If you get the bug, call me :)

Don't forget the trench coat!

Turning the combat difficulty down made it bearable - sticking with it til I got a proper ship rather than the wee dinghy made it fun! Thanks for the tips Mike!

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

You can jailbreak some of them and run your own OS. I've not done it myself yet but I believe it's the Show 5 that's been done with most extensively

I think I know but I can't remember who I heard it from 😅

I'll stick with it a bit longer then :) I wonder if I didn't leave the first island quickly enough to go chase the quests

How long did it take to get past the tutorial zone? I'm four hours in and deeply frustrated at the souls-like combat putting me on my ass constantly

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Mate. Lemme tell you 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I've got a bridge I'd love to sell you

:o that's pretty epic!

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That's the cool thing! Sometimes you're in a tunnel and you see a light and you're like is it a train? Is it daylight? And it's actually just the front of the next tunnel! :D

sickosyes

So cool!

Put Breaking News correspondents in the white house press pool!

@zootm.bsky.social happy birthday brother. Hope you're doing well

ANYHOW we're on the same team obv and figuring all this out is hard :(

I mean you're not wrong in this at all. I don't have answers either. I just don't think it ends with one change of terminology cos the bad actors will use that media apathy to get more and more concessions from those of us who were here before they were y'know. I worry if/where that ends

I mean, I just had 60+ press articles kinda celebrating me + team getting laid off largely because of the lack of nuance in how media covers this so I get you. But I don't like the implications of surrendering the ground to establish clear swim lanes cos I don't think they're dealing in good faith

Yes but - isn't the obfuscation the point for a lot of these bad actors? Let's say we cede AI and say "ok lads that's your thing"... well they WANT the smokescreen that the obfuscation allows, so won't they just move with us and continue to act in bad faith?

I get the overall point @osamadorias.bsky.social is making and I'm not necessarily saying it's wrong exactly, but I think it's a lot easier for someone outside the discipline to take this view. Why the fuck should we cede AI as a term to these dickheads?

Bro if this is what it takes to tempt you over to this side, I'll do it

So now I'm unemployed... what if I went full cliche and started a podcast?

...then tilt your camera down????

I'm a rules following sucker.

Literally the most egregious thing I've done with my pups is stand at the open door to a starbucks waiting for a mobile order and dashed inside, dog under my arm, to grab my order then GTFO.

And that was years ago and I still think about it guiltily