Because of propaganda, people find it easier to imagine the end of the world before the end of capitalism. Just the same, theres lots of commenters here that could imagine the end of the internet before they imagine the end of advertising on the internet.

Pay executives less. Focus on grants and PBS-style ‘underwriting’. Subscription services like email and VPN.

Getting into advertising is just jumping into an intractable conflict of interest.

This. (although I follow the directions here, which is a little more than apt install). The only thing I couldn’t get on Debian stable is the latest gnome. But when I tried debian testing, it was slightly broken anyway. And gnome extensions could get most of the functionality missing in my older gnome version. Debian stable + flatpak + anaconda + adding repositories (like for firefox) is a perfect compromise.

What’s nice about a stable distro is you can update the things you want to update, and your OS isn’t constantly changing a million packages a week that you don’t even know the function of.

Gotta wonder how many state actors have been using it for years.

Yes! The whole “lawyers are evil money grabbers” is a corporate psy-op. They want you to think it’s unreasonable for a person to sue a corporation when the corporation’s actions are harmful. They also want you to think defense attorneys are people who just look for technicalities to free guilty people.

They created armies of lawyers for themselves, while making americans distrustful of the ones fighting for normal people. We used to think of lawyers like Atticus Finch or Perry Mason. But now we just think of Saul Goodman and Lionel Hutz.

Oh right, sometimes I forget people have computers other than old thinkpads

IDK if thats true in 2024. Debian 12 isn’t much harder to setup than mint or Ubuntu, and the version of gnome it ships with is perfectly fine. I’m not a beginner anymore, so maybe there’s something I glossed over.

Oh wait, I just remembered the thing I glossed over. Needing to install sudo would definitely throw a beginner for a loop. (Iirc, you only need to do that if you give a root password during install). And that’s the problem with trying to learn Linux. Someone will tell you the thing is easy, but they forgot about some arcane step

Me explaining how HRT changed my thighs

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fuck.

Are we sure this isn’t everyone?

sitting in front of the largest ruby in the world

Are we the baddies?

Yeah, this is a rare application of LLMs that kinda makes sense. It’s essentially just rephrasing text based on statistics. That’s what LLMs are good at, and it’s pretty low stakes if it gets something wrong.

There’s definitely an ick factor, considering all the problems with “AI”, like exploiting labor and wasting energy. But this is exactly the sort of things LLMs can do well. Rephrasing things.

Would it be better to just get a human to do this? Yes. They already do with abridged versions and cliff notes. Best case scenario, this service is using LLMs to just make these people’s jobs easier (doubtful, I know)

The podcast twenty thousand hertz has a good episode on what dinos might’ve sounded like.

This is parrot libel

The APA “welcomes” the warning, so I’m eating my words. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2024/06/social-media-youth

If the major psychological/pediatric organizations come out in support of this, I’ll eat my words. [Edit] words: Eaten

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2024/06/social-media-youth

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Yeah. It’s pretty hard to believe they just “floated” over considering sweet potatos mde it to the Philippines from south America. Clearly those didn’t float over. Someone else posted a scientific article providing evidence that humans brought the coconut to the Americas