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Womble

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  • The left is missing out on AI

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  • Sadly you cant expect large comms on Lemmy to do anything that reflexivly up/down vote anything negative/positive about AI, no matter how insightful or nuanced. It's pretty ironic for this article in particular given that the same refusal to engage is its topic.

  • The left is missing out on AI

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  • Funnily enough, they were slop before slop was popular. With Herbert's son cranking out an endless quantity of vapid simulacra of his fathers work for profit.

  • Google Uses Cox Ruling to Kill Last Copyright Claim in Textbook Piracy Lawsuit

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  • Copyrights getting legal precident of "rights holders get to decide what you do with their work" would be worse.

  • FindOutNow Voting Intentions Poll: Greens Tied Second Place, Your Party Polls below 1%, Reform loses votes to Restore Britain but still stays in Lead

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  • Importantly, this estimate does not include any potential positive impact of the bolstered £1billion annual funding, by 2029/2030, or the additional £300million of support in this SR period that is being brought forward. These measures will support those with disabilities and long-term health conditions into employment, which we expect to mitigate the poverty impact among people it supports into work.

    Oh look, only considering negative changes and not positive ones leads to seeing a negative outcome, very surprising.

  • FindOutNow Voting Intentions Poll: Greens Tied Second Place, Your Party Polls below 1%, Reform loses votes to Restore Britain but still stays in Lead

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  • You mean the one where there was a huge Labour back-bench rebellion and the government backed down and made essesntially zero cuts?

  • FindOutNow Voting Intentions Poll: Greens Tied Second Place, Your Party Polls below 1%, Reform loses votes to Restore Britain but still stays in Lead

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  • I dont expect them to just choose to do the right thing for no reason, like you say, if they were going to do that then they would have already. But put them in a situation where doing the right thing aligns with them not losing power (and for individual MPs not losing their seat) and I think they would. Mostly for selfish reasons but it also helps that a lot of them are in favour of it and most of them know its the "right" thing to do.

  • Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?

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  • Most of those conversations seem to be steam asking the vendor to allow them to lower the price it's being offered on steam to match the lower price it's being offered elsewhere (or remove the sale from steam). I dont see any threats to kick games off steam (though that could be implied) or demands to remove lower priced sales from elsewhere.

    It doesnt look particularly abusive to my eye at least.

  • FindOutNow Voting Intentions Poll: Greens Tied Second Place, Your Party Polls below 1%, Reform loses votes to Restore Britain but still stays in Lead

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  • Maybe, but I think that their desire for power will overwhelm the Machine's hatred of getting a better voting system. If the other parties make it clear that they put this in their kings speach or they dont back it, I cant see Labour saying "no we'd rther collapse the government have another election and almost certainly lose seats" Especially when doing that would cause huge outrage in the party over something the majority want.

  • FindOutNow Voting Intentions Poll: Greens Tied Second Place, Your Party Polls below 1%, Reform loses votes to Restore Britain but still stays in Lead

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  • I think theres a chance of a Labour minority needing green/lib dem support to form a government and them making voting reform their price. Labour members are in favour and a good chunk of the MPs are too.

  • Meanwhile, Zohran Is Just Getting Things Done

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  • Socialism is not just about bringing the means of production into state ownership, but about adhering to a set of egalitarian principles that emphasize solidarity, erode class distinctions, and build the public sector and public assets, making our country work for everyone and not for the profits of large corporations. Fixing potholes may not be “socialist,” but Mamdani’s aggressive effort to escalate small infrastructure fixes is part of a much broader plan to restore faith in the public sector’s ability to get things done.

    Bravo!

  • Did games really get more costly to make?

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  • You're being needlessly agressive in calling people who have a different opinion to you dipshits.

    Clair Obscur in particular would not have worked without the graphical beauty it had. Without wanting to give too much away the game itself is heavily wrapped up in visual art as a medium for both the narrative and the gameplay and it would not havev worked (imo) if the graphics looked poor in comparison to it's peers at the time.

  • Did games really get more costly to make?

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  • Clair Obscur and BG3 spring immediately to mind as games with incredibly high production values (=large teams working for a long time) that were successful both commercially and critically. So yes some people do care about that. Especially if you are wanting to make a large mass-market game you cant rely on being the next person to make a terraria or stardew valley.

  • Did games really get more costly to make?

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  • Some bits absolutely can benefit from thowing bodies at them though. Animation is one of the key areas for that: if you want to give thousands of models hundreds of unique animations you absolutely can split that up by having 100 animators do 10 each rather than 10 doing 100 each.

    The increase in desire for graphical fidelity and custom naturalistic animation is a huge driver of the balloning teams and budgets for the AA and AAA games.

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  • Honestly, even if you dont want to watch the rest of the show, watch that episode. Its almost entirely self contained, all you need to know is that its set in a post-apocalypse zombie world. Its probably the most moving episode of television I've ever seen.

  • Global fossil power generation fell after the Hormuz closure due to solar and wind growth

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  • I've been thinking this for a few weeks now. It would be incredibly ironic if Trump ended up as one of the primary agents of the the transition away from fosil fuels due to him causing a price spike at a time when there is a viable alternative to oil for a lot of energy uses.

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  • I dont think the large trillion plus parameters models are going away in the short term, unless theres some big breakthrough on model architeture. But I think the small local or cheaply cloud hostable models will take over the vast majority of tasks

  • Hochul Proposes Tax on N.Y.C. Second Homes That Are Worth $5 Million

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  • Selling their second home in NY (presumably to someone who will use it as their primary residence) is a win. NY has a housing avilability problem. Stopping people asset squatting is one of the main points for a tax like this, not a failure.

  • US fighter jet shot down by Iran came from British base in Suffolk, says IRGC

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  • Notice how those are on the ground, at a known location (an airbase), so a photo can be planned for in advance.

    They are decidedly not fast jets travelling on an attack mission at close to the speed of sound.

  • US fighter jet shot down by Iran came from British base in Suffolk, says IRGC

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  • You did say radar... Anyway, good look snapping a picture of a ~20m jet travelling almost at mach1 from at least 500km away with a camera that is on a fixed orbit so you dont control where it is at a particular time. (and even if you did unless you took a picture of it during take off, that also wouldnt tell you where it was flying from.)

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Womble @piefed.world

    Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2026/mar/04/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley
  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    Miliband's clean jobs plan wins over the unions

    www.newstatesman.com /politics/uk-politics/2025/10/ed-milibands-clean-jobs-plan-wins-over-the-trade-unions
  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?

    www.prospectmagazine.co.uk /politics/70966/what-is-a-reactionary-centrist-does-uk-have-them