I'm not saying we should all ditch them now. We unfortunately couldn't live so well if we ditch them overnight. I'n just saying we should know what they truly are and avoid any manipulation from them. For example, suppose you get to pick up an opinion from watching social media posts (which is unfortunately not entirely avoidable as long as we use them). Is the opinion solely yours or de facto given by them? Knowing what social media is will detemine the confidence your answer to this question.

"Social media" is not social when they're effectively showing contents through the algorithm, not from your social boundary. At that point, it's just a more controlled one-way communication like TV.

Many things around the world is a misnomer, usually the one from big techs and so-called billionaires. "Artificial Intelligence" is not "intelligence;" they couldn't care less about what is intelligence in the first place (unless they think pretending to be smart is intelligent enough).

Lesson learned: if your script will (i) forever be shorter than 100 LoC, (ii) doesn't need to be efficient or inherently efficient because it's too short, (iii) has to use a lot of shell commands, and (iv) doesn't do complex text manipulation, go for Bash, Otherwise, go for Python. One single exception during development will haunt you until the day you ditch it (but you may not be able to, due to the porting cost).

It just occured to me, regarding my recent minor event.

"I won't block you. Instead, I'll pretend that I've blocked you so that I can check everything you'll say when you think you're blocked anyway. Don't blame me if I use it against you on your least expected timing."

Have you ever noticed that the world rewards egoistic decisions? The more egoistic, the more they reward you.

@arstechnica Will we ever get to see Elon (physically) live under a bridge? Sadly maybe not in my life, but it'll be a big beautiful news for the entire world.

Greed is like a race: at one point, uncontrolled greed means "you dial down your greed, and you'll be miles behind, so much so that you'll be lost in the whole race track." That's why neoliberalism is such a bullshit idea. It just infinitely fuels human greed.

"Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity." - - Carl Sagan

I think I saw JD Vance more in the memes than in his real video, mostly because I turned off the real one because he was saying something hatable every time. I think I forgot how he actually looked like.

After you get enough ages, it begins to be easier to just half give up and not have any expectation than to long for it to death and try to find a way.

Either way, that hasn't been worked out, and I don't expect I'll ever work that out.

Relationship (or something remotely similar to it) has never been easy in my life. When the other starts to communicate less, I'm always not sure if they need to be understood or just try to distance me.

Trump is like, the bullshit is on so many levels that you can't even easily figure out where to start. By the time you can start to argue back, there's another new hot abomination from his mouth.

Then the question: why did the world at some point turn its way to try to make it less awful?

It struck me that the reason why the world has been historically controlled by awful people is not because particular awful people took the seat but because the majority of humans are awful; they just can't because they simply didn't have a chance to be awful.

When you see a hatable person is criticizing another hatable person on TV every day, you know the entire world is filled and controlled by hatable personalities.

@dan Imagine having to use your OTP whenever you're tryna take a pee....

@benroyce Oh Linus is getting older. Definitely older than when he gave a bird to him. (Was it Bill Gates or somebody else?)

@MrLovenstein Hey, it's environmentally good.