Kichae

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Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger

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Kichae,

It's a branch of sociology dominated by people who refuse to accept sociological research practices in the name of deluding themselves that they're uncovering grand truths about the universe. It would be hilarious and sad if politicians and journalists didn't listen to them.

Kichae,

But how far away is the chemist's?

Kichae,

Because they sold a whole bunch of copies.

Kichae,

"Way to politicise this political issue!" - Morons everywhere

Kichae,

None of you AI boosters can make a coherent and cogent argument in good faith. Why is that?

Kichae,

Sleep quality is a relatively recent core marketing element for blue blockers. Back in the day, they leaned heavily on glare and eye strain.

Kichae,

Now it's "a person who doesn't watch our ads isn't using up bandwidth"

Kichae,

I looked at it an hour ago, and all I could see was white and gold. I picked up my phone now, and it's blue and black. Your brain is going to interpret it based on the context within which you've been in, and what the local lighting conditions are.

FWIW, as others have mentioned, the actual dress was, in fact, blue and black.

YouTube Can Read All Text Inside Your Videos and Flag It for Violations (stackdiary.com)

Sam Oh, the Vice President of Marketing at Ahrefs, recently shed light on this capability. Oh disclosed that a video posted by Ahrefs was flagged by YouTube for a rather unexpected reason. The video in question displayed a snippet from a book, and within that snippet was the name “Donald Trump.”....

Kichae,

Money costs money for the first time since 2008.

Kichae,

The first question asked about "global warming", the 2nd uses the phrase "climate change", and a significant percentage of the population -- and particularly Republican voters -- is made up of raging morons and brainwashed suckers.

Kichae,

They have one, though it's still incomplete and experimental.

Kichae,

And employers are never abusive.

Kichae,

It does, but it's still attached to all of the bullshit in Jira. It's one more thing to look at there, not the thing that's used to manage.

Kichae,

Bingo.

They said -- out loud, with words, as well as with actions -- that they neither trust nor respect us. Many of them installed tracking software on remote hardware so that they could be alerted if employees took their hands off of their mouses long enough to even think, because if we're not living in their own panopiticons, they think we're all trying to fuck them over.

Which, to me, is the admission that they're actively and consciously trying to fuck us over.

They're not upset today that RTO hampered "productivity", because they don't care about that. They were, and are, willing to pay the price in order to physically lord themselves over people. What they regret is that people quit, and they've struggled to hire, and those that they have interviewed have made demands of them -- like higher wages, or to be able to work remotely.

They regret the feeling that they lost power when attempting to reassert it.

Kichae,

I spent the first year of covid working from the couch, and it was more than fine, at least from a work perspective. I was more productive there, I think, than I am in my home office! But it robbed me of my den. I was only able to be productive in that space by it no longer being a relaxation and entertainment space. So, I had to reclaim it.

But still, the idea of working from a comfortable space is something employers see as unprofessional, and a sign you're not actually working. They're wrong, but perception always wins out. And in their minds, that's what we're doing when working from home - being comfortable, relaxing, and not doing any work.

Employers have publicly accused employees of "time theft" over and over again since lockdowns started, and have brought it up in almost every discussion about RTO. They see people working from their living room as this "time theft", even as the amount of work that they get done has remained consistent with, or even higher than, what they got done at the office. Simply by being at home, were theives in their minds. Because they can't be creepy little shits and stand to greet us when we get back from lunch 2 minutes late, or time how long we're in the bathroom.

Kichae,

That would just require them to admit that, as managers, their jobs are to sit in meetings and delegate work. Currently, most of them don't want to admit that - especially upper management about middle management - but as soon as they needed some kind of quantitative measure to highlight their productivity, it would be normalized and accepted.

Kichae,

Nah, being at work was driving me towards a nervous breakdown. Open office + management that liked to just drop in at my desk uninvited and without a heads up had me an absolute wreck.

