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Channel motto: Life is pain, only potato. For sharing gloomy poasting, whining, abd complaining. The more apocalyptic or petty the better. It’s always darkest before it turns pitch black.

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Gloomy vibes only.

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Grim thought: past a certain age, thinking is maladaptive and rigidity of comportment is rational. You rely increasingly on others for leveraged impact as your individual powers wane, and younger people who sign up to play lever rely on you for for providing a Schelling point of fixity to rally around. Your job is to stop thinking, as a computational kindness to others who can therefore think better than they otherwise would. Your job is add more net collective thinking output rather than individual. If you disagree, GET OFF MY LAWN

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Signing bonuses are not what they used to be. https://ground.news/article/metas-salaries-to-ai-experts-more-than-400-000-for-software-engineers

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Surprise when cleaning the tap. Is there a category for macroplastics in tap water?

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Lead by example. https://apnews.com/article/trump-cell-phone-mobile-made-america-3e03af70b6a9b161b522cc8055f1b25b

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Tragedy is about what you can’t undo. Horror is about what you cannot unsee. Terror is about what you cannot prevent.

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The biggest emerging blocker to using AI for public stuff for me is the growing species of people who will critique my choice of model if I declare it, and demand to know it so they can critique it if I do. It’s worse than being around wine people or indie movie watchers. It’s like being in a damn Seinfeld episode. 99% of the time it makes zero difference for me. And if you care that much you should stop reading me 🤬

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Indeed, a superabundance of positivity

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Yesterday ended up even worse than it started. Stuck for hours in traffic due to 405 closure we hadn’t properly anticipated but should have. Today is off to a better start but only because my expectations are really low. Batch of dosa/Idli batter I didn’t think would come out well, didn’t. But it wasn’t worse than I expected, which is a win. The breakfast was edible. Plans for rest of day built around similar low expectations around highly suboptimal preconditions. Forecast for next week is slow recovery. Whether I have a good or bad day is 90% a function of the enshittification level of domestic and neighborhood systems. A kind of protocol weather. Right now it’s fragile and low-potential with a chance of messy breakdowns.

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What country's capitol is growing the fastest? Ireland. Every day it's Dublin!!!

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Update, second day in a row off yo a terrible start. Entire damn bag of trader joe teeny avocado was bad. My own fault for buying a suspiciously too-ripe bag that was the last one left (I normally buy them green and ripen them in a paper bag for a few days and then put them in the fridge…100% yield usually). Also several others things of the same sort going wrong lately 😡 Low-level crap going wrong in a hundred different minor ways really throws you off your game. Enshittif8cation of life systems.

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I have not had a good day 😡

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Nice list of great datasets that are under threat. One example that's symbolically near and dear to my heart: "NOAA’s ARGO fleet of drifting buoys: Innovators in the autonomous shipping industry depend on NOAA data such as that collected by the Argo Fleet of drifting buoys – an international collaboration that measures global ocean conditions. These detailed data train AI algorithms to find the safest and most fuel-efficient ocean routes." https://essentialdata.us/getinvolved.html

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How far away is public works folks being Amazon-ed below the API? A lot of fixing potholes and utility work is routing and logistics and then a lot of SOPs. Not as simple as dropping off a package though some of the principles would translate.

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Strong ideocracy vibes lololol so dumb…. US Army brought to you by coinbase! Coinbase. I’m dying. This is like a bad AI written riff on a Neal Stephenson novel Also I’m starting a doomgoon subthread in this channel for the biggest blowhardery of the buffafoons

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