On F-Droid Phocid is good

https://sunsetware.org/phocid/en

https://obfusk.gitlab.io/jekyll-fdroid/en/packages/org.sunsetware.phocid/

The wikipedia page for afrofuturism is pretty interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrofuturism

For some reason the novella The Deep came to my mind though I haven’t read it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deep_(novella)

Yes, this is the extra cherry on top that makes San Francisco look like a parody of itself here lol

I mean ok we can keep cats indoor, what about making techbros indoor only too though? They kill a lot of innocent people with the tools they make.

Not an excuse.

Then again, the human passengers didn’t see it either.

The human passengers weren’t responsible for driving the vehicle, their lack of awareness is a feature of getting a taxi ride?

This, at least, can likely be remedied fleet-wide and permanently with a software fix.

You have so much misplaced faith in these massive corporations…

What you aren’t taking into account how much the US social safety net has hollowed out since the dotcom crash.

This is going to be very bad, I wouldn’t waste words speculating about the extent of the damage, we haven’t seen this kind of shock hit such a fragile US society. There is no resilience left in the US people to climb out of a big economic crash, things will just shatter.

The dotcom crash was a process of a period of vibrant growth and opportunity smashing into a wall, this is different… this is much worse, it is like a runner already in terrible shape collapsing in the middle of a marathon from their body shutting down, AI is just the acute symptom of a much more worrying disease where the ruling class is attempting to hallucinate itself out of the consequences of their divestment from any functional social safety for the rest of the country.

I agree completely with this assessment.

gulp

The AI bubble will pop, but will likely be more like the doctom crash than the 2008 one. It isn’t as interconnected with the rest of the economy.

This is going to age like milk.

I don’t like ai-art, most of the time it is a pursuit of the economic value of an aesthetic without a genuine engagement with the human part.

Further, AI is part of a broad process of dehumanization that diminishes the value of humans and the human condition in favor of an imagined intelligence that all artists have always instinctually understood was a threat.

No artists with any wisdom at all thinks skill is a gatekeeper for human artists, skill is rather the inveitable result of a sustained intimacy between an artist and their art and what you mistake for a worship of skill is a love of that relationship framed in the context of skill. In so far as the obsession with artistic skill acts as a gatekeeper to anybody, it is in large part because capitalism demands things be abstracted and reduced to pure economic value. Artists rarely gatekeep art themselves, the gatekeeping has NOTHING to do with artists nor does it originate from their desire to create art it is a peripheral process imposed upon art by distorting forces attempting to control art (such as AI).

Also, people need to stop lazily using the example of Luddites without knowing their history. They aren’t who you think they were, stop dropping the reference like you know what it means if you don’t know what it means.

TL;DR If skill is a gatekeeper to art it is because capitalism demands scarcity be imposed upon the pursuit of making art, it has nothing to do with art itself. Hailing AI as a gift to would-be artists totally misses the point, I am not against using new tools to make art, I am against the rise in dehumanization dominating societies around the world at the moment of which AI is a central actor.

Art is beautiful not because economic value has been captured and skewered into aesthetics. It is a part of being human.

Yeah, kinda a touchy moment to talk about another Just Cause?

You ever play “Rock, Lettuce, Liz Truss”?

Feels good knowing you aren’t on a burning ship.

“Calcupast” on the otherhand is some drug always being marketed in commercials showing happy older people walking on the beach.

Overall, 3% might not seem like much to some, but again - that trend is very clear and equates to millions of people. The last time Valve officially gave a proper monthly active user count was in 2022, and we know Steam has grown a lot since then, but even going by that original number would put monthly active Linux users at well over 4 million. Sadly, Valve have not given out a more recent monthly active user number but it’s likely a few million higher, especially with the Steam Deck selling millions.

Wait, why that comment?

We don’t respect you anymore though Rockstar.

If you like the old-school top-down GTA feel

You also HAVE to check out the quick multiplayer match topdown GTA-like Skillshot City. The gameplay feels super tight.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/308600/Skillshot_City/

Maniac is a singleplayer police escape arcade mayhem game with locked in topdown GTA-like gameplay.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1482380/Maniac/

In a different genre but still worth mentioning for having cool topdown arcade multiplayer & singleplayer combat is Running With Rifles

https://store.steampowered.com/app/270150/RUNNING_WITH_RIFLES