I imagine sharing borders with the US makes things difficult

What do you mean?

My nephew picks up a disease every month at his playschool. It is really unfortunate parents can’t keep their children at home when the child is sick.

I think it should be short videos that should be focus, not just tiktok. Videos have become extremely easy to make and distribute since tiktok became a thing. The apps themselves not contain capable video editing suites. Not to mention the advances in internet, codecs, playback, AI captioning and so on. Short videos are extremely simulating. They are short so you don’t have to pay attention for long. They get to the point from the very first frame so there is no delay in gratification. They become even more stimulating when there are more things on screen, like the creator talking or the weird eye catching appearing-as-they-speak subtitles that these videos have. I don’t watch this stuff but so I’m making all this up but I feel if one gets accustomed to this level of stimulation the digital crack of yesteryears like an Instagram post with only pictures will feel less interesting. It’s no accident that the ghouls at Google and meta had to copy this format. Even outside tiktok-verse short videos are often sprinkled across facebook and twitter timelines.

Internally I don’t they ever had any timeline for AGI. Stuff like “we will have AGI by 20xx” was said by hucksters like Altman informally during interviews which then the media just repeated verbatim.

The jump in model quality has noticeably slowed down since 4o. So they can’t even pretend to be on the trajectory for AGI. So they have kinda just stopped talking about it. Now the only place where I see AGI being mentioned unironically is the comment section of hacker news.

Indian men also suffer from the “male loneliness epidemic”. Our top minds have concluded that it’s happening because women have too many rights and have started abusing them to frame men with false r_pe charges.

https://old.reddit.com/r/onexindia/

As is tradition the antisemetic tweets are about Israel and colonialism

The AGI stuff is complete hot air. Even OpenAI doesn’t believe in it. They haven’t specifically admitted but they have heavily toned down hyping it up.

AI affinity is driven by the tendency of capitalism to cannibalise itself. In the short term I think their hope is that it will decrease the quality of creative output but not unacceptably so but the increase in the volume of output will counteract it.

As for the labour aristocracy part I’m not sure. The capitalists have always hated them. Seeing how the Trump administration has put zero attempt in manufacturing consent for war against Venezuela I guess they gave concluded they don’t need to coddle the labour aristocracy anymore and don’t seek their welfare or approval.

I don’t understand the format the document follows. Epstein is named under “subject” and Trump is named under “witness”. But the bit under Trump says he ‘paid money’ so it is likely it is about Trump himself.

Is Gemini Pro 3 really that much better than GPT-5?

the physio has given me a set of exercises to do every day and I’m sure these exercises do nothing at all

For me personally it was the opposite. They mentioned exercises offhand but it was the exercises, specifically stretches, that helped the most. This is due to the nature of my problem (spasms). Not trying to say they would work for you. But they emphasised on in-hospital treatment because it would make them a buck. When I went through the physiotherapy sessions it did me zero good. As you can tell I am still extremely bitter about it.

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