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Wegen Drogenkriminalität: CDU-Chef Merz will Cannabis-Freigabe nach Wahlsieg schnell rückgängig machen - WELT
  • Das traurige ist, dass einige Senioren, mit denen ich gesprochen habe das voll befürworten. Es ist fast schon gruselig, wie viele glauben, Cannabis sei fast das gleiche wie Meth oder Heroin. Oder dass es aggressiv macht. Aber selbst am Sonntag schon mittags ein Bier bestellen. Denen bringst du auch leider nichts mehr bei. Diskussionen sind völlige Zeitverschwendung.

  • YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete
  • I'm getting them already, which is a bit annoying, but I still prefer the black screen with an adblocker to the wild mix of commercials that range from MLM schemes and "join my telegram group for totally not financial advice" to flat out hate speech that I'd get without an adblocker. So yeah suck it Google.

  • AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature
  • Sadly, there's a silver lining for giga corporations exclusively. They have near endless resources to amass more and more human made data and IPs to keep feeding their content machine for years to come. You and me won't be able to train anything decent from datasets that scrape random websites anymore for the known reasons, but Microsoft, Facebook and Google are above us filthy plebs in that they already own or are able to pay for high quality datasets that they can monetize completely legally. I mean they're lobbying for exactly that: To lock the tech away from the public. And of course the US government being the US government, they make it happen already with nightmarish regulations that hand the keys to the tech to the super rich.

    Though I wonder how much enshittification us people can take before we simply leave most parts of the internet to experience real life instead. Because the digital world looks more surreal by the day lately and it kind of stops existing as soon as we avert our eyes from our screens.

  • Blizzard's World of Warcraft team has unionized
  • Let's not pretend like Blizz or Bethesda will see the end of this decade anyway. Their fate was sealed when they got bought. Still, unionizing was the best thing employees could hope for. Good for them!

  • NCSoft president: "The games industry's evolution towards acceptance and diversity is ongoing"
  • The industry's effort to be more inclusive and diverse mostly comes from indie games, though. Of course AAA has long realized the potential to boost their image by copying some mechanics and ideas but let's not pretend any of those CEOs on their high horses actually cares about inclusion. They'll drop any efforts the very moment it doesn't benefit them directly. But there will always be passionate indie developers pushing boundaries to actually help more people enjoy games.

  • We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny
  • I have to hard disagree on this outmost pessimistic outlook because it reads like any regulation we already have is pointless so we can just scrap regulations and rules altogether across the board. That's similar to the neoliberalist rethoric I loathe to see pushed into my recommendations and it's simply not true. In reality we do see that regulations sometimes do the trick. It's just that they likely won't regulate them as harsh as I proposed, but that's a different argument. Regulation as an instrument does work.

  • Ungarn droht die Energiekrise: Ukraine kappt Orbán den Zugang zu russischem Öl
  • Leider wurde ein Krieg eben genau durch dessen Undenkbarkeit vermutlich wiederrum wahrscheinlicher. Das hatte so ähnlich Slavoj Zizek schon 2019 behauptet und recht behalten.

    Hätten EU-Staaten sich besser ausgestattet, (also an einen Krieg geglaubt) wäre es vermutlich nicht zu einer Invasion gekommen, da diese Staaten ja umso mehr einen Grund gehabt hätten, einzuschreiten. Dass sie es trotz mangelnder Vorbereitungen getan haben, war fast schon ein Glücksfall, dass genügend Regierungen stark geblieben sind. Aber im besten Falle hätte man besser an einen krieg geglaubt.

  • We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny
  • I mean it‘s the exact same if you visit Youtube without an account or cookies. The Internet has become a swamp of right wing and neoliberal populism that kicks down on minorities and people with lower than average income in general. The insane amount of completely made up rage bait stories that you get recommended is just unfathomable.

    I think it‘s gotten to a point where it needs to be regulated how many lies a site can throw at you at the same time and I don‘t say this lightly. I just see no other way to get this mind eating populist machine under control.

  • Bots can now solve CAPTCHAs better than humans
  • You‘re doing it too fast most likely. Try doing it very slowly instead. I recently realized most captchas are designed for seniors, not tech savvy people. They will keep throwing them at you if you‘re too good at them. I think the joke that one day only AIs can solve captchas so you have to fail at them in order to be recognized as human has long become a reality in a way. Hope that helps.