Putting more knowledge in a box isn’t going to create a lifeform. I have even listened to Sam Altman state they are not going to get a life form from just pretraining, though they are going to continue making advances there until the next breakthrough comes along.

Rest assured, as an AI doomsayer myself, I promise you they are nowhere close to sentience.

I am not shocked.

Piracy doesn’t take money from artists, just ask Cory Doctorow, a person making their living as a writer while uploading the torrents of his novels himself.

Corporate consolidation is what kills the artists. The studios make less movies per year, so the a list actors go to television and take the roles Rob Morrow used to get.

You made an offer likely knowing what content your mother consumed.

Also, doing this for her means those charlatans aren’t actually getting her money.

Something to consider in favor of doing your mom a solid.

Just make sure you out satanic films in the folder and rename them to Christian themed titles.

Are weebs even obsessed with Japanese culture, or just the children’s entertainment and snack foods aspect of it?

Forgive my bluntness, but I’ve never had a weeb give me their thoughts on Murakami’s latest novel.

You may want to look more into it.

Her father was one of the principals on the closing of DreamWorks Nashville. Big Machine records is what DreamWorks Nashville was rebranded as once severed from the rest of the corporate structure.

He essentially took the commission he got from selling Toby Keith’s catalog and then reinvested it into Big Machine before it was open to other investors.

He essentially spent $2m to buy his daughter’s career.

No, Marx was caught in a time dysfunction. Once Marx brought trans people into reality, all history became warped to reflect that trans people were always here.

To understand this, watch S03E08 of Twin Peaks. It’s the best summary of this idea.

Late 70s Punk.

I think I once spent 99 cents on his cover of she’s not there.

The punk aesthetic was invented by a man who owned a fashion label and had his own storefront.

I once had a Republican tell me he was, “black woke, not trans woke.”

I told him I didn’t know what that meant, and he said, “I don’t hate people for who they are, but people can’t just be whatever they want to be.”

Cue the Nathan Fielder meme of him just saying, “oh… Okay.”

I get it, I take partial credit for the Bourne Ultimatum winning a best editing Oscar due to my emailing the agents of academy members letting them know it was solely the work of editing that kept audiences from puking in the theaters.

I suspect this person thinks Sam Vankman Fried and also the FTX guys were set up.

What bacteria which is capable of living on porcelain also has the ability to enter your bloodstream through the skin of your butt cheeks? I once was told that seat to butt transmission of most things almost never happens and that the biggest danger in a public stall is touching the toilet paper dispenser and then touching your face.

I am thinking along the same lines as you. The fediverse needs to remain free of commercial interests and influences.

We all came here because we were looking for community driven social media, while metavitself has largely killed the modern world’s sense of community.

Oh, had I realized I was talking to somebody from Indianapolis, I wouldn’t have suggested Kurt Vonnegut was above that kind of behavior. I didn’t realize it was part of ya’ll’s identity.

Carry on.

Well, I would say that you should actually read Vonnegut instead of using his quotes in ways in which they weren’t intended.

Because I can assure you, he didn’t make that statement in support of the left shutting down productive communication with each other by accusing each other of being “closeted” liberals.

The close mindedness is going to make you fall victim to things worse than liberalism if you decide to not work on that current but fixable flaw.

If people don’t like their privilege checked, they shouldn’t post in leftist spaces.

This whole wing of the leftist movement that accuses everybody of being a secret liberal is really stupid and I don’t feel like wasting my time engaging with somebody choosing to take the dialog to that level.

…okay, but your argument falls apart due to the fact that I’m not a liberal.