space is wanted free from corps, ads, data perversion

    • people are fearful that 30 million people joining threads has automatically made it the largest instance. Once it integrates with ActivityPub and can federate, it will dominate the space and produce the majority of the content. People are fearful then meta will retract it/ defederate and take the majority of content and content production with it (EEE). This would effectively kill the fediverse.

    • many believe meta will not act in good faith and is doing this to appease European courts and laws

    Because of all of this people likely believe keeping threads quarantined right off the bat is the best solution to mitigate the amount of damage they can do to what’s already been established.

    Edit: I am adding to this post as I just stumbled across a post from the host of the lemm.ee instance (which I am a big fan of). He has also listed some great cons of Facebook stepping into the fediverse:

    -there is nothing stopping facebook from sending out ads as posts/comments with artificially inflated scores which would ensure they end up on the front page of “all” for federated servers
    -threads already has more users than all of Lemmy’s instances… therefore, they can completely control what the front page looks like by dictating what their users see and vote on
    -moderation does not seem like a priority for threads which would increase workload for smaller instances
    -REVENUE FOCUSED

    I paraphrased a lot of this but as this is getting some traction I wanted to provide additional visibility to the cons of federating with the Facebook.

  • Kill_joy@kbin.socialtoReddit Migration@kbin.social•So IAMA is practically dead...
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    1 year ago

    but that’s what this post is, they’re quitting. did you reply in the wrong thread or something?

    They’re not quitting. They are going to continue to moderate their sub. Yes they have agreed to no longer do a huge laundry list of responsibilities they took upon themselves to improve their sub - but they are not quitting.

    Quitting would truly impact reddit. Losing this group of moderators who have built relationships with agents and PR groups would be huge. They are literally unreplaceable. It would take reddit years to get mods in place that could do what these do on the daily. But they are unable to quit because they don’t want to give up their throne and things will eventually return to normal without reddit conceding an inch.

    Look at the media coverage losing r/Minecraft got because those devs/mods had the courage and backbone to quit. We need more of that.

    Even in their letter, the mods of IAMA said they’d been asking for tools since 2015. No changes. 8 years and they still haven’t gotten what they wanted. Yet they refuse to take the next necessary step. To quit.

    Sunk cost fallacy and power hungry are a terribly greedy combination.

  • Kill_joy@kbin.socialtoReddit Migration@kbin.social•So IAMA is practically dead...
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    1 year ago

    It’s funny… Moderators are SO hungry for power that they just can’t let go. If the moderators for huge subs like IAMA, PICS, etc. dropped the cutesy meming bullshit “protests” and just simply quit doing the job for free, some damage could actually be done to reddit.

    But these people are simply too invested in the communities they built and in love with the power they have to let go of the dead corpse they are clinging to.