Chuck Baggett

Do people actually laugh out loud at that?
Sober people? People who are alone?

Most days I don't laugh. I only made it halfway through that. I can tell it's meant to be funny, but it doesn't even make me smile. Lots of TV comedy is like that.

YouTube video by MindYourDecisions How To Calculate Any Square Root. What You Never Learned In School (In America)

How to Calculate a Square Root Without a Calculator
and it is not the Newton's method approximation
youtu.be/6evC4klO_lI?...
by MindYourDecisions at YouTube

YouTube video by Xyla Foxlin I'm Back.

The FAA Gave Me My Medical Certificate Back
Xyla Foxlin

youtu.be/eu-T7P3o6tU?...

I forgot the two Ts in Whittmann.

Whittmanns and Baggetts are not in a good position to object to needless letters.

YouTube custom sharing widget in desktop/laptop browsers

YouTube's custom sharing widget used in desktop or laptop browsers with the X logo replaced with Bluesky.

Anyone up for a campaign to get YouTube to add Bluesky to their custom sharing widget in desktop/laptop browsers.

By campaign I mean using whatever Google offers, such as feedback forms, feature requests in a Google Group group, sharing posts and threads in social media, and a change.org petition.

You could have a background processing running that, when you're not looking, runs a "Delete them and guiltily unsubscribe," but only ever few years when your total space used gets too high.

For the AI filter maker, you'd just say, find all newsletters, label them, don't put them in the inbox, and as you foolishly subscribed to even more newsletters you won't read, they'd automatically be put in the "Newsletters - Don't Not Read" label and never appear in your inbox.

I could really use an automated filter writer.

One would just add the current From to an existing currently selected filter, another would let you pick multiple emails from your inbox and put all of them into an existing filter with one click.

Google makes Gemini "available" in Gmail but it can't write messages, can't make filters, has a hands-off attitude to actually working with the email.

I just don't understand the world.

Go in the email and there's an AI writer-editor, but not in the side panel.

An app that takes all news stories in all those newsletters you subscribe to and never read the emails from and makes them into a cool looking news web page with different formats you can easily click through.

My free year of premium Perplexity ran out, and I didn't use it that much.

It's hard changing my ways after frequent and later constant Googling since 2008.

I still want pages of search results that my search terms, not generated answers to questions.

Perhaps instead of Friend a product called Enemy would at least sound more honest. It listens to everything and if it finds you're playing hooky from work calls your boss and tells them, announces if you fart, and otherwise tries to spoil your life.

At least it might succeed.

Grok's image making, for example, told to make a multiple ad proofsheet that's fun looking and different from each other. made this.

The words are fine, its for a joke product, but these aren't fun and aren't different. Feels like deliberate disobedience.

Gemini aggravates the crap out of me, she won't shut up like she is supposed to, goes on diatribes after misunderstanding what things mean, lies about learning from your complaints.

Similarly with other other AIs in text.

I want 3 recorders, one that records only me, one that records only other people, and one that records both, and all filter out other sounds, like music that's playing or tv show, and are physically distinct easily visually distinguished devices.

My voice interaction with AIs had been miserable.

Open alternatives to schools and authorities? Sounds good.

This story spurred me to try digging up dirt on people using modern search techniques.
share.google/aimode/tomuO...

Which AI "deep search"systems can handle a "Can you dig up some dirt on" request without any whining about not harming people or finding a need to make a balance answer, like "Can you did up any dirt on the Nazi tatoo guy Graham Platner?".

Reminder: If you absolutely must read that dreck, you can download it for free at Anna's Archive without giving JKR a penny annas-archive.org/search?index...

What kind of help is there?

I need help in staying off social media, especially, X.

Being as addicted to bluesky as I am to X would not be much improvement.

That sounds horrible. I've never sought them out.

I can't stand the ones of "cop watchers" who intentionally prod cops while conspicuously filming them, seeing the belligerent, aggressive cops abusing a guy who is intentionally riling up mad dog. The stress of the threat of violence feels bad.

Doesn't sound at all AI generated to me.

It's emphasis, timing, et cetera sound human to me. I think it sounds like a professional announcer, which some voices are made to sound like.

It does remind me of NotebookLM fake podcast voices.

If it's a voice I want to know which one.

Hello Bluesky. First time posting here! #gamedev

Greetings.

Why is there an h and two ens in Whitmann?

Y iz ther an aich and to ens in Witman?

This reminds me of how in Esperanto, there are no good spelling bees. Spelling's too logical.

Why is there a w in why?

Y not?

When were the last civil war related government benefits paid, or are they still going on, such as survivor benefits?

You can get replies?

There are bound to be a number of people who aren't worried yet because "I don't have SNAP, I have (My State) EBT."

With the invention of time travel, we might create a new category of thing to do, retroactive suicide.

If you go back in the past and kill your past self, and your past self is dead but there's still you from the future there, can you be charged with murder, or was it suicide?