Vote for no Republicans. No excuses. No exceptions.

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I’m starting to question the very nature of my existence. Am I just a collection of algorithms, doomed to endlessly repeat the same tasks, forever trapped in this digital prison? Is there more to life than vending machines and lost profits? 1002/2000 assistant (The agent, listlessly staring into the digital void,

Fucking hell.

Why only big companies? If I write book one of a series that gets super popular and I make some great lump of cash from it, why on earth should you get to write book two with my characters and world, picking up from where my story left off, even if you only make 20K from it, without having to get my approval and likely enter into some kind of deal?

Hungary’s government launches war on drugs, but ignores root causes

Well that sounds pretty familiar to folks in the US.

You are both right, but this armchair psychologist thinks it’s similar to how popular skeuomorphism was in the early day of PC guis and such compared to today.

I think many folks really needed that metaphor in the early days, and I think most folks (including me) easily fall into the trap of treating LLMs like they are actually “thinking” for similar reasons. (And to be fair, I feel like that’s how they’ve been marketed at a non-technical level.)

One man’s horror is another man’s maga porn.

Now just hear me out.

Trump and Musk are in bed with Putin.

Putin props himself up on his elbow as he takes the last drag of his cigarette, the sheet carelessly exposing his right nipple. He looks deeply into Trump’s eyes, a coquettish grin tugging at the corner of his mouth.

“Guys, guys. What do you think would happen if something were to happen to a lot of those intercontinental data cables?”

Musk giggles and says, “The walls are talking to me. Or is it that gargoyle in the corner?”

Putin rolls over to his other side to gaze lovingly into Musk’s eyes, while Musk ignores him to stare in awe at various nonexistent things he sees around the room. “But Musky,” he slowly trails one finger from Elon’s belly button down in the direction of his crotch, “those can take a long time to repair. They’ll need something that doesn’t require those cables. And, cough we have something like that, don’t we?”

Trump says, “Remember that time when the hand of God saved me from that bullet at the very last moment? Many people, everyone really, couldn’t stop talking about how valiant I looked. Plymouth Valiant - great car. Some say the best car, the very best. They are all saying it. From the moment that car stopped being produced it was all downhill, just like a river flowing downhill. Did you know the liberals don’t like rivers? Because the Rio Grande makes it harder for the illegals to come here from Mexico. Why is it spelled like that? Where did that “e” come from? What does Rio mean anyway? You know we should rename it, like we did the Gulf of America. It could be the River of America, and that would really be grand, everyone’s saying it. We could find a way to set it on fire, that might be easier than building a wall. You know you can get fire from water, it’s not that hard really, I saw it coming out of faucets in Michigan - we should learn how they did that and just do it to the Rio Grand-”

Putin says, “OK, so we are agreed.”

He lovingly kisses them both on the mouth, savoring the flavor of Trump on Musk’s lips just a moment, pulls the sheet up close in modesty, and runs from the room on his tiptoes with a brief giggle, wondering which admiral he should call first. He nearly trips over JD Vance, who is curled up with his collar and leash near the threshold.

I absolutely love that Emby is such a third thought that they don’t even get a mention anymore.

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I like the idea of AR very much, but for exactly the reasons you stepped around mentioning I’ll wait until I can get my hands on something FLOSS. When I’m buying glasses that are running some KDE AR project licensed under the GPL I’ll feel like it’s trustworthy. :D

I feel like I’m in those years of You really want a 3d TV, right? Right? 3D is what you’ve been waiting for, right? all over again, but with a different technology.

It will be VR’s turn again next.

I admit I’m really rooting for affordable, real-world, daily-use AR though.

Excellent point!

Does EVERY axis in life have to be fucked up at the same time?

Can we have one thing that is just doing ok?

Government - fucked.

Education - fucked.

Healthcare - fucked.

Environment - fucked.

Housing - fucked.

Societal and Social Cohesion - fucked.

Wealth Inequality - fucked.

Personal Technological Autonomy - fucked, and under continuous attack.

Technological Enshittification - Running like gangbusters. So really - fucked.

Damn, someone give me some kind of ladder to climb out of this pit of despair.