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I think it's so interesting he was a scriptwriter for "The Thick of It", a satirical comedy about British politics

Cars aren't friendly to cities

Yeah, the internet was originally an extension of the real world, and it probably should have stayed that way.

It will be fun running into this scenario where it's run without democratic control, be proprietary and for profit.

I think I've got this from growing up with a narcissist. Thoughts are constructed and seemingly endlessly whittled to try and create a sentence that can avoid getting belittled.

It's hard to talk in groups, because you have to have a sentence mentally critiqued by 3/4 people in turn, so the topic has usually changed before you can say your piece.

How many chief constables aren't white? Cognitive dissonance isn't a fact

Mark Fisher in Capitalist Realism touches on this concept, where there's a constantly shifting opposition to the market that itself becomes engulfed in its own market, to be advertised.

So for example all the productivity/digital detox channels and videos are themselves a consumer demand to be watched on YouTube, on phones. And now we have anti-AI products marking themselves higher for a feature that didn't previously exist. It's like the tree of capital gets split at every turn.

Eggs are IaC.

It's also crazy how slow countries have been to build solar panel roofs on car parks, this should have been done so long ago with the budget that car infrastructure gets.

The reason it's trending right now is because it's a convenient price, simple to use and making people read more because of its size. If it helps people cut down on phone use then it's a good product.

The build quality could be better, but there doesn't exist a similar product with better build quality.

Can you build a DIY version that's significantly cheaper?

Well, this was my thinking for getting one, we shall see when it arrives :P

Edit: Also you can choose to install a nice open source community firmware

There's also the fact that using digital devices negatively affects our breathing a lot: https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/1247296780/screen-apnea-why-s...

Considering how much we use them now it could change the default state significantly, and maybe we do have to consciously relearn the best way to breath.

Wow. Tell that to the cobalt miners in the DRC.

If we use world models to train AI systems, are we not essentially forcing something to live so it can gather data for us?

Yes, we haven't gone that far with creating consciousness yet, but there is gonna be a lot of money around neural computing devices for consumers in the coming decades, so that will speed up knowing what sense data you need for consciousness.

and gave a gold trophy to the current US president

Being poor in a capitalist country is still slavery - you don't work, you don't eat (as well as have access to accomodation, healthcare, public transport).

OpenWRT One? Not sure about AP's though.

A complete human experience is to have relatively little time, no point in doing anything if you have 500 years to do it IMO.

Edit: Maybe there wouldn't be nilihism, but I don't think you could get more fulfilled with the extra time. I feel like an insect that lives 24 hours and a shark that lives several hundred have an equal feeling of accomplishment.

Could this not be the sublingual absorbtion of sugar rather than seemingly random "brain signals" the article suggests?

From an end user perspective, I think the best thing the Asahi team could have done was solely focus on getting the M1 Air/Pro working 100% before moving onto other devices.

But that would probably result in burn out from the crazily talented dev team :P

Relating to music - it's actually so easy to remember a ton of words (information) if they're put into rhymes

This is such a good comment. You're essentially removing their ego - which is what humans do as opoque posturing to each other, to present a certain image. This is most prevelent in successful elites, which in 2026 happen to be silicon valley ai share holders. They control the technology and manipulate it to their image. By making models open source and transparent it cuts out this psychopathy of ego which has plagued all our previous technologies.

Yes but economic stimulus where? Wealth inequality has risen so much because of huge government spending in the wrong areas that transfers wealth to the wealthy, it happened in 2008 and in COVID.

I mean I go to gigs of people I like, it's not hard to work out if someone is real if they're on stage/meeting up with fans afterwards

Rather than an existential threat, I could see it becoming it's own genre rather than infecting every other genre - when in the future people collectively realise it's kinda bad but has it's place as an almost retro aesthetic.

Our idea of nostalgia was not that long ago. Also it could be generated on open weight local copyright free models that are super efficient in the future :P

I love the combination of Posteo and Bitwarden. Any email I use has a "+random letters and numbers" generated for that entry to combat spam. If I need better privacy separation, I have my main email with my name, then an alias with random letters and numbers.

That's true, and in the UK we've just removed jury duty trials for some crimes at the snap of a finger.

Obviously this will never happen, but what do you think about a system where there's a "media" fund from the government that gets distributed to several independent media outlets?

The decision on who and how much to fund gets decided by a randomised group in the population, like jury duty, maybe every 2 years?

I don't know if this could potentially make the media companies worse at reporting facts as they would try and raise money by appealing to people, but with enough competition it should sort its self out as long as there's no outside funding?

I also think this could be a symptom of an economically unequal society (which creates a higher range of x), and is a big reason why it's important to fix it, on top of the extra money to the state.

So thats essentially communism right? Is human nature incompatible with communism or is capitalism incompatible with human nature?

They're our 2026 version of tea leaves

Yeah, it's just fun to find creative ways to say common things!