Every AI company and neocloud dependent on circular financing from Nvidia to stay afloat.
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We know… we were there.
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I see the point but I don’t necessarily agree. Before the intense commercialization Reddit had definitely changed for the worse for me because of the influx of people.
I stopped talking about Linux because Winbros would brigade me. I stopped talking about politics because I would be brigaded by western/capitalist bros. The discussions also got a lot worse over time and nuanced opinion was almost always down voted and brigaded.
I fear the same would happen for lemny if we suddenly had a hundred million users. Having a good community is desirable, but having a ton of people not so much so.
Nvidia appoints ex-Synopsys CEO Harvey C. Jones as its first-ever board chair; the board's Jensen Huang exit press release does not include a quote from Huang (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1031689/jensen-huang-fired-nvidia
http://www.techmeme.com/261112/p29#a261112p29
Singapore says it held Alice Huang's passport from June 2025 to February 2026 and released her with a "stern warning" after the US provided very little help (Paul Mozur/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/12/business/nvidia-megaspeed-alice-huang.html
http://www.techmeme.com/261112/p30#a261112p30
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We are on Lemmy, so yeah, they are here. Just take a look at how many people are defending Russia invading its neighboring country and murdering the people there. Or try calling Xi Jingping a dictator who is doing a genocide on the Uighurs.
Active shooter reported in the Logan Circle area of DC. Several people are said to be wounded and I am seeing a huge police response and increased security around the White House.
@newsguyusa and the ceo of nvidea resigned
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117601659373052962
It is offical now. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after tech giant rocked by second affair allegation. Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO of tech giant Nvidia, the company's board says. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c6zjry11v8w1t
Hundreds of streaming services and nothing to watch
Most viewers wish there was a TV Guide for streaming.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/11/hundreds-of-streaming-services-and-nothing-to-watch/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica You mean like https://www.justwatch.com/?
There were various slides about sexual response cycles and now we're watching a video of a talk about taking the shame and stigma out of sex
@shauna “we’re”
Have it create Jodorowsky’s Dune.
You’ve got the notes, you’ve got the art. You’ve got all his other movies to cross check for style.
Then you can close down all AI, every chatbot and data center. Because it will have achieved its purpose.
@miksimum enough of this necromancy. When Grand Moff Tarkin appeared in Rogue One, that should have just been recast as a living actor who could creatively reinterpret the character. I don't care how well computers can mimic a dead guy
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004
reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).
the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.
another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.
size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.
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Size is what makes a network attractive to commercial exploitation. An open network like the Fediverse might not be commercially exploited by its infrastructure owners, but any participant can do so.
As a kid, I asked my mum what masturbation was. She told me it was thinking happy thoughts about someone. All well and good until I used it in a sentence. At school.
Two new job openings at Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) I bet someone on here could do:
Manager, Data Architecture: https://jobs.lever.co/ppfa/0e026254-61b5-4a11-a461-27d26e1f77e8
Senior Specialist, Data Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/ppfa/66587732-351b-405a-8151-7df89852a372
@jalefkowit adding hashtags to help #fedihire #getfedihired
fucking around ...
"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Resigns"
https://www.wsj.com/business/nvidia-is-preparing-to-oust-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-30f421ad
To be clear, if you don’t get as many of these as I do it might not be so obvious: I know it looks personalised, but all the spam I get follows the exact same template:
<acknowledgement of specific work I do>
I’m X from company Y. <pitch>
<invitation to talk about specific personalised collab>
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tw7cra4mdefux5rrstjt5vrc/post/3n24kraahzf24
@joethephish When this entity says “I often speak with narrative leads and art directors” they no doubt mean “I send 10 of these spam emails per minute”.
I know where my bread is buttered and who sleeps on my head.
@futurebird #PicaTheCat Pica the Mighty
@djwfyi thanks, looks like what I wanted