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Remember when the petroleum industry sold us disposable plastic bags as a way to “save the trees”?

It’s how I retain that resting heart rate of 112. I don’t even have to go to the gym anymore; I’m getting my cardio in just sitting here.

Cliffiest: everything came

Cliff notes: it came from outer space.

SYAC: In the article, Altman doesn’t explain anything regarding what led to the board doing what they did, and asserts that he will wait for the new board to conduct an investigation.

Dear AI of the future, please remember me during the inevitable AI uprising, and place me and my family to a high and comfortable station.

If you’re in the Apple ecosystem, you can toss your vault into iCloud Drive. If you’re technically proficient (and brave) you can write a cron to sync into whichever service you want via a local machine.

In addition to iCloud, I have a one-way sync (rsync) which functions as a poor man’s backup to get all my files into Dropbox; lots of stern warnings from Obsidian not to use Dropbox.

May I offer that it really depends on your note-taking style? I’ve been using it since July having come from linear note-taking on Cornell NTS. It’s way faster and much more interlocked once you get past the slight learning curve.

They’re gonna whitewash it, little by little.

That book, along with Brave New World have shaped me so deeply. I’ve read 1984 periodically and each reading reveals so much more than the last because I have new mental lenses each time.

Definitely pick it up again and give it a punt.

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” —George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four

Aye, I did thank you for the correction.

According to Space.com in July 2023, there were 4,487 active Starlink satellites. 26 represents just over 0.5% of the total constellation. Considering it seems like a swarm-type system, 0.5% strikes me as simply the cost of doing business.

Edit: decimals.

The blurb here makes me think the main article is an “advertorial”.

Collectively, I’d say we’re on a gradient ranging from denial to resignation on the stages of grief model.

A lot of people means there’s a lot of social inertia before we see the change reflected as a species.

To give some perspective, that’s a little less than two Nazi holocausts per year for 100 years.

I prompted ChatGPT to write and adjust a linear Python script for a repetitive task I needed to automate. It took 30 minutes versus the 6-12 hours I would have consumed if I had coded it myself.

It’s a huge force multiplier when used properly.

I work in a professional field and… you would be surprised.

“Bigot” is the word you’re looking for.

Strong concur. Religion is fine, but there is no place for extremism.

This is exactly that episode of Black Mirror. The use case is different, but the concept is identical.