Jestem Kaja She/her
Thanks you Trump for finally eliminating US soft power. Once no nation sees any benefits in close relationships with the US and actively hates it, the US will truly be a wealthier and more powerful super power than ever before!
(I’m being sarcastic, jfc this is so stupid and cruel)
Honestly that’s totally fair and I can see how an AI therapist could help more than a human one. I personally have wanted to have a regular therapist for a number of years, and I had one that really helped me when I was first figuring out I’m trans, but then I moved and now whenever I try to look for therapists, it feels like I can’t find anyone that gives me those right mix of “LGBT literate”, “(Polish) immigrant literate”, “autism and ADHD literate” and on top of those, being able to figure out if I can vibe with them AND won’t “queer broken arm syndrome” me, and I’ve basically given up looking. A lot of my progress in mental health development lately have been just really reflecting about the ways of thinking I’m stuck in that maybe are hindering me, but that’s largely worked for me because (despite the state of the world) I’ve had a period of good stability and a wife to bounce thoughts off of.
Thank you for sharing your experience, I can definitely relate to those kinds of struggles and understand how having a tool that just gives you other perspectives generated from a composition of average people’s posts would be useful unto itself! I guess I get really knee jerk about AI because I’ve seen so many projects that do treat the AI tools we have now as “actual literal synthetic sentient intelligence or something damn close” when it’s nowhere near that. Your use of it is actually a perfect understanding of what it does now, what it can give you, and how to make use of it, and I should be more careful in how I talk about AI when there are people who do gain genuine use from it.
Thank you again for sharing your perspective!
The clergy and worshippers said they enjoyed it, but agreed it wouldn’t replace services led by humans anytime soon.
“It was pretty entertaining and fun, but it didn’t feel like a Mass or a service. … It felt distant. I didn’t feel like they were talking to me,” Taru Nieminen told The Associated Press.
The Rev. Kari Kanala, the vicar at St. Paul’s, echoed her sentiment.
“The warmth of the people is what people need,” he said.
I mean, isn’t that basically how every AI project goes? “It’s a fun novelty, but actually expecting anything deeper from it always gives you a hollow experience”? Maybe we don’t need to try doing everything with AI, maybe we can just assume it’ll be the case and move on
I’m willing to bet there are boys that roleplay as humans on mastodon. While we lack concrete data, humans are a fairly popular race in roleplaying games such as Dungeons and Dragons. If there are at least 10 young men on Mastodon that play Dungeons and Dragons, there’s a very good chance at least one role plays as a human character.
Also even if something very specific that you want isn’t available outside of Amazon, that’s all the more reason to definitely not buy it and message the manufacturer/seller and let them know why you’re not buying it. Boycotts will sometimes mean not buying something you really want to buy, that’s working as designed.
I don’t think I’ve really seen any literature about web3 that wasn’t a crypto scam in a trench coat. Do you have any links or info about the original goals of web3?
The doge.gov website that was spun up to track Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone, according to two separate people who found the vulnerability and shared it with 404 Media
Wow, really wild how the guy that doesn’t know what SQL is, is somehow also bad at database permissioning.
The lower bound on what age a person has to be before being sexually attracted to them doesn’t feel creepy goes up as you age, well past 18-20 by the time you’re in your 30s. However, this lower bound does eventually slow or stop, and finding a 40 year old attractive by the time you’re 60 doesn’t feel nearly as weird.
So I’d imagine it’s because basically anyone of any age can find a 40+ year old woman attractive without feeling like a creep, whereas most people start aging out of finding 18-20 year olds attractive by the time they’re in their 30s.
The churches housing undocumented migrants and fighting to give them sanctuary aren’t the megachurches you’re alluding to. The church I belonged to while living in the US was housing an undocumented family, and the finances of the church were open to all members so I can assure you we weren’t getting any income for doing it.
They can and do catch every post. That’s how centralized platforms work; their logging platforms literally do see every single thing that’s posted, have alerting set up to monitor for trends in case something illegal or offensive to billionaires is trending.
They use algorithms and language models to draw summaries about trending posts, what they’re about and why they’re trending, and can make realtime adjustments to their algorithms to deprioritize posts and accounts they don’t want to see trendIng anymore. They can analyze text, video, images, and audio in real time, and determine what the post is about, even if the title of the post is something intentionally misleading, and apply algorithms accordingly. That’s literally why they invested so much in AI moderation tools and image generation and analysis.
I think in general the American protest movement is really behind on ideas for what to do when the government doesn’t want to listen. I’ve been to tons of “stand around and wave signs until change happens” protests, for BLM, migrants, LGBT people, healthcare, strike support, the only time the protest ever made any impact was when the march was in support of a strike.
Blocking up streets with protest works when it’s being done to amplify the impact of a work stoppage, but just waving signs around on their own doesn’t do anything, especially when the people you’re protesting don’t particularly want to placate the protestors.
