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It’s also been used as a symbol of the Russian invasion (since during the initial attack, the Russians used Z, V, and O as markings on their vehicles. Fortunately, O never seemed to catch on at all, probably cause it’s too generic a shape.) You saw it sometimes in Russian propaganda alongside the Z, especially towards the beginning of the war. But it seems like it’s been mostly phased out in favor of focusing on Z in the last few months.

And yes, can’t believe I forgot about Q! Although that’s probably a good thing, because it hopefully means QAnon’s peaked and is starting to fade? Finger crossing intensifies

So now the fascists have wrecked X, V, and Z. Taking all bets which letter’s next on the chopping block!

Yeah, to be honest I’m a bit worried studios might use this technology to start changing lines in already released movies, so subtly only film buffs who know the film line-for-line would ever notice.

Even done for well-intentioned reasons (like removing slurs from old-timey movies) it would open up a whole moral and ethical can of worms about whitewashing the past. And I have zero faith in studios to do it for well-intentioned reasons-- especially not when they’re under pressure by religious fanatics, authoritarian governments, etc.

Also, for some reason the dub and subtitles use different translations, so the character will be saying one thing and the subs will read something completely different. It’s confusing AF. Often end up getting so frustrated I just turn off the dub and focus exclusively on the subs.

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Yep, they define social fucking democrats as being “centrists”, while simultaneously trying to convince you far-right extremists are poor misguided souls who’ll make good allies to help us take on the true enemy, those damn dirty libs. Then they’re absolutely shocked when the first thing the far-right does when the libs are defeated is to stab them in the back and seize power for themselves. :/

And the willfully ignorant morons flocking to that site still somehow manage to delude themselves that it’s not going to become an alt-right breeding ground. Even though that’s true for, oh, I don’t know, literally all of Meta’s other products.

As an elder Zoomer, can confirm. Seeing first-hand the horrific effects social media has had on so many of my IRL friends’ mental health-- and how it’s utterly decimated IRL communities-- makes me want to cut it out of my life as much as possible.

Amen. If you think you understand how awful nuclear war would be, Threads will quickly prove that you were very, very wrong.

My guess is it’s to offset the lack of other benefits-- health care being a huge one-- that you lose when you sign up to be a gig worker, not a full-time worker.

And we already have different minimum wages for at least one industry: servers at restaurants. The economy isn’t going to collapse if we put gig workers in their own category, too.

If your business can’t afford to pay its workers a living wage without going bust-- then it deserves to go bust.

I ATE THEM!!!

Truly, from the bottom of my heart: LMAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOO

I remember hearing about a high-profile case where the AI would dock points if someone’s resume listed them as participating in women’s sports as an extracurricular, while giving extra points if it listed them as participating in men’s sports.

Also, bias doesn’t necessarily have to come from happenstance. Unfortunately, humans tend to have unconcious (or, sometimes, not-so-unconcious) biases against women and people of color. There was a study where researchers sent identical resumes to a random group of recruiters-- but half of the resumes had a male name and half had a female name.

They found that both male and female recruiters were more likely to rate the resumes with the male name higher and be more likely to recommend they be advanced to the next round of interviews. IIRC, similar studies have found similar results if you give the resumes a “Black sounding” name versus a “white sounding” name.

So if you train an AI on your own company’s hiring data-- which is likely to be tainted by the unconcious bias of your own recruiters and hiring managers-- then the AI might pick up on that and replicate it in its results.

Honestly, that’s kind of even sadder, IMO.

(Especially when you consider most of those celebrities weren’t running their own accounts, they were handled by PR teams, so you weren’t actually interacting with them, either. But even if they had been-- like, guys, go make IRL friends. I know that’s agonizingly hard, I struggle with it too, but this shit ain’t healthy.)

Getting serious Nyan Cat vibes here

(To be clear, that’s a very, very good thing, OP!)

Gotta wonder how Ernest feels, having kbin go from his niche side project to being name-checked in The Verge (even if it’s in the context of pointing out it’s not ready for prime time) in the space of like two weeks.

Hopefully with less Nazis this time…