they did and i’d be surprised if it didn’t continue with more strikes

I’d be really curios to see some sort of study done on this. I mean, it’s not just americans and most of the west is not insulated from america, either, at least not online. and you don’t know from talking to someone online where they’re from. At the same time, there’s rising fascism and neoliberalism bullshit in europe, too.

I’d love to know how much of it is people getting antsier in general because they’re in a shit situation and how much it’s ‘infectious’ from talking with people in shit situations elsewhere, spreading bad vibes. Is this also happening in the chinese web? How about other countries that are more politically/economically aligned with the west but culturally less part of the english speaking web?

There has to be some sociologist out there somewhere studying this, no? But i wouldn’t know where to look. if anyone knows of something along those lines, i’d love to hear it.

Where is the new study? They have sources at the bottom but which one is the actual study they talk about?

CTRL+F for “Study” only has the word in the title and in three links in the sources, all of which are from several years ago. I realise it’s medium.com, which usually sucks, not real journalism, but how can you make a write-up about a purported new study without mentioning or linking to it once in the article…

oh for going out ours will sit in front of the entry door and look in our direction, even if we’re two rooms away. we really need to pay attention to notice if he suddenly disappears and then check the entry.

It’s really interesting how you start to be able to distinguish the different kinds of look they give you, like I couldn’t say how but I know if he needs help, needs to go out or if he wants to play depending on how he sits and looks.

My dog is pretty smart, but sometimes he’s smart in pretty stupid ways.

One thing he does is, if he needs help he will sit in front of the thing he needs help with. That’s it, just sit there. Now, he’s a black dog and he will sometimes do this in completely dark corners of the apartment. Maybe he played with his food ball and a treat has fallen under some furniture, he will just sit in front of it in the dark and expect us to help him, just sitting there for 20 minutes sometimes. Usually we only notice once he lets out a sad grumble after having sat there for a long time but I’m sure there’s other times where he just gave up and we didn’t notice at all. And this is not something we taught him, he just figured sitting quietly in a corner is the best way to get attention.

That and he likes to check if there’s anything going on behind him while on walks, which often causes him to walk head-first into obstacles…

Yes I think that summarizes it nicely 🙂

I don’t think it’s circular reasoning. more like kicking the can down the road, instead of deciding needs, you need to decide goals. but once you have a goal it helps determining the needs. So it’s a different framing that can help a bit to untangle the mess. Maslow is also just 4 goals in a hierarchy and then the needs for each of them.

As for how to decide on goals, idk, that changes all the time and I don’t think there’s any hard set rule to figure that out. In the end it’s all just made up 🤷 But I think asking yourself “what are my goals in life” is more productive than asking yourself “what do I need”, at least it comes more naturally to me.

I think a need is neccessarily tied to some goal and can’t really be discussed without mentioning the goal.

If the goal is survival the needs are water, food shelter. if your goal is not to continue living, then e.g. poison would be more of a need than food, water and shelter.

If the goal is having a fulfilled life the needs also include social contact, intimacy, something meaningful you can spend your time on etc.

so i don’t think you can just say something is a need, you need to decide what your goals are, probably with some hierarchy of goals, and work backwards from that to the needs. Or conversely, to know if something is a need, think about if not having it would keep you from your goal.

All the oil and coal being burned that causes it used to be organic matter, like plankton. and before those died and captured it, all that co2 was in the atmosphere, and the earth was much hotter.

no matter how hot it gets because of this, there will be life left. and we’ll likely die before we can make it bad enough that only single cell organisms survive. It’ll still be terrible and take a long time to recover. but life will be fine in the long run

Also the largest number ever factorized on a quantum computer (not simulated) is like 30. So this is like 1950’s level of computing(in terms of number of transistors vs qbits) and we’re 20-30 years of incremental change away from really threatening encryption

But what if your phone comes with nice AI filters? The fake videos get more and more real and the real videos get more and more fake

“people get to choose”… last time the second place got picked because the committee didn’t like the first placed one. It had different scale things on them, an atom for the smallest bill and our galaxy for the largest. But for a middle denomination one there was an image of a fetus and they didn’t like that.

so the public can join but the national bank still has final say

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results from last time if anyone is interested

I’d honestly be most worried about them being essentially raised by an ass-kissing sycophantic llm. That shit is already messing with some adults, i couldn’t imagine what it’d do to a child.

a whole generation of narcissists maybe? I mean, sure, kids need encouragement. But just being told that everything you say is a great idea, your a genius, wow, you’re so amazing, over and over…

and then combine that with social media that’s already messing with kids self esteem and social skills shudder

It’s a buzzword in crypto but has real applications outside of that

I think it was this one from 2022 that mentions coreweave borrowing 29 billion backed by GPUs.

especially nice given how fast they depreciate.

I thought they already have that? At least i remember reading about coreweave or similar using their GPU’s as collateral to buy more GPU’s like a year ago.

It’d be more accurately titled Star Trek: Burnham

I always called it ‘The Burnham Show, starring Michael Burnham’.

It was crazy to me how they could make every plot line revolve around her in some way, have her always be part of figuring out the solution, everyone else fawning over how great she is and what they’d do without her, just the lengths the writers went to to insert her everywhere. It’s just so on your nose and gets really tiring after like 3 seasons.

Compared with like DS9 where you could have whole episodes where the main character, Quark, only has like 1-2 lines and they focus more on supporting cast like Cisco or just Bashir and Garrek (sorry, I couldn’t resist :) )

I don’t disagree. I meant for users it is incidental. Most users probably wouldn’t buy them with spying as the main purpose(they just also don’t really care that it can spy). making them much more widespread than something where spying was the main use-case, making the problem worse.

And as someone else mentioned, once you did get it, the temptation for using it for spying is there for a user. Making it worse than e.g. a spy pen imo, as with that you’d need the intent to spy first, and then buy it, but with this, you buy it for whatever reason and then think “oh, I could just spy now” since you already own the device, which I’d argue leads to more overall spying, so to speak. Maybe you see a video online and go “oh, I can just do that, right now, no effort on my part, since I already own this device”.

And for Meta it’s like tracking cookies on crack

sure, but there the spying is the purpose, whereas with the glasses it’s incidental.

you don’t buy such gadgets if you don’t intend to spy, but people would buy meta glasses for other reason, and meta being able to spy on you is just a side-effect. Plus it’ a matter of scale, this has the potential of being much more prominent than some spy camera.

I posted above already, but repeating for visibility. There is an initiative in the works right now to combat this: https://www.no-lobbying.ch/