Will Smith’s character says “Fairy lives don’t matter today” and stomps a little fairy to death

You have to be joking

Kalman filters rule, I think that’s an interesting metaphor I’m gonna ponder

This feels like “yeah some dorks have started smoking outside, and when I asked they gave me a bullshit answer.” But then again, it’s SV…

I don’t think much else has bummed me out as bad as when my partner has no close friends nearby, and when she tries to make new friends they kinda brush her off or put up weird walls. I wish I had advice but I really don’t know what a solution is.

Look at the sidewalks and bike lanes though!

I think you’re just not the target audience.

These feel contradictory, but the second is basically my point.

Understanding the technology doesn’t do anything for us beyond recognizing what the function of a Robocop is, or what the implications for automated precrime detection are

We should understand its capabilities as well as its limitations, weaknesses, and specifically how to paralyze and destroy it.

I just don’t see how this is a useful attitude. AI is going to be used to monitor, identify, exploit and punish you. Without any knowledge of its capabilities and operation, you won’t be able to even begin to strategize how to counteract this. I’m not saying YOU must use it every day, but ignorance is exploitable.

I’m beginning to suspect it will be a formation born out of something like tenant organizing. There’s a lot of good work happening in LA and Kentucky. If those organizations can consolidate across a broader region, they feel well-situated, to me, to actually start to lead.

I haven’t been able to quite articulate my thoughts yet, but the all-or-nothing attitude I’ve seen from a lot on the left just feels misguided to me. At the barest minimum, we need to develop an understanding of its capabilities, which is incompatible with total rejection.

I’ll be honest, I think we can oppose AI as much as we want, but we need to have an understanding of its capabilities and how it works.
With the amount of cash the pentagon and 3-letter agencies are pouring into it, I think assuming it’s all going to be gone in 10 years is kind of naive. I mean, the pentagon supposedly used Claude to choose that school in Minab to target. Hegseth is firing people for not using AI in their daily tasks. Add to that the announcement a couple weeks ago from the heads of the big companies that they want to slow down and get governmental regulation sorted out, and I don’t really see it going away entirely anytime soon.

Some cities outlaw the usage of these types of brakes within city limits (in my experience enforcement is kinda lax, but I think it does make some difference) but this city did not. They also didn’t have those sound-dampening walls you find in a lot of places. Living there was a real psychic attack lmao

Lived for a couple years within a few hundred feet of an interstate in tennessee. It was horrible; I could tune it out a lot of the time, but all the semi-trucks with their Jake brakes were terrible.
Then the company that owned the billboard right between our street and the interstate clearcut ALL the foliage around it. Just made things louder🙃 and I didn’t even really think about the increased pollution, I’m sure that has harmed me

I was talking with someone on here this week about how the Nicaraguan revolution very explicitly tried to limit violence and executions, and mandated a max prison sentence (for any crime) of 30 years. And they based this on their Christian faith, and what they believed to be the most faithful interpretation of this.

Contrast this to online left spaces, and principally western online spaces, which have a lot of people whose politics looks like posting (self-crit to myself here too). The impotency of the western left, combined with the counter-insurgent nature of the Internet in general, I think breeds extreme opinions, even if they’re “in jest”. I definitely feel those ways myself sometimes, but I think the only real solution is engaging with people physically, directly, and in common cause. The internet is corrosive and is designed to be, and I think we have to develop habits and discipline to combat this in ourselves. Which ultimately necessitates logging off.

I’ve been reading a collection of speeches/essays/letters from Tomás Borge, one of the founding members of Nicaragua’s FSLN. At least in his writings, he’s very consistent and persistent in how the revolution needs to keep violence in check, and bases this explicitly in his Christian faith. Apparently when he met the man who had tortured and murdered his wife, he chose to forgive the man, rather than call for his execution or any sort of violent retribution. And he physically intervened to stop a group of peasants who were about to kill a bunch of Somoza’s men they had captured.

It’s definitely challenging my perspective, but I have more reading to do. I don’t know how many of these spared soldiers and shock troops came back to cause issues for the revolution down the line.
I think it mostly has me thinking about the “making a new person” aspect of the revolution and how to most effectively make that happen, and to what ends.

I recently learned Copperhead Road was one of Tennessee’s state songs. Which means 2 of their state songs speak positively of killing federal agents lmao

Ok that’s good to hear! I’ll have to get around to it one weekend.

Speaking for myself, yeah that’s the goal. I’ve actually had the exact same idea of recreating an adult swim lineup, but jellyfin only lets you shuffle within a show, so you still have to make the choice of show. This would let you choose a suite of shows and it would randomize the lineup, and you could insert the adult swim bumps for some variety.

were you planning to use Tunarr to do that? I’ve really been wanting to set up something like that, but my friend said it used a lot of resources and I haven’t found an alternative.

Joe is usually pretty on the ball, but I think he’s reacted poorly to the Maduro kidnapping and Delcy government.