I’ve posted a notice to leave next week. I need to scrape my photos off, get any remaining contacts, and turn off any integrations. I was only there to connect with family. I can email or text.
FB is a dead husk fake feeding some rich assholes. If it’s coin flip AI, what’s the point?
Absolutely.
Our morality today doesn’t stone people as just treatment; it doesn’t stone rapists and victims. That’s the worst of the Bible, and I don’t think that’s where its value comes from. It’s an important holy text for me, among many that help me understand God.
Jesus was magnetic in his time because the notion of love, forgiveness, and caring he preached was radical.
Jesus is quoted as telling believers to sell their belongings and share wealth together. In Matthew, a man who has followed all the commandments wishes to go to heaven, and…
Matthew 19:21, Jesus said to him, ‘If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.’
Acts 2:45 talks about early Christian societies being joyous because they would sell everything and share everything.
And yet, capitalism is the moral system?
You’d need to make $500k, every working day, between now and 1/1/1 to make more than Jeff Bezos now. For 2025 years, making $500k every. working. day. 260 days a year. 526,500 days. This is unconscionable.
People that defend these inequalities have not read the Bible, have not listened to Jesus. They are lost.
Mark 7:9
Then he said to them, ‘You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!
We can play this game. 1 Peter 3:7, women are the weaker sex. 1 Peter 3:3 also says she shouldn’t wear jewelry, because it damages her gentle and holy standing.
Also 1 Timothy 2:12,
I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent.
Don’t preach to me about a book you haven’t read. I’m a Unitarian Universalist, so I think the Bible is an important text, but dated notions show the human sensibilities rather than the divine perfection of the book.
I don’t think Mrs. Leavitt is weaker or deserving less dignity than a man, but this book does. :/
I know you’re using sheep in the common way we think about it, but this is the goats being lured. The sheep followed Jesus—these people don’t.
I’m reading the New Testament because I want to be able to quote this book better than these so called believers. In Matthew 25, there’s the parable of the sheep and goats. This is the moment of divine judgment, and Jesus asks the sheep, “Did you clothe me? Did you take care of me? Did you visit me in prison? Did you accept me when I was an alien in a foreign land?” The people that did are the sheep, the ones who are accepted to heaven.
The goats, who did not, are damned.
Call these people what they are: the goats. Use their beliefs to educate them how wrong they are. Tell them to read a Bible.
I describe to friends as “internet rural life”: things go slower, for now.
That’s how all these things started though. People at church over 50/60 are asking me about bluesky. That’s a good sign for me.
It’s almost like there really is a global elite causing tons of problems, and they’ve spent the last +8 years to dupe one side. That way, when it is true, the people on the left look crazy, and we continue an unnecessary class war while a bunch of selfish people destroy the human race so a line go brrr or whatever.
I fucking hate it here, and I have a reasonably good life. I’m tired. Everyone is lying and screaming at one another. And there’s no truth. This is all done for humans to jock for power rather than see each other as one species.
I was told brain freeze happens because of the temperature difference between the roof of your mouth and the stuff above it. If you start to notice brain freeze, it’s supposed to help to put your tongue against the roof of your mouth to balance the temperature back to normal.
This may all be bullshit. YMMV. This trick has worked for me.
Immense wealth is not compatible with the moral life. It’s also not compatible with Christianity, but I don’t think any of them truly care about religion. The drive for greed should be a mental illness, especially when it’s at the cost of empathy.
I like to use the good-fast-cheap paradigm for most people. Typically, if I’m giving you something good & cheap/free, then it won’t be done today. If you want something good & fast, can’t be cheap. I can do fast & cheap, but I typically set expectations of like “Uhhh, I can try for 5 mins but [more important thing I need to do.]”
I agree that being the tech expert isn’t great, but it’s usually simple tasks. Most people have something where they are “the specialty person.” You’re tech, but maybe another friend is crafty, another one is good at fixing stuff, another is artistic. We all have different strengths and weaknesses.
I try to imagine good actions/karma as being passed forward; hopefully when I need help, someone looks out for me.
