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Fun project! But with that tank uncovered like that and sitting in a closet look out for mildew and mold to grow in your closet.

I think it’s bigger than a decrease in attendance in religious groups though I agree the impact is felt there too. Social clubs, non-profits, fraternal and civic organizations, neighborhood associations, labor unions, local political chapters, trade associations, etc etc.

Basically all forms of outward focused, community or geographic based groups seem to have been on a downward trend for decades in favor of hyperreal, inward-focused online spaces.

Why embed links in your article to your own tweets which say the same things your article already says?

I thought this was going to talk about the struggle of sizing windows to arbitrary widths. I often try to keep slack and my email windows side by side and Mac OS seems to go out of its way these days to frustrate my efforts and maximize the one window or the other.

The resize corners grab area is also very frustrating though.

Very cool concept. Several people have made good suggestions on improving the UX. If I were implementing I’d probably try to support a stack of picked items so I could grab several and move them all at once.

As it so happens I’m using my framework laptop with fedora linux almost exclusively at this point. That was not the case a year ago. :)

I like the spirit of your efforts. But without simultaneously fracturing and shrinking the power of capitalist elites your ideas wrt to government pay transparency seems destined to fail. Everyone likes making money—even when they already have enough. Sure, pay each politician 1 million dollars a year. They’re still over 100,000 times poorer than the richest in our society. They’ll still be corruptible and liable to influence by the monied elite. They’ll still get gifts in return for favor. And with more positions it’ll be easier to rotate people in and retire them out to receive their bribes held in escrow contingent upon their votes. And my god the amount of pork shoved into bills to satisfy 1300 different representatives!!! If congress wasn’t already in a dead stop before it will be now.

My inner cynic says it’s going to take a violent revolution followed by a complete reshaping of society from the top down. Or a total dissolution of the Union combined with a complete social reversal on money and work.

I can say my family never once paid for AOL or cared about its basket of features. But we did pay for NetZero for a long time until broadband become more affordable in our area.

This in particular seems dangerous:

> RD: I do think we should err on the side of caution when it comes to ethical decisions on the treatment of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) which might be an Artificial Consciousness (AC). Already, although I THINK you are not conscious, I FEEL that you are.

Feelings and pain are embodied experience. There’s no ethical quandary in my mind when dealing with these creations. Because they do not feel—they imitate feeling. They do not get depressed—they imitate the patterns of depressed humans.

The only way this changes is if their creators act with cruelty to give them subsystems which induce emotional states unnecessarily. But why would you give pain to your digital servants? Would you not be in some way responsible for all the pain they felt thereafter?

Scary presentation! And nice to see some of the so-called “party of math” pushing back against the trump tax cuts. He still mostly demonizes the democrats, but it’s interesting that not once did he mention raising taxes on the very wealthy. Why does America need billionaires?

I’ve been coming around to a similar point of view that modern software technology removes human agency. Everything is being automated—we thought it would free up our time for other things, but to my eyes we’ve become less free. AI is only going to accelerate this phenomenon—robbing us of even higher levels of agency as well as our ability to think independently and deeply. All in the name of efficiency and engagement. I struggle with this daily since I work in and have been steeped in tech for decades. I used to love it. Part of me still sees the good that modern technology has enabled too. I’m not sure what the solution is here besides logging off the internet and returning to live in the real world with real human interaction and slower, more meaningful connections.

This is… dystopian. But I guess one upside is I get a list of companies to boycott.

That’s an interesting idea. Sadly I think the next AI interviewing tool to be developed in response would make you look like your eyes are closed. But in the interim period it could be an interesting way to interview. Doesn’t really help for technical interviews where they kinda need to have their eyes open, but for pre-screens maybe…

None of those links are art. They’re stunts at best. I know, I know someone will disagree, but they’re wrong.

The difference between cave paintings, brush paintings, and even photoshop versus AI generated works is that a human had to visualize mentally and then translate their internal visualization into the medium without words. AI generated does not require that.

Artists like Jackson Pollock or more modern instances of digital artists lie somewhere between the two—creating with little intention and little control.

Businesses can’t freely use the information. There are terms of service freely agreed upon by the user which explicitly deny many use cases—training other models is just one. DeepSeek is not an American company nor is their leader in deep with the new administration. It seems far more likely that this will play out like tiktok—they’ll be attacked publicly and banned for national security reasons.