The Creator Program wasn’t just a feature, it was a full blown movement that rocked Reddit, on the blockchain no less. You all built communities. You created art. Your art became memes. You put a cone on it. You even got paid (a first!). At the end of the day, you all made magic.

Laugh.

We have a war on, so probably not the best destination right now.

I would prefer if they were not based in the US, both for jurisdiction reasons and cultural reasons (no offense to sane Americans).

Your continue in the same style and doubling down on victim-hood polemics.

Of course free speech includes a variety of viewpoints.

I am pointing out that “FreedomAdvocate” has a comically preformative view on free speech. Rejecting people who use the slur “tranny” is not a free speech issue and shows that FA doesn’t actually care or believe in free speech.

It’s all theatrics to try and show how allegedly independent he is and how is an alleged free thinker.

Embarrassing really.

It’s funny how the most loud free speech warriors have the most superficial, performative understanding of free speech.

People get beat up by security services in authoritian regimes for reporting on corruption, but for “FreedomAdvocate” here, free speech is about the right to use slurs on Discord.

There is almost an abstract beauty to this level of debasement and regressivness.

assume everyone has the same political opinions as you

I don’t think that’s the issue here. You can be conservative and not support the “great replacement theory” or think that all muslims are bad.

I might be wrong, I am just going by the sources posting in the Framework forum thread.

I am being an edgelord and I am going to call them Hyperland.

Sure, but it’s typically done in a more subtle and PR friendly manner.

For some reason DHH’s tone and wording makes it seem surreal (might be just my own interpretation).

The DHH fellow almost seems like an elaborate parody. Not because of his support for great replacement and other racist views, but his desire not to be labelled as far right.

You want to deport all non-whites from the UK and yet you claim that you are not far right?

Seems surreal, it’s like a parody of a far right extremist.

Hyperland sounds more like edgelords.

The DHH fellow is a full on Nazi-style racist.

I have not tried Orange Pi SBCs, but I can strongly recommend DietPi, it is a very well done distro with lots of helpful CLI tools and an active and responsive development team.

I still think personal responsibility (as outlined in my post above) is a far better option that a fine.

A fine is the cost of business. I don’t think a senior Deloitte partner or manager would like to do a 6 month mandatory de-mining community service program (Australia can send them to my country, Ukraine, as part of a community service exchange program).

And a partial refund at that.

Better option would be to require the senior Deloitte partners and managers to do real community service program (live-in junior janitor at homeless shelter or a hospice) for 6 months (with an asset freeze for the duration of community service).

I strongly disagree. Even the section on his articles about trans kids shows that Singal is able to show a measure of nuance and understanding with respect to the critiques of his work.

Not to mention the more global context. Are you sure that non-english speaking trans folks would have the same attitude (i.e. they may have their own opinions and priorities)? The reason I mention this is that I have some exposure to the local LGBT community and their attitudes don’t always align with “Western” expectations.

Bluesky is of course just another American social media company. If they are not shit now, they will be once they get bigger. The American model has reached a dead end and it’s not suitable for good products, competition and real innovation.

Side note, it’s been a while since I’ve lived in the US, so my knowledge of local “culture wars” is from online sources, but the article is incorrect in claiming that Jesse Singal is a transphobe. I say this as someone who often disagrees with him.

I will add that many of the commentators in his substack are unhinged and likely transphobes.

Trying do a URL lookup at archive.fo. For Wired there is very likely an archived copy.

Well, they clearly have too much money

They may have a lot of money, but they definitely don’t have anything close to a reasonable return on investment. I believe the total revenues from “AI services” are sub $50 billion per year compared to at least x20 times capex and likely a very high amount of opex (hundreds of billion) per year.

Keep in mind the original X Elite benchmarks were never replicated in real world devices (not even close).

They used a desktop style device (with intense cooling that is not possible with laptops) and “developed solely for benchmarking” version of Linux (to this day X Elite runs like shit in Linux).

This is almost certainly a premeditated attempt at “legal false advertising”.

Mark my words, you’ll never see 4,000 points in GB6 ST on any real products.