Our financial advisor gave us these tips:
I’ve had life style issues 3 times in my life, which I’m really fortunate for honestly. You only get lifestyle creep from growing means & a failure to adjust your situation. It’s significantly harder for many people in our modern world to do some of these steps because people are already paycheck to paycheck. If you get a raise, it’s a blessing (I’m a UU), but you got to use it for good, whether that’s your security or the security of others.
People are saying it’s related to a book by a similar or same title (depending on the reporting of the 3rd word). The book is about health care being a scam, so seems to be a rallying cry to read the book and unseat traditional “health care” in America.
What is Mark has been a sentient AI for some time?
David Bowie and Prince both bent and blurred gender lines while still being attractive, unique, and amazingly talented. Bowie died really close to his birthday, and both dates are close to my birthday.
When he died, I decided to check off some of my bucket list items, like performing in drag. Whenever I’ve felt self conscious, thinking about these icons really helped me be comfortable with myself and my journey.
I really miss both of them as a fan. :/ I wish I had seen them live.
Maybe more apt for me would be, “We don’t need to teach math, because we have calculators.” Like…yeah, maybe a lot of people won’t need the vast amount of domain knowledge that exists in programming, but all this stuff originates from human knowledge. If it breaks, what do you do then?
I think someone else in the thread said good programming is about the architecture (maintainable, scalable, robust, secure). Many LLMs are legit black boxes, and it takes humans to understand what’s coming out, why, is it valid.
Even if we have a fancy calculator doing things, there still needs to be people who do math and can check. I’ve worked more with analytics than LLMs, and more times than I can count, the data was bad. You have to validate before everything else, otherwise garbage in, garbage out.
It’s sounds like a poignant quote, but it also feels superficial. Like, something a smart person would say to a crowd to make them say, “Ahh!” but also doesn’t hold water long.
I generally agree. It’ll be interesting what happens with models, the datasets behind them (particularly copyright claims), and more localized AI models. There have been tasks where AI greatly helped and sped me up, particularly around quick python scripts to solve a rote problem, along with early / rough documentation.
However, using this output as justification to shed head count is questionable for me because of the further business impacts (succession planning, tribal knowledge, human discussion around creative efforts).
If someone is laying people off specifically to gap fill with AI, they are missing the forest for the trees. Morale impacts whether people want to work somewhere, and I’ve been fortunate enough to enjoy the company of 95% of the people I’ve worked alongside. If our company shed major head count in favor of AI, I would probably have one foot in and one foot out.
This has been my general worry: the tech is not good enough, but it looks convincing to people with no time. People don’t understand you need at least an expert to process the output, and likely a pretty smart person for the inputs. It’s “trust but verify”, like working with a really smart parrot.
Yeah, this phrase makes way more sense within the context of a game or game theory. For me, it goes back to fighting games or sports. People play to win in those settings. The rules are heavily defined, and the players must abide. These other examples are people misusing the phrase.
There was a similar study reported the other day about using FMRI imagining and AI to recreate the “thought content” of someone’s brain. It required training for the AI in the person’s brain and some other training. It does seem these techniques can work with some specified models, but yeah, it doesn’t seem like hooking someone’s brain up to this would create a movie of their mind or something.
I think the more dangerous part is “This is step 0,” which this tech would have seemed impossible 10 years ago. Very strange times.
It’ll sound cheesy, but “Don’t Go Hollow” is that phrase for me.
In 2019, I was hospitalized for suicidal ideation. When at in-patient, we didn’t get much to express ourselves. Every meal, we ate with plastic utensils and foam plates and cups for safety. I would carve that phrase into the cups, along with a bonfire.
“Don’t Go Hollow” goes back to Dark Souls. It’s a phrase that means something in the game world, but it’s also metaphorical. What’s an avatar without the player? It’s like a body without spirit. You’re not progressing in the game because you checked out. If you want to keep going, you need to be present, to keep trying.
Other ones that come to mind are “This is a moment. It will pass.” which I said in the showers that scared the fuck out of me, and “Fall down 7 times, get up 8.” “Let it rip,” from the Bear is another one I like.
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