Solarpunk af

An inflamed achilles tendon probably doesn’t sound like a big deal

It doesn’t sound like not a big deal. From personal experience even mild debilitation from prolonged period of time has a significant effect on the quality of life especially if you have to deal with it alone.

gone through shockwave therapy and physiotherapy

I feel you with this one. I had a spasm in my lower back and went to a renown hospital only to have my wallet wrung out with inconsequential cookie cutter treatments suggested by physicians and performed by physiotherapists who were either clueless or didn’t give a shit or both. I didn’t think it was possible but it exacerbated my trust issues.

For the rest I am sorry but I don’t know what to say. It pains me that I can’t do anything but write words that won’t do much. I am really sorry.

Just pirate it. If you don’t know where to get it from let me know. Reading books digitally is not a good experience but for a couple of chapters it is bearable. Piketty is dogmatically liberal but the book is still worth a look at least. IIRC Xi Jinping made a list of sort of books of the year and it was in it. Even though it is banned in China lmao

It was a long time and I only read a few chapters from the beginning. But from my perspective the book is interesting only as a source statistics rather than an explanation of why things are how they are. Also Piketty is explicitly not a Marxist so don’t get any hopes up about that.

My suggestion is to read a few chapters from the beginning. It doesn’t require that much time investment but you will be able to see what the book is about.

How do you get season 6 without paying for it? The rss feed I found by googling only gas S06E01.

Is Trudeau politicking these days? Or has he just fully embrace the post-presidential obama phase?

I wouldn’t go as far as to say LLMs suck but the fact that it would even attempt to wipe out all data does not inspire confidence.

I have anxiety. What helps me the most is not using the phone. This is only me mind you and I am not giving this as a general advice. But I cope with anxiety by wasting time on my phone since its highly stimulating and it keeps my mind away from being anxious a little bit. Reading is low stimulus by comparison and my mind keeps racing back and forth when I read. If I stop carrying my phone with me for extended periods of time I find reading to become much more tolerable. It isn’t something I am able to keep doing for extended periods of time but when I do it helps.

Yes

infiltrated a Signal chat of activists

You are right. I read it on my RSS reader without Substack’s visual cues so assumed it was paywalled.

That is not comparable to a trade school. It is geared towards unemployed and/or dropouts so that they may acquire a skill they can eke a living out with. I see courses like shoesmithing (cobbling) and “search engjne marketing executive” so it seems pretty broad spectrum.

You mean PMKVY? I don’t know much about it.

Is this true or not? I’ve heard mixed responses

Have you heard anything to support this? The strongest support I can find for these claims is redditors saying something like “-50 social credit points” to a comment saying “china bad”. There has never been any credible evidence of the evil CCP monitoring your everyday speech and behaviour to adjust these supposed social credit points. It is also not explained what the implication of having a bad “social credit” are. All of the stuff avoids any concrete details and asks you to fill in the blanks with whatever biases you might have.

Speaking for India, stuff that is done by tradies in the west is usually done by informally trained workers who have no union backing or worker rights. There isn’t any institution around trade union work whatsoever. So tradie-adjacents are just as precarious as the underemployed college graduates. The situation is wholly different from how it is in the west, so I don’t know how to contextualise it eloquently. But I can say that the “vocational/academic friction” does not exist for better or (most likely) for worse.

The most plausible theory is that they don’t maintain it in its entirety because that is impossible* since anyone can join in as a node. But three letter agencies probably host and watch some nodes. I can’t say what the implications of that are since there are so many layers of encryption these days I can’t keep up.

* I say impossible with some caveats. I am not capable enough to understand the source code but seeing how there hasn’t been any scandal around it for the duration of its existence the popular assumptions must be true.

He said all this at his first meeting with a potential employee. The question that naturally from this is: What was he on?

True vibemaxxers would be asking ChatGPT to generate prompts for them

It was clear to any serious person from the get go that LLMs only ape intelligence and are a dead end as far as general intelligence is concerned. Trying to discredit this notion this late in the game is akin to wrestling with a pig in the mud. If they want their journalism to make a difference they should be asking why AI boosters like Altman and Amodei are getting away with doing what Neumann and Holmes did but on a much larger scale.

No way this is real

How does it know which expression to make?