I just use a spreadsheet currently. No fancy template or anything basically just a monthly expenditures list into a few categories.

I used/liked Goodbudget (an app based simulation of an ‘envelope system’) for a while. I think it was especially helpful for developing budgets across moves if that makes sense. Not sure what their free features look like nowadays but before you could share it between people so your whole household could see how much was available in the “groceries” ‘envelope’ for example and move money from another ‘envelope’ if they needed more.

I think AI is in a similar place as GMOs were 10 years ago. The technology isn’t inherently problematic but the main companies rolling it out seem to be doing so during a banner drop where the banner screams “I’m evil and I intend to burn this place to the ground.” We shouldn’t trust them because they’re practically telling us not to in the same breath they use to promote their products. I would say most of the main models available to the public fall under this boat.

Just like GMOs this doesn’t mean that there’s not some cool AI research being done, for ex. special models run by researchers to improve diagnostics or look for new antibiotics. It remains to be seen whether the cool stuff will have been worth whatever it is we lose.

Well farting is very universal, but ornate dora minifigure panoramas are somewhat niche

I’m always afraid to repot

Agreed, it’s not some cult thing, Altman just forgot some people are not living in silicon valley’s imaginary fantasy with its own rules, some people take your actual words seriously as applied to the actual world and react to them accordingly.

You can dismiss Altman as unserious and assume humanity should do nothing. Or you can take the tech CEOs at their word that the tech they’re building could end the world. Which leaves you with the question of what you can do about that.

In such an unassuming little pot! Look at it go!

I think it’s only called that when it’s being used to manipulate you, paradigm case being an abuser who swears they didn’t mean to they love you so much they weren’t thinking straight please say you love me

My childhood mail carrier had to walk up the front stairs for every house on my block!

This makes good sense to me, I’m happy to walk to the corner for mail to make the job 1000% more efficient for the carriers

At least two weirdos on this rock:)

It always feels weird to me if I step on the ground in socks when I’m switching into bowling shoes.

Similarly when a sibling would have swim meets in high schools and stuff sometimes I would run in the empty halls in socks with the other kids and that felt odd to my feet too

I grew up somewhere where it didn’t cool down a lot at night and the only solution was to sleep in front of a fan. Sometimes I could get the fan to blow directly into the sheets and sort of balloon them out which was pleasant.

Where I live now it cools at night so I can open the windows at night and close them up during the day. Sometimes I close the curtains too if it will be extreme. I open the windows and create a cross draft when it cools down.

Those ice/fan pseudo a/c setups don’t work well.

Next story: FIFA donates to one of trump’s family companies and the war is mysteriously cancelled

It’s nice he found out in a way that didn’t really impact his day to day, I have a friend who found out by enrolling in flight school in college and he was pretty sad about it

Kind of all over the place, but interesting that their propaganda machine is being spread across the political spectrum. I suspect the US’s failure in the propaganda dept. has a lot to do with not having a consistent narrative themselves.

Bajoghli added: “I have over a dozen accounts that monitor social media across different political discourses and have been doing so for over a decade now on various issues, not just on Iran. I have never seen any issue in which all of my different algorithms collapse on to each other, like with this war. I have seen across the political spectrum, whether it’s the far right, whether it’s more Maga, whether it’s more moderate Republicans, whether it’s on the liberal side, all the way to the far left in the United States.”

She said she had not seen such cross-over across groups. “All of them have been sharing viral content from Iran every single day,” she said. “I have never seen this in 15 years of doing this professionally.

I could write a quick static program to replace him, no AI necessary

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, eh?

Is there something that is in apples available api that makes sound that breaks through silent mode? Maybe an alarm or something that could be triggered from pebble watch? It wouldn’t lead you to a thief with your phone but maybe a fine replacement for dinging your phone lost in your couch.

I don’t have the specific torrent I used but I was able to torrent and install Rosetta Stone a few years ago including as many language packs as I I cared to install and including the speaking part. The current app version isn’t available outside of subscription afaik. https://archive.org/details/rosetta-stone-windows-mac-os-v-4.5.5-v-3-language-packs-v-3.7.5.2-language-pack-

“Displacement of workers” not because AI is doing those workers’ jobs now, but because companies wanted to free up money to invest in AI.