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As someone who loves science.
I am so glad i decided to pursue video game development as higher education rather then a scientific field.
Granted the illusions in games are gone, every game is now a dull collection of mechanics and The gap between what modern games are snd how i know they could be is depressingly vast.
But at least i can still enjoy hour long deep dives into quantum mechanics and golden ratio. Definitely a good tradeoff.
I would love to see a documentary about this at some point.
I feel like Disney is generally known to fit the “big evil corporation” stereotype, but surely this wasn’t always the case.
When did perception change? What where the first big fuckups?
For tv shows and movies:
Older content is rapidly disappearing/getting less accessible. Especially non english content. Shout out to do your part in legally archiving digital media from public libraries.
At the same time new media is pushed build on Existing mega franchises, everything is the same format with the same formula with no higher goal then the profit-margin.
online: is a different story because google owns it. They decide how youtube presents content to users, what do’s and don’ts get punished or get you recommended more.
Again no goal higher then the profit margin,1 ad for a 30 minute video is not as efficient as 1 every so many shorts. And because shorts are more random and your just consuming the flos its harder to tell the ads apart.
Because shorts are optimised on phone, google also rules how 50% of people use their phone it pushes more people to this more exploitative and less ad blockade device.
Good content still exists, its just a lot harder to find because promoting it is less profitable.
Their is a word for this kind of things falling apart to chase profit. Its enshitification.
Plot twist:
His wife is invited to the same party.
He did not tell her about the sweater beforehand.
Their kink is public sex.
They got found doing the dirty in the kitchen and THAT is why they are no longer invited to parties.
Cannot find the source for the pick but there is this where Bernie covers all the same points in different words:
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/ai-poses-unprecedented-threats-congress-must-act-now/
I like to use dashes myself but the combination of overuse with other tells often does make me suspicious.
Which isn’t bad, even an intellectual can write things wrong, as ai can also write things right. Always read critically.
I didn’t think dashes where out of place here, but i did get a real ai vibe of the last paragraph. Is this something Bernie is really considering or is something to round up a generated list of scary scenarios. (Which are all existing valid concerns still)
Sorry, 1/3 based on the 8 hours of sleep 8 hours of work 8 hours of free time structure.
You forget the part where you spend *1/3 of your day (if not more) performing complex operations mostly for the sake of “number goes up” because that is important to something called “the economy”.
The part you describe is actually the “free time” part of the day.
Also autistic : Rules are a construct we ourself shape and create in order to archive the illusion of control over the raw anarchy that is the reality of free will and sovereign thought.
On the one (windows) machine i actively use powershell i click the pinned start menu icon.
Windows has fucked my flow before by co opting my shortcuts. So this is the most reliable way.
On linux terminal is a shortcut, app launcher is a shortcut and searching apps to launch actually works and doesn’t open my browser that operates under a different privacy contract then your os settings.
I despised windows search long before i switched i just didn’t know any better.
People have hooked up scripts to automate trade based on celebrities using certain hashtags or other data for years.
A non insignificant portion of people has absolutely hooked up an ai to it. I don’t know any, but i take that bet in a heartbeat.
Some will do it responsibly, as an experiment with money they are prepared to loose.
Ai companies themselves might try this as an internal test, like how atrophic has claude managing a real vending machine (which got manipulated into selling tungsten cubes following customer feedback)
Others have probably completely destroyed their own lives. A few may have lucked out.
If its critical, don’t give it to ai without having a secured backup it can’t touch.
I wish more projects did stuff like this.
It just feels silly and unprofessional while being seriously useful. Exactly my flavour of software, makes the web feel less corporate.
There are custom themes out there that change the interface.
Right click -> identify-> Title name, has yet to fail me.
Its been a long time since i used plex so I can’t say how much “easier” its over there but compared to the days before streaming this little upfront work takes less time then going to a physical store to rent.
Maintenance takes no work and it cant be enshitificated (someone will just port it)
I don’t know why it works but if i rename a .webp extension into a .png or .jpg it just works.
If you want to put in some work i can highly recommend self hosting a nextcloud/owncloud, maybe together with some family members.
Something more obscure you can do is create a shareable public link with or without password to share large files with whoever you want.
On the downside, whenever i see a professional use we transfer or the like i cringe massively.
I sometimes contemplate if i rather lose an ear or an eye.
On the surface an eye seems so much more important but vision with one eye is still mostly the same vision with one corner cut out where hearing from one ear is instantly very disorienting.
Also i believe different notes hit my brain differently depending on the ear, hence why stereo is the norm.
Besides tor, known any other alternatives?
To be more technical correct, all ideals go out of the window the moment a shareholder pushes a little.
Apple has been one of the wealthiest countries for years, they don’t need money, they can’t be doing this just for money.
They are doing it, to get more money yes, but only in order to make the angle of a line go up so they can sell a comfortable illusion to the people keeping them in charge of the available unimaginable mass of wealth already there.