Cycloneblaze's recent activity
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Comment on Sweden's health minister has urged the EU to push ahead with social media restrictions for kids while insisting it be treated as a pressing matter in ~tech
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
Cycloneblaze Link ParentI want to be clear I'm not defending any murders here. That said: The point is that "speaking about politics" collapses what Charlie Kirk actually did, and what he said, so much as to make it...I want to be clear I'm not defending any murders here. That said:
Is speaking about politics that you disagree with really that much worse than being a criminal and a drug user that you can speak like this about one killing but not the other?
The point is that "speaking about politics" collapses what Charlie Kirk actually did, and what he said, so much as to make it impossible to talk about, so no wonder you're dealing with misunderstandings. The man called for the man who attacked Paul Pelosi with hammers to be bailed out of jail days after it happened. You really think Kirk's over decade long project normalising political violence on the right had nothing to do with someone being radicalised and then killing him? It's absolutely not the same as a person "putting themselves in risky situations", you're simply not talking about the same thing.
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
Cycloneblaze Link ParentDo people who commit crimes or take drugs (black or otherwise) try to incite the people they interact with to reach for violence and murder their enemies? Idk, I think the causation - such as it...Do people who commit crimes or take drugs (black or otherwise) try to incite the people they interact with to reach for violence and murder their enemies? Idk, I think the causation - such as it is - in each case is wildly different and not comparable.
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
Cycloneblaze Link ParentI'm gonna bet that explanation will be contradictory and unsatisfactory - he doesn't seem like the type with a clear, coherent agenda. And you don't need one of those to commit murder, you need to...I'm gonna bet that explanation will be contradictory and unsatisfactory - he doesn't seem like the type with a clear, coherent agenda. And you don't need one of those to commit murder, you need to be somehow sufficiently desensitised to kill.
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
Cycloneblaze Link ParentI guess it's not that relevant to the guy engraving it on these bullets, but Bella Ciao has been a popular song in Europe for a long time, it's not that obscure.I guess it's not that relevant to the guy engraving it on these bullets, but Bella Ciao has been a popular song in Europe for a long time, it's not that obscure.
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Comment on Piglets stolen after being left to starve to death in controversial Danish art exhibition in ~arts
Cycloneblaze Link ParentI agree! But isn't that the double standard? His art project is intolerable because of how it abuses animals, so why isn't meat production? Why isn't anybody stealing piglets from slaughterhouses...I think that the artist doesn’t get that you don’t need to violate animal rights to make a statement on them.
I agree! But isn't that the double standard? His art project is intolerable because of how it abuses animals, so why isn't meat production? Why isn't anybody stealing piglets from slaughterhouses or farms? We should not normalise art projects like this, I agree, but the abuse of animals in the process of farming meat is deeply normalised. Maybe it's whataboutism, but that makes the outcry about the art project ring a little bit hollow to me...
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Comment on Nvidia, AMD agree to pay US government 15% of AI chip sales to China in ~tech
Cycloneblaze Link ParentIt seems to me another example of how Trump views the US government - in ways the entire state, not just the presidency - as an extension of his enterprise; as personally his. If he felt some...It seems to me another example of how Trump views the US government - in ways the entire state, not just the presidency - as an extension of his enterprise; as personally his. If he felt some barrier to the spoils of deals like this accumulating to him rather than the state, he probably wouldn't arrange it this way, he'd try to get paid in crypto or something.
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Comment on Debate has erupted in Denmark over the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as “ugly and pornographic” in ~arts
Cycloneblaze Link ParentI fully agree that one can - should be able to, really - make art of female bodies with big breasts or other characteristics socially coded as sexual without them being treated as sexual, never...the mermaid is sitting on a rock in a way that her boobs are slightly more prominent and oh no, they aren't small handfuls, ergo it must be MALE FANTASY and no woman has breasts like this.
I fully agree that one can - should be able to, really - make art of female bodies with big breasts or other characteristics socially coded as sexual without them being treated as sexual, never mind obscene. And I don't think there's some objective way in which this statue crosses over into being "pornographic"; it'll probably be installed in some other location and that's fine. As you said there exist real women with bodies like this statue and to state the obvious, they should be able to go without being sexualised!
On the other hand I don't think the tits are incidental here, I think they're the point. I think the object was to make a sexualised statue. I don't think that's being imposed from outside, I think it's - to some degree - what the artist wanted.
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Comment on Tomorrowland EDM festival main stage destroyed by fire day before opening, but festival will go on in ~music
Cycloneblaze Link ParentTomorrowland is a famous music festival where lots of very well-known artists perform, whereas I have no idea what link this is supposed to have to Disney... was it a movie? But my point is I...Tomorrowland is a famous music festival where lots of very well-known artists perform, whereas I have no idea what link this is supposed to have to Disney... was it a movie?
But my point is I think they are at least equally in need of clarification, if the Disney thing isn't more obscure.
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Comment on Canadians are leading in LGBTQ2 support amid global declines in ~lgbt
Cycloneblaze Link ParentI assume it's two-spirit; somewhat more relevant in the Canadian context, but not exclusively.I assume it's two-spirit; somewhat more relevant in the Canadian context, but not exclusively.
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Comment on US bombers strike nuclear sites in Iran in ~society
Cycloneblaze LinkYou don't want Iran to acquire nuclear weapons: sure, valid. There was a diplomatic, non-military strategy for that, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. By all accounts it was working. In that...You don't want Iran to acquire nuclear weapons: sure, valid. There was a diplomatic, non-military strategy for that, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. By all accounts it was working. In that light a war with Iran is and has since then been unjustified and unjustifiable, but this same US President walked away from that agreement in 2018, entirely to make the justification for this (currently illegal might I add!) war in 2025. It's just evil.