I did not handle the panopiticon well.

You could place me next door to the office, and it would have been the same.

Kichae,

My issue is working around people.

Kichae,

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Kichae,

Block the sub and find a meme community that's sanitized to your liking.

Kichae,

"No"

Kichae,

It was fall, 2002. It was the start of my 2nd year of university, and I had just moved into a basement apartment with my new roommates, who I'd known from residence the previous year. It was only my 2nd year living away from home, and I hadn't adjusted to the new region of the country in any way. I was 2000 km from home. My roommates all grew up within a few hundred km of school.

So, when I looked up one afternoon and saw... THAT clinging to the hallway ceiling, I didn't know what to make of it. We have centipedes back home, but they're small, narrow, and live under rocks. Nothing about them suggested that what I was looking at then was related to them (other than that they both had way, way too many legs). So, I was... concerned, but mostly that I'd meet these alien things from this sometimes alien feeling place regularly.

I grabbed some tupperware so that I could capture it and ask my roommates about it, because surely they'd know what it was. But when I brought the plastic container up to meet the ceiling, the thing made off down the hallway like it was trying to win the 100 metre dash. After several attempts at trying to encapsulate the thing, I accidentally squished it between the edge of the container and the ceiling. This was, at least, enough to actually get it out of the house.

On my way to the back door, I passed one of my roommate's rooms, and poked my head in to acquire about the still squirming hellspawn hanging out of the plastic tub, expecting to discover the name of this fell beast, but all he did was back away in disgust, declaring much more loudly than I think he intended that he didn't know.

So, lacking a proper name, we just called them "evil bugs". Thankfully, we only found a few more of them over the next few years.

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I don't miss Ontario.

Kichae,

Hey look, it's one of those "This doesn't affect me, so why should I give a shit?" types! With enough training, they evolve into "Why didn't anyone warn me??!?" types.

Kichae,

"I only hear about things from people who talk about things"

Kichae,

Yeah, I use Vivaldi at work. I love it.

It's not on my personal devices, but if work is going to default to Chrome anyway, I may as well be using the best version of it.

Kichae,

We've already seen the upward evolution of high wasted jeans, and it's coveralls.

Kichae,

I think they articulate themselves just fine. They're here to roll around in the mud, not to make things better.

Kichae,

Bots picking the questions, bots answering them. They clearly understand whatever the fuck the captcha bot thinks a bus is better than I do.

Kichae,

Yeah, you can't buy... anything that Radio Shack used to sell at the Source. It's just cell phones and headphones now. It was still pretty ass before Bell bought it, but at least it had, you know, basic things like cables and solder when Circuit City owned it.

Kichae,

Could somebody explain why this is bad?

Consent.

I don't consent to my copyrighted material -- which is literally everything I write and post online, including this comment -- being included in these products. In some cases, I have implicitly consented to allowing this to happen via the EULA of websites I've used over the years, but having them actively scraping the web for content means they're directly bypassing any agreements I may have made with service providers, and that they're collecting my copyrighted works without my ever having done business of any sort with them.

I haven't agreed to contribute to their for-profit operation, I'm not being compensated in any way for this participation -- whether financially or via the providing of a service -- and I don't believe they have any moral right to decide that I'm going to contribute whether I want to or not.

They can fuck right off.

Kichae,

LLMs create statistical distributions of words and phrases based on ingested data, and then sample those distributions given conditional probabilities.

Why should for-profit companies have the right to create these statistical distributions based on our written works without consent? They're not publishing these distributions, and the purpose of ingesting these texts is not to report on the distributions.

They're just bottom-trawling the internet and acting as if they have every right to use other peoples' written works. While people are having "serious discussions" around it, they're moving forward, ignoring the discussions entirely, and trying to force the conclusion of those discussions to be "well, it's too late now, anyway".

Kichae,

The expectation that things are not private is totally different from the expectation that things are not being harvested for profit, though. Harvesting things for profit is transforming the public into the private.