And like, I get that “build a nationwide labor movement that can go on a general strike” as a step one for a protest is an impossible tall order, but we gotta face facts that just having a lot of people come out and wave signs around alone doesn’t do anything, especially when the target of the protest really doesn’t care that it’s being protested.
Share where? All the platforms that you’re implying people should share it on are either controlled by the oligarchs as well, or so sparsely populated you’re going to only reach some absurdly small percent of the population.
I’m not trying to be a downer, it’s better to be doing something than nothing, but if the oligarchs you’re protesting own Facebook, Twitter/X, Google, AWS, etc, it just seems clear to me that if you can’t rely on the news to report about it, you definitely can’t rely on sharing to spread the word about it.
For most antisemites, Jewish people who consider themselves white are doing so as a ploy to infiltrate and undermine white society.
Antisemitic conspiracy thinking is based on the idea that Jewish people are all deep down engaged in some sort of conspiracy to benefit Jews over non-jews, and so you can disregard actual Jewish people’s thoughts and understandings of their situation as a smokescreen for their conspiracy. Antisemitic conspiracy thinking is at its heart, conspiratorial thinking, and can reinterpret almost anything into further proof of the conspiracy, even someone acting in a way that totally goes against how the conspiracy theory says they should be acting.
It’s wild how people (mostly the ADL and news outlets that want to pretend this is all normal and fine) just memory holed Elon posting “you have said the actual truth” in a reply to someone posting an antisemitic ramble about a Jewish conspiracy to import foreigners
(sarcastically) Like, wow, how could a man who endorses shit like this possibly do a Nazi salute, it seems so unlike him! 🙄
This still feels like it’s not answering the fundamental question for any blockchain project: why is this a blockchain instead of just a database with well configured permissions, and why are the advantages of the blockchain relevant to the problem it’s trying to solve? Traditional databases can be configured to be append only, accept new data from users without needing a central authority to approve each new user, be queried by any random person, etc far more efficiently than a blockchain could and without requiring every solar panel owner to download multiple terabytes of historical transaction data just to run their panel.
As for the coins, they don’t really add democratic control over a system so much as they empower whoever is best able to maximize coin generation. In a democratic system, 100 small solar panel owners would have more of a say in the governance of solar panels than 1 really wealthy South African billionaire, because they would represent more votes than the billionaire. In the coin economy, if the billionaire has at least twice as many solar panels as the rest of the small owners put together, the billionaire would have sole control over the governance of solar panels because they would be generating twice as many coins.
I admit I’m skeptic to see anything blockchain or coin related, but I’ve yet to see a problem that either technology are solving for other than “I want to be able to do financial transactions over the internet without using a bank or bank-like institution” and “I want an extremely volatile asset to speculate on”
You’re unlikely to get fired during this consolidation. Firing is only done for cause, for either behavioral, performance, or legal problems. In many companies, you’d also be first put into a Performance Improvement Plan, where the problems that might lead to you being fired are formally raised to you and you’re given the conditions you need to meet to not be fired.
What you’re likely facing is a layoff, where a company terminates your job because your role is no longer needed. This is important, because in a layoff, you get severance pay, unemployment insurance, and potentially other benefits, while being fired may impact your ability to get these benefits.
Generally, it’s better to not quit if you don’t have to. If you stay and you get fired/laid off, you lose income you were about to lose anyway. If you quit but could have stayed and kept your role, you lose income you didn’t have to lose.
I downvoted because of the snark in first paragraph.
They’re in the same county, but that doesn’t mean Evanston politics impacts Chicago at all. Cook county politics have almost nothing to do with city politics, for both Chicago and Evanston.
I mostly just want a phone that doesn’t want to sell me on new ways to use my phone that I don’t already do. I don’t want a phone that’s constantly trying to get me to use voice search, or try out some AI feature, or a search engine, etc. I have a newer Samsung tablet, and by default holding the power button turned on voice search instead of the power off menu? I fucking hate that shit, it was thankfully changeable but it was annoying that I had to change it back. I literally never use voice search. I fucking hate talking to computers, I’m not talking to a machine unless it’s actually capable of feeling offended if I don’t
We’re not talking about an AI running a nuclear reactor, this article is about AI assistants on a personal phone. 0.001% failure rates for apps on your phone isn’t that insane, and generally the only consequence of those failures would be you need to try a slightly different query. Tools like Alexa or Siri mishear user commands probably more than 0.001% of the time, and yet those tools have absolutely caught on for a significant amount of people.
The issue is that the failure rate of AI is high enough that you have to vet the outputs which typically requires about as much work as doing whatever you wanted the AI to do yourself, and using AI for creative things like art or videos is a fun novelty, but isn’t something that you’re doing regularly and so your phone trying to promote apps that you only want to use once in a blue moon is annoying. If AI were actually so useful you could query it with anything and 99.999% of the time get back exactly what you wanted, AI would absolutely become much more useful.