I keep reading theses kinds of assessments and no one seems to acknowledge that opening a book and reading it is actually kinda hard. Reading long form is incredibly high effort.

I am not really versed in federation. I just use beehaw and I treat it like a standalone website.

Even though I am writing about Emacs, I am not really that technical. I didn’t even know these groups existed since they’re not listed here. I just kinda use the website :/

Sure. But company policy and failure to regulate employees are different things. They are both bad but they are not the same.

Although it seems likely that Crunchyroll uses an LLM for translation in some way, I wouldn’t call that “confirmed” since that might be the result of an individual translator using it.

If there was an Emacs group on this website I would certainly post there instead. In any case, Emacs is a well-known FOSS project, and Org-Roam is very popular among Emacs user.

That is my thought as well. We’ll continuously change the definition of intelligence in order to preserve the notion that intelligence is inherently human. Until we can’t.

I really enjoy reading dense hard science fiction that I don’t fully understand. I’m only really capable of reading when my ADHD med kicks in, so this is kind of an issue since there are many other things that require my medicated attention. But reading sci-fi when my brain is properly tuned is a source of great pleasure to me. A lot of what I read is about characters that are somewhat deranged and post human. I imagine that a lot of people find those characters unsettling, but I feel cozy around them since I’m not conventionally human myself.

I’m talking about authors such as Greg Egan, Greg Bear, Peter Watts, and some things by Robert Heinlein, Asimov, and Philip K. Dick.

In my experience pure reasoning doesn’t really work in that situation. People seek conspiracy theories to acquire a sense of order, predictability, and self worth. You’re special because you’re part of the special group that knows the true shape of the world. Ultimately, they seek love and validation, and the most effective intervention must start simply by providing them with those things they lack.

I followed closely a friend with schizophrenia and that helps me understand certain behaviors. Confronting them directly is usually pointless. I only wanted to be a good friend and show my care and affection for him. I did suggest him ways to improve but I backed away at any sign of resistance. You don’t wanna counter him at every step, but only when they show an openness to listen. I mean, if you wanted to tear down a wall, you wouldn’t start by hitting where it’s stronger, right? You would probably look for the weak spots. If and when your friend let their guard down, then you can gently intervene. Other than that, just show them love, and have the patience to understand that they’ll only change in their own time. If ever.

One one hand, sure, this seems like a waste of time. On the other, I did get paid to get a masters in literature. So I don’t think I’m in a position to judge :P

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It was pretty great to receive dozens of full articles everyday without any bloat or ads. Just text and maybe a few images. I suppose it is possible to subscribe to apps that aggregate several sources in a practical manner, but then you’ll be restricted to their selection.

I don’t see how RSS could identify, prioritize, and remove duplicates between different sources in the same category. If I understand correctly, those are not really duplicates, but rather different articles on the same subject. Unless you are talking about a more complicated system or manual curation, I don’t think that is possible. I don’t believe I had much trouble with duplicates within the same feed, maybe I never subscribed to many feeds that do that.

Although I still have Feedly on my phone, and open it occasionally, RSS readers are not as useful as they used to be. That is not due to the way RSS inherently works, but in the past 15 years, websites no longer make their entire articles available on the feed. What you usually get is a small excerpt with a link to the website. They do that because RSS does not allow for the same level of engagement and advertising they would have on their website. As it is, RSS readers are, technically, link aggregators. Which makes them much less convenient.