I mean we can always just make it culturally normal to celebrate birthdays on weekends regardless of where they technically fall in the week. Lots of folks already do that

Do you use smart glasses? Because you shouldn’t.

Right like my opinion is that we should socially discourage antisocial creepy behavior such as recording others without their consent, in public or otherwise.

The Gaza issue seems to have been pretty big

https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/postelection-polling

It’s possible to do less granular simulation of far away stuff as an LOD type thing. An object four times hotter than the surface of the sun should probably have an effect on the world around it. The tricky parts are how you determine where that threshold is, what those objects are, and what the low resolution world simulation should be doing in response

We are all Virginia on this blessed day

By that logic every cell in your body has touched a cell (that has touched a cell)^n that has touched ass

Other way around but yea

Sorry best we can do is cut healthcare 🤗

Who knew flickers on a cave wall could be so addictive

The problem is that, for the property owning class, the unaffordability of homes is broadly a feature and not a bug.

Yeah it turns out having a politician who actually believes in popular things motivates people to go vote for them

What? Any and all filters an intelligent species could encounter need to be factored in statistically, even if not all of those filters will 100% be encountered

Perhaps it’s a contextual Great Filter only for instances of intelligent life in which capitalistic modes of production win out.

We’re in the New Gilded Age

I think it depends on the reason you do not use it. The Luddites were primarily frustrated over automation displacing their high-skill job with low-skilled ones that produced worse quality goods. It’s a 2 for 1: we are losing the jobs we need to survive, but also we lose the personal touch from the work of artisans + lose appreciation for their talent.

I am not carte blanche against AI as a concept, but it really does seem like a technology that makes interactions worse quality, more depersonalized, and on top of that it has a horrible externalized environmental cost which benefits nobody in the long run.

Addendum: I believe technology has the power to be liberating when it provides for all of us, and oppressive when it concentrates wealth+power into the hands of moguls and tyrants.

If it gets you talking about it, even in the context of telling them to shut the fuck up, it’s working :)

The gerrymandered border slicing through an American’s house to isolate its occupants into different districts

u will become crab one way or another 🦀

In my experience, you find out BONTO! had a security breach via an Ars Technica article published around 4 months after the fact because the data was found on the dark web. Zero correspondence from the company itself except in rare circumstances