Only if you use a — instead of --, if they know what they’re talking about anyway.

My phone autocorrects them to — so that’s fun, lol.

Racking up that large a phone bill with dialup internet is very impressive! Today if a 7 year old spends that kind of money it’s almost certainly because someone forgot to lock the app store/roblox account.

He has a reputation of just being an unpleasant dick and difficult to work with. Nothing super problematic to my knowledge, just a bad personality.

More public transit and more public spaces. Transit that you don’t have to think about taking (because it’s safe, frequent, and cheap or free) takes you to new places or to familiar places more often, and lets you meet more people more often. And going outside and doing shit is just good for you, I’m sorry to report.

Yeah, getting published in Nature is a career gold star achievement. They’re very high impact (meaning many other scientific papers cite their articles).

It being Coeur d'Alene, my first thought is some flavor of white supremacist nuttery.

This is terrifying looking, just activates every part of my hind brain.

Oh boy, a ChatGPT powered browser! Maybe it can hallucinate what I bookmarked and lose or leak all my passwords ☺️

It also demonstrates how much AI companies mislead the public on what their products can do. If a guy is selling lawnmowers that actually just generate grass clippings without mowing the lawn, you’re not an idiot for thinking it was going to mow grass.

This one fuckin got me. I was like ‘yeah, I believe that unquestioningly.’

Just this morning, someone in a Discord I'm in (who wouldn't just fake stories) was explaining how someone they knew had a psychotic break on psychedelics, and, in the ambulance, narrated the paramedics' childhoods with disturbing accuracy

I think it’s entirely possible this person is being honest while also just not having a firm grasp over what actually happened, due to having a psychotic break from psychedelics. The paramedic simply agreeing to whatever they said (if the conversation did happen—I’ve been unsure whether a conversation I thought I had was real or not just from smoking too much weed) could have been interpreted as much deeper and more profound than it was.

None of this requires ill intent. The mind is just incredibly bad at making and retrieving memories in the way we want (infallible, like a video) even when you aren’t on drugs.

with an open window.

From a fellow resident of an area with frequent fires… Friend, close the window 😬 You don’t want to be breathing it! Wildfire particles are very tiny and will lodge themselves in your lungs. Do you have air purification going? Please be careful and take care of yourself.