Interestingly, we all sit somewhere near the peak of “Mount Stupid” on nearly every decision we make in a given day. Btw, how long is yogurt good for in the fridge?

The difference is, the more “leadership” you get, the more isolated you are from getting reality shoved in your face. I think being a billionaire is actually a form of brain damage. They never get feedback on when they are wrong, or if they do, they are surrounded by sycophants who will tell them the critic is wrong. The rest of us at least get humbled once in a while.

Investors are rarely experts in the particular niches that the companies they hold shares in are applying AI to.

This will sound insensitive, but it’s a serious point of anger for a lot of Canadians. I couldn’t give a fuck about what the average peanut farmer in South Virginia thinks about Canada. When Canadian’s talk about “America” -they are talking about the American government - ya know, the people who control the tanks and bombs? The people threatening? The people who have an actual impact on Canadian sovereignty?

It’s no different for you. When someone talks about something “France wants to do,” you don’t mistakenly think it’s about some rando coffee-shop worker in Paris, you know it’s referring to the french government. You are well aware that there are people living in France that don’t want to do that thing, but you don’t care, that’s not relevant.

“Not all Americans” really rings so hollow it might as well be a balloon. Use that energy on getting rid of the fascists running the place instead of worrying about discrimination from some country to the North.

There were actual Venezuelans in Canada celebrating the abduction. They have easy access to information about what happened in Iraq over the last 20 years, but it doesn’t matter. That would require going out and finding the information, rather than being fed it by automated algorithms.

Are you familiar with a social media site where it’s common to post well-researched and cited position papers? A rant is about what I expect in a place like this. The goal, I think, is to start a discussion -which is where your commentors injecting nuance or level headed opinions comes in. I personally don’t know what the solution is, but students using AI is an incredible experiment being conducted on the next generation. No one has anything but an opinion, because there’s no outcome data yet. My opinion is that it is scary as hell.

Offloading onto technology always atrophies the skill it replaces. Calculators offloaded, very specifically, basic arithmetic. However, Math =/= arithmetic. I used calculators, and cannot do mental multiplication and division as fast or well as older generations, but I spent that time learning to apply math to problems, understand number theory, and gaining a mastery of more complex operations, including writing computer sourcecode to do math-related things. It was always a trade-off.

In Aristotle’s time, people spent their entire education memorizing literature, and the written world off-loaded that skill. This isn’t a new problem, but there needs to be something of value to be educated in that replaces what was off-loaded. I think scholars are much better trained today, now that they don’t have to spend years memorizing passages word for word.

AI replaces thinking. That’s a bomb between the ears for students.

Comparing with phones is odd, as we shouldn’t have allowed them in schools in the first place, and are starting to ban them in schools all over the world.

They are not actually encrypted (anything like that on the box is basically a lie). Just pre-arrange code words for emergencies and use a “handle” instead of a name. Old school works.

Aside from the snark, I hope you are right.

I would love to find a low-effort meme and “fun” pics stream like Imgur. Pixelfed is too serious photographer, and while lemmy has plenty of meme pictures, the UI makes it awkward to just scroll at breakfast and send something funny to fam. Just a wall of images and short videos, and no comments unless you click them.

Not only that, imploding could further inflame the world. If a collapsing us goes into Greenland, and the EU splits in half over whether to side with Denmark or the US (remember, Poland is totally dependant on US nuclear deterrent, they are not likely to abandon that). That will empower Putin to move in. That China will be unrestrained is not even questionable. Things will get hotter everywhere.

Oh neat. I was scared off by OIC going to a data “blob” backend store. I want my files still accessible directly if the database blows up. Looks like opencloud gives you the choice: https://nexus.opencloud.community/docs/app-development/storage-backends/

Don’t trust “flight mode”, use a Faraday bag for that purpose.

If he was thrown in jail after Jan 6 like a common criminal along with the rest of the mob, the Nazis would be all back in hiding now.

https://replaceyourboss.ai/ Be the change!

NATO doesnt have any articles about one member attacking another.

I do prefer text files, but Ill critique any way -that site looks horrible because of phone browser wrapping the hard wrapped lines. Wrapping and newline shenanigans are a big downside of plain text. Marked up plain text like html or even markdown help here, buy there are always trade offs.

Secondly the “font of text files” is just wrong. A text file doesn’t even suggest a font. You view it in whatever font your terminal or text editor is using at that time. Fixed width fonts are used for those so that things can be made to line up (e.g., indented code or tables).

It took decades of propaganda. Paying off cooking shows and influencers to have big, obvious gas stoves. They even popularized the phrase “cooking with gas” as a euphemism for anything fast. If it was so much better, it would have sold its self.

Ignore Facebook but install Signal on her phone and start sharing your life via pictures to a group or use the “stories” feature? It takes effort but parents want to see whats going on.

Also, nuclear power plants are steam powered. Good luck. They /might/ drop a nuclear battery, like the kind in some old satellites or apace probes, on the moon, generating a couple hundred watts with 1970s technology.