jaschop

Yeh, I've been complaining about noncritical german news for a while. DW is not much better on tech issues.

Although sometimes, a critical piece slips through. E.g. on the fact that chatbots are turning brains to mush in a measurable fashion and that a lot of businesses and professionals are telling whoever is asking that this shit just doesn't work.

Still, the big-tech-press-piece-to-reputable-news-story pipeline is going strong.

Oh, I just got a lovely nah-uh in my inbox: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/21448556

But please let's be discreet and not upset the critters further.

You can be an anarchist and poke fun at naive interpretations of anarchism. I don't think you have to read "all anarchists are like these hypothetical human pets" into that joke.

equates it with anarcho primitivism

Hey, it specifies solarpunk. The fellas have at least solar panels in there. And they know how to use pharamaceuticals.

I'll grant that gathering medication in the bushes is a little on the nose.

It's paternalistic, all right, but that's something different. I have a toddler, I should know.

Disagree, I think there's something there.

Something about baby anarchists who get the spiritual lessons but stubbornly refuse to engage with the complexity of the world and try to naively derive practices straight from theory which end up laughably ineffective. In contrast, once it truly sinks in how fucked and complicated the world is and how powerless your faction is your political practice starts looking more "normal" ™️, but you harbor no ill will against the enthusiastic baby anarchists and sort of envy their lifestyle.

Might be wrong, can't read OPs mind. But somehow it doesn't feel mean-spirited.

Ich hab vom Flixbus schon viele schöne Erinnerungen und die schlimmste Reiseübelkeit meines Lebens bekommen.

Ich bleib wann immer möglich beim Zug, den einen Luxus (der eigentlich kein Luxus sein sollte) gönn ich mir als Erwerbstätiger.

Never got into the silent call for work thing, but probably I'm just too antisocial. This all tracks, I do/did most of the other stuff.

Getting into meditation is also something I can recommend, just for the practice it gives you with wrangling your internal cacophony.

The relation of tech and emergency services is something I became acutely aware of, when my volunteer firefighter unit recently got 2 alarms in one week that turned out to be someone lost his IPhone driving through a curve. (Apparently they have a G-sensor/accident detector and can robocall emergency services.)

Okay, it's not that common. IPhones do that for years and those 2 were our only cases of that. Still sucks to get the news via radio, when you're already in full kit ready to roll.

In case they're infected with the new super-diarrhea parasite they got over in burgerland rn.

Jede Überschrift, die mit einem Fragezeichen endet, kann mit einem Nein beantwortet werden.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Gesetz_der_%C3%9Cberschriften

Kriti-Hype 1x1

Diese irrsinnige Anthtopomorphisierung trägt nichts zum Verständnis bei, lässt LLMs aber grusliger und fortgeschrittener erscheinen als sie sind. In der Regel wird bei dieser Masche dem Modell irgend eine Aufgabe gestellt, die durch "unehrliche" Methoden deutlich einfacher lösbar ist. Natürlich hat das Modell garkein Konzept von Ehrlichkeit, und sagt dir jedes mal genau was laut seinen Trainingsdaten die optimale Antwort auf deinen Prompt ist.