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Dry Cleaning – Anna Calls from the Arctic

Tl;dr surveillance equipment working perfectly, used for dystopian surveillance. Major shocker.

In the context of parenting there are certainly better things you can do to prevent “shennanigans” other than subjecting them to surveillance. Like you know… raising them?

Terrifying with a generation of peole grown up under total control and expected to be perfectly obedient. They will be shitty adults. But hey, at least they won’t have memories of that time they snuck out at night to watch the stars.

So they are already running out of ressources to keep pumping that insane bubble and now need Europe to subscribe to their mass delusion, too?

The last years, possibly aside from the last weeks, I feel like I haven’t seen Ursula von der Leyen talk without rambling avout embracing AI. Nevermind that the EU wants to use mass surveilance against thought crime [cough] evil pedophile terrorist, no one else (promise).

There’s no way Russia could just nibble a little on an EU/Nato country with a full response from Europe, regardless of whether the US backs it up. Whether Europe is in good shape to deal with that is a different story, but I’d say there’s little room to do anything “small” under their own flag.

Yeah, he wouldn’t dare join a direct war against Iran, invade Venezuela or impose massive (even if not as big as he said) tariffs on the world…

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Yeah, I mean I feel pretty confident trusting stuff like Graphene that’s 1) open source, 2) popular 3) among techy people that 4) are obsessed about privacy and security

[me looking at the source code] Interesting… they used words here and a few numbers too. 🔍🤔

Yes, but will you? In reality it takes trust for most. Personally, I don’t think I could tell a sophisticated back door [pervy emoji] from a hello world! script.

Subscriptions are thieves of intentionality

It’s included, but good lord if that’s not a very high price for temporary access to a collection of bargain bin games. You could buy a full price game every other month for that money.

Conceptually, I’m not against the American threat to our way of life being discussed in fewer threads (as opposed to a single megathread). But where you draw the line on what’s “a new and important developement” is hard. Most would draw it far before the US invading Greenland, I.e. the probable triggering of the “find god, quickly” phase of human civilization.

I think you just have to live with a lot of posts being about the unfolding break in the world order for a while. I mean, sure, some posts might have been suitable to merge, but mostly they’re about different developments. The posts are also getting a lot of engagement and generating discussion.

Sweet synthesis: We need a GrokGPT that tells nazis to kill themselves.

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I think we should also focus on using less energy overall – e.g. replace short to medium persinal car trips with walking, bicycles and public transport, medium to long travel with trains, eliminating unnecessary travel that can’t be accommodated by those modes of transport. Environmental solutions like replacing fossil fuel powered cars with emissions free, but equally dangerous and still inefficient EVs for personal use will keep us burning oil even longer by tying up investments in highways and hostile, car based infrastructure.

Things like rethinking infrastructure, labor, economy and housing would have been more achievable and, for most, felt more like progressing towards a better future than straighup sci-fi level efforts to continue the status quo without as much oil. But it’s the latter we get, they’re putting carbon capture machines on Norwegian oil rigs as we speak.

Are you sure about that? I’ve been reading mixed information on how expensive it is to operate these chat bots, e.g. the cost of “inference”, when you don’t develop and maintain the actual models. Some claim inference is actually quite cheap. Not sure how that applies to Proton though, but as far as I understand Lumo is mostly a front end for some generally available models?

I think privacy is the biggest concern for users (as opposed the plethora of horrible problems AI brings to the world at large) with ChatGPT and similar services. I can see the market space for a privacy centered service.

I think it’s better to focus on the tail end of their arguments, as opposed to whether it’s technically possible.

European banks and investors are stuffed with Treasuries. If they tumble in value because of a threat of a European boycott, then it would probably end up harming Europe just as much as the US, if not more so. Moreover, a large-scale repatriation of capital would send the dollar tumbling and the euro rocketing, which would alone possibly be enough to send many European countries into a recession.

For example, forcing your bank sector to sell off a bunch of assets that are considered “risk free”, comes with consequences.

Also consider that a majority of European leaders seem to be banking on the whole Trump era to blow over at some point soon. They hope to be able to rely on the US again and don’t really want to do any lasting harm (probably).

As far as I’m aware peak oil production has not been recognized to have happened yet.

Over the last century, many predictions of peak oil timing have been made, often later proven incorrect due to increased extraction rates.[9] M. King Hubbert introduced comprehensive modeling of peak oil in a 1956 paper, predicting U.S. production would peak between 1965 and 1971; his global peak oil predictions were predictive through the 1990s and 2000s but eventually were deemed premature due to improved drilling technology.[10] Current forecasts for the year of peak oil range from 2028 to 2050.[11] These estimates depend on future economic trends, technological advances, and efforts to mitigate climate change.[8][12][13] Peak oil, Wikipedia

It is still assumed that global oil consumption scales with economic growth and under 2025 consumption increased.

Global liquid fuels consumption increased by an estimated 1.2 million b/d in 2025 and is forecast to increase by 1.1 million b/d in 2026 and 1.3 million b/d in 2027. Consumption growth rises next year as global economic activity picks up pace. Based on forecasts from Oxford Economics, our forecast assumes global GDP will grow by 3.1% this year and 3.3% in 2027. Short-Term Energy Outlook, EIA (U.S. government)