14 February 2024

Teachers are sending more kids to psychiatrists. Not sure if they really need it, or if they're doing this to cover their butts. In any event, this was not a problem when I was growing up. Of course, that world no longer exists.

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Generative AI Turns Ordinary Computers into Weapons of Mass Copyright Violation. And the problem is too big now, for any law to prevent. It'll just happen, and when it's out there, who cares? Bad time to be a creative. Your unique work, that you worked so long to perfect – it'll just be trained on and commoditized. With tools like img2dataset, your unique art style will just be an option in someone's dropdown menu.

OpenAI is giving ChatGPT memory, so it will remember stuff from session to session. Could be interesting. Could be scary. But then, you could delete the memory you don't want, but it's not clear how well that works.

And A.I. Girlfriends are a privacy nightmare. A data-harvesting horror. But who uses a hosted girlfriend. If you're that stupid, you don't deserve privacy. It may not quite be free, but you're still the customer.

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Fat finger strikes again. Lyft stock swings up and then down, due to a typo.

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Evil. Tech companies are firing people, then reposting the position at a lower wage to save money. I guess this is revenge, or the reverse of the time when techies would job-hop up the payscale ladder. Now the shoe is on the other foot. It sucks when you are no longer considered hot property.

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Apparently when you have Parkinson's DIsease, you have a certain smell. That's a clue right there.

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Citrix Workspace might be sending your clipboard over the network. It could be going to your employer, who knows? I bet hardly anyone is going to see this. Bad news if they're really doing this. 

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China is in trouble. The streets of formerly busy places like Shenzhen look like East Portland, now. But don't worry, the Chinese seeking a better life, are entering our southern border

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Now even Nature recognizes that the world has a Bill Gates problem. Bill's crazy ideas get funded and the world suffers. Look what happened to Common Core Math? A whole generation of math-stupid kids resulted from that. Now it's the vaccine effort, all to enrich himself further.

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Score is a dating service only for those with good credit scores. I suppose it helps weed out some of the losers, but I'm betting that people will figure out how to game the system eventually.

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Slavery is back! Thanks to the Biden Administration, it's OK to own black slaves again. Then they will want reparations. And social services. Remember this guy, fearing that Trump was going to bring back black slavery again? Heck no! It's Biden that's doing that.

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California: Home of politicians with stupid ideas. First they banned plastic straws, then plastic bags. Then they allowed thicker plastic bags. Guess what happened?  Then Rep Barbara Lee thinks $50 /hr minimum wage is a good idea. Because burger flippers just ought to make enough money to support a family of four. Legislate wealth. Legislate clean energy.
Update: Heh, looks like the stupidiy spread to New Jersey, too. Did they go to the same conference?

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The Biden Administration wants to uglify Oregon with offshore windmills. I hope this dies, but it probably won't. Ultimately it will be a climate tragedy and will spoil the natural attraction of the Oregon Coast.
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Everytime Dems see money, they think it belongs to them. Oregon Dem Rep Greg Evans wants kicker refund money to use for more spending. He thinks we need for important stuff, but didn't think such stuff was worthy of putting into the actual budget. But now it's supposed to be important.

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And now, the United States may lose control of the First Island Chain. It may be a good thing that the Chinese are hurting economically such that war with Taiwan is not guaranteed to be affordable, else we'd be in a world of hurt right now. That might be the main thing saving us now. Even Japan is willing to pay for the United States to continue, which shows how important it is, but the problem is that the United States may not have the armed forces personnel to staff this defense.

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