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probably the best description of EA that I've read so far.

And yet... I watched two films just a couple days ago using the MUBI App on a Samsung Smart TV (airbnb, on holidays): Dream Scenario and No Other Choice. Both had a surreal image quality, as if an AI filter had completely destroyed the director's original intention. I know for sure that at least Dream Scenario shouldn't look like that, because I had already watched it. I don't know about the other but I suspect this wasn't the original look. It's probably not MUBI's fault, but the best restoration is just powerless when the movie is watched on what most people end up watching movies this day.

Before that, a more important question is: why assume that buying or having "more stuff" leads to a better life?

I love it how the rampocalypse is pushing people to squash all the performance they can. I hope that this also leads to rethinking model architecture so that they can do the same with less.

This looks like a great idea, thanks for sharing it!

All videos are so full of stereotypes and clichés, often borderline (or just plainly) racist. But of course, that's not the main worry for people making these things, right...

So much money spent to avoid the easiest answer: less cars (more public transport, more bicycle lanes, etc.)

So while we're trying to make computers do what humans do, we play pretend being computers.

Of course the solution to overusing AI is... to use more AI. Love it.

> This is generally driven by people’s desire for a new device, including for the functionalities provided by new models.

So people are to blame, not the companies shoveling ads, offering promotions to buy new phones, and in general creating the huge demand that they later, "are forced to satisfy".

The article is great and very informative. But I feel there's a general vibe of "privatizations are great". For example, they do mention that privatizations didn't work in Argentina (they were a total mess and the total railway went from something like 50k kilometers to two thirds of that - if) but they don't mention enough of it - or other cases - to understand which regulations and why worked the way they did. It feels too much like it's all about integrating corporations, and that's it.

I was dual booting Linux Mint (work) and Windows 11 (games). A month ago, Windows started trying to push an update, which I resisted. A week ago, they just force fed it to my computer. I deleted the partitions without a second thought, tried CachyOS, realized that the games I play worked perfectly out of the box, and now I'm using it as my main OS. I'm never again installing windows on a computer I own.

I think there should be less "how to solve friendship" posts, which see our social interactions as "problems" to be solved, and more reflection about how this is a consequence of a market oriented, inequality driving system. If the problem is that friendships need time, we should demand less working time and more free time to establish friendships.