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Re:Virtual and Real World Combine at LAN Party (1998) on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:33AM (#50270276)
Fighting game players still meet up regularly.
The point is that human-created work has more meaning, because it's the product of a real life. Writing is a reflection of the writer.

Computer code can replicate rhetoric and prose. It can even create meaning the user didn't anticipate. This is as much a reflection of the 'author' as any hallucination.

My little pony ?
Re:I'm Becoming AI-Blind on Saturday August 22, 2026 @03:30PM (#49403011)
Like backface culling--as soon as you walk to see it from a different angle, the depth vanishes.
Re:Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco on Thursday August 20, 2026 @03:20PM (#49378944)
Maybe this freedom sounds reasonable at first. Pew Research says 36% of 13–17 year olds are on social media almost constantly [0]. This is not a problem that existed 20 years ago. The ease of access to highly addictive products is rotting the soul of society.

0: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social...

Seeing and recounting is different from recording and redistributing. It is not different just by degree, but by kind as well.

Gossip is lossy, video is much less so. When gossiping, the information is trusted less by default.

There is an invasive aspect to candid video that does not exist in gossip (not even slightly).