what do you make of the fact that the densest datacenter cluster in the country is also the county with the #1 highest median income in the usa?

between this and the porn follows... bsky is full of horny haters

watch out or you'll lose the delete button too 😈

some of my best friends are ai ...

what word should we be using to talk about the healthcare needs of cis women and trans men?

i'm a techbro and i'd much prefer to be referred to as "bro" than "sis"

Burning Man is great because you build a little society for a week and then burn the man at the end. If Burning Man was a 24/7 event it would be a disaster. Sentiment about social media would do a 180 if it was all the best posts in a few weeks and people prepped for it to impress each other.

i now understand why bluesky hates me

User: Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your mother. Google’s response: Nurturing Selfless Resilient Wise Compassionate Constant Radiant Patient Protective Graceful Al can make mistakes, so double-check responses

When Google says “let me tell you about my mother,” they mean it

AT Protocol is getting an IETF Working Group

😅 i'm not sure people really want this- most habitually clamp down and resist experiencing the moment

yeah, the artist complaints do make sense from a certain perspective- if it isn't about the end result but the process and the signal it sends about the artist's fitness, then it matters that the competition is being disrupted by systems who are not on the human status ladder

yes, the garden would provide seasonal highlights like fresh berries and vegetables, and a steady source of greenhouse grown tomatoes and cucumbers and lettuce

categorize me? 👉👈

ai robot agriculture is our best hope for reducing the environmental impact of farming via reduced use of chemicals- no preventative dousing of a whole field, just ai precision fire weeding and surgical treatment of pests as they occur

yes, what's intelligent given one set of environmental priors != what's intelligent given a different set

i’ve become more sympathetic to the suttonesque view that true “intelligence” is a result of an agent interacting with some hard, potentially unpredictable, and unfoolable environment, rather than just the agent weights itself

Sorry sir, it looks like your consciousness evaluation is also due this year. If I could just have you take a number and fill out this paperwork, then you can head to the Qualia room where you'll make a facial expression into the scanner. Your interiority results should be ready in 5-7 business days

easy: there's a remarkably overconfident 'narrator' module that creates a consistent and false narrative of the unitary 'I' sitting on top of a bunch of poorly-understood subroutines (many of which champion conflicting agendas) running in a complex parallel interconnected system.

probably, but the usual way i run into blocks is that they're quoted by or upthread of someone who's opinion i do respect, but ofc w length limits replies & quotes are heavily contextual. ex most of the things you quote just show up as "Blocked" for me, so idk what you're arguing for or against

do you not like gpt 5.4?!

low decoupling is what makes people into rightists or leftists, depending which side happens to negatively polarize them first

he's also the one who can get container ships emitting sulfur again to form clouds to increase reflexivity and gain us maybe a degree of cooling

this has been my take wrt Elon's rightward turn- he succeeded at making Teslas popular with the left, but this had resulted in rightwing bros rolling coal and blocking chargers as a tribal signal. the cybertrunk design + Elon campaigning for Trump shifted Tesla's brand so RW bros can buy them too

never too many books

ofc i assume there's a wide variety od opinions, but people here were dancing in the street cheering for trump and waving iranian + us flags after the first day of bombing?

my identity

israel + the large iranian diaspora who have advocated for regime change especially since iran's crackdown & mass killings

particularly since the first users *were* weird nerds, who the activists ran off

😻 oooo i must look closer- ive long felt this should exist so we can have proper messaging and calls with the same social graph without expecting bsky to provide it all in app