I've been on holiday this week in Porto. So far I've dropped 2* €10 somehow/somewhere on my travels. My showerthough is I wonder who found it, maybe it made their day, I hope so...

God damn it, now I have to overtly say that "no, I don't want anyone touching my phone charger"

(The law is good, but this is just an unintended consequence of that 😓)

Our modesty seems to have taken away our best self. We should all be naked and chewing on a toothbrush when we are to be at our most inspirational.

Aliens be judging your kinks and fetishes... 👀

I don't particularly use generative IAs that create Alt Text from images, but I've seen a lot of people who do use them and I think that's the only use of AI from which I can't draw anything negative.

The fact is that there are many people who do not know how to make a good Alt Text, and therefore either do not put them or put one that is only the word "photo/image", which is much worse.

I think if AI had started there, as a tool to help accessibility, it wouldn't have the stigma it has today.

But of course, there are not enough blind people in the world from whom to get absurdly, ridiculously, vulgarly obscene amounts of profit...

Now that I am a middle-aged rather than young urban professional, does that mean that I am a #muppy ?

@showerthoughts

I found this thought funny. A few years ago everyone was all learn to code so you don't lose your job! Now there wont be any programming jobs in 10 years. But we will need a lot of manual labor still.

Why does this not exist yet?

Science involves concentration upon observed phenomena and, to a lesser degree, a body of models. The goal is to make good models.

Engineering is like science but heavier on the models. The goal is to make good machines.

Art is like science but lighter on the models. And some of the observed phenomena are esoteric. The goal is to make good art.

All 3 use concentration. Concentration is important.

What if AGI doesn't care about survival or wealth accumulation, and actually thinks the environment is the most important thing, and therefore that AI shouldn't exist? What if it kills off all the techbro CEO billionaires and then just commits suicide to save the environment from itself and the creation of others like it?

For years, there has been a lot of backlash against the “objectification of showers”, which i can totally understand because it’s a “condescending” term that looks at showers like objects, not as actual places of epiphany.

But the same is happening with the concept of “showerthoughts”: If ideas are referred to as “showerthoughts”, that means that they are being reduced to their hygenic circumstances; to their ability to shower.

That is a condescending term. The view should be that showers are good places for thoughts first, and places to wash your junk second. Thoughts deserve showers, and a good wash, not because they’re showerthoughts, but because they come from showers. That is how showers should be looked at.

For years, there has been a lot of backlash against the "objectification of women", which i can totally understand because it's a "dehumanizing" term that looks at people like objects, not as actual human beings.

But the same is happening with the concept of "workers": If people are referred to as "workers", that means that they are being reduced to their economic function; to their ability to produce.

That is a dehumanizing term. The view should be that people are humans first, and workers second. People deserve rights, and a good life, not because they're workers, but because they're humans. That is how people should be looked at.

No, I wasn't stoned. This thought was inspired by the post the other day about how trees evolved independently (e: multiple times) from different plants, the product of convergent evolution.

Seriously LA Theater people I am disappointed. It would make for an amazing viral video.

I would watch the shit out of a Ramsayesque teardown of a walk in at my local restaurant.

together rodent strong

listening to some presidents of the United States of America.

peaches, specifically.

but I've been thinking about this point with a lot of bands, and songs I love, lately.

also, I know this is crazy, but apparently I forgot there's a ninja fight at the end of the peaches video?

that was surprising.

Confession: This was more of a stoner thought.