Trump administration once again showing a total lack of self-awareness or basic nous. As though they think doing this will remove all suspicion from them, and not make them look totally guilty.

It’s not accident or short-sighted incompetence either, it’s direct from the fascist playbook. Fascism and Authoritarianism feeds on crises and enemies, so if you don’t have any of those you need to manufacture some.

The interesting thing about this post is that it’s exactly equally as wrong whether you take it as sarcasm or at face value.

The biggest problem I’ve seen with the “use AI help but you’re ultimately responsible for what you submit” approach is that it’s damn near impossible to usefully define or enforce what “responsible” actually entails.

And yet every single person reading that headline knew what it meant.

It’s more an Authoritarian thing than a Right thing, it’s just that currently Auth-Right is what the Epstein class are pushing.

The Khmer Rouge were as hard left as it gets, and the Cambodian genocide was almost entirely fuelled by the notion that educated city folk weren’t true Khmer.

One of my former classmates got locked up for trying it on with an underage girl in a cinema. I’m not saying Showcase is a hive of villainy, but for sure it’s exactly the sort of place where you need to be particularly vigilant against predators.

Reminder that $30m is $0.0bn, to the nearest tenth of a billion dollars. Billionaires should not exist.

It looks like a lot of people made the same mistake, because AP seem to have now edited the headline on their site to clarify.

I got confused at the headline for a moment because I didn’t realize “premier” means something specific in Canada. In most countries it means Prime Minister or President.

Honestly I think some people just want to be offended. “Oh I can’t use this in class because of the name” is complete nonsense. If the faculty are going to immediately assume you’re doing weird sex things with the kids then you’ve got bigger communication problems.

I had the temerity to finish my study abroad and return to my country shortly after I bought it, and it got a ‘blocked in your region’ even though it was a single-player game. Turns out there’s some Steam games that you only own for as long you stay in the country you bought them.

I understand that licensing issues exist that are country-based, the part I still can’t forgive is that the asshole in customer support lectured me like I was maliciously breaking their rules on multiple counts, first by being in the Wrong Country, and secondly by filing a support ticket to ask them to either fix it or give me my money back; he then hinted that I might be banned (subtext: lose several thousand dollars’ worth of my other games) if I pursued it any further.

So yeah, it does irk me when people get all fangirly about what noble defenders of the consumer Steam is.

I have firsthand experience of a game I’d paid for on Steam being taken from me with no refund, so I’m def gonna push back on any “relax, guy” posts on this.

(EDIT: shoutout to the downvoter demonstrating OP’s point about rabid fanbois perfectly)

Almost like some kind of… hockey stick?

The alternative is…

I mean there is one you missed out but ok

yeah I can’t help but read all this as very bad news indeed in the longer term. There’s nothing stopping Russia, North Korea, or indeed any random manchild billionaire deploying this tech within the coming months or years and deciding who they think should die. It’s not like nukes which are difficult to get material for and difficult to build. Most of the advanced stuff is the software, which can be easily copied.

Of course if it isn’t a war, then assassinating their head of state was super illegal.

For a while I was hiring people in a nearby country, and despite advertising it as daytime office hours only, the majority of applicants would ask if they could work nights instead because they already had a job during the day that wouldn’t give them overtime.

People seeding obscure shit is what makes the whole thing viable. Keep up the good work.

Fuck Joanne Rowling in particular, BUT, I don’t think this particular post is a good example given what it’s actually saying…