why is the president of the USA which is a very large country with 100s of millions of people in it spamming photos of the repairs he made on the golf course by the white house like he's a small town mayor?
Congress should have to live in dorms in DC and not be allowed to have apartments there unless they are from DC itself.
And they should have to eat in a cafeteria. Together. Once a day when congress is in session.
Did I make the hives start or nah?
I'm trying to capture "the tone"
"It's not just a sentence with an attention catching structure, it is a pattern of expression that heightens anticipation. An unmistakable signal that some crucial insight will be revealed.
And yet, just like that, there is nothing. Simply put? Content-free sentences. Words that slide off of your mind leaving it a bit smoother that it was before."
(And that's when you click away or stop reading, annoyed)
I hope whoever wins includes ants! Please do not forget the ants. In NYC field ants and winter ants are often found with pollen all over them.
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With great cuteness comes no responsibility.
😔
You will never know the internal conflicts, the disparate pulls, the sense of duty and terror at knowing the sheer power of her own cuteness, and yet the danger of the cuteness she feels every single moment.
You will never know the internal conflicts, the disparate pulls, the sense of duty and terror at knowing the sheer power of her own cuteness, and yet the danger of the cuteness she feels every single moment.
Personally I feel this is an un-discussed change that ought to result in more people pausing to think.
Imagine if banks said "do not shop online at all" back in 2002. The so called next big thing? It's just not safe enough for regular folk to use.
Imagine having a cute fuzzy head with a flat spot on the top perfect for a kiss but you both enjoy and hate being kissed on the head.
You are, after all, a regal individual and it is beneath your dignity.
But it's also so nice.
Has your bank asked you to sign a new set of terms and conditions with warnings about how they may not cover losses due to the use of AI agent generated transactions on your account?
(If you signed such a document when opening your bank app or website without reading every word... this is likely why.)
@mathew @futurebird Oh no joke. This week, I got pulled back into a dev project I hadn't touched for a couple months. I could recognize my own work and read all the code and comments, but darn... for hours, I had no idea why I did the things I did or how to apply it to a new function we needed.
After interrogating it for a long while, trying to rebuild what I built before (to see if my fundamentals would guide me toward the conceptualization path I previously tread), I had to step away in frustration. It was clear in my comments that I *had* thought what I did before was obvious and needed no additional documentation.
As soon as I stopped looking at the code, the underlying concept logic from all those months ago flooded back. Looking again at the same code, it all suddenly became obvious once more.
Human brains are fascinating machines.
(Better hurry up and write better documentation for the next brain that needs to work on this.)
This is without considering what the owners of big networks might do to the algorithms to push their agenda.
It's not 100 percent effective but I think there are a lot of "smart people" pundits, journalists, writers, artists who think they aren't being manipulated ... but they are.
I do think people will adapt, but in the gap there are many lucrative bamboozlments to get done. People run scams and advertise because sometimes, just enough it works.
The bitter pill is that the only way to not be influenced by bots is to avoid the environments where they are common.
No you can't spot them all. No you can't post back and turn the tide.
Do you want fake people with outsize influence in the conversation or not? If not then you just can't use X.
And your presence in these social networks, however small you might think it is, makes them places more people want to be.
You can't use X at all or even talk about it without supporting it.
We regularly discover vast networks of political and commercial bot nets running on major social media sites doing their best to post some agenda. But ... people still stay in these cesspits. I think we all assume the bot nets influence OTHER people and each of us is too smart and savvy to be influenced.
However this is false.
I have been a one woman pro-ant network and I have and impact and can prove it.
Of course less innocent operations are effective.
Kill the power of nostalgia by being nostalgic now for this present moment.
Studying after a 1 day break:
10 min to remember what you were doing
25 min learning new things
Studying after a 2 day break:
30 min to remember what you were doing.
5 min learning new things
Studying after a 3 day break:
35 min to, maybe, remember what you were doing?
No progress. OR 1 hour learning it for the first time. Still no progress.
35 min every day is often enough to get a student back into making progress.
But, if it's 2 hours, but every three days they end up learning the same thing over and over... nothing builds. It's always starting from nothing each time.
But often we avoid things we don't feel "good at" and then want to just "get it over with" being reminded every single day can seem like a gloomy future.
But it's not! If you can get through that first week or two.
I didn't see this post until just now. It's something I'm thinking about.
The "light and frequent touch" that matters in mathematics. "Don't let more than two days go by without stopping to do a little math"
Otherwise I have seen students who are always starting over each time they sit down to study after avoiding the subject for three or four days. They spend so much time remembering where they were ... there is no progress.