thawed_caveman

joined 2 years ago
[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I've been to many protests, and oddly enough i enjoy the feeling of freedom. Normal traffic rules don't apply and there are no cars, suddely you can walk in the middle of the street which is normally a forbidden space. You can dance, you can shoot fireworks in the middle of town, you can do loads of things that you normally can't.

Normally there's a nebulous sense that this space doesn't belong to us, it belongs to landlords and the state maybe? You don't feel a sense of ownership. But when it's being taken over by people in an unorganized way, now it feels like this space belongs to you.

And yes i'm french lmao

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

I speak french and the french article says exactly what the english article says, except the english article has a lot more information.

It even includes the previous cases of kidnappers targeting people they thought might have large crypto holdings.

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel like AI companies have been scraping Reddit for their datasets already since the beginning and without permission. In fact, unless there's been a regulation change that i'm not aware of, i'm not sure why they would have Reddit "sign away" the data when they can just scrape it.

Also dubious if the current form of AI has a future. They seem like they should revolutionize every sector when you look at their capacities, but in practice their applications might be more limited than we thought?

Anyway, if Reddit does go public i will be deleting my account within the hour. The only reason i haven't yet is that i've been a moderator of the same subreddit for eight years and it's the only thing that's been consistent in my life in that time, i'm kind of attached. The reason i will is i didn't sign up to create value for shareholders, i signed up to create value for a community.

 

today i remembered an idea for a meme that i had years ago and forgot about, enjoy