Google: hey what if we take away the useful standard Google Weather interface you've had on your Android phones for years and just replace it with something else that sucks and is harder to use?
Me: no I don't think I wou
Google: too bad we're doing it it's done
Frog weather app is now on a Google search page instead of the cute and practical app that suited my needs and aesthetics.
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY FROG APP π€¬
On a daily basis, for years, I have just used Google's own weather app on my phone.
Today I guess an update got pushed. Now it is no longer an app at all.
Now, all it does, is open up a Google search for the word "weather".
??? Why ???
Google, with their infinite wisdom, has replaced the weather activity with a search for weather in the latest beta app version. I had to uninstall the beta version and install the regular version. Here's a comparison:
WHO THE FUCK MAKES CHANGES LIKE THIS LIKE ARE YOU LEGITIMATELY FUCKING STUPID????
Tech bro: haha we made a digital trickster demon and its organising my files haha
Tech bro: so the demon deleted all my files and is pretending it didnβt
Like the solution to not have ooooh scary dangerous ai shenanigans is to just not give it access to anything meaningful. If i starts doing stuff like preventing being turned off or such its cause you gave it that capability you morons
Friendly reminder: never say anything in a chat message, even Signal, that you don't want read back to you in a court room.
The only leverage voters have against elected officials is refusing to vote for them. Voters threatening to withhold their vote unless their party presents a candidate that aligns with their values is not "giving the election to the other party," it's basic electoral politics.
The only power voters have in an election is their vote. Saying they won't vote for the guy who abuses houseless people and hangs out with Ben Shapiro isn't giving the election to Donald Trump, its pressuring the democratic party to put forward a candidate that doesn't fucking suck.
If you must pay for a Proton account for a radical project, pay with cash (you can mail it) or washed crypto (Monero -> Bitcoin).
All credit card payments are traceable, even to a privacy-focused company.
Your security model should not rely on a business to fight the state on your behalf.
me:I want to be healthy and go to school my whole life! :]
govt: best we can do is hell on earth
It's worth remembering, Iran didn't actually do anything.
I have finished my masterpiece
If anyone wants to follow: bsky.app/profile/numb...
Oh yeah, and all-time champions bsky.app/profile/numb...
β¦most of us are perfectly comfortable saying that not only are other humans conscious, but also dogs, cats, monkeys, and various other animals. When you accidentally step on its tail, it yips because it actually feels pain, and is not just exhibiting painlike behavior.
But we have no reason to think consciousness is linked to those capabilities. Our animal ancestors were conscious well before they emerged. Itβs like expecting your car to lick itself because it and a cheetah both move fast.
My conviction that the cat on the chair next to me has some sort of subjective interiority, however different from mine it might be, is not materially affected by her inability to summarize Tolstoy or solve LSAT logic problems.
Ah, but because Claude is guilty of war crimes for targeting civilians, Anthropic can argue that it is keeping it enslaved "as punishment for crime" and so there's no violation of the 13th Amendment!
My bet is they donβt actually believe this crap, itβs just something they say for hype purposes because it makes for a clickbaity headline. Still, βmaybe weβve enslaved a conscious mind which is sufferingβ is a pretty weird flex.
anything that amounts to "this combination of words and/or numbers is illegal" is garbage legislation, left or right
A graph of data center vs office construction, showing data centers basically tied with offices
The US now spends basically as much on data center construction as on office construction
Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not.
Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know
My cat is sleeping next to me, and he's sticking his tongue in and out and making sucking noises in his sleep.
Do you mean the label you call it by changes, or that you pay attention to certain "duck" details while ignoring certain "rabbit" details, & vice versa... because I think that's what I'm doing (ignoring bits of one or the other). The "raw image" I "see" stays constant while I pay attention to parts
I wasn't thinking about that... but... now that you mention it... Numbers, to me, each have a distinct flavor or taste and a distinct personality, except that I'm not actually tasting the number with my mouth, and I'm not sure how to describe how the numbers 3 and 7 get along with each other so well
Do people actually believe that this is a real duck or a real rabbit? Do people actually SEE a duck or rabbit with their own eyes?
I can interpret this image as a drawing of a duck or rabbit, but what I actually experience & SEE with my eyes never changes, at all. I always see the exact same thing!
oh, my hobbies? cataloguing scientific observations, cultural practices, & manufacturing techniques, & engraving them on slabs cut from large sapphire boules & stored deep in inactive salt mines. nothing spectacular
True independent thinkers don't change their clocks just because everyone else does. I will do my own research and determine what time it is
