I told my parents that by learning to refurbish old things and learning skills like how to sew my own clothes, I was actually gaining necessary skills

They still think I was joking

Yeah, that’s not really how that works… Coronaviruses are particularly quick to evolve, and that’s still with tens of millions of cases. Immunity is immunity, if your body knows how to fight it it’s barely going to chip at your defenses

She’d probably just call them heroes and pose with them for pictures

And the parents are vaccinated

She’s surely vaccinated though… Because until recently it was required, and the vaccine is like 97% effective

I mean, they’re ruining their search anyways. It’s almost unusable at this point, it’s like asking for relevant ads and two year old Reddit posts

Is it censorship? Did they decide to just straight up sell SEO? Are websites locking down and blocking their crawlers to stop AI training crawlers?

I legitimately find Bing to be better at this point, but whatever they’re doing it’s maddening. Even better AI assisted web searches kinda suck because the data fed into them is more of the same

But solid chance they’re trying to boost Gemini, which has been a shockingly bad llm for a company that basically wrote the book on AI not too long ago

Very, very true. And I mean honestly, the fact we no longer have third spaces and our communities have moved online have given an insane boost to the most extreme voices. Groups based on location and hobbies might lean to one side, but there’s going to be moderating voices

But in a right wing echo chamber, you just have to listen to people attacking others. The left is plenty welcoming, but there’s these people who are just sitting there to attack any perceived bigotry or ideology - like once I got called out for using the wrong pronouns in a new voice chat because I had the wrong name… And it was just this one drunk girl and we just moved on and someone else privately apologized for her, but that injustice just feels terrible

It’s not that left spaces aren’t welcoming, it’s just that it takes one person to make you feel constantly on edge and sour you on anything like it

And it’s not like the right doesn’t do the same - they ban people left and right for perceived purity tests and label you a far left instigator, but pound for pound they need less people because they’re more organized than we are

They have leaders at every level and every checkpoint from general dissatisfaction to rabid Fascism to feed you the next level of hate you need to repeat

We have liberals who hate the left more than they hate fascism and constant infighting between what few communities we do have

We really need to set a set of next step goal posts, like universal healthcare, worker protections, and forcing corporations in line

We need to be able to talk to tankies and just avoid geopolitics, we need vegans to be able to talk about reducing meat consumption instead of all or nothing, we even need to be able to talk to bigots and focus on why they actually agree with our next step goalposts once they understand them

We need to provide a ramp to leftism, even if we have to hold our noses at some of it. We can still have our safe spaces and leftist spaces, but we need to do outreach and give people stepping stones and middle grounds so people can slowly learn, where we’re lazer focused on key subjects and let the rest slide

We also need places where we can organize around issues we all agree on so we can organize and make actual progress, where we don’t talk about end goals, ideals, and values - just on the next step

The truth is, most everyone wants a lot of the same things, and they’d support it if they understood it - we need to be able to teach them issue by issue what we want to do, no matter what baggage they haven’t yet overcome.

Oh, progressives offer them plenty, just not on social issues (and that’s the only type of change on the table)

To put it another way, anxiety is preparing for a fight. It destroys you spending all your life looking for an enemy you can’t see. But we all feel it

The right offers them an enemy, and a way to fight for something better. It’s a bald faced lie, but the need for something to change is overwhelming for a lot of people

I love the unedited fox news interview

Would you release the Epstein files?

Uh… Well… Uh… Maybe? Yeah, I think I would, but I’d have to take a closer look, it could cause problems for people. But yeah…I think I would. Yeah.

After rapid fire “yes” to every other document they asked about, it really stands out

When you’re a billionaire. Then it turns out, you’re just giving your heart to the crowd. And then, when you fund and speak at Nazi party rallies overseas, you’re just fighting “woke” or something. And when you agree that “Jews are doing ethnic replacement” on Twitter, you just have to take pictures at a concentration camp and you’re a “friend of Israel”

But I do enjoy when people get fired because they think they can do it too

No, let’s see the silver lining on this one. My water was already giving me headaches and nausea (which stopped when I transitioned to bottled water, which is something I really didn’t want to do), so let’s lean into this.

The water in the US is safe to drink is a fucking lie, if we hit this hard people will get sick, then they’ll be ready to learn

The most effective thing he could do to help grok… Or really anything he “does”… Succeed is to be as far as possible from them

If he fucked off to a desert island never to return, they’d all probably improve drastically. He has the Trump touch, anything he touches turns to shit

That being said, I wish he won here. I encourage billionaires to be spiteful to one another, and honestly this seems like it should be illegal anyways

That’s not true at all, they’re super helpful. I use them almost every day, they save me an insane amount of time and energy

What I don’t do is rely on it. I’m the developer, I know what’s going on, it has the memory of a goldfish. It also spits out code near instantly… Which I then read through and usually fix

But it makes less mistakes than I do writing dumb repetitive code. It will, 95% of the time, correctly tell me something in half the time it would take me to look it up, if not less

It’s nowhere close to a worker replacement, but it’s damn good at empowering people to do what they do

Yeah… I’m willing to buy that he had immediate, top grade treatment, I’m willing to accept that the bullet barely grazed him and it bled a lot

But I’m not willing to believe he healed that fast or that perfectly. There’s no notch from any angle, no scab, nothing - just a few days later there was no sign of it. And he was milking it for all he had… And yet, aside from that blood on the scene, all we ever saw was comically oversized bandages, then normal ones during more serious meetings, then nothing

I think deepseek shook them enough to realize what should have been obvious for a while… Brute force doesn’t beat new techniques, and spending the most might not be the safest bet

There’s a ton of new techniques being developed all the time to do things more efficiently, and if you don’t need a crazy context window, in many use cases you can get away with much smaller models that don’t need massive datacenters

Maybe not you…I can’t unsee shit like that. I can’t look at paintings in homes near airports… There’s a lot of people who easily see misalignments of a fraction of a degree without trying

And it’s always worse from a distance, always worse in person

More accurately, they think everyone is as hypocritical as they are, so the fact they did it in their favor means they “won”

This is why I don’t contribute. Kudos to you for doing so, but I literally couldn’t handle that on a passion project. I get enough of that in my day job

If I could make a living off my passion projects I would love that and deal with what it entails, but dealing with that in my free time sounds like a nightmare.

There’s got to be a better way… But I appreciate you and hope you all the best from the bottom of my heart

I don’t think that’s fair in this case, she’s been killing it. She’s been drawing hard lines and meeting Trump blow for blow…

As for what’s important, she got concessions so far. Trump got to claim a win, but she let Trump use a previously negotiated deal while getting the US to commit to cracking down on the flow of guns into Mexico

And now she’s fighting on the bullshit culture war stuff… But you know Mexico speaks a different language and isn’t changing the name on their side, right?

The threats against Google are a threat to crack down on a massive US tech company, which is probably (undoubtedly) related to the threat of delayed tarrifs

She’s playing the game. If only the liberals would wake up and realize the game has changed too

You hit the nail on the head, it’s just the biggest sites