@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-18 04:05:41
How Apple is helping filmmakers and developers create immersive media for the Vision Pro and share best practices (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91461534/apple-vision-pro-immersive-video
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-11-16 21:35:22
I voted for what you might call the "anti-establishment" voice for president. He wore a kaffiyeh and talked of environment and how the BCNDP could meet this incredibly challenging moment.
Glad I was able to support him. he came second by a large margin but I am grateful that support is there.
#bcndp #bcndp #democracy
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-17 06:11:16
I think we can actually prove that this constraint is the *only* constraint that can preserve freedom:
1. There will exist actors in a system who will wish to take advantage of others. Evolution drives survival and one strategy for increasing survival in an altruistic society is to become a parasite.
2. Expecting exploitative dynamics, a system needs to have a set of rules to manage exploitation.
3. If the set of rules is static it will lack the requisite variety necessary to manage the infinite possible behavior of humans so the system will fail.
4. If the system is dynamic then it must have a rule set about how it's own rules are updated. This would make the system recursive, which makes the system at least as complex as mathematics. Any system at least as complex as mathematics is necessarily either incomplete or inconsistent (Gödel's incompleteness theorem). If the system is incomplete, then constraints can be evaded which then allow a malicious agent to seize control of the system and update the rules for their own benefit. If constraints are incomplete, then a malicious agent can take advantage of others within the system.
5. Therefore, no social system can possibly protect freedom unless there exists a single metasystemic constraint (that the system must be optional) allowing for the system to be abandoned when compromised.
Oh, you might say, but this just means you have to infinitely abandon systems. Sure, but there's an evolutionary advantage to cooperation so there's evolutionary pressure to *not* be a malicious actor. So a malicious actor being able to compromise the whole system is likely to be a much more rare event. Compromising a system is a lot of work, so the first thing a malicious actor would want to do is preserve that work. They would want to lock you in. The most important objective to a malicious actor compromising a system would be to violate that metasystemic constraint, or all of their work goes out the window when everyone leaves.
And now you understand why borders exist, why fascists are obsessed with maintaining categories like gender, race, ethnicity, etc. This is why even Democrats like Newsom are on board with putting houseless people in concentration camps. And this is why the most important thing anarchists promote is the ability to choose not to be part of any of that.
@mapto@qoto.org2025-10-18 01:53:12
Who are the people that make Trump and his top tier stuntmen capable to move forward despite being incapable of integral though? Apparently others exhibiting spotty thinking ("The ultimate radical constitutionalist is Donald Trump", "I’m a Christian. I am a nationalist.")
Yet, the fact that people like Russell Vought are capable of pulling through their destructive project shows that they must be able to actually operate with these double standards in the heads, one…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-15 16:03:10
India has issued a final warning to #Apple that it will proceed in an #antitrust case against the U.S. tech giant
as the company has delayed responses to officials for over a year and undermined the investigation,
a confidential order shows.
Apple has said it fears it could be
👉fined up to $38 bil…
@shriramk@mastodon.social2025-12-15 14:45:15
Okay, let's admit it, it's rather fun to be able to tell a machine "Let's rock and roll!" and it is able to infer that I mean, "Yeah, that design document is now in great shape, we should start generating code".
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2026-01-13 17:23:50
If you read Sartre, Nietzsche, or Camus, you might appreciate this self-taught classical composer.
#Sartre
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-14 08:51:08
An interview with IMG President Adam Kelly on streaming platforms' increasing share of sports media rights, live sports as an antidote to AI content, and more (Josh Noble/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d03bef02-0cf6-4aee-a4ab-0455cdca98cd
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-13 04:32:41
Trump said Thursday evening he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters,
a former Colorado county clerk who is serving a nine-year state sentence for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines
— even though the president's pardon power ionly applies to federal crimes.
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-13 00:38:57
On Thursday, the California Coastal Commission voted to approve a permit allowing the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, perched above Avila Beach of San Luis Obispo County,
to continue operating through at least 2030.
The controversial decision was conditioned on Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), the plant’s operator, agreeing to permanently conserve 4,000 acres of surrounding land from commercial or residential development.
The decision carries powerful consequences for the…
