Ha! You’re right. I didn’t mean it was open source. I did mean that it was available.

Idk about as powerful as gpt 4, but openrouter.ai has a ton of open source models you can use, including gpt 4.

Use your preferred AI to write the letter for you!

Putting up those dishes is going to be exhausting!

Or am I?

My wife does this, and I’m just like, “…wtf is your problem?”

I think, like Obsidian, it stores them as markdown files.

Then Logseq. It’s an outliner (each line can be it’s own…thing…), but it’s open source and a direct competitor of Obsidian. In fact, I was ambivalent between the two when I first started with online note-taking.

Give it a few years, we’ll understand real authoritarianism soon enough as Americans.

Why bother?

Uh…because war is horrible?

That’s not a reason to get lax, but to remain vigilant while moving towards greater collaboration.

Among respondents who own luxury brands that they themselves bought (e.g., Gucci, Versace, Rolex), 44% prefer to live in a world without any of those brands altogether. Among respondents not owning such brands, the fraction preferring to live in a world without them is 69%.

That’s interesting.

Actually, this is kinda like using fossil fuels. If we didn’t have fossil fuels our lives would be miserable. And while using them adds some utility, burning fossil fuels still leaves us miserable, particularly as climate change grows worse.And so, even though I use fossil fuels to fuel my car, heat my home, and cook my food, I’d still prefer to live in a world where its significantly reduced to phased out altogether.

NYT and WSJ reported this moments ago.

For trivial bullshit like the state of the American economy, these two publications are alright. For real bullshit like foreign policy, you’d be a fool to believe them after the weapons of mass destruction lie.

What we know is that a hospital was struck in Gaza and a bunch of people were killed (what a fucking stupid sentence…like…who the fuck strikes a hospital?!) That’s it.

Now that is a good argument!

They are just screaming they want to be logical/rational in an unlogical/irrational world.

Well, god damn, if that doesn’t hurt.

Oh. If they answer they think a Republican will do better on the economy, then I’ll proceed to show how Republicans are the most financially irresponsible of the two parties.

Okay, who here honestly thinks a Republican president is going to do better on the economy?

Please let me prove you wrong by answering in the affirmative.

Claude.ai. I took the transcript of the video and asked for an outline using a prompt I usually use for outlining textbook chapters lol.

Here’s an AI outline because this was actually a good talk:

• How Platforms Die

  • The speaker introduces the concept of platform decay or “enshittification” and how it leads to the death of internet platforms.
    • He defines platforms as firms like Uber, Amazon, and Facebook that connect users and business customers.
  • He outlines a 3-stage process called enshittification where platforms:
    • Are initially good to users
    • Abuse users to benefit business customers
    • Eventually abuse business customers to only benefit shareholders
  • This results in the platform becoming a “pile of shit” that dies.

• Facebook Case Study

  • He uses Facebook as a case study of enshittification’s 3 stages:
    • Initially attracted users by promising privacy protections and custom feeds
    • Then broke promises and sold user data to advertisers and flooded feeds with publisher content
    • Finally, reduced value to users and fees for publishers to extract all value for shareholders
      • This led to an angry user base and brittle equilibrium

• Causes of Enshittification

  • Lack of Competition
    • Weak antitrust enforcement has allowed consolidation across industries
    • Companies can use predatory pricing to undercut competitors
    • Mergers eliminate competition
      • Example: Google relying on acquisitions rather than in-house innovation
  • Unrestricted “Backend Tweaking”
    • Tech platforms control the algorithms and systems behind their products
    • They can arbitrarily change these to alter user experiences
      • e.g. Facebook reducing visibility of publisher content in feeds
    • Done without transparency, oversight or accountability
  • Bans on Reverse Engineering
    • Laws like DMCA 1201 and CFAA criminalize circumventing DRM and terms of service
    • Makes it illegal to reverse engineer platforms to enable interoperability
    • Tech companies use IP laws to prevent modding and adversarial interoperability
      • e.g. Apple using IP laws to prevent iOS modding

• Solutions

  • Strengthen Antitrust Enforcement
    • Block anti-competitive mergers
    • Break up existing tech giants
  • Pass Privacy, Labor and Consumer Protection Laws
    • Comprehensive federal privacy laws with private right of action
    • End worker misclassification through gig economy
    • Apply consumer protection standards to platforms
  • Allow Adversarial Interoperability
    • Roll back laws criminalizing modding, reverse engineering
    • Use government procurement to incentivize open ecosystems
    • Appoint special masters to oversee platform legal threats
  • Keep Interoperators in Check
    • Bind interoperators to the same privacy, fair trading and labor laws
    • Determined through democratic process vs corporate policy

• Conclusion

  • We need to prepare and spread these policy ideas to capitalize on the next crisis
  • Efforts are underway to enable a better internet through this approach

Definitely satire lol

Oh great. I’ll get live updates from the Heritage Foundation and the Daily Signal about how Biden’s anarchistic will is being carried out through Fani Willis in an egregious abuse of the law to prosecute the greatest political force for good the world has ever seen since Chile’s Pinochet.

I can’t wait!

Are we energy independent enough for