shits going down for sure

Well regardless, if you're interested in and have the resources, host your own AI agents locally :)

allegedly touching grass. realistically probably tiktok/reels.

It is incredibly bleak. A good friend I've got nearly 10 years of work history nearly unrecognizable to me today. At first I suspected substance abuse but when I had a chance to really chat, they confessed to me. It could also still be substance abuse too

It's actually been something that's forced me to shift my perspective. I don't buy the propaganda of the luddification of anti-AI folks, that we'll be like those who refused to learn computers before the turn of the millennium. I actually think the technology is useful in niche and potentially broader situations. I will however never understand why the hell everyone is so comfortable providing their training data to other people's servers FOR FREE??? Some of them even pay for the privilege! This isn't even touching the data heists being pulled off in clear daylight which should at the very least land some people in prison.

I could go on, but... these days I feel more comfortable keeping my thoughts off the Internet.

Reminder to USians to download DeepSeek before it gets banned.

this is likely the solution for the time being. it's also what cloudflare's CEO recommended a couple weeks ago.

really interested in seeing how this changes things. i think we're already witnessing the loss of "the internet" as a place, or a refuge of sorts. as people need less and less interaction with computers in order to get the information they're looking for, they will not look back. i'm already starting to see this with friends in my life who have onboarded AI into their lives completely.

animal farm 1984

Not long ago I stumbled upon the RNode (I think on this website?) as a cheap, long range transmitter that should be able to easily retool for solar power. However a lot of the radio technology quickly gets out of my wheelhouse. May be showing my ass here, but wouldn't you need a license to operate one of these?

its trivial and happening way more than you'd think

people were doing this with human cashiers decades ago

i was just last week ranting about how horrible the denver airport is oh how i loathe it so much. plane travel is already terrible but to have to follow it up with navigating this demonic labyrinth makes me completely believe all the rumors about the airport being a shrine to Satan

slaps hood of registration page you can fit so many new usernames in this bad boy

I can definitely relate to the cognitive distortion angle, and that's what I often told myself. I never had put the brakes on though and fully stopped for a longer period of time outside of just vacations where it wasn't accessible. Usually this was fine because I was out somewhere new and exciting where I didn't need to be stoned to have a great time.

This time, going cold turkey in the middle of the holidays, after about five days I hit a fucking brick wall of horrendous withdrawal symptoms. I had no idea it could be so bad. I think this new perspective has shown that while weed can be fun, it has a major, lasting impact on my body and mind that I need to be more mindful of. It made it that much easier to stay away for the 3-week experiment and since those symptoms, the temptation to toke has gone away entirely.

Today marks day 15 of no marijuana. Trying to go 21 days for fun and also to re-define my relationship with the substance. I don't want to have to rely on getting high daily to cope with the horrors of this world anymore.