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backtoyoujim··on Defamed by ChatGPT
Until this type of problem puts heat on politicians or billionaires ability for them to reach and use force then nothing is going to change.
backtoyoujim··on Extinction of Steam Locomotives Derails Assumptions about Biological Evolution
"But what we would argue is, in fact, when things start to adapt and shift directionally — traditionally in evolution that's not a good time for a group. We'd argue it's a sign the group may be experiencing duress or pressure from other things.”

that seems like an unapologetically unacademic assertion used to support someone's underlying personal problems on aging, change, and mortality.

backtoyoujim··on Reddit Is Down
the lights are flashing from their screens and the bunnies is still furiously tapping their paddles in their cages meanwhile the treats stoppeth for no matter how many times paw goes to button there are not more treats to be had.

the experiment is over.

backtoyoujim··on I use cheap notebooks
I use a fair different number types of notebooks depending on the depending on.

I have spiral top ones for notes of me thinking/remembering/wanting to reenforce for later type notepad with a constant pen that go lots of places with me. And graph paper-y notepads/notebooks to help me work on my penmanship and handwriting my thoughts. And rough papered oversized ones that I like to doodle on with sloppy pens.

I think cheap ones can be great. But cheap doesn't need to be everything.

backtoyoujim··on Matty Benedetto Designed and Prototyped 350 Inventions in 3 Years
The jewel cooler seems only inches away from the assimilator.
backtoyoujim··on Supreme Court rejects man’s bid to sue police over arrest for Facebook parody
It is tyrannical, and it engenders American capitalism with neofeudalism with chivalry being replaced with QI.
backtoyoujim··on I tried to buy a Rolex and fell into a grey market for luxe watches
Could this be done with vehicles ?
backtoyoujim··on Bing threatens to dox a student in revenge for prompt hacking
Have we given ChatGPT its own twitter account, yet ?
backtoyoujim··on The retaliation: Pranking my roommate with targeted Facebook ads (2014)
When I was first asked to some facebook ads for a company that I was actually doing industrial sewing work in a production environment ... I saw how targeted everything could be with the ads and it just seemed so gross. That was 2009-ish.

And I haven't had a facebook account for me to edit since then. I'm glad some people saw levity, but to me it just seemed dour.

backtoyoujim··on Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
/derail
backtoyoujim··on US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast
the legalized cannabis industry is doing all it can, man.
backtoyoujim··on Meta to ask many managers to become individual contributors or leave
The Gervais Principle

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

... illustrates the fallacy of the Peter Principle.

backtoyoujim··on Tech's Elite Hates Labor
Great resets start at chopping off the top of the pyramid.
backtoyoujim··on SouthwestAirlines' Meltdown Shows How Corporations Pit Consumers Against Workers
Amazon does the same thing by using third party delivery companies and geographic dislocation with their support staff.

The proletariat can be taught to take their class problems out on the customers. I assume that the third party delivery companies' leadership even encourage their drivers to take out their class frustrations on customers that complain about problems.

backtoyoujim··on Bright flash is a black hole jet pointing at Earth, astronomers say
so given this tool we would either murder or flirt

can there be anything so human ?

backtoyoujim··on Mandatory helmet laws make cyclists less safe
As someone that has commuted through urban and industrial environments for years on bicycle I don't care what statistics say about assertions and possible changing circumstances for cyclists safety.

Wear a helmet. Your skull doesn't care about this study.

And titles like could lead to people to thinking that they won't need one. Which is unsafe for cyclists.

backtoyoujim··on Emacs should become a Wayland compositor
Oh, that would be impressive, if anyone knew what a compositor was.
backtoyoujim··on Voice assistants are not doing it for big tech
i don't want my voice assistant to be a sock puppet for a corporate identity proctologist.

can you imagine hiring a production assistant that gave everything you asked them to do to a corporate competitor ?

Why would I want to do that with my life and Amazon and Apple ?

backtoyoujim··on Octopuses caught on camera throwing things at each other
That reminds me of that video of Hunter S. Thompson shooting at his neighbor with a lugar.
backtoyoujim··on Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move
The sidewall of the track should have some way to impart boost.
backtoyoujim··on Meta Quest Pro
$1500.00 as a hardware loss leader for Perky Pat 2022 versus eat food and pay too much for freaking rent.

Humans do not own VR anything.

backtoyoujim··on TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy
US American developers steal privacy like _this_, but Chinese developers steal privacy like -this- !
backtoyoujim··on FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe deposit boxes
You could mail them to the FBI, I suppose.
backtoyoujim··on Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks
Would it be hard to get my neighbor's garage door to respond ?
backtoyoujim··on Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
Ikea interested me when they worked with teenage engineering for some silly bits. But that was quickly reduced into a markup game from resellers so it lost my interest.

bless their hearts and billy-bookcases but they have never moved me on much else.

and i don't need my home-appliance obsolescence bar to descend even further towards flat-pack territory.

backtoyoujim··on Google Will Eat Itself (2005)
Although they have a 20 to 1 split coming up in July.
backtoyoujim··on Gas stoves are more hazardous than we’ve been led to believe (2020)
Once my house has a battery large enough to where I won't end up going ballistic on my energy company for having 24+ hour power outages I am fine with moving away from gas.

But I am not going to live with losing power a dozen times a year for up to a day at a time because a corporation wants my life to be the tip of the misery spear instead of their profit margins taking a hit.

backtoyoujim··on Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs
I can't wait for the upcoming FilmStores.app that needs to use your microphone, gps, and camera.
backtoyoujim··on Climate Spiral [video]
Maybe the real treasure was the production surplus stolen from the proletariat along the way.
backtoyoujim··on Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safety reasons
Freedom in an unregulated space requires less freedom for the individual, I suppose.
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