I'm convinced a lot of the "AI tools" in general are just the same old tool with data collection tacked onto it. I really hope some of the things I see labeled as "AI" in tech these days are not actually running some model on a GPU somewhere. I pray they aren't at least.
Yeah. Famously no other universities have been targeted. We definitely don't have a green card holding student rotting in a cell for months at this point. With not a single charge of a crime against him.
Yeah. I'm sure this rich queen is the only victim. And Harvard has definitely been the only school targeted /s
Do you think this policy is only going to be unique to Harvard? Your comment is ironic because it's upvoted by the same people disagreeing with me that don't care about a royal. But can't see the the the bigger picture of who this hurts.
The entire criticism I have is that it shouldn't take a royal for people to care and it's absolutely silly to write an article around it. It makes the absolutely wrong point about who is harmed by this. It's literally pro Trump. Use to trick his base into thinking the "elite" are the ones that will be hurt. They won't. They will at most be inconvenienced.
But you somehow miss BOTH points. Somehow not getting my point of criticism of the article AND missing the larger picture of who these xenophobic policies will hurt the most.
It's starts here. At the easiest place for American working class to say "yep, fuck the Queen". And solidifies xenophobic policies into law. All while idiot liberals clutch their pearls as "the poor queen".
If the file is just a class I usually put example usage with some default arguments in that block by itself. There is no reason for a "main" function. It's a nice obvious block that doesn't run when someone imports the class but if they're looking at the class there is a really obvious place to see the class usage. No confusion about what "main()" is meant to do.
if __name__ == '__main__':
# MyClass example Usage
my_object = MyClass()
my_object.my_method()
The data on these things is completely unreliable. Wallets are opened and dumped at will. I don't think that you're really wrong. It is likely very concentrated. But I know that there is no reliable way of actually coming to this statistic.
Decentralized currencies will only actually make sense when the material incentives of our economic system would benefit from them. Capitalism is literally all about concentrating the control of capital and the means by which we produce things. Sadly, decentralized currencies will never be allowed to decouple themselves from these economic systems. There is too much material power to prevent that. And by material power I mean literally the enforcement of these concentrations of wealth through the use of violence.
The tech is cool. But it doesn't magically solve the problem by simply being invented. It's why no one is actually paying with these cryptocurrencies on anything but an extremely small scale.
A currency that cannot be manipulated by capitalist for their benefit has no place in our world. So, it will never reach any meaningful real use until those structures are dismantled. It will just continue to be a speculative asset that rich people dump their extra wealth into and poor people play as the lottery.
This sadly excludes the majority of bad UX decisions that are done entirely to maximize users time inside of the app as well as display advertising.
So many functional apps are destroyed by these incentives. There is literally a "skill issue" but in the opposite direction. The design is either purposely malicious in a subtle way with "dark patterns" (something Amazon is insanely guilty of. Literally just go try and return and item.) or is purposely annoying trying to ensure the user purchases the "free trial" to actually make the app functional. Knowing a lot of users will be charged at least once for the free trial.
I guess my point is that there is so so so so much wrong with UX design today. But for the majority of people that's not because of a bad programmer with no design knowledge. It's on purpose in most cases.
Your points are speaking to a Trump voter that would never even care about those things because they would never actually apply to them. They live in a contradiction that doesn't apply to what you're saying.
You literally replied with talking points that only benefit rich well off bourgeoisie. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make or who you're trying to convince. Because this definitely doesn't appeal to the me (looking at this from a class perspective) or the idiot Trump voter (looking at this from a "fuck the elite" perspective).
The later of which is just, on average, an uneducated working class idiot that thinks we live in a meritocracy but blames the "elite" for their position in it. They lack class analysis to actually understand where to direct that anger. But Harvard and "Queens" are the definition of that elite to them.
Who is this article supposed to appeal to? That's my question. This is just garbage puff that distracts from the real problems with Trump's policies.
It only appeals to well off petty bourgeois Liberals that have nothing better to care about than some "royal" being effected by a policy that they are only, at best, collateral damage to.
There's a lot of libs that run off of identity politics here and are completely delusional in thinking that this somehow will connect with Trump voters since she's white.
What lack of material analysis does to a mother fucker.
This is literally only for some old pearl clutching lifelong Democrat voters. "Oh no not the poor queen" is not something anyone that voted for Trump would say. Ironically, it's gonna be one thing progressives are gonna have in common with Trump voters. We both don't give a fuck about this queen. Trumps entire base is built on fake working class outrage.
This article and story does nothing to change any minds.
Honestly. If a couple bourgeoisie take some strays for Trump's awful policies I'm not gonna shed a tear. Who the fuck cares about a Belgium queen? I care about the working class kid that isn't gonna graduate. Fuck the Queen.
The degree of involvement of a non combatant is effective only in the public understanding of that position.
Luigi as an example. The public clearly understands that material impact even though that CEO isn't directly killing people. We all know why he did it.
Anyone taking action "politically" and not just "emotionally" would understand this. I don't advocate for vigilante justice. But I will make a judgement on when it's done.
Luigi shifted public opinion in favor of his cause. This killing is only hurtful to the cause. There is no positive shift here. Especially in the positions and power of the targets.
All we can do now, is push back in the disgusting use of pro Israel people that are salivating at this incident in order to further justify starving Gaza.
That's too much credit in my opinion. This is bound to happen statically. Israel just had to wait and capitalize on it. It's amazing it took this long. We didn't seem to care when a landlord killed a Palestinian child who was his tenant. They didn't seem to care when a Zionist shot two Arab Jews that they mistook for Palestinians.
Sorry. I've been advocating for Palestine since I first learned about the conflict truly as a young kid in 2015: as an ignorant college kid that visited my first major city of Chicago on an internship. Spoke with a Palestinian women and gave her a nod and an "ok" as she desperately tried to connect with me on what was being done to her family. She is was just holding a sign alone as I passed through the city. I was an ignorant idiot then. But even though I treated her like a random panhandler, what she said still stuck.
I'll never know exactly what she said to me. But I know it's when I started to care. I have definitely become cynical and frustrated, and tired since that time. But, I do really appreciate your reply.
I just only hope my own frustration or "snark" is heard in the same way.
I'm convinced a lot of the "AI tools" in general are just the same old tool with data collection tacked onto it. I really hope some of the things I see labeled as "AI" in tech these days are not actually running some model on a GPU somewhere. I pray they aren't at least.