Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Tuesday is Election Day, and while most of the nation isn’t paying much attention, there are four states where the vote plays outsized importance. I cover that in today’s Political Lightning Round. https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/a-political-lightning-round-ahead?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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#SecondLife #SecondLifeDestinations #LindenLab #virtualworld #metaverse #machinima #kulani

Trump is already talking about using the Insurrection Act on his first day in office, if he is reelected, to put down any civil protests. I can’t stress this enough. No matter what you think of Biden, his age, his policies, he is no dictator. He believes in democracy. We cannot let Trump anywhere near the White House again.

sending a rejection notice to a job applicant on the same day as their interview should cause the sender an immediate sensation of nausea and intense groinal pain, because that's exactly what getting one feels like.

Pretending here the answer isn't "you had a 3x engineer and made then work like they were a 20x engineer and this burnt them out in like two years and now they're doing woodworking in a log cabin on the top of a mountain in Montana and if you mention computers to them, they'll shoot you in the face"

It's my favorite thing about the Bond films.
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bnuuy bread? fedi will love this

“Human progress isn't measured by industry, it's measured by the value you place on a life. An unimportant life. A life without privilege. The boy who died on the river, that boy's value is your value. That's what defines an age. That's what defines a species.” 

— Twelfth Doctor, Thin Ice

I don’t.. uh.. ya.

Today's gender is loneliness and the smell of lavender.

Everyone thinks, haha, these squirrels don't even remember where they hid 90% of the nuts they store for the winter", but nobody ever asks if the squirrels might be out there thinking, my ancestors planted this forest that provides for us all, and my children's children will know the same of me.

Translucent come back plz.

#Retro #Vintage #Translucent #kazzycom

My doctor says it’s not depression, it’s a “remarkably accurate world-view”

People of the US: election day is tomorrow. Voting is harm reduction and small, local elections are the ones where your vote has the highest impact. Go do the thing.

REMINDER: ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and other large trained neural models are NOT "artificial intelligence", they're just stochastic parrots, remixing and regurgitating what they've been fed. There's no theory-of-mind involved, so no understanding: there's no "there" there. (A real live parrot exhibits more intelligence than this.)

Don't call it AI; call it parrot-tech. That way you'll have a better perspective on what it can (and can't) do.