You can’t buy anything in Next Fest. It’s all demos.

Many people are really bad at detecting AI at that level. And gamers get vengeful. The review process you propose would be immediately overloaded.

I released a game on steam 100% human made and still got a few accusations of using AI in reviews. Who knows how those reviews have hurt sales.

Next time I make a game I’m going to use AI in a way that helps me realize my own vision. It’s really not worth keeping a line in the sand anymore since enough people can’t actually tell the difference.

Revanced patcher. Totally customize the native YouTube app. Includes sponsor block by default.

Never forget that transphobes targeted a cis woman, Imane Khelif, who won gold at the Olympics. Many of the more prominent ones stand by their bullying years after.

It’s always been about making women they view as lesser suffer.

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And every time an open standard is adopted it opens the market and is better for all those businesses that resisted it. Yet they always resist. It’s so infuriating.

There was a high school that had a thing with student journalists being silenced after uncovering sexual harassment.

Administrators are always incentivized to take the side of the perpetrator. Ultimately, administrators, like company execs or managers will not meaningfully support victims. Don’t believe them if they say they will.

Absolutely. The quality drop on discussions was wild. I used to spend hours a week discussing on reddit. Now despite still using it to keep up to date on various topics, I rarely comment.

The post quality dropped quite a bit as well at that time. But that has always been a steady “eternal September” type of decline so it’s harder to isolate the cause.

Reddit will become less and less useful to the AI giants for training if it doesn’t contain new and ongoing deep communication like it once did.

Were they? They took one of the most recognizable brands of the century and made something people tend to avoid referring to because it’s hard to.

There are lots of good alternatives, just nothing that mirrors Stack Overflow’s goal exactly. Lemmy instances, subreddits, forums like code ranch, platforms like dev.to, etc.

Stack Overflow has been nearly useless as anything other than an archive of old questions for a long time. It’s a case study in how gamification can backfire.

For me it was over was before the peak as shown. The gamification that got it started in the first place eventually led to it becoming almost unusable for its intended purpose. Instead it functioned as more of an online-only augmented reality game where people worked to moderate away new questions as efficiently as possible rather than actually answer questions.

I prefer gentler hands guiding discussion rather than rigid requirements.

If flair was available on lemmy, it would be nice as an option, especially if other users could suggest it.

They were initially based on research into prediction markets. However that research, while interesting, certainly wasn’t able to …predict… what would happen when highly funded commercial enterprises with massive marketing budgets started pushing them right in the middle of an already growing gambling epidemic.

So, yes, they are now fully gambling apps with little predictive value.

One of the great ironies of these apps is that people are actively demanding they act more like gambling and less like prediction markets. For example, prediction markets require insiders to participate to function effectively. But the people using these apps, and people who hate these apps alike want to ban insiders from using them to keep them “fair”. This pushes the apps even further from prediction and toward gambling.

I can imagine adding some more taxes to private education tuition, direct the money to public education. Won’t end it but it will help.

It’s not an oppressive society for Sergey when Sergey is an oppressor. Forcing him to be slightly less of an oppressor? That would be real oppression.

Not really a fan of this type of rule.

I personally dislike trying to lump so many different scenarios into one catch all term anyway.

That’s fine. I don’t want to prescribe language for you to use. I find the term very useful myself.

But to your other point, I’m truly remaining strong on holding the word. I remember when “queer” was a slur and when “gay” was an insult. Both have been solidly reclaimed. I don’t think "neurodivergent’ has entered that level yet, and I hope to help avoid that by keeping it normalized.

I’m neurodivergent. We’re keeping “neurodivergent”, they can’t have it.

This article really misses the point. I fundamentally disagree with the conclusion and think it’s actively harmful to neurodivergent people.

They’re criticizing academic use of the words “neurodivergent” and “neurodiversity” and effectively demanding that all academic work rigorously categorize people into pre-existing diagnoses. They point to disagreement on what terms mean as a reason to not use the terms. But that’s precisely why we need to use the terms, why we need academics studying these things in context.

Remember, it was only 13 years ago that Aspbergers and PPD-NOS were grouped in with Autism Spectrum Disorder. And ADHD & Autism were finally allowed as co-diagnoses. Yes that’s right, before 2013 you could not be diagnosed with both ADHD & Autism!

Ultimately, here’s the problem. We weren’t “done” figuring out neurodivergent diagnoses prior to 2013, we weren’t done in 2013, and we aren’t done now. Neurodivergence isn’t as clear and as clean as these authors seem to think. The existing diagnoses can be very helpful to people, but they also fail a lot of people, and can lead to under- or mis-diagnosis. We need sociologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and other scholars studying this from many angles.

Maybe one day we’ll get to the point where we don’t need medical diagnoses for neurodivergent people of all ages to have their needs met, but I don’t think we get closer to that day with rigid categorization and unchanging definitions.

They seem like niche publications, probably had dedicated readership. Pretty sad to see smaller publications falling like this. Valnet all over again, maybe worse somehow.