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  1. Comment on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder in ~games

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    I don’t see any downside at all to this announcement. Is my optimism unfounded?

    I don’t see any downside at all to this announcement. Is my optimism unfounded?

    13 votes

  2. Comment on Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn’t know why. Then she found the AI chat logs. in ~tech

  3. Comment on Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn’t know why. Then she found the AI chat logs. in ~tech

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    That’s interesting, how do you end up with access to people’s chats?

    That’s interesting, how do you end up with access to people’s chats?

    7 votes

  4. Comment on Jon Stewart is our only hope in ~society

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    Compared to Trump, she had many gaffes? Compared to Trump, she is not articulate or knowledgeable on policy? This is not what made the difference. The difference is the pitch, plain and simple....

    Harris is not articulate or knowledgable on policy. She's had many gaffes that are hard to ignore.

    Compared to Trump, she had many gaffes? Compared to Trump, she is not articulate or knowledgeable on policy?

    This is not what made the difference. The difference is the pitch, plain and simple. Trump was promising what voters wanted.

    Perhaps she would've been treated better if she were a man, but that's a depressingly low bar to accept regardless.

    I do actually think this was a major factor. I’d ballpark gender at 20% of her loss.

    She also refused to pay even lip service on Gaza and failed to describe how she'd be any different from Biden.

    Not being different than Biden is dramatically better than Trump’s policies. I can’t put myself in the mind of a person who voted for Trump because they thought he would be good for Gaza. It would take a startling level of ignorance of his stated policies, while also simultaneously being a voter who cares about policies.

    13 votes

  5. Comment on Jon Stewart is our only hope in ~society

  6. Comment on Jon Stewart is our only hope in ~society

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    I think Stewart could pull hundreds of millions of dollars in a couple hours if he wanted to. The bigger problem for him is the hundreds and possibly thousands of sound bites of him joking about...

    I think Stewart could pull hundreds of millions of dollars in a couple hours if he wanted to. The bigger problem for him is the hundreds and possibly thousands of sound bites of him joking about all the swing states that he would need to carry. The ads write themselves.

    8 votes

  7. Merry Christmas!

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    Like the title says! For some reason I have actually woken up before my kids and I’m the only person stirring in the house — I have nothing to do but browse Tildes while I wait for the day to get...

    Like the title says! For some reason I have actually woken up before my kids and I’m the only person stirring in the house — I have nothing to do but browse Tildes while I wait for the day to get started. What’s everyone’s plan today?

    81 votes

  8. Comment on What are your predictions for 2026? in ~talk

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    Not for live public rides, but Waymo has "tens of thousands of miles" in snow. I don't think it will be far away. https://waymo.com/blog/2025/10/creating-an-all-weather-driver I know they are...

    Not for live public rides, but Waymo has "tens of thousands of miles" in snow. I don't think it will be far away.

    https://waymo.com/blog/2025/10/creating-an-all-weather-driver

    For years, we've been advancing our system in some of the snowiest conditions across the country —regularly driving in Upstate New York, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and the Sierra. We've amassed tens of thousands of miles in diverse, snowy conditions. This has allowed the Waymo Driver’s AI to learn from real driving experience and train to navigate a wide range of winter weather.

    I know they are actively lobbying in BC to drive here, and we get our fair share of snow every year.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on What are your predictions for 2026? in ~talk

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    Looking at last year's predictions, here are some of the good ones IMO @OBLIVIATER "We're going to see several more high profile 'assassination' attempts." - Charlie Kirk, Melissa Hortman, John...
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    Looking at last year's predictions, here are some of the good ones IMO

    • @OBLIVIATER

      • "We're going to see several more high profile 'assassination' attempts." - Charlie Kirk, Melissa Hortman, John Hoffman (attempt), Josh Shapiro (arson attempt), I probably missed some others

    • @kingofsnake

      • "We'll have an election following the resignation of Justin Trudeau (I'm calling it for January)." - Trudeau resigned on January 6, 2025, we did indeed have an election

    • @X08

      • "Israel/Palestinian war will escalate further into surrounding region." - The conflict spread regionally, involving strikes in Iran and Qatar.
      • "New temperature records during the summer for nearly every part of the world." - July and August 2025 confirmed as the third-warmest on record globally.
      • "Cowless cheese gains traction." - The market for cow-free dairy and cultivated meat did quite well IMO
      • "California gets hit by biggest forest fires yet." - California experienced a severe wildfire season, especially with the January fires in LA.

    • @EarlyWords

      • "Next year the bill for the climate comes due. The days of having the climate catastrophe 'ahead of us' are now over." - Arguably, hotter than ever before at least. I feel like every year the bill has come due, and we keep paying.

    • @DynamoSunshirt

      • "Big Tech move from AI to ramming self-driving tech... across as much of the USA as possible." - Waymo is killing it, self-driving cars are everywhere
    23 votes

  10. Comment on Indie Game Awards rescinds Clair Obscur's GOTY wins over use of generative AI [for now-removed background assets] in ~games

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    Almost all successful “Indie“ games are still multimillion dollar operations. AI tools have the potential to open the space to motivated single individuals.

