I used Facebook for exactly what I needed to: making many thousands of dollars in the stock market and then getting out before it inevitably crashed.
Anything else was a cognitohazard and time-wasting. I did it the right way. Facebook should not exist — but at least I got something real out of it: enough cash money to buy a nice damn car or for a good down payment on a house.
Biden’s Trip to Kyiv is the Ultimate Humiliation for Putin—and Trump.
Indeed. It’s making the Chomsky and Welsh types cry big and I fucking love it.
Whatever you think about Biden, visiting Kyiv during wartime is pretty fucking brave. The man is not a coward no matter his other problems.
The Ian Welsh types will be little pissbabies about it I am sure. Good.
What the AI ethics & disinfo ranters are on about is that the combo of humans + AI is better. More people will make better writing, art, video, etc. They think this is bad, b/c bad people (= ppl who weren't vetted & gatekept by their favorite institutions) will make better stuff
— jonstokes.(eth|com) (@jonst0kes) February 17, 2023
I agree this is part of it, but to be fair to those people they are rightly worried about corporations holding even more creative and cultural power. Their incessant accusations that AI is “stealing” make little sense, because they don’t know how the new gen of AI works at all, but they are right to be scared that it’ll throw them out of work. It probably will.
Their reasoning about how AI actually functions and the causes of this looming dislocation are all wrong and senseless, but they are correct about the end result. It’s sort of like how nearly none of the leftists who hate the stock market understand in the least how securities or securities exchanges work, but are correct that the stock market is deeply unfair and harmful to many people.
It is funny that they accuse AI of “stealing” when they are doing the same thing in their own minds when they syncretize many past works to create their “original” ones. It’s a fundamental cluelessness that is distasteful in the extreme.
Gahh I have an unwritten essay I've been turning over called "Year 0x0" and now I wish I'd done it. Digital == mutable state w/ very low cost to erase == whoever has root can reset the culture. As software eats the world, more of the culture gets easier to zero out by admins. https://t.co/kSIjVApXUv
— jonstokes.(eth|com) (@jonst0kes) February 18, 2023
The censoring of the Roald Dahl books is just a precursor of what’s to come. With digital you can erase something altogether and deny it ever existed, then prosecute those who have kept any “non-existent” copies.
Have a friend who got into both NFTs and Eternal Zero Covid in the pandemic.
Too scared to check to see if he's into AI now
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) February 20, 2023
I mean that’s all stupid shit, but are all those really correlated? I don’t think so.
omg this
i'm seeing people out at (for example) book signings or other events and i'm just like WHY ARE NONE OF YOU WEARING MASKS and WHY ARE YOU ALL BREATHING EACH OTHER'S AIR
i feel like i am losing my MARBLES https://t.co/JJOyK6yUsK
— Premee Mohamed (@premeesaurus) February 18, 2023
How long is this mask obsession going to last among a few Twitter people and why? They don’t even work particularly well against Omicron.
In the airports, I saw roughly 0.002% mask compliance. It’s over and done.
If Germany had kept its nuclear while ramping its renewals, it could have replaced its hard coal and natural gas consumption entirely pic.twitter.com/FOcH6fBVuG
— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) February 18, 2023
What a huge, absurd, ridiculous, clownish self-own.
Incels are completely right in how they — and many other people — get screwed over in the dating world. They diagnose their own problems fairly accurately.
They are completely wrong in hating women or what would help them or what would be ethically and morally correct. Constant disappointment and bitterness leads to that sort of thing, though, so it’s not surprising.
People misunderstand me a lot because they think I’m trying to impress them. But I’d be doing the exact same shit I am now if everyone on earth died.
The only one I’m trying to impress is me. (And when people figure this out, if often pisses them off. Not sure why. Maybe people don’t like it when they realize you’re just not playing the same game they are, and don’t care about theirs in the least.)
When people ask me what I do:
In my 20s: "As a senior network engineer, I build complex networks and systems to connect globally distributed workloads"
In my 30s: "I'm in IT"
— Kaon Thana (@kaonthana) February 14, 2023
Me in my 30s: As an infrastructure designer, I build resilient, multiply-redundant system that helps the business achieve their IT goals by use of dependable, comprehensible, and reproducible frameworks that can be understood and managed by minimally-skilled teams.
Me in my 40s: I fuck around with computers till they work right.
Huh. Not an easy song to cover. The singer, Kashmira Khot, is great. Really fucking great tbh.
If the average person even had basic computer literacy, 30-40% of IT jobs would just disappear overnight. Think about that for a second. A bit staggering to ponder how much money could be saved if Linda from accounting (who has used a computer for 20 years) could find her Start menu regularly.
Long COVID risk falls only slightly after vaccination, huge study shows.
That VA study is trash and this is mostly bullshit. Like most things about Long Covid, not much of substance here. It’s not even possible to have an unbiased take on this anymore. There is no truth achievable in this realm.
We have broken truth altogether. Cool.
Gen Z prudes are gonna be super shocked when they find out their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc., had sex to bring them into this world.
Just wait till they find out!