I’m dumb, password is passcode in this case. Just don’t include any letters lol.

So… How do you set a passcode?

The original article says women. Unless they are using women with small hands as code for children.

I would hope a social studies teacher would understand the pitfalls of Western orientalism and Western cultures obsession with describing other groups as ‘its’ rather than as whole persons.

But if we’re going to objectify people, why don’t we get real technical about it. Why not move manufacturing to other east Asian countries? Even outside of East Asia, you can find many countries with less labor protections and large populations where you can select for millions of people with small hands. Why China? Anyone who is being intellectually honest knows that hand size was not the central reason.

If this is widely accepted then Western culture has a long way to go when it comes to facing its history of racial objectification. Because this sounds less like a valid rationale and more like modern phrenology presenting itself as business and engineering acumen.

Young Chinese women have small fingers, and that has made them a valuable contributor to iPhone production because they are more nimble at installing screws and other miniature parts in the small device, supply chain experts said. In a recent analysis the company did to explore the feasibility of moving production to the United States, the company determined that it couldn’t find people with those skills in the United States, said two people familiar with the analysis who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/technology/apple-iphone-trump-india-china.html

They’re supposedly paraphrasing “supply chain experts” but they could definitely paraphrase better.

Western culture is built on a foundation of race based hierarchical brain rot and isn’t it remarkable how it always finds a way to remind us of that?

Reddit was always like this.

Now they’ve made ads indistinguishable from posts.

The discourse is generally low quality, divisive and likely bot driven.

What is the difference functionally?

Seeing more and more of this domestically.

People are recognizing that their relationship with their employer is exploitative and are trying to return that energy.

I’ve worked with a few people recently that clearly were holding multiple jobs or were much more focussed on their side hustle.

Symptom of a bigger issue in my opinion.

Could it have been Jesus that said “Those who live by the free market shall die by the free market?”

I like how his expression of inspiration / passion is destructive (running through a wall). It’s very on brand.

State control of corporations and industry through force is a key ingredient of fascism. Might as well put a swastika on the MAGA hat wearer also.

Yeah that’s fair, I don’t think anyone can reasonably expect perfection.

But the posturing of the two characters evokes a very clear Strong / Weak dichotomy that I feel persecuted groups may not wish to connect with, while feeding into the savior complex of privileged groups.

I still like the overall messaging to privileged groups. It tells them the right thing to do. But I understand why there has been negative feedback from those that are meant to be portrayed by the persecuted character.

I like the messaging here because it’s important for privileged people to hear.

But the criticisms are valid. The pictured depiction is not of two equally capable allies, rather we see one visibly nonconformist individual who appears downtrodden and powerless being protected by an individual who visibly conforms to societal norms.

This is disempowering imagery for those that would identify with the rat that is being protected.

Global South wouldn’t be a fair example since you’d have to factor in historical (and current) exploitation by Western nations. This tends to bolster corruption by having leaders sell out their population to align with Western prerogatives, enriching themselves in the process.

The social democracies in these nations is generally an attempt to protect the populace from Western capitalism moreso than domestic capitalism.

One example would be when the US overthrew the Shah in Iran back in the 50s because they socialized ownership of their oil reserves (previously owned through exploitation by a Western coporation). They staged a coup d’etat to install a pro Western leader so that the Western exploitation could continue. This inevitably led to the Iranian revolution, playing a significant role in Iran’s current state as a theocracy.

The Global South, particularly South America, has countless of examples of this. The term banana republic is used to describe this very situation.

This is by no means an indictment on Western culture, just that the global rich will inevitably be in a position to manipulate the global not-so-rich for their own gain. Western nations are the global bourgeoisie.

Nordic nations are a better example of social democracies as they are not subject to the same type of meddling.

Churchill was India’s Hitler without a doubt.

Glad the resource leech era is over and now it’s just tea, crumpets and an unfortunately crumbling economy post Brexit.

Found it, for anyone reading don’t bother. It is still images with an AI voiceover. I was hoping for half baked AI generated video.

Anyone have a link to the video? Looking for a good laugh.

Ah yes having to lick the boot of an autocrat with no freedom to dissent. That sure sounds like its working to me.

This is what the ARC-AGI test by Chollet has also revealed of current AI / LLMs. They have a tendency to approach problems with this trial and error method and can be extremely inefficient (in their current form) with anything involving abstract / deductive reasoning.

Most LLMs do terribly at the test with the most recent breakthrough being with reasoning models. But even the reasoning models struggle.

ARC-AGI is simple, but it demands a keen sense of perception and, in some sense, judgment. It consists of a series of incomplete grids that the test-taker must color in based on the rules they deduce from a few examples; one might, for instance, see a sequence of images and observe that a blue tile is always surrounded by orange tiles, then complete the next picture accordingly. It’s not so different from paint by numbers.

The test has long seemed intractable to major AI companies. GPT-4, which OpenAI boasted in 2023 had “advanced reasoning capabilities,” didn’t do much better than the zero percent earned by its predecessor. A year later, GPT-4o, which the start-up marketed as displaying “text, reasoning, and coding intelligence,” achieved only 5 percent. Gemini 1.5 and Claude 3.7, flagship models from Google and Anthropic, achieved 5 and 14 percent, respectively.

https://archive.is/7PL2a

I figure we have to have some angels to balance out the demons that end up in positions of prominence in our societies.

Having known several healthcare workers with PTSD from the pandemic I strongly disagree.

Granted, the pandemic was traumatizing for people from all walks of life but I don’t envy hospital based nurses or doctors from that time.

It was so painful for nurses that many quit leading to a shortage that’ll likely go on for the next decade as a result.

Some of that is due to corporate healthcare enshittification but there was a mass exodus during the pandemic for a reason.

McDonalds app already does this. Their shit food is absolutely terrible value if you don’t use their app. You’re basically trading your personal info to get a few dollars off a Big Mac.