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It's the Eternal September of open source software projects.

A few years ago I saw a post somewhere captioned, "I think we know who the better captain is now". And I don't remember the details but it showed a picture of Patrick Stewart and a statement he'd made that was incredibly compassionate. Next to it was a picture of William Shatner and an old man "get off my lawn" type quote of his from some antiwoke rant.

Bodies are all different. Diet and exercise can work for one person and not another. But the type of person who wants to believe all fat people are slothful, all unemployed people are lazy, and so on, will invent in bad faith the straw man argument that we think diet and exercise do not work at all. They're not worth engaging with.

AI has electrolytes!

I keep my money with traditional boring financial institutions instead of tech startup clowns so it's been very easy not to get hacked.

There are so many lessons from the past 20 years of internet that people have no excuse not to have learned, that they have apparently not learned.

Being skeptical/critical isn't a skill, it's an attitude, a state of mind. An education that requires you to find your own information and sources manually breeds that state of mind. Giving LLMs to kids (or even adults) nurtures the opposite. It's like taking them to McDonald's every day and telling them to eat healthy. Yes there's a salad on the menu, but it's rarely going to be chosen.

Of course the reality that adults do trust AI uncritically because it's the path of least resistance means the traditional education I mentioned above wasn't sufficient. But that's all the more reason not to introduce a variable that makes things worse.

They're using our data to create AI products that they sell to whales who subsidize our usage. Whether that's long term viable, I don't know.

It seemed to me like they're hedging until they know which side is more profitable to support. We don't know yet if slop will be widely embraced by consumers. Valve will be happy to profit from AI if it takes over from real developers.

You can openly be a white supremacist on Twitter now. The reason some people still aren't happy is because what they really want is to be able to have terrible opinions and not be disliked and shunned, which isn't possible. Social repercussions and censorship are different things.

You're allowed to think something is bad. We do not and cannot live without rules, we need to stop acting like every issue that nudges back and forth the line of where those rules start and end is the difference between absolute anarchy and tyrrany.

Vague takes like this scream Facebook boomer. There's lots of great media and lots of bad media. It's the nature of trying to monetize creativity.

> David Merritt, a Blue Cross Blue Shield vice president focused on federal policy, said patients, too, tend to have few options to avoid the fees. “There certainly is no federal protection or even state protection as far as I know,” Merritt said.

Insurance companies are often portrayed as evil, and maybe that's accurate, but we often overlook that sometimes their interests are simply aligned with ours. This practice hurts them, too. Another example is the Covid vaccine, my insurance still covers it. They don't have the luxury of engaging in culture war nonsense. It costs them money if I get hospitalized with Covid symptoms. For their own bottom line, they're not incentivized to use RFK as cover for denying vaccines.

Unfortunately, people are going to get the future they deserve.

For someone who's been on Twitter for a long time, these alternatives function as a good off-ramp that's easier than quitting entirely and abruptly. I deleted my account a few years ago knowing I'd still be able to see some of the content without viewing their ads or contributing my own content.