Agreed. I think of Wall-E often and think its vision of the future is more accurate, but Idiocracy makes for a more descriptive term to summarize it. And suddenly, I feel like I’m rehashing HS English class: “Does 1984 or Brave New World summarize society more accurately?” The premise being that in 1984, the government deliberately sought to shrink reality, whereas in “Brave New World,” individuals opted-in.

My perspective is that oligarchical wannabes are essentially giving people what they think those people want, but they’re clearly not following the ideas through to their logical conclusions. Like, AI in schools… OK… Why? Because thinking is too hard? Don’t be silly – that’s what brains do reflexively. And like, when did hard stuff get such a bad rap? IMHO, so-called friction is good, probably fundamental. This notion that everything should be all upside all the time is probably not even possible, much less desirable.

Noted, thank you for the tip.

And all customer service interactions have become annoying! In my book, it’s just businesses acting entitled, which irks me.

I’m using GrapheneOS to type this and have been using it (periodically) for weeks. I just noticed today that it doesn’t have visual voicemail, and I haven’t the foggiest idea what my vmail PW is. But all in all, it’s solid (knock on wood).

I’m sure that will go well…😑

I, too, follow a lot of comedians on IG, but I’m noticing a problem lately: there are soooooo many recommendations that I hardly see the ones I follow intentionally. Like I get that the business model is addiction+distraction, but it seems like it’s undercutting its own business.

<3 War Games

Screenshotted just in case.

Wtf – if you put more money in a glitchy vending machine, you’re gonna get yet more items.😑

Possibly a dumb question, so I tentatively pre-apologize: is LXC “Linux Container?”

Bless you🙏

Why? Cuz companies mistakenly think stalking customers is savvy business.

What a bizarre and terrible idea. I def think Twitter circa 2009 was the pinnacle.

I’ll hand it to Elon Musk, tho – the dude knows how to destroy value. I wonder if he literally sets it on fire.

Agreed 110℅.

I am not.

They’re really good.*

• you just gotta know the material yourself so you can spot errors, and you gotta be very specific and take it one step at a time.

Personally, I think the term “AI” is an extreme misnomer. I am calling ChatGPT “next-token prediction.” This notion that it’s intelligent is absurd. Like, is a dictionary good at words now???

Lol. “I came to break some necks and chew some bubblegum – and I’m all out of bubblegum.”

In fairness, crumby books can hardly be blamed on AI. To quote my mother, “That train’s left the station.”

Like, the AI slop ones will probably have better writing, sadly.

I really don’t have this experience with ChatGPT. Every once in a while, ChatGPT returns an answer that doesn’t seem legitimate, so I ask, “Really?” And then it returns, “No, that is incorrect.” Which… I really hope the robots responsible for eliminating humans are not so hapless. But the stories about AI encouraging kids to kill themselves or mentioning books that don’t exist seem a little made up. And, like, don’t get me wrong: I want to believe ChatGPT listed glue as a good ingredient for making pizza crust thicker… I just require a bit more evidence.