I’m not a scholar on this point, but my main inspiration is how unhinged and offended people are about vegetarianism, which implies there’s something deeper at play than a personal preference.

I think an approximate thumbnail would be that it implicitly challenges a hierarchy where some beings are so superior as to farm and eat other beings, one step away from being able to enslave others, two steps away from being able to subjugate them (the core of any hiearchical system).

I’ve got no particular dog in the fight, being a meat eater myself.

I spent a lot more effort learning French than chemistry. Whew!

Surprised Hershey isn’t astro turfiing us with made-up horrors of sugar deprivation.

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Great learning opportunity if you chain them below decks the entire time.

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Meat-eating and patriarchy are tightly linked.

Just found out about the Twiddler 4–a single-handheld bluetooth keyboard. too damn expensive at over $200, but something I’d definitely try otherwise.

• a bluetooth remote if you don’t want a really long cable

Do you have a flat rate sub to Qwen? I’m curious if you fed it something that you personally think is great writing that isn’t prominent training data, that you are intimately familiar with, and what you would make of its analysis?

My fear is two-fold: first, writing is communication between people with shared experiences. An LLM can’t really tell if someone’s going to have an emotional connection to your writing or why or what or how it works. Second, novelty and rule-breaking is highly context dependant. I’d be worried an LLM is merely steering me into probable lanes instead of allowing me to develop my own unique voice.

Explain to me how it’s better than you learning to analyze your own work from a formulaic perspective?

Everytime you choose to use AI, you are choosing NOT to develop an ability of your own. Sometimes, that’s an ability that just tedious to use, other times it might be something you obviously need to do yourself, yet others the ability might be something with a tangential utility you haven’t recognized.

An analogy might be reading music exclusively. Great, now you can play a wide range of music–indisputably beneficial!–but the cost of developing your own ear.

Hm. Would an old smart phone do in a pinch as a replacement roku?

It’s great news. The only hope for these companies have is getting to monopoly enshittification before investors give up. This shows that timeline might be impossibly long.

I’m thinking of getting a subscription and burning tokens out of spite.

I’m horrrfied that an LLM is your writing coach.

I thought it woud suck, but with the touch typing + consistent dictionary guessing, it’s really on par with the random chaos of a touchscreen keyboard.

Small production run + half-decent internals probably accounts for a lot of the price.

Having experimented with $100 underpowered flip phone on KaiOS, lack of apps was a real problem. What (some) people want is the slight inconvenience of a T9 keyboard and an annoyingly small screen to help them limit their screen time, but they still want full functionality of all their apps.

I think you can ban a community as a stop-gap? Wait for things to die down.

You can also edit to [SOLVED] which might deter enthusiastic helpers.

Maybe throw in a coffee shop and some evening events. Not much reason to go to any retail establishment these days.

I think mechanics is oddly the most important skill here: keep all that equipment running.