Kichae, (edited )

He wasn't happy to add quote toots, though. There's a whole Mastodon mythology built up around quotes.

Then the Elon account boom ended, and suddenly he was happy to do it.

Hes happy to do whatever gives him positive attention.

Kichae,

Feminism left men behind

I'm sorry, but WTF? I don't know how you look at feminism with any kind of understanding and walk away with that impression.

The fact that, as men, we've collectively ignored feminism's every attempt to help us, while whining that women are helping themselves and each other, doesn't mean that feminism has left us behind. It means we've refused help and to help ourselves.

Kichae,

Anonymity comes from your pseudonym. Your behaviours in public are public.

Kichae,

We did!

https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2017/pure-silver-coin---star-trek-u.s.s.-enterprise-ncc-1701---mintage-1000-2017

https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2016/iconic-star-trek-scenes---1-oz.-pure-silver-coloured-3-coin-subscription-2016

https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2016/star-trek-enterprise---$20-for-$20-fine-silver-coin-2016

The Royal Canadian Mint even has a Memory Alpha entry: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mint

Kichae,

I don't think these people are fearing meth.

Kichae,

Those are action RPGs.

Kichae,

It's easier to read for understanding off of paper. Easier to mark up text and make notes. Easier to learn off of. The use and flexibility for learners and knowledge workers is still unchallenged.

Kichae,

Depends on how one defines "win".

We coulda gotten more people here. Reddit's kind of the perfect centralized service to decentralize. Major subreddits have millions of subscribers and mods with years of experience managing large communities. Many of them could have set up their own Lemmy servers and just said "we're over here now". You get a few large, but still not exactly mainstream r/all kind of subreddits doing that, and things could've been significantly different.

At the same time, there are several ordres of magnitude more people here now than there was before, and the space isn't showing any signs of dying. That's kind of a big L for Reddit, as they're going to continue enshitifying themselves in the months and years ahead, and there's a legit, if somewhat underground, alternative space for people to go when they're finally fed up. Now with an insane amount of mobile app support, to boot.

Kichae, (edited )

I've been waiting for a flexible, two page, tabloid sized e-newspaper for, like, 20 years now.

Kichae,

As an elder Millennial, I'm left wondering WTF I missed in 2006?!? All the girls in high school were wearing Doc Martins, turtle necks, and low-cut jeans while sporting streaky highlights in their hair, and all of the girls in college were wearing Uggs and puffy coats with faux-fur hoods. There was none of... Whatever this is.

Kichae,

Eh. Generations are defined by a lot more than what clothes someone wore or what TV shows were being broadcast. Those things move quickly. Generations are usually marked by larger cultural touchstones.

There are quite a few ways to try and slice the Millennial/Gen Z divide, for instance. An easy-on-paper ones are things like what generation your parents belonged to (Boomers/Gen X, respectively), for instance, though that just kind of pushes the issue back to a different generational divide. Or there's the "do you remember the world before 9/11 happened?" metric. These point to differences in parenting, or differences in the larger socio-political culture within which one had their formative years, and they're far, far wider reaching than fast fashion.

Kichae,

No generational rule is hard and fast. They're all broad stroke generalities.

You can't even go based on year, because sociologists disagree on which years to use.

Kichae,

I mean, I guess I'm in the southern part of Canada.

Kichae,

This continues to seem like an absolute win for anyone using Facebook in Canada. The key here is that they're not blocking links to Canadian news sites, but to all new sites for users in the country.

That's going to fundamentally change the kind of content users see in their streams.

That is, of course, if Meta actually upholds the blackout of all news sites. Waiting to see what kind of fashy bullshit is actually allowed in still.

Kichae,

Sings songs about Bilbo Baggins.

Kichae,

Indeed.

It's telling that "basic dignity" or "managers who aren't dicks" didn't make the list.

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