Textile workers have been fucked by machines

I'm not a fan of this comparison because textile machines replaced textile workers at the same time as demand for textiles increased a thousandfold. The industrial revolution achieved this increased demand by increasing people's living standards - instead of having a handful of outfits people (in the privileged parts of the world at least) started keeping dozens or hundreds of them - but with art demand/consumption is already effectively "maxed out" because every person with an internet connection already has access to more art than it is possible for them to consume in their entire lifetime, so increasing the amount of art produced can only have a "zero sum" effect on art writ large because the amount of art will increase while demand will not.

The internet we know today... We won't miss it should it disappear.

Yes but it should disappear back into the direction of many smaller websites and more privacy, not in the direction of all of that texture being totally consumed by LLM generated search results and everyone further congregating on a smaller number of sites that collect every iota of data possible.

Had a Trump supporter in my cab last night, said some shit about Trump being a peaceful president. I replied "tell that to the Iranians"

Guy turns on a dime, starts ranting about how we need to randomly bomb other countries in order to "play the game of empires". I say we shouldn't play any game that kills millions of people.

I think I genuinely caused him to BSOD when I said that Iran has every legal and moral right to pursue a nuclear weapon for deterrence reasons, because America and Israel are the most dangerous and aggressive countries on the planet and it isn't even close. After that he got totally incoherent.

The ride was only like 3 minutes so it didn't really have enough time to get out of control. I dream of someday getting a ride with a chud who crosses the line and I get to kick their ass out of my cab on the side of the highway but that hasn't happened yet.

parents are watching an extremely obviously AI-narrated YouTube video. I don't understand how they haven't changed it yet, every single time this voice says a sentence with the wrong inflection it's like nails on a chalkboard to me.

This is what drove me to Debian. I like stability, I don't need cutting edge, simple as.

In basic they don't let you use contacts, they issue everyone who needs them identical glasses with identical sports straps.

If wartime I would recommend shatterproof eye protection, comes in shaded and unshaded, prescription and non-prescription. There's a reason why "operator" dudes all kind of end up looking the same, it's cuz that's what works.

The Mechanicus cult in 40K is very bloody and over the top villainous, but the real world version where vulnerable people start worshipping Chat GPT is much more grimdark.

December 1998, to be precise.

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The author, who is also part of an interdisciplinary research group called PseudoLab

Presenting the findings of my new scientific research group, Bad Science LLC.

...but seriously I guess it's mildly interesting but entirely predictable that right- and left-wing brains have physical differences from each other and from more centrist types. That's just materialism being proven correct once again. But I wouldn't put any stock at all into the association between parts of the brain and specific personality traits because personality traits are far too squishy and hard to measure to be meaningfully correlated with the size of your post-anterior phalanges or whatever.

Even if the 10m walkers are maximally represented among dog-keeping households (instead of more evenly distributed), with no more than one walker per dog household (also extremely unlikely to not be clustered), at most 50% of dogs get walks from their owners.

Luckily, this study does not seem to be saying that at all.

Using cross-sectional data from the 2007-2008 and 2009-2010 cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), Furie and his colleague, Mayur M Desai, Ph.D., associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health were surprised to find that less than one quarter of U.S. adults in a nationally representative sample reported walking or bicycling for transportation for more than 10 minutes continuously in a typical week.

"For transportation" is important here. I walk my dog twice a day but I wouldn't describe that as "transportation."

This is yet another science headline that wildly misrepresents the study it's allegedly reporting on.

You're not supposed to ride them even if you're small, because their back can't support your weight the way a horse's can.

That said, a dog-pulled chariot is very doable.