Flambo

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[–] Flambo@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

this makes me wonder how much longer a towel could be used if it were promptly dried after use, rather than put up on a hook where some of it dries sorta and the rest of it clumps.

[–] Flambo@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

even when you are clean from showering, you are still covered in delicious skin, refreshing moisture, and things that thrive in the presence of both.

[–] Flambo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

if you won't deny a thing to someone it's pretty hard to sell it to anyone

[–] Flambo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is such a common phenomenon that it has a name: cognitive dissonance. If you already knew what that was, then your comment suggests another example of it.

[–] Flambo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Relay or decrentralize it maybe.

The thing I read about this earlier said Signal is super against decentralization iirc. Or at least against federation? Are they different?

[–] Flambo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hey, I'm fully on board with your defense of social media, but I think in this case the commenter is just saying "i miss the social media we had before they started calling it 'social media'". Even 2004 facebook fits this description, and I'm inclined to agree. I miss social media when it felt more like IRC and craigslist, when facebook was a glorified personal guestbook, etc.

[–] Flambo@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

A Greek proverb says a society grows when old men plant trees whose shade they shall never know. What’s the exact opposite of that?

Well what's happening right now is old men are actively uprooting anything that won't grow to shade tree size in their lifetimes. It's as if their aim is to one day build their own coffin out of the absolute last tree on Earth.

[–] Flambo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need to be more efficient with what we make

We need to make stuff with the goal of not having to make any more of it at some point. Currently we have an economy that gives no shits about what is made so long as it sells more this quarter than last.

Either we need a magical wave of enlightenment to change the priorities of those who control the means of production, or we need to change the structure of our economy and its incentives to make "build to last" a winning strategy.

[–] Flambo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For one, it's not an either-or thing. Reporting on lead in chocolate isn't detracting from awareness of lead in water.

Sure, but you can just not eat Hershey bars.

And second: that. There's lead in this chocolate? Okay I won't eat this chocolate. Lead intake reduced.

[–] Flambo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So tl;dr he/his team did two things:

  1. argue the way AI uses content to train is legal
  2. provide artists a tool to prevent their content being used to train AI without their permission

On the surface it sounds all good, but I can't help but notice a future conflict of interest for Zhao should Glaze ever become monetized. If it were to be ruled illegal to train AI on content without permission, tools like Glaze would be essentially anti-theft devices, but while it remains legal to train AI this way, tools like Glaze stand to perhaps become necessary for artists to maintain the pre-AI status quo w/r/t how their work can be used and monetized.

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