Sounds like the beginning of the Cory Doctorow novella “Unauthorized Bread.” Cloud service goes down and the main character’s toaster won’t work without them.

It still surprises me someone with that complete of a lack of self awareness manages to get dressed without injuring themselves.

2, maybe 3. Never used a typewriter, never owned an encyclopedia, I can’t recall ever sending a postcard.

Morphine should be as far to the right as they are to the left. Not sure what the original creator of the chart was thinking.

I’m glad to hear you’re moving forward with better understanding of how your brain functions and (hopefully) how to address some of the challenges that can present.

C) I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

The point is that if you stand up to stop it now, hopefully we don’t have to do the violence part.

Please don’t insult sex workers by comparing them with billionaires.

If I pay a stripper she’ll give me a lap dance. The terms of the deal are straightforward. If I give a billionaire money they’ll just fuck me over and ask for more money.

This is the kind of leaning in I want to see, and no other.

I know this violates “norms” but honestly it seems like small potatoes. Like, maybe being a former holder of public office shouldn’t grant you access to secure information. Why does GW Bush, or Bill Clinton, or Biden, or Obama, or Harris need a security clearance as private citizens?

Group therapy has been shown to be as effective as one-on-one therapy for a lot of people. It’s worth it to try just a couple times.

True, I can’t imagine buying a used Tesla knowing that I’d still have to make monthly payments to keep some features.

I’m honestly surprised there isn’t a jailbreak community that completely replaces the Tesla OS with something else.

The article should just be “This Guy” followed by photos of Elon doing his thing for the last year or so.

The French government under the nazis in WWII was the Vichy government, who collaborated with the nazi German government.

2. A nominal opposition party that is lead by Nazi collaborators.

Vichy America, here we come.

Oh, you say genocide and use of starvation as a weapon of war is against international law too? WE CANNOT HAVE THE SOVEREIGNTY OF ISRAEL QUESTIONED.

Yeah, he has the ability to articulate what I was already thinking about LLMs and bring in hard data to back up his thesis that it’s all bullshit. Dangerous and expensive bullshit, but bullshit nonetheless.

It’s really sad that his willingness to say the tech industry is full of shit is such an unusual attribute in the tech journalism world.

Damn, I wish there was a…more involved explanation.

It’s…not shocking exactly, but a little surprising and a lot disappointing that so much of finance is now targeted at “let’s make a thing that we read about in sci fi novels we read as kids.”

Focusing on STEM and not the humanities means we have a bunch of engineers who think “book thing cool” and have zero understanding of how allegory works.

Fascism is not a “diverse political opinion,” it is a commitment to domination of the many by the privileged few.