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Connections was the same for us today. Could have sworn the Blue was the purple category! 😄

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So does that mean two zebras could have the same pattern by chance, and then I have to ask can two people have the same fingerprints by chance?

Yes, everyone needs life insurance, at least so your final arrangements are taken care of, if not giving significant others a little cushion to grieve and figure things out. Especially those with neighbors putting water on their sidewalks in freezing temps. How's that working out?

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Guys, credit karma thinks I need more life insurance but I think I have enough life insurance already. Does credit karma know something that I don't know?

If hydrogen powered cars produce water as a byproduct, is there any way that water could be produced by the hydrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere interacting with the lighting during a thunderstorm?

Maybe. Or the people focusing and talking about the algorithms are the ones affected by this, whereas our podunk profiles with 20 real followers, that we use to just say what we want, likes be damned, don't really care about how we are saying anything, because garnering attention is not the point.

Less stops over the Atlantic count for that?

Toss up between Cialdini and John Green, but I think Green's is a take you won't find anywhere else, whereas there are a bunch of people peddling influence/leadership ideas.

If any tech deserves to be discussed complexly, it is this and what comes after what we have today (the general idea of information teaching itself). And this has been one of the most disappointing parts of AI to me—(that's my genuine emdash) the lack of nuance coming from voices I admire.

Not trying to minimize the danger, disruption, or complete displacement that may/is likely/definitely happening, but I don't hear nuance from many on the subject of AI, and to me it is one of the most if not the most gray technologies we will ever encounter.

This is coming from someone in IT, who, when it is all said and done (if society doesn't figure out its way to a universal income) has probably been most harmed. Very hard to say __ hey I think that software you built uses the algorithm I came up with, that no one can see, without litigation.

Not to mention the millions of people with some sort of "limiting" factor that can now use tech in a responsible way to help them do what they have never been able to do before.

When it comes down to it, it is the responsibility of the user of the tech to ensure someone isn't being harmed.

I think there are also people that have always wanted to make money from their own art, made without AI, that just needed some guidance on how to get the business part started that are also benefiting from the tech.

I think there are pros and cons.

I think it is leveling the field for a lot of folks and I think in a lot of ways, it's just like any other tech --plagiarizers are going to copy, whether they have tracing paper, a projector or a room full of people making copies of work for them.

But the bigger reason that you should write and make art, is that your work is someone else's respite.

You don't know who they are. They may be someone in the future. But if you have escaped into a book, or a painting, or a TV show... Someone created that.

You can do that for someone else.

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I don't know which of you needs a John Mayer cover by Alex Melton, but you should check it out. youtu.be/ECvqUls07Bg?...

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That is amazing! 😆 Such alliteration, such moisture! Uncle Joe's Discount Cornhole 🌽 Hilarious 😊

ChatGPT - Popcorn Button Mechanisms Shared via ChatGPT

Do we know how the popcorn button is supposed to work? Can we find brands that deviate from that? Do not try and fail when you can avoid trying.

Kind of interesting re: the sound-method patents. Curious to see if the 3 microwaves you've tried fall into one category.

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Will there be a recording for those who can't make it?

Did you sleep better though? Or was it sleepy tea?

Definitely cat holding stick in meditation like pose 😁

Recognizing when I'm stuck and honing my ability to unask a question, mu style, as described in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:

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@hankgreen.bsky.social I am having a dark 2a thought... Could there ever evolve a cold-like virus that mutates faster than the host can keep up with but doesn't kill it, so that the host just walks around with symptoms 24/7 for the rest of its life? I hate to put this out into the world. #gottaknow

"My main reason for wanting to be a published author is just that I want people to read my stories and enjoy them as much as I enjoy creating them." Love it!

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