yeah but I got invited to a baby shower lol I worry a bit

I certainly do. She hasn’t changed her number with a number of important people. I know her name. She has a kid, shes keeps getting messages asking to join Detroit WIC league. Shes very active in her church, I was added to several church ladies group chats. I got a voice mail from her doctor, telling her she had relatively serious test results she had to relay to her, and someone invited her to a baby shower. I have also been getting her cashapp notifications, and she has an outstanding medical debt.

I worry sometimes, some of these are pretty big deals not to inform new number

I find a lot of people don’t feel confident enough with computers to mess with their PCs or phones to secure their tech, and I kind of get it. Like people act every impressed with my linux PC or Graphene Pixel. Ive seen old ladies give remote access to their machines to random smooth talkers, so I do understand its something many normies cannot even comprehend.

The last system I got was a used switch, and before that, it was DS light. I had a flashcart for the DS lite, I was backing up my saves, downloading first run games, built in AR support, plus it could run emulators and other apps. The QoL was kind of insane. The switch wasn’t anywhere close to that; every game was hideously expensive, way worse than I remembered for what I would be paying for DS games (obv if I had been).

I had 8 gb to store DS games, which meant I never had to worry about storage. I had 30 hanging out on there, along with emulators and whatever else. I got a second hand mobile switch, which meant that I couldn;t swap out the HDD. I got something like six or seven games for it, which meant very fast I had delete games and send them to the store or whatever. The whole HD, which was something like 200 gb which was only enough for 3 or so games, which is insanity to me, especially since they want to do away with physical media.

None of the switch games captured my interest, but that may not up to objective quality. I will say though that 4th gen pokemon was one of the games I sank myself into, unlike any game before or since. I really sank into the competitive and I was maybe in the 100 players in the world. literal thousands of hours, across Diamond and SS (the internal clock on the save screen stops counting at 1000). Shield was maybe the worst pokemon game I have ever played and BP was just really boring. I might just be too old for it.

Anyways, I got an anbernic and it hits me where I live. I can keep all of my games on one system, I can download all the games I want, I can play pokemon rom hacks with an interface that makes it feel like pokemon.

maybe like 75 percent of the time. the Invidious APIs for Freetube.

My job requires secure outlook and access to our database. I do occasionally have to interface with banking sites.

Look, man, I have been in writing groups and classes with people of all ages and skill levels. I have read some truly horrendous stories. Is the infinite word predictive machine going to write a better story than the worst, least skillful writer? Easily. Is it going to produce a better story than some of the more skillful writers? Absolutely not.

Worth noting also, I’m not saying someone who is noted for selling a lot of books, or even someone in an MFA program for writing. I am saying, LLMs are unlikely to produce a better work than me, and I am just some guy who is pretty skilled and practiced at writing. Maybe the one or two most skilled in a group of hobbyists who meet and share feedback and try to get better.

AI is always going to shoot for the absolute middle in terms of quality, and can definitionally produce nothing new or innovative.

Which phone should I pick up to run Graphene? like which do people like for this best?

It’s the confluence of several factor, but essentially, suspicion of the Medical Industrial Complex has been building since the mid 80s. Medical care is so expensive and the MIC so squirrely that it always had people desperately looking for ways around it, which opens the door to con artists. In the mid 90s, discredited now but not at this point in the story British doctor Andrew Wakefield was invested in (and I think part inventor of?) some new vax that targeted one of the components of MMR. In order to market it, he published a paper suggesting (quite softly iirc) that the MMR had some flaws, and advocating for parental choice to vax for each separately.

This is hogwash. The MMR has been safe and in use for something like 100 years (possibly more?). Wakefield was disgraced for this, and when the paper was cherry picked (even after the Lancet retracted it) and misquoted by the then still quite powerful but not yet in their final form anti-vaxxer movement, the disgraced Wakefield had to pivot to a new grift; speaking to Anti vaxxer gatherings, and lending them credibility to those who did not know the story (for which he did have medical license revoked).

