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There’s a lot of people here unable to recognize how important attention span is for deep, meaningful learning.

Way too many people saying “ATTENTION SPANS NOT INTELLIGENCE DUHMASSES” and failing short because they don’t have the attention span to think of implications of decreased attention span.

Long term memory is built on repetition and attention. It is entirely plausible that short form media makes you stupider - by impacting your ability for deep learning

It’s not even strictly what capitalism is about. It’s some stupid bullshit interpretation that came out of the University of Chicago economics department.

Seriously, go look at Adam Smiths wealth of nations. The only mention of the “invisible hand” is so different from what is taught in economics now

… by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

It’s not that we need no regulation. It’s just trying to say that if we set things up correctly, we don’t need to worry about people pursuing SOLELY their own personal gain. Because the market seeks out the “greatest value”, which is not just about money. It’s also the value to society as a whole.

Instead, we got the fucking bullshit from Chicago saying that the only / best way of measuring value is by profit.

As someone who has never done any serious coding work or collaboration, hadn’t touched Linux in 18+ years and am really only fluent in windows and Mac, and with limited time to get up to speed, I fucking love opinionated guides.

Tell me exactly what to do to get it up and running. Let me learn along the way, but don’t expect me to be able to read and understand the pros and cons of lets encrypt vs other solutions.

I simply do not have the requisite base knowledge to make informed decisions on this.

If you wanna leave it up to me how to do a golden gate assembly, quick change reaction, or a gibson assembly, I can handle that.

Understanding the nuance of docker networking, reverse DNS,maintaining SSL, and just generally how to make it so I can use a hostname and not an IP address to access my services locally is something I want to learn. Eventually.

It’s not that your critiques of guides are invalid, but they may just not be structured for general learning. And their target audience is temporarily ignorant fools like myself.

A good journalist does not just write for themselves, they must also write for the audience as the audience. They are the readers proxy and ask questions on behalf of the reader.

Imagine a generic shmuck that has no idea ctrl +c and ctrl +v are hot keys.

Now. Do you think they have any concept of what type of duplication tools exist? Do you think they’d just want to use this “super cool everything” software that AI is billed as? After all, it’s supposed to be smart right? They say it’s the next best thing and it’s almost like magic.

Look, I’m not saying it’s a great article. But given all the bullshit hype regular people hear about AI. Is it really unreasonable to think “copilot, help me find duplicated files in my one drive” would be something good old Billy would try?

Maybe it’s not a great article because there are better ways to de-duplicate photos. But that isn’t the fucking point of the article. The article is “look at how AI still fucking fails at basic shit we expect it to be good at.”

And for that, I thank the author. We need way more of that.

Legitimate question.

How is the act of an AI company downloading a copyrighted work and adding it into their “dataset” to generate a summary different from an individual downloading a copyrighted work and adding it to their “dataset” and writing a summary?

Both instances require consuming the material in some way. Both instances generate something new, transformative of the original work.

Why do AI companies get to torrent the entirety of human knowledge, but if any single person does it… Well we know what happened with Napster. Limewire. Kazaa. Megaupload.

Because to me, that hints at a flaw in your logic. AI companies are violating copyright. They had no permission to consume the copyrighted works.

The other consideration it has is on net luggage weight. Yeah, they’re still checking bags for “free” but they’re smaller and lighter - saving fuel by increasing efficiency. And that’s also a good thing from a pollution point!

don’t upload it to the internet!

or use a smart phone

or corporate searches that track you

or go to any website with ads - they track you

hell don’t even search the internet! your ISP tracks dns requests

or use a modern tv that tracks what is on your screen

or you can do custom phone from - just unlock the bootloader, root it, and install! then just setup pihole/adguard/self-host everything

it’s simple, for privacy just go live in a yurt in the woods to not be tracked 24/7

While that’s correct, I think you’re ignoring how much sway a figurehead can hold.

Also it’s important to keep in mind, that the childfucker-in-chief may just classify the committee as political appointees and fire them (See Project 2025 and Schedule F). Legality doesn’t matter.

He wrote an executive order clearly in violation of the Constitution to remove birthright citizenship, and the Supreme Court said “the real unconstitutionality is nationwide blocks.”

