Shoplifting from Walmart hurts my knees because the boss won't believe that our onhand numbers are wrong and makes me check high and low before I can nil pick it 🥲

This isn't an ethical argument against shoplifting btw, this is an ethical argument in favor of nuking Walmart

My experience with generated subtitles is that they're awful. Hopefully these are better, but I wish human beings with brains would make them.

Another dev acting shocked that a predictive keyboard trained by the internet is going to be racist 🥱

Why is everyone acting like the user did something to prompt this response, and then lied to the press about it? Obviously Google didn't create life, but isn't it more likely that LLMs scrape from the internet, which is full of edgy and rude people? Especially since Google has its partnership with Reddit, which is a haven for cynical assholes.

She's also a stellar example of inequality and the mechanics behind it, imo. Being a trans woman has not made her a champion of queer rights. Belonging to a marginalized group doesn't automatically make you a good person or even a non-oppressive person.

I guess it's because his Discord server was where he leaked them? I feel like someone who doesn't use Discord could read this headline and assume he worked for the company, though.

Despite the slurs, Mr Swenson was glad that the hackers had announced their presence so loudly.

It would have been much worse, he said, if they had decided to quietly observe his family inside their home.

They could've peered through his robot's camera, and listened through the microphone, without him having the slightest clue.

Why does a vacuum cleaner have a spy camera and microphone? Insane thing to have in a house with children.

Honestly it'd be horrifying to wake up in the 90s again with an adult awareness of where the world is heading, and that it was already headed this way because we were knee-deep in capitalism and colonialism.

I liked playing with toys though.

These guys are telling on themselves. "She used to be a man, so she'll do [horrible thing]."

So you do [horrible thing] to your partners??

I thought they were just trying to hammer home how wild it was for the file to get that big, since it's just a text file.

People just love to assume that archeologists have no idea what sex or gay people are. Not saying there isn't a problem with that, but the memes are overblown.

I remember seeing a ton of "archeologists: tHeY'rE jUsT fRiEnDs" comments on an ancient illustration of two Egyptian men, when every single source I could find explained why they seem to have been a gay couple.

I like this so much better than all the bitching about how surreal and unfamiliar gen alpha's shit is.

Something that's really novel when you're a kid is taking a strange premise that seems like a one-off gag and making a whole narrative about it. It's why we had flash cartoons built around the premise of "what if Mario met Sonic using DBZ rules" or why some of us watched hour-long amateur movies about the Nostalgia Critic. I'm not saying those things were good, but it's really subversive when you first encounter it, and it's emotionally satisfying to explore the potential of something you liked instead of letting it be a flash in the pan.

So basically, when the kids try to tell me about the Skibidi Toilet's ability to turn even the bleakest situation around, even though I have no idea what the FUCK they're talking about, I understand why it's so riveting to them.