Google is full of SOE slop. I think I prefer AI slop.

I’ve never seen anyone shoplifting food.

And I never will.

It rarely comes up, but when it does I make a point to address them by their chosen name (like a worker with a name tag that matches their gender expression). I usually avoid pronouns when I can and use they/them when I can’t—better to avoid gendering them at all than misgender.

That’s it. Other than that, I give them a little more grace than my default because someone else probably went out of their way to give them shit that day.

That’s been the whole Internet for a good chunk of my life. This feels more comfortable to me than slick corporate sites.

Family comes first. Now maybe there’s some wiggle room to decide which choice serves my family better, but my motivation would always be to serve my family the best I can.

That being said, I’m a fifty year old man with 5 kids. If one of my kids was in the same position I might quietly cheer them on for resisting if it was just them and me. But I’d have to encourage them to consider their siblings as well if that was the situation.

Should be in freefall by next November. Good news for the midterms… I guess.

I’d compare it to the dotcom bubble. A lot of companies are going to die by AI. A few will thrive.

Following instructions to use GitHub as a blog host. Step one: fork some repo so that I’ve got a copy on my profile.

I found that show really interesting to watch. I think a lot of the series holds up, in terms of acting and storytelling, to the point where I’ll rewatch the series despite knowing the awful ending—but the ending was fucking awful.

You’re looking at secondary effects with a lot of causes, then assuming the cause. Energy prices are far more complicated than just AI. My prices are up because trade war with Canada.

I’ve definitely had to block far more tankies here than right wingers. They are such an odd bunch. Never heard of them before I came here. They seem like a weird thought-experiment run amok.

So you’re saying I’m just like all Americans, I hate Russia despite… not hating Russia? Good luck with whatever you’re smoking in “reality”.

You people? I don’t even know what demographic you’re trying to cast me in. Whatever it is, I don’t conform to any group.

We stopped hating Russia about the same time the Berlin Wall came down. My high school girlfriend was learning Russian in a public school in 1987. It wasn’t common, of course, but it shows anecdotally that we never hated the Russian people other than they were communist.

I use autocomplete, asking chat, and full agentic code generation with Cline & Claude.

I don’t consider environmental damage by AI because it is a negligible source of such damage compared to other vastly more wasteful industries.

I am primarily interested in text generation. The only use I have for generated pictures, voices, video or music is to fuck around. I think I generated my D&D character portrait. My last portrait was a stick man.

What I ask it to do? My ChatGPT history is vast and covers everything from “how is this word used” to “what drinks can I mix given what’s in my liquor cabinet” to “analyze code for me” to “my doctor ordered some labs and some came back abnormal, what does this mean? Does this test have a high rate I’d false positive?” to “someone wrote this at me on the internet, help me understand their point” to “someone wrote this at me in the internet, how can I tell them to fuck the fuck off… nicely?” And I write atrocious fiction.

Oh I use it a lot to analyze articles and identify bias, reliability, look up other related articles, things that sound bad but really don’t mean anything and point out gaps in the journalistic process (I.e. shoddy reporting).

I also have written a discord dungeon master bot. It works poorly due to aggressive censorship and slop on open AI.

Thank you for writing my comment for me. Way better than AI. I didn’t even know I wanted to post this until I read it.

I know. Cried myself to sleep over it when I was younger. Seems a bit silly now, but I think a lot of us go through those feelings. I can’t help that, but I can assure you you’ll have a different perspective on it some day. For all the good it does you now.

If it helps, my thirties were much wilder than my youth.

I hear you, mate. When I was thirteen all my friends were having crazy sex while I could barely get a handy. And if you think that’s wild, my parents generation literally did nothing but drugs and sex all day. My older kids didn’t even consider it a party unless someone was getting spanked or tied up, while my teens must content themselves with sexting everyone their nudes—damned Covid.

There has always been hookup culture, and it has never included you (you being about 90% of readers). This generation is unique in neither aspect.

Wait, so you’re part of the generation, your experience is different, and you’re assuming the problem is your looks and not that you’re being lied to?

Any other year that long ago would probably be full of difficult to remember details, but I spent most of that year in military training. Left on the evening on my 18th birthday. Guess you could say I was involuntarily into health and physical fitness. Fashion, not so much.

Then I came back home and started a 2 year degree in electronics. I’d say that was a poor choice, vocationally, but I don’t really have any regrets about the path my life has taken. I never really have known who I wanted to be when I grew up. As I approach retirement, I hope to get it figured out by then.