I’d expect a fellow programmer to understand why these kinds of proposals are foolish.

• Limited political pluralism, realized with constraints on the legislature, political parties and interest groups.
• Political legitimacy based upon appeals to emotion and identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat “easily recognizable societal problems, such as underdevelopment or insurgency”.
• Minimal political mobilization, and suppression of anti-regime activities.
• Ill-defined executive powers, often vague and shifting, which extends the power of the executive.

He wrote this in the 1960’s, mainly in reference to Spanish Fascism but not exclusively.

I think Juan Linz created a decent criteria. It’s useful as a descriptor of how much personal liberty a person residing in a particular state can assert and how easily a person can petition their government without fear of reprisal.

It’s a square-rectangle situation in my view. All fascists are authoritarian bit not all authoritarians are fascist

What would you say if I characterized the third reich as authoritarian? Would that make me a Holocaust trivializer?

HERES A GUY

They’re gonna call this pile of shit idea A.I. Michaels and act all smug about it, aren’t they?

Yeah fuck having a potential future replacement do the recap instead. I guess I should add the word human to that last sentence because it sure as shit seems they are testing out his actual replacement.

Here’s the page in English for those that are linguistically challenged such as myself

They’ve sold over 20 million of them

It was McDonall Douglas, and post merger the MD executives largely took over the company. I don’t see Satya giving up the helm to Altman any time soon.

They own like half the company, so wouldn’t OpenAI’s success be their success?

I just want to say I see you out here working hard on growing the fediverse and I appreciate it

Doesn’t Ikea do something like this too?

If I recall correctly the USSR was a pretty steady grain importer throughout their history

Anyone characterizing the Soviet invasion of Poland as “bloodless” deserves to have their bullshit posts nuked

Their chip design is pretty good and they have the cash to buy up most of TSMC’s best production

Context:

Meta has published a new advertisement for the Quest 3 headset, showing a person in a car garage multitasking with multiple windows. The person is watching a YouTube video in one window and talking in a WhatsApp conversation in another window. There are a few other windows floating around the garage room.

Here’s the problem: you can’t do that on a Quest headset. The current software is limited to three simultaneous applications, and they are displayed in one shared side-by-side view. You can adjust the size and positioning of each window, but they are locked together in the same view.

More sales people to handle all the sales they’re not getting?

Sex work can be manipulative and dehumanizing; who knew?