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I don't think marrying someone like Vance is akin to a bad choice. Hard to believe Usha doesn't know exactly what she's doing. She had two university professors as parents and went to Yale. She's not stupid.

Meant more Cunninghams law/XY problem than TCP, but thank you for the laugh.

I don't have an answer for you, but per internet protocol will still respond.

Have you tried on of the apps that wakes you up depending on where you are in your sleep cycle? It really has been a game changer.

Other than that, I just used snooze like the other comments mentioned, but if you know you're gonna turn off the alarm instead of snoozing, I get wanting multiple alarms.

This is a pretty good write up:

https://www.dailygrail.com/2024/10/the-technocratic-conspiracy-how-tech-tycoons-plan-to-disrupt-democracy-and-become-the-new-rulers-of-the-world/

Yea, I agree 100%. My comment was definitely ambiguous, but I'm not expecting my old phone to get updated with AI tools (though it actually was), more just that I don't want an AI specific gadget and I don't think anyone but an enthusiast would. Definitely see these as the new VR, as you mentioned. It seems the article was lamenting product development as though it in itself is an end goal. UX and efficiency should be the end goal. Not just making things for the sake of saying you made something. I obviously support people expressing themselves and experimenting, but the framing in the article is so strange and reads like they're lamenting the fact that capitalism has reached its latter stages more than anything else.

I'm not one to disagree with blaming capitalism lol. I was watching something recently about how millennials grew up with techno optimism, and I feel like we're seeing the results of that. Millennials wanting tech to solve everything and grew up being into gadgets as a concept rather than a product, and the new generation so subsumed by tech that it really ceases to be tech. Like the way indoor plumbing or even electricity isn't really seen as tech anymore, even though it really revolutionized our lifestyles. I think there's some warranted backlash to tech (cottagecore/trad living) and the way it has atomized everyone, and I'm not sure people are as excited about it anymore. Price is definitely an issue, but I really think that tech is failing to fulfill us, and people are seeing that on some level (all this is also somewhat attributable to capitalism).

"41 Joshua subdued them from Kadesh Barnea to Gaza and from the whole region of Goshen to Gibeon. 42 All these kings and their lands Joshua conquered in one campaign, because the Lord, the God of Israel, fought for Israel."

-Joshua 10:41-42

It was called conquering the first time when people said they were doing it for God. No need to shy away from it now. Maybe they're not all that familiar with the Hebrew Bible, huh? Maybe they're just using this as an excuse to genocide the people of Palestine?

My thoughts exactly. Tell Ukraine an attack is planned on X and evacuate to Y only to have Russia attack Y. I'm sure Ukraine isn't stupid, and they are on top of it, but this is just a way to point out that "actually we are cooperating with Ukraine" while basically all of our information is compromised, if not at least heavily questionable in origin. So, his supporters get to say Trump is actually assisting Ukraine when people point out that he's a Russian asset. It's so transparent.

If I was Ukraine right now, I would want external verification for any intel from US agencies.

Would recommend Foxit over onlyoffice for pdfs since onlyoffice has Russian ties. If you wanna go full FOSS, you probably care about data sovereignty. Libreoffice is pretty good for other office application needs.

Everything he's doing is deliberate in order to weaken the US. He's beholden to foreign powers who want to see the US fall, and he's making it happen. Otherwise he wouldn't be pulling out of Ukraine and closing USAID and destroying NATO/WHO. Republicans might make a lot of noise about those things, but we benefit from the soft power and the defense spending. If our allies start building up their own internal military, we're going to see a bust in our military industrial complex, and generally that's a republican darling. I'm not pro military industrial complex or anything, but there would be better ways to dismantle it than pissing off some of our longest standing allies. Additionally, deaths and pandemics are bad, but also bad for the economy. Even Republicans know that. There's no reason to let measles and avian disease run rampant, even from a purely financial position. I have no idea why else he'd be doing these things unless he was purposefully speed running the fall of a nation.

This article feels like peak consumerism. Lamenting the lack of a new thing, just for lack of it. AI is being integrated into already owned and available technology, and we have seen things like the AI pin, but people have just not had a need. Maybe this comment will age like milk, like people who said the internet was a fad, but people aren't looking for more things, they're looking for more functionality out of things they already have. That should be perceived as a positive.

Unfortunately, I can't speak intelligently as to specifically what should be done with IP, but broad strokes I agree that output should be public domain and public facing models should be open. I do feel as though there should be a way to compensate people for inputs used for internal commercial purposes.

If there's training needed for something and it has separate books/video, a company should not be able to throw that into an AI, and generate a new book/video for their internal use. Either they need to make that resource available publicly, or purchase a specific license for internal use of the original material for AI. I don't know why I think that, mostly just vibes based because if they hired a person/company to do the same I'd be fine with it, so maybe I just have some cognitive dissonance going on, but it feels different. The way that there are commercial and personal licenses, I think having an AI license might make sense. But again, I'm way out of my depth and field of knowledge here, so I could be way off.

Correct, but they were stating that people should not support artists backing IP laws, and my lay understanding is that the only thing keeping it that way is IP laws. If we got rid of IP laws, I'm not sure individual artists would win. Large corporations would be able to produce at scale, and you'd get the same issue as with redbubble or whatever, but with legit companies instead of shady ones.

Can I ask why you bothered to check it out? Doesn't that just encourage this behavior? If no one clicked the links people wouldn't do this.

I'm not anti-ai art, but I think that if IP laws exists, artist should be able to use them. Either AI art is considered public domain, or it should be certified as having been trained only on public/properly compensated work. I do think current IP laws are so out of date they're basically irrelevant, but artists should be able to enforce these archaic laws if they are subject to them.

Mind you, people will probably still pay 700k for the "original print" or whatever certified/signed by the person who generated it, but at least the work itself should be public.

I didn't mention it in my original comment, but I did actually do a search, and the only thing I found was him talking about how bluesky is better because it doesn't do suppression of external links. Bluesky itself does not load with my current settings so I can't scroll through his posts, but his recent YouTube videos seem pretty normal/benign from just the titles. Seems weird to unnecessarily attack Hank Green, but I am gonna guess that's what they're doing because I cannot find example or article him being problematic.

I'm familiar with Hank Green, but I don't actually follow him or have a bluesky account. Can you provide a link to an example or an explanation of what you mean?

Ugh. Sorry to hear that. I'm lucky enough to live near several big cities so I have a lot of options.

For what it's worth, I've ordered fabric from spoonflower and it's been great so far. I also get a lot of scrap/unique fabrics from small Etsy sellers, and 99 times out of 100 it's perfect. Every once in a while the fabric has clearly been in a smokers house for a long time or terribly taken care of, but generally people do a great job of picking fabrics that go together and they package them nicely. Full disclosure my spoonflower purchases are all through their Etsy store because I don't wanna make a whole new account for their site, but I imagine it's the same experience regardless.

That just leaves me with more questions, honestly.