Accusing Tylenol of causing autism was a deliberate tactic to suppress Kenvue’s stock price to facilitate Kimberly-Clark’s acquisition of it.

More OEMs should ship devices with Linux as an option, discounted by the Windows license cost.

The entire AI industry is built on IP theft; even if you don’t believe in IP ownership, companies like OpenAI and Anthropic rely on their ability to scrape the internet for content, with only largest of publishers having the resources to sue for anything in return.

So long as copyright is being enforced at the individual level for consumers, large corporations shouldn’t be allowed to get away with infringing on it for profit.

It’s one thing for individuals (particularly those without the means of paying) to pirate content that its original creators have already been compensated for and now exists to milk money for an IP holder for a century; it’s another matter entirely when AI companies with multi-billion dollar valuations scour the internet for content to include in their models to then profit from without permission from or compensation to the millions of people whose work they depend on.

Whoever you are, don’t outsource your understanding, judgement, empathy and taste to AI. Don’t abdicate your responsibility. Don’t be a meat proxy.

By expanding the ability to program to people without the knowledge of how that code works in the first place, it’s naive to expect that most uses of AI in programming will be informed uses by senior developers able to recognize errors and security flaws.

Such a pro-AI position also ignores the enormous amount of theft that these tools are built on.

AI bots cannot be and should not be licensed mental health care practitioners, so existing licensing laws should be enforced.

I’ve updated my spreadsheet with data of everything with at least 50 MAU (60 instances); pretty much have my updated defederation graph done in terms of instance placement (shared it on Matrix for feedback), just need to add more statistics to it.

Adding more instances of course increases the complexity, so while I made adjustments to hopefully make the boxes easier to differentiate, any graph at scale will be somewhat confusing without animation that allows the end user to focus on one instance at a time.

Your visualization definitely adds a degree of clarity to things, so maybe I’ll spend more time working on my design too.

Maximizing shareholder value also includes maximizing the non-tangible value of the Roblox brand (something that could be harmed by short-term cash grabs), but unfortunately many investors only think one quarter at a time.

The working class in deep red districts is indoctrinated with religion and xenophobia to blame the country’s problems on immigrants, transgender people, and other minorities. While it’s worth trying to flip swing districts, it’s best to invest limited electoral resources on districts where it matters most, rather than ones that have voted Republican by high margins for decades.

Democratic advertising dollars go a lot further in swing districts than they would in deep red ones.

I’ve been trying to fill the void left by dubvee.org being taken down with periodic posts to !westvirginia@lemmy.world, but in the long run there’s far too many communities on here that rely on one or two users for content.

“Right after the deep state forced the Chinese government to leak a virus from a lab and claim it came from a market.”

The amount of bullshit Republicans are coming up with to distract from real issues such as releasing the rest of the Epstein files is amazing.

Many people complain that there isn’t enough content on here, yet many people also expect all new users to not only share their beliefs, but know how the Threadiverse works before joining.

If the Threadiverse is to grow, people need to be patient with new users, ensuring they are well-informed with an informational DM at the very least if their post must be taken down. People also can’t expect all new users to fit squarely within the relatively niche set of interests the Threadiverse currently caters best to.

Alternative to CBS.

It just means that it’s cheaper for them to lobby Republicans than Democrats as the former are predisposed to unconditionally supporting Israel. As a result, 58.6% of AIPAC congressional lobbying went to Democrats in 2024.

Not that resistance isn’t building against AIPAC, but the central Democratic Party is far less anti-AIPAC than candidates like El-Sayed.

Mocking users and injecting religion into your comments isn’t going to win you much support on Lemmy.

Reddit’s main strategy now seems to be injecting AI into everything and hoping investors go “wow!!!”.

The Democratic Party is just as much in the pocket of AIPAC as the Republican Party; if anything this will just cause AIPAC to increase their lobbying further.

Edit: I’m not trying to make a ‘both sides’ argument; the Democratic Party is far and away superior to the Republican Party. However, the party itself is not nearly as anti-Israel as its most progressive-leaning candidates are, meaning that a nationwide Democratic victory is unfortunately unlikely to result in the complete cessation of arms sales to Israel or recognition of genocide in Gaza.

The EU should counter those efforts by conditioning their own aid on ICC membership.

‘AI literacy’ in the context of ‘don’t use it to cheat’ or ‘it may fabricate information or attributions’ should be an extension of institutional plagiarism and acceptable source policies; such policies can and should be discussed to ensure students understand them, including the implications of AI.

Framing it as being ‘literate’ in AI use, however, is a tacit encouragement (or at best acceptance) for such tools to be used.