    Almost all successful “Indie“ games are still multimillion dollar operations. AI tools have the potential to open the space to motivated single individuals.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Indie Game Awards rescinds Clair Obscur's GOTY wins over use of generative AI [for now-removed background assets] in ~games

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    At the rate models are becoming capable of running on local hardware, I’m seeing this as less and less of a concern. Pretty much all of the best in class image models are perfectly capable of...

    At the rate models are becoming capable of running on local hardware, I’m seeing this as less and less of a concern. Pretty much all of the best in class image models are perfectly capable of being run on my (admittedly powerful) workstation. LLMs are still generally only effective on cloud scale hardware, but I think that will change in the relatively near future.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Indie Game Awards rescinds Clair Obscur's GOTY wins over use of generative AI [for now-removed background assets] in ~games

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    This is just silly. AI is the perfect tool to make Indy games competitive with major studios. We should be celebrating the use of AI for field leveling in these industries.

    This is just silly. AI is the perfect tool to make Indy games competitive with major studios. We should be celebrating the use of AI for field leveling in these industries.

    23 votes

  13. Comment on As a reindeer herder, I am watching Norwegian renewable energy projects threaten our land, livelihoods and an Indigenous way of life the state once tried to erase in ~enviro

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    I find it odd to constantly see this repeated as some sort of undisputed fact. Did people say this when windmills were invented too? Because nowadays they are considered charming and quaint....

    Wind farms are ugly.

    I find it odd to constantly see this repeated as some sort of undisputed fact. Did people say this when windmills were invented too? Because nowadays they are considered charming and quaint. Personally, I love wind farms.

    33 votes

  14. Comment on As a reindeer herder, I am watching Norwegian renewable energy projects threaten our land, livelihoods and an Indigenous way of life the state once tried to erase in ~enviro

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    I don’t question that this is meaningful to them, or that the history here is ugly. But “this is our culture” isn’t a trump card. Climate change is a global, existential problem. Decarbonizing at...

    I don’t question that this is meaningful to them, or that the history here is ugly. But “this is our culture” isn’t a trump card.

    Climate change is a global, existential problem. Decarbonizing at scale is not optional, and it’s not cost-free. Every energy transition disrupts someone’s way of life. Coal towns, fishing communities, dam projects - many people have lost jobs, land, and entire futures. The issue is, the alternative is worse.

    Indigenous land rights should mean real consultation, mitigation, and compensation. They shouldn’t mean a permanent veto over nationally critical infrastructure. If every historically rooted land use could block renewables, large scale decarbonization simply wouldn’t happen.

    30 votes

  15. Comment on /r/politics moderators in ~tech

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    But aren’t you shaming them with this post? But in a way where nobody can judge whether they deserve that shame?

    But aren’t you shaming them with this post? But in a way where nobody can judge whether they deserve that shame?

    1 vote

  16. Comment on /r/politics moderators in ~tech

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    But that’s kind of what you are doing, except you aren’t giving their side of the story?

    But that’s kind of what you are doing, except you aren’t giving their side of the story?

    5 votes

  17. Comment on How Nick Fuentes’s coordinated US raids and foreign fake-speech networks inflate his influence in ~society

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    Just wanted to point out how dumb this one paragraph is. Come on now. There’s lots of actual evidence here, but this ain’t it.

    Just wanted to point out how dumb this one paragraph is.

    Fuentes Himself is Involved in Coordination: His manipulated reach is not accidental; full show transcripts reveal hundreds of real-time commands to “retweet this” and “retweet me,” establishing raid-style amplification as a core operating method. These directed raids built the behavioral infrastructure of his account and laid the groundwork for consistent X policy violations by the anonymous and foreign network now amplifying him.

    Come on now. There’s lots of actual evidence here, but this ain’t it.

    4 votes

  18. Comment on I don't care much for symbolism in ~creative

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    I’m always reminded of Steven King’s approach to symbolism. He writes without any conscious regard for symbolism, but then after he is done he reads his work and looks for the symbolism and then...

    I’m always reminded of Steven King’s approach to symbolism. He writes without any conscious regard for symbolism, but then after he is done he reads his work and looks for the symbolism and then he goes back through and emphasizes what he found in its nascent form. In that way, it isn’t too forced but it still adds depth to the writing.

    30 votes

  19. Comment on At dusk, fifty people went to San Francisco's longest dead-end street and all ordered a Waymo at the same time in ~transport

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    Non-zero chance someone gets their ass kicked by an angry Uber driver.

    Non-zero chance someone gets their ass kicked by an angry Uber driver.

    7 votes

  20. Comment on Finland cut Russian energy imports and closed the shared border, erasing €12 billion in trade. The shocks deepened the Nordic nation's deficit, already strained by defense and welfare spending. in ~society

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    They should get credit for actually taking a hit to stand up to Russia

    They should get credit for actually taking a hit to stand up to Russia

    34 votes