Nice. May I ask, how did you do that? AI summary? I don’t see that content in the page source. 😯

I’ve seen a LinkedIn comment calling it an “untapped opportunity in the west”, wonder what’s that about.

You’re right. However, we learn slurs as a shortcut to express sentiment. For educational purposes: what would be some acceptable ways of expressing the same sentiment?

“Charlie Chaplin’s”… “roman salute”? 🤬

For context: PiS representatives keep getting invited to, and attending, all European neofascist alt-right meetings.

calls for “remigration” or mass deportations of foreigners and citizens deemed to be unassimilated, are now commonplace among AfD supporters and leaders

They make assimilation sound so important… meanwhile, people with jobs and families, who lose them for some reason or other, turn to extreme religious excuses to attack people, like this one last week:

Suspected Munich attacker named locally as counter-terrorism police take over investigation

It’s almost like the real cause was neither immigration, nor assimilation, nor religion… and more of an attempt at “suicide by cop” caused by insufficient resources for mental health.

6 pages of apps… nice. 😅

Now, seriously. Android 14 on a Samsung phone, lets me select “location: only while using the app”. I close apps when not using them, and limit notifications so they don’t get auto-started at random. Unused app detection, puts them in “deep sleep” which doesn’t allow them to run at all, and strips them of all permissions.

This scanner, would be more useful if it also checked which apps have the location permission enabled, and are frequently used.

“Your phone is not gay enough… here are some themes and backgrounds to make it more fun!”

(probably not PC, but that could be a fun app)

I’ve been using OsmAnd~ from FDroid, and it’s the first time in a long time that I’ve felt something close to feature overload. Between the modes, all the settings per mode, different map layers and sources, all the plugins, and ability to edit maps… that thing feels more like a GIS app than a maps app 😄

OpenStreetMap itself also has a map with wiki-style feature edition history and comments.

A single voter has(had) the power to join other single voters.
Most civil servants have little power against an AR.

Yes, there is a spike… and Milei has masked the most recent one with a devaluation by decree

• 2023: 211% inflation
• 2024: 117% inflation / 54% by decree = 216% effective

Argentina has a serious case of stagflation, with public spending slashed, international investors capped in their ROI, and a poverty level going back to 2005 numbers.

In Spain, most stores with a parking lot use the same system. Many people carry a plastic “coin sized token” to avoid the problem of random people “stealing” your cart with the coin in it… but usually they still return the cart to get their token back.

A lot of small things, make big things.
A lot of people doing small things, make a community/country the way it is.

You can talk to strangers, tell them what makes your community better… then judge them by their reaction.

Typical “IoT”… the S, F, and G stand for Security, Freedom, and Guarantee.

After the shutdown, offline features like “battery level” will still work

How nice of them 😆

Sure! After inflation has increased more than 10%…

I can’t read Spanish

Google Translated into English

The USD/ARS exchange rate has been going badly along inflation for the last 20 years.

Crypto is not the scam.
It’s the next step after VISA cards.
After digital money ledgers.
After Fiat money.

Market manipulation is the scam.
After deregulation.

AI is a red herring, in my opinion.

Some artists have spent over a century trying to one-up each other to the bottom, starting with Dadaism and even before that (anyone remember Salieri’s populist operettas?). It’s got to a point, where a black square on a canvas, or a banana taped to a wall, got called “art”.

Other artists, have been trying to transmit emotions and feelings through their work, using whatever tools at their disposal. Be it through words, paints, shapes, interactions, etc. With more or less success, but they’ve been trying.

An AI is another tool, like a camera is a tool, a brush is a tool, a chisel is a tool, a keyboard/typewriter is a tool, and so on. People can use their tools to produce low effort trash… or they can put effort and thought into what they want to transmit.

Good AI art, takes the same or more effort as good non-AI art, to make the AI produce what the artist intends. Retouching parts of the output, either with more AI or some other tools, refining or retraining the whole model, creating complex prompts to make the tool output something closer to the artist’s vision. That vision, is the core of the art.

Low effort AI art, is mindless theft, no dispute there, good for quick memes and little more.

Thoughtful AI art, is a conversation between an artist, and a tool with massive experience in observing other’s art, in order to extract the essence of what they can apply to their own. An AI works best as a brain extension, capable of reading all the books, seeing all the paintings and photos, watching all the movies, listening to all the sounds and songs, way beyond what’s possible in a single human lifespan. Then it’s the artist’s job to sift through that.

Focusing on just the “AI” part, does a disservice to the whole art community. Focus on the person instead… and if they’ve put no effort, then go ahead, feel free to laugh at the “art”, no matter which tools they’ve used… unless they admit to be still learning, in which case some encouragement and tips might be a better way.

Yeah… we got lied to, and swindled. I grew up with “who cares about rent, there’s always one or two houses to fall back, worst case go to the summer house, use your money on yourself!”, ended up wondering whether I’ll be able to afford funeral costs and 20 more years of a relatively low mortgage if anything goes wrong tomorrow, as in one day from now. I’ve been lucky to avoid getting thrown on the street (not even a van) from medical bills, but it doesn’t help to get disability denied because I came 2 months short of the minimum. Cases like yours, really scare me. Hope you find a solution… then share it 😨

Maslow 1 and 5? Hm. Guess nowadays we get 3 and 4 online, while 2 is hard to control. Would be nice if there was an UBI, but it seems to me like nowadays you need to sacrifice some of that 4/5, particularly morals, in order to achieve a steady income stream.

That was the avatar NFTs: most people didn’t care, some jumped on the FOMO and paid through the nose to “catch them all”.

If they had opened that to 3rd party apps, even as a requirement to use the API, or better yet if they gave a cut to 3rd party apps, instead of blindly charging for the API, they could have got a great net to catch whales, while most people would just ignore it and keep contributing their time (mods) and content (comments).

Instead… well, this.

I’m glad that I ran the script to replace 99% of my content with >!CENSORED!< , they can monetize it all they want 😆