So it follows with all of society’s issues in the 2020s; Instead of fixing a severe systemic issues, like say, our broken medical system which bankrupts people or kills them because they cant afford life saving medicine, which might involve curtailing the power of capitalists, blame instead pivots to the products instead, which people can understand. They understand their child is dying and they cant afford it, while maybe not questioning why. This opens the door to con men, which starts a cycle, as conmen want to open the door further. The conmen become the power, and then cheating just becomes business, and an army of marks becomes numerous enough that RFK becomes secretary of health, and your mom dies in a hospital hooked up to a ventilator refusing treatment because a conman said a fucking horse dewormer that he owned shares in would protect her.

Every Cyberpunk setting has a gang of clowns. Jokerz, Halloweeners, Bozos

I am a case worker for people with disabilities, including several people on my caseload with autism. It does depend where you are and how autism presents, even within my small caseload there is a lot of variation. Even people with “heavy degree” autism can have lot of variation. In general, my agency and jurisdiction take the person centered planning and self determination pathways; the person if able, communicates to us what they do and not want in their plan, who they do and not want caring for them, and what they want us to request (funding from Medicaid. US). In many cases, they are in command of themselves enough to have that much control.

I suppose the question you ask is; what happens to the people who are non verbal, perhaps even combative. The answer is a little sadder. The agency I work for specializes in IDD but also community mental health. Our system famously dismantled the asylums in the 90s under Reagan austerity (good) but I do think there is an infinitesimally small group of people for whom community mental health is not meeting their significant needs.

In many cases, like you said family has high needs people in their homes, until parents die. Many times, siblings become their primary guardians. Many of them are living their own lives. There exist group homes, with round the clock care. Some of them will apply for co - guardianship (that is to say, the agency running the place). It is this threshold that my agency will hand them off to another more specialized one. Medicaid will pay for staffing but not rent, so this is what occurs for families without much money.

If there is enough money, then the family might get the person their own space, so they can remain independent. In that case, my agency can petition funding for as much staffing as they need (although 24 hour staffing is pretty close to institutionalizing someone. There exist a lot of institutional barriers to funding 24 hour staffing.) Either of these combine with rights restrictions, which I have thankfully never had to institute. These are special provisions in their plans, which are reviewed by a jurisdictional authority board. Example, a lock on the knife drawer, or some kind of safety mechanism to prevent the stove from being turned on.

If they are lucky, their family has some money, they can set them up with a place. Their siblings take over as guardian and they can continue with the same support apparatus that their parents set up, with the staff handling the day to day. If they do not come from some means, then they will likely end up in a group home. They might also end up in a group home if they are too combative to live on their own.

Bless you sir

Is that his skin? A mask? I cant tell. This guy looks like he skinned a dark chocolate bar and made a human suit

Its like a monkeys paw

Imagine if we could grow toilets?

You’re right, that does seem very nice.

I work in social work; I would say about 60 percent of what I do is paperwork. My agency has told us not to use LLMs, as that would be a massive HIPPA nightmare. That being said, we use “secure” corporate emails. These use Microsoft 365 office suite, which are copilot enabled. These include TLDRs at the top, before you even look at the email, predictive texts… and not much else.

Would I love a bot who could spit out a Plan based on my notes or specifications? absolutely. Do I trust them not to make shit up. Absolutely not.

I remember the arms and armor one! I got it for my best friend one Channukah… like 20 years ago

This man is a poet

My assumption is that friendship is a lot easier to initiate and maintain. Limmerence, especially, is a lot of anxiety about how the person feels and if I could only make them see the depth of my feelings and am I what they want. The kind of thing that a specific kind of person wishes for magic for.

This is interesting. Im not supremely well informed on these issues but I always assumed so called “AGI” would have emotions, or at least would be “Alive.” Is there a term for such a robot? Most fictional robots have intelligence and emotions to the point where we loop back around to it being unethical to exploit them.