It’s only Google

Sorry for the Facebook link - it is a brushtail possum, broke into a bakery in Australia. Was ‘rescued’ and recovered fully from gorging out on pastries

I understand you, I do… And often the rich and (in the case of the US president, or) powerful pull this shit anywhere in the world. That Dubai palm tree-shaped beach nobody lives in, the Trump golf courses in Scotland… I’m not American and I have grievances against capitalist pigs destroying good land.

I recommend moving to .odt and such, Microsoft altered the supposed-to-be-standardised formats they use, probably to lock people into their ecosystem. You could instead select all and copy from the docx into a fresh .odt, and fix the formatting differences.

In my attempt to drive a wedge into the ideal of unconditional government faith:

I have deduced that there are five laws of society:

1. State - national or regional regulations, uses prisons, sometimes to protect themselves rather than the community
2. Religious - based on the perception of guidelines of how to live, as per holy scriptures
3. Moral - the societal, generally accepted rules to not be a dick, such as harming others in malice, stealing. Not to be confused with subjective, personal morals
4. Ethical - a broader, more easily agreeable set of regulations, almost exclusively to protect life, the way of it, and the generally accepted ideas of rights for fauna and flora
5. Corporate - enforcement of copyright and intellectual property, a capitalist creation, often used to socially and financially destroy individuals rather than battle other businesses, in some regions utilising state law

The state legal system is sometimes the absolute enemy of the people and morals, especially when combined with corporate law, and shouldn’t be treated like it’s unconditionally justice.

Well, in one respect it’s humans - always humans - that cause destruction in one way. Even if some of us try, like backing a carbon offset program that plants trees (in correct places that historically support trees), there’s the rich and powerful creating some other hyperfixation like fast fashion, space races, greed wars, religious wars and witch hunts like the one against AI to cock it up again

On the other hand, I as a builder of tech fucking hate what the obsession with AI has done to the current global economy, and how generative AI is a complete waste of existence as its meaningful use is dwarfed by its cost…

But I do see value in developmental AI, and while it’s little more than a standard algorithmic program with memory, parameters and developer bias, it is useful at doing some work better than us, and much faster. And since the dawn of humanity we’ve been inventing things to make life tasks easier. I do believe that form of AI will persist. In a way, vehemently opposing the AI programs that make calculations or accurate code is about as righteous as refusing to use a hammer to nail together some wood, or making fearmongering pamphlets about the advent of electrified cities.

bitcoin isn’t cheap

Well, you dont have to buy whole digit BTC (or any other cryptocurrency), you can convert like €50 into the wild and sketchy world of unstable currency which will be around 0.0026436362 BTC, but is enough to cover the cost of the transaction. I’m not sure I recommend it, only that it’s technically not expensive because you’re still using the equivalent of your currency, with a transitional currency.

things like search that limits options

And you can self host SearXNG, metasearch engines are much easier to handle than search engines, and I believe they are private enough – no tracking or sign in data is communicated through each search API – but I do not know all there is to know.

And that’s just America.

But to defuse the paranoia a little, they said the same about the most recent, disturbingly powerful, global PMC: G4S. Not much actually happened yet as a result of G4S power. Which, as it turns out, also uses Palantir systems.

In some respects I’m glad the US gets invasive updates before the UK, it means I get a longer warning, and this realm isn’t always protected by EU regulations. I haven’t used Photos for a while but I still need to warn others. One saving factor: even though the article never says it, this feature seems to be for backed-up media only, and not for on-device media.

They’d forget that their currency is $ if corporate capitalism wasn’t so heavily ingrained into their national identity

(Assuming the one who made a mistake is American - even though many countries use dollars the US are the only ones bold enough to forget the internet isn’t just for them)

Wait, Ecosia has an AI assistant? One - that sounds ridiculously counterproductive to their goal of being eco, Two - I need to check that out haha

It seems very common in the US to get these mailed by the supplier. This one seems to be a blueprint for National Grid, and is similar to a post from this house light show co. on Facebook

Oatly Barista is the best I’ve had fs. You can’t buy the cheapest available product with the largest percentage of substitute ingredient and expect it to accurately represent the entire range of possibilities.

Word of mouth does some heavy lifting here I reckon

So the US is acting like a leatherjacket beating on Iran, of the school’s punching bag family ‘Middle East’, telling an intervening Samaritan Pope to “stay out of it”

Kudos, that’s not an easy template to make lyrics for

Yeah nah, doing that in a residential zone is a bit weird - should stick to split pavements, not split roads

Lee Biggins, chief executive at CV-Library, says its research is a “wake-up call” to recruiters that they must use AI to support human intuition, not replace it. “We’re seeing the start of a vicious cycle.”

So after several years, he is only just feeling negative repercussions to widespread adoption of human replacement AI? That tells that Biggins either hasn’t once witnessed AI media generation like Midjourney, Suno or Sora doing an artist’s job poorly, or a search AI like Gemini with rapidly decreasing reasoning power, forgetting recent points and inventing results, or AI chat assistants replacing every shitty static support line’s “Input not recognised” with “I’m sorry, I didn’t understand that,” while running processing units in data centres around the world so hot it’s rapidly raising the global average temperature faster than all the existing conglomerate data centres ever did; or he thinks those were absolutely fine and he only draws the line at damaged employment practices.

Nice 😎