Life hack and Consumerist used to be two of my favorite reads and forums. Then they were absorbed into the Borg and stopped putting out anything useful.

Great article, you should x-post to [email protected]

With the beautiful Victorian home styles subsumed by barrier and an enormous metallic obelisk thrusting into the sky…it says San Francisco and Salesforce tower in 10 years.

Because the problems they raged about are systemic, and the system didn’t change.

The last few years watching the hype train and thinking that Nigerian prince emails, lottery winners and everything else still makes it through their pathetic email filters and they want to launch rocket ships with their omnipotent AI? GTFO

Love the concept; are they open source? Would love to get gaming further away from the big companies. If it’s “free” now, how are users paying for it, with data? Ads? We’ve seen a well documented history of enshittification so before I dump time into a platform that’s my 1a question.

Why have I not heard “Old Spice” before now? Much better than using that sack’s given names.

This is the opportunity the Fediverse was waiting for.

In the same way poker players misuse or misunderstand “pot equity” as a concept to justify chasing poor hands.

Grog use triple flint blade. 6 months subscription new rock comes.

Can it run Crisis?

Don’t forget the quinoa!

Agree, and “defer” can mean organizationally as in needing someone else’s input, knowledge, support, buy-in…vs. running an autocratic hierarchy, which the weak and stupid prefer. Defer also means acknowledging the value and contributions of others and compensating them accordingly.

If I had to boil a lot of the churn in the water about AI, it’s by stupid people trying to sell even stupider, desperate people the idea the immense knowledge of the earth (or even that of their accounting or customer service practices) will be within their grasp and they won’t need others anymore. Of course, some say great cut headcount, because they didn’t understand the work others do in the first place.

While most won’t fully take an approach as extreme, and any AI use will likely be more organic, there will be outliers who receive the bulk of the press.

Saying you don’t need X position in early 2025 based on the state of AI is like declaring in 1996 libraries are dead.

I read an article about how the Atlantic, owned by Steve Jobs widow, employs a leader who is ex-israeli military and that their coverage of the conflict in the last year has been one-sided and horrific. It was damning.

“The reason it’s called the Atlantic is that it belongs at the bottom of the ocean” was the title. I was convinced and disappointed, I remember them having interesting articles back in the day but am done reading them.

They’re trying to ban tiktok. I’ve never used it but it’s just because it’s Chinese, social media from any other company based in any other country is just as fucked and unhealthy and unregulated in the US, but they are going to ban it specifically for its country of origin. China pills a lot of weight and the company tiktok is powerful and fighting it in court and all but it seems pretty obvious it’ll go through even under current admin watch–let alone when a direct competitor and owner of Xitter owns the White House.

While yes, you’re logistically correct it would be very difficult to shut down the whole Internet, that’s not the goal, the goal is to massively control it and enshittify it beyond your worst dreams.

Look to China and Russia for "internet"TM

Thank goodness, no CEOs were harmed in this act of murder so they aren’t sure if it is terrorism.

School shootings are terrorism. Driving cars into crowded places to scare people from even going to outdoor events is terrorism. Enabling a society so broken and awful it’s a common occurrence is enabling terrorism.

And the asshats sold them up to the deadline day, instead of saying stopping sales 5 years ago. Penalizingly anal company.

I have always loved this movie and never understood why it wasn’t as big or even more than die hard–even for dudes who can’t deal with a badass woman, Samuel L is still awesome, just doesn’t make any sense it wasn’t more popular.

Careful outing yourself as a brown family, this apparently means you’re illegal and need to be turned into immigration authorities in coastal Oregon.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/22/lincoln-oregon-brown-people-immigration-letter

Other than obvious physical traits:

Power of observation. Accurately seeing the game(s) and your opponents lets you anticipate, which is basically partially seeing the future and it of course is incredibly powerful.

Analytical mind: observing is the first part, then analysis to understand how or why you can take different approaches to win, attack, defend, etc. is part two. There are almost always another level of analysis to be done.

Curiosity: most people plateau physically long before they’re mental capacity in a sport is exhausted, but even at the pro level you still see many athletes that once they’ve made their paycheck or won x, they coast or stop developing. True multi-sport athletes are curious and diversely talented and this drive to understand helps them not just be satisfied with a single focus or sport.