You had a diplomatic solution, there was no need to resort to the hell that is war, but these warmongers in the US government apparently just had gone too long without having a bombing campaign to watch and now we're probably all going to get to watch you throw thousands of soldiers into the meat grinder to make Iranian lives hell for a few years. Evil and heartbreaking.
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Comment on EU needs single regulatory framework and to break down fragmentation across its business, tax, debt issuance and securities law systems, according to Norway's sovereign wealth fund in ~finance
Cycloneblaze LinkWhat the EU needs is to become a full political and financial union, not the collection of half-measures we've been left with now.What the EU needs is to become a full political and financial union, not the collection of half-measures we've been left with now.
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Comment on Coinbase says cost of recent cyber-attack could reach $400m in ~finance
Cycloneblaze Link ParentI'd like to point you towards victim impact reports from the Celsius bankruptcy. I'd say very many of the people using Coinbase to store their money as crypto are more of ordinary people.I'd like to point you towards victim impact reports from the Celsius bankruptcy. I'd say very many of the people using Coinbase to store their money as crypto are more of ordinary people.
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Comment on I don’t care whether you use ChatGPT to write in ~tech
Cycloneblaze Link ParentI don't know about you, but when I'm writing something, the shorter I want it to be the more time I have to spend on it.I don't know about you, but when I'm writing something, the shorter I want it to be the more time I have to spend on it.
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Comment on Firefox now supports native vertical tabs in 136.0 release in ~tech
Cycloneblaze Link ParentRight now there's a comment in the options for the sidebar that they are going to add a open-on-hover for the vertical tabs soon... you must not be the only one looking for it!Right now there's a comment in the options for the sidebar that they are going to add a open-on-hover for the vertical tabs soon... you must not be the only one looking for it!
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Comment on UK Supreme Court: 'Woman' means biological female under the Equality Act 2010 in ~society
Cycloneblaze Link ParentYou're actively concerned with opposing any potential inequality against men. What's your thoughts on rectifying the existing, pervasive inequalities that favour men?You're actively concerned with opposing any potential inequality against men. What's your thoughts on rectifying the existing, pervasive inequalities that favour men?
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Comment on Monsterpatch: A cozy monster-collecting RPG in ~games
Cycloneblaze Link"Hey, at least it hasn't got 'mon' in the name!" "Ah." Jokes aside the art style is cute, I'll keep my eye on this one."Hey, at least it hasn't got 'mon' in the name!"
teeming with magical creatures known as MoNs
"Ah."
Jokes aside the art style is cute, I'll keep my eye on this one.
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Comment on There must be Nazis in the White House. EO 14188 -> 14/88. in ~society
Cycloneblaze Link ParentYeah, but... he gets to decide what order he puts them out in. Trump's certainly got enough pseudo-royal decrees coming out that it would be very easy to take the "antisemitism" one and wait until...Yeah, but... he gets to decide what order he puts them out in. Trump's certainly got enough pseudo-royal decrees coming out that it would be very easy to take the "antisemitism" one and wait until the number 14188 came up for it. Which is why I think it's very possible that one of his wannabe Nazi-staff actually did notice this opportunity and thought it would be hilarious to shuffle the stack to make this happen.
I do not however think it's any kind of winking, high-level show of support for the Nazi contingent of Trump's base, like Musk's salute definitely was, and I don't think it deserves much notice alongside the much more concrete, American fascism being done by the government right now.
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Comment on I'm tired of dismissive anti-AI bias in ~tech
Cycloneblaze LinkI was surprised not to read any counterpoint to the argument that LLMs are very resource intensive. They consume much more electricity to use than normal web queries (even if they are more...I was surprised not to read any counterpoint to the argument that LLMs are very resource intensive. They consume much more electricity to use than normal web queries (even if they are more efficient, it's surely not efficient to have an AI summary at the top of every search result). And they are driving a rapid increase in both the number and size of data centres, consuming a lot of gains in renewable energy production so that that energy can't replace fossil fuels. Of course we increase our energy use all the time but the electricity cost of LLMs feels more than irresponsible to me.
Personally, I also find it hard to dismiss the "hallucination" point... if I'm going to use an LLM to summarise and present information for me, then I need to be able to trust that it will be right where I can't tell when it's wrong, and I don't.
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Comment on Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 – 4.2.2025 in ~games
Cycloneblaze Link ParentWhat if I don't use Discord? Why do I have to create a separate account for a separate American company to use voice chat on my Nintendo console? It's not like anyone I'm chatting with isn't also...What if I don't use Discord? Why do I have to create a separate account for a separate American company to use voice chat on my Nintendo console? It's not like anyone I'm chatting with isn't also going to have a Switch 2.
From Nintendo's point of view I can also see them being very leery of tying chat on their console to some other company's service.
Worth pointing out (again, I hope) that there is no scientific evidence to support the conclusion that social media is unequivocally harmful to young people, or that it needs to be banned. An intervention like straight-up banning social media is simple and it's clear but that doesn't mean it's right...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2
https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/general/jonathan-haidt-anxious-generation-right-about-smartphones
Which is not to say that more targeted regulations couldn't be helpful (and not just for young people). The Nature article again:
It doesn't serve young people to look at them and act drastically without thinking.