What?

Layoffs are never about productivity. If AI was making workers more productive (it is not, in fact) you would simply enjoy the increase output of your existing workforce or maybe even hire more people for even more potential growth.

No no. This is about money. They are laying people off because they are trying to make the balance sheet look better next quarter.

I’m just sitting here praying for the best. 🙏

Oh for sure. I liked the original Steam Controller for what it was and I’m excited for the new one to give me a Deck-like experience on my Bazzite PC. I’m confident this will be a good controller.

I just think it’s kind of a big swing going from the $5 bargain bin device to the $100 follow up. I wonder how many people are going to think they can wait for this one to go into clearance?

Wild how the previous Steam Controller was such a flop that Valve had to clear their inventory by selling them all for $5 each, and now the new Steam Controller is going to be $100 out the gate.

I’ve been really looking forward to this, especially as a Bazzite HTPC Steam Box controller, but that feels shockingly steep to me.

Recalibrate your thought process.

Life isn’t a game even if too many people treat it as such. There are no winners or losers. Broad ideas of “success” and “failure” are social constructs, almost always tied to artificial things like money and status. You don’t have to care about these things at all. You can simply unsubscribe from that ideology. All we need to do is live, and all we should want is to thrive.

When it comes to failing to meet personal goals, it’s better to think of your progress and establish milestones.

Imagine a person learning to skateboard with a goal of doing a kickflip, how many times do you think that they will need to fail at the trick before successfully landing it the first time? Even after they land it once, what will their success ratio be for that trick over the next 6 months? Anyone who has tried skateboarding knows that it’s hard, and that you have to be mentally and physically prepared to fall and maybe get hurt, because “failure” is just part of the learning process.

Yeah, we can tell…

It probably will, for some people, at least until Valve releases an ARM-powered Deck running full SteamOS.

I think Android is the weak link here. Who wants to use an increasingly locked down operating system?

You tell me you didn’t cry when you saw what had become of King Vendrick!!!

They control all 3 branches of the federal government, so I warmly welcome them to pass a law or ruling that makes partisan gerrymandering illegal.

If fighting fire with fire is what’s needed to make them feel like it’s a problem, then so be it.

Sorry. North American pancakes.

I refuse to engage in the pancake wars, and love all the world’s pancakes equally.

Fluffy American pancakes are fantastic with maple syrup and butter on top. Crepes and Euro pancakes are more versatile, nice with just a little lemon and sugar, or even with a more savory topping. I haven’t tried those Japanese super-thick rice cooker pancakes, but I bet they’re good.

Honestly, I have not seen anyone who values art “be ok with” generative AI.
The only people who think it is even remotely cool are lazy programmers with no friends.

But even that isn’t really enough…we need laws on training data.

Well… I was referring to “It makes me wonder, if Epstein could sing and dance, would he have gotten a biopic too?”.

Obviously Melania’s movie was essentially a corporate gift to the Trump family/administration, despite the fact that they were very close friends with Epstein. I don’t think it was a serious attempt at telling a genuine story about a strange person’s life, even if it could have been. Donald Trump has more proven connections to convicted sex traffickers than MJ ever had, just as a matter of fact, and even that didn’t prevent him and his family from taking over the world or having a movie made about his fake-ass wife.

That’s not really the point… I should say that I don’t know anything about either movie and I’m not that interested in seeing them. I never even heard that there was a Michael Jackson biopic in production until seeing this threat.

But my point is that film-making is a storytelling medium. A good filmmaker can tell a compelling story about good people and bad people alike.

Good or bad, Michael Jackson is an interesting character who lived an interesting life. As such, it would be possible to make a great movie about him, just like someone could make a great movie about Hitler, Kim Jung Un, Donald Trump, etc.

Will this movie be good? How will this movie depict MJ? Will he be treated as a sympathetic showbiz kid who never had the chance to grow up and live a normal life? Will he be treated as a pedophilic monster who systematically raped and trafficked children? …who knows… Ideally a good MJ biopic would drill down somewhere close to whatever the truth happens to be, depicting a complex and troubled person who lived an extraordinary (in the literal sense) life.

If it’s just a cash grab by his estate to whitewash his character and ignore all of the deeply troubling things that happened in his life (both to him and by him), then it’s just not a good movie.

Thinking that’s the subtext of what I was saying is wild…

Well… Melania got a movie too, and she and her husband were both best friends with Epstein and Maxwell.

Michael Jackson was a complicated person. Extremely talented singer, songwriter, choreographer, dancer and performer from a very young age. Clearly had a strange relationship with his own race, age, and physical features. Clearly had a difficult time relating to people in a normal human way. Had a well-known child-like personality. A lot of rumors and allegations around him, and he did a lot of extremely questionable and problematic things that if nothing else, poured a lot of fuel on that particular fire. Fucked up his body with plastic surgery. Died of a doctor-supervised overdose…

What I’m getting at is that a film is about telling a story, and I do think Michael Jackson had a fascinating life story with a lot of highs and lows. I’m not sure that he’s comparable to Epstein, and even if he was, I think that it depends how the film portrays him and his life.

Similar to Reddit:

• Navigate to a website (for example, “lemmy.world”) and register an account.
• Search for communities to follow based on your specific interests.
• Check back later and watch posts appear in your home feed from the communities you follow.
• Bonus points for posting and commenting!

Different from Reddit:

• It’s not a single website. You’re on “lemmy.world”, I’m on “fedia.io”. Each site houses its own users and content, but cross-site communication happens almost seamlessly. (For example, even though I’m logged into a different site, I can easily read and comment on your post.)
• It’s not a single software. You’re looking at Lemmy, I’m looking at Mbin, and other people might be looking at Piefed or something else. Moreover, I understand there are also custom UIs and apps to create even more options. This doesn’t matter too much, but over time you might explore the different options and form a preference for the way some software works.
• Under the hood, all of this happens thanks to a protocol called “ActivityPub”, which allows all of these servers and software to communicate with each other. You don’t need to care about this.
• A good analogy for all this is email… If you have a gmail account and your friend has a protonmail account, your accounts and data will be stored on different servers, and your email inboxes will look different and have different features. BUT, because all email services use a shared communication protocol, you can still email your friend! This works exactly like that.

Bottom Line…

It can take a while to wrap your mind around this stuff, but the bottom line is that this is essentially infinite-reddit.

Don’t like the moderators of a certain community? Make a new community on whatever server you want!

Don’t like the admins of a certain server? Fire up a whole new server!

Don’t like the way Lemmy works or looks? Use an alternative GUI or give a server running Mbin or Piefed a try!

This is part of the “fediverse”, and it represents a new form of social media that puts the community in control, instead of corporations or billionaires.

Well that’s only natural because you’re just a random idiot.

People would smuggle chocolate bars if they were made illegal, that doesn’t make them harmful.

So far the Singaporean government has killed a lot more people than cannabis ever did, and for what?

Imagine killing a human being for possession of a harmless plant. It’s wildly unjust.

“Buuuut I’m riiiiiich!!”