2024 was kind of a break. It wasn’t that bad (comparatively), a few things happened that brought us hope, a lot of things happened that suggest things are going to get much worse

Might be the best year of the decade, honestly

This boggled my mind from the moment I first learned of it

I’m working on something along these lines for myself, I think of it like using AI as a filter to create a bubble of good Internet around me

All of them, this is a QuickTime event. You have to feel out what they’re looking for. You have to hit the buttons in order and with the right timing

First - that sucks. Show empathy and active listening, see if they have more to say. Let them get it out

Next - you have to decide, are they more upset, or more stressed

Upset - story time, show sympathy. Keep it light on the details, and don’t try to draw comparisons - keep it at the emotional level.
Then advice time - again, keep it brief and vague

Stressed - advice, lay out options rapid fire and see if they latch onto any. If they don’t, story time - tell them about similar situations, without drawing emotional comparisons, where you got past it more easily than expected

I saw a video a few hours ago where Trump addressed this directly, and basically just said musk can’t be president because he wasn’t born a citizen

This is getting to him so hard, it’s wonderful

Don’t forget the handwritten manifesto I was able to read in full the day I heard the news

The way I see it, this was just another shooting. Except, instead of targeting innocents or literal children, it was someone who actually played some part in making them so desperate

And in the first 48 hours, the adjuster did more to shake the health insurance racket than decades of the public demanding change.

They say we need the rule of law, otherwise we just have mob rule… But maybe it’s worth wondering if mob rule isn’t as bad as it’s cracked up to be

Can confirm - did this today, the warning came up a couple more times but everything continued normally after I closed it

It was kinda bittersweet… I’ve been waiting a year for YouTube to push past my bottom line so I could dump it like Reddit and Netflix, but it was just another fake out for now

Can confirm - did this today, the warning came up a couple more times but everything continued normally after I closed it

It was kinda bittersweet… I’ve been waiting a year for YouTube to push past my bottom line so I could dump it like Reddit and Netflix, but it was just another fake out for now

Nope, I took a closer look - I can usually spot AI pics at a glance, but there’s clear artifacts here.

Zoom in on the objects, first the edges - there’s clear antialiasing on the hair and grass. Zoom in on the faces, the chain, the two grass images - they don’t match. The level of detail is totally different, these came from separate images

Even look at the grass that weirded you out up close, it’s from a real picture. It doesn’t have the fae-like perfection of an AI image, there’s weeds and dead tissue on the edges of the grass - it’s an image of grass cut from a background with a contrasting color, it seems like it’s lighter so I’m guessing sidewalk or curb

AI generated images don’t have these type of artifacts, and they’re damn herd to blend… Some people can, I couldn’t. This is definitely shopped, I’d bet money on it

I doubt it… You know how there’s companies to boost your SEO? There’s companies that do literally the opposite - you pay them to bury things on the Internet. It’s a service basically exclusively for the rich… There’s no money to be made doing this, if a company does it after an exposure they get a brush with the Streisand effect. But if you’re rich…want the wrong face to come up on Google images? Don’t want pictures of your house? Want people to find the wrong address for you? You can pay to make it happen

I knew a guy who used to do that. This sounds like their techniques - they start by using legal threats to hopefully get the host to take stuff down, and if that doesn’t work they then generally use SEO techniques to fill the first 2 pages with misinfo

Sounds to me like a nervous billionaire offered “their guy” to help with the situation

The Germans, circa '40 FTFY

It could also be not be him, and some deal was made with a lookalike to close the case quickly, or to avoid giving the adjuster a platform to tell his story

I’m pretty sure that isn’t an AI pic, it looks like a quick and dirty cut and paste composition. Which is probably why the grass looks so weird, they just grabbed some random picture of grass and used the magic select tool to put it in the foreground

The problem is the chipsets, which include the radio. They have their own proprietary code, including some built in firmware. Along with things like roaming, negotiating frequencies, requesting MMS downloads and other niggly details, you have stuff like handling sim cards, emergency services modes, and public alerts. All of which I’ve heard are lightly documented and a pain to work with… It’s a lot of compatibility layers built up over the years

You can get a Linux phone today, the consensus just seems to be it’s not ready as a primary phone

Sure they do… The courts can take away their enforcement powers

Say the FCC revokes your license and the courts rule they couldn’t. They can fine you all day, but if they don’t have the right, you can ignore it or get it thrown out in a lower court. If they come in and break your equipment, you can sue them. We have a right to a redress of grievances

The problem is, the courts are in a bad state

Sure, but go to a city and you’re just another import. Go to another country, and you’re just “the foreigner”. Through almost all of human history, you could just kinda leave your past behind if you just ran away

If you want to make a video game I’d be willing to help, I’ve started a few and have learned a lot of the ins and outs. I’m partial to godot myself

At least they’re at the stage of enshitification where they fuck over the advertisers… Too bad it came after making the product unusable

Consciousness is the AI assistant in meat mecha suit.

It seems like we make decisions, but we don’t. Think of a decision you’ve made - you think over it, you sleep on it, you imagine outcomes and might decide intellectually - but you don’t lock it in. That just happens - sometimes it even flips at the last second, and you don’t know why you did it - for better or worse

Our brain does a lot of preprocessing - vision, hearing, balance, walking, language…

Our conscious minds preprocess time. It turns our senses and our experiences into stories, abstract predictions, laterally pattern matching, and ultimately - analysis and recommendations