I…think that’s their point. The only reason it seems good is because you’re bad and can’t spot that is bad, too.

another vote for walkaway - i got hooked on the idea of “git, but for houses”

I think you’re underestimating how much he has ruined this company and his reputation. I dreamt of owning a Tesla long ago. Now, there is nothing he can do that will make me reconsider purchasing a Tesla.

Even if he leaves the company, I will not buy one. Even if he fully divests from Tesla, I will not buy one.

What would their response look like if it were almost entirely hyperbole and fiction?

Would they just let that sit on shelves uncontested orrrrr…would they launch a PR blitz to discredit the author and book?

Wasn’t gonna reply again, but I want to clarify. By they I meant OP because I wanted to be gender neutral. I have no way of knowing OPs mind.

They (Republicans and others), as I assume you’re referring to, want to erase trans people - 100%. I don’t extend that assumption to specific people.

I’m loath to commit the ecological fallacy by using population data to infer something about an individual.

Maybe I am being too generous, but from everything I see now people are not generous enough. It’s a random person on the internet for crying out loud. Who knows if they’re even real. Maybe they are. Maybe they do want to erase trans people. I’ll never know. And honestly. Who cares? Their opinion only really matters if they’re in your advocacy group.

I guess my point ultimately is Americans (as a whole) don’t fucking care about marginalized people. Democracy’s security wasn’t even in the top 5! So if they can’t be arsed to care about the dissolution of a representative government what makes you think you’ll get the support you need on a national level?

That’s why I love capitalizing on state’s rights. We did it in 2004 with same sex marriage in California. It forced every state to recognize the unions. Things were set back with prop 8. Yes. But change comes from the states.

So to me it’s a sound strategy - when going for national level attention focus on things that have broad national appeal. God. I crave a DNC leader with some actual fucking vision for a change. Someone that will take the billions in national fundraising money and shove it down to the local level and build activist groups.

But you’re also very, very right. Research into understanding how to even help them and how effective it is being mothballed. Scrutinized. Censored. I can’t fathom their terror as they’re being scapegoated and erased. I guess that’s our beliefs diverge. Sectioning fights between local and national stages isn’t leaving people behind to me - it’s how to support them, but that’s why I talk. To think. So, thank you.💖

I don’t think that having an effective strategy with a small set of demands focused on American’s top concerns right now, immigration, cost of living, & inflation, doesn’t mean we leave anyone behind. we still bring them with us.

We champion nationally on broadly popular pain points. We mobilize locally on protecting our friends. Use the protests and activism to identify, young, future political leaders. Bring them up through the city council. Bring them up to the Mayorship. Governorship.

I can’t fathom a world where Republican politicians will ever say “yeah okay were wrong trans people have rights - our bad”. Ever. We have to force them, but we don’t have that power. We don’t have the power for a segregation-like showdown. What supreme Court is going to uphold trans rights? Who’s going to call in the national guard? What do you propose we do in places that red senators live and breathe that makes them reconsider?

We have to get the red states involved - broadly. We need to need a general strike. We need unionization. We need to take back our power with collective action. We need to be an unstoppable phalanx of pain that will burn all the wealth and value they steal from us to the ground until we get what we want.

We need to have momentum and energy and excitement and a slate of candidates in 2026 that will stand up and FUCKING FIGHT. We need to replace the impotent, geriatric representatives we have with someone whose spine isn’t already bent.

The most impactful thing we can do to protect and help our brethren is to get power and give them their rightful seat. That starts locally. So fight with them. Fight for them. But have it be separate from the opposition to what is going on in D.C.

But what do I know. I’m not an organizer or an activist or a strategist. I’m as good as a 5 yr old. It just seems to me that true salvation will only come from running head first into states rights. Long term building of future leaders. National holiday election day, mandatory voting, and strong pushes to remove the cap on the house of representatives so that the voice of the people is just a little less distorted by money and land. That’s my victory.

D E M O C R A T singular, one. Not democrats. For fucks sake it’s on the bloody title!

Why are people so willfully ignorant?

US Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) today proposed …

censorship does not require a government and it does apply

Stride length would like a word.

Strength, speed, and endurance are related. You’re right. But it’s not as clear as faster time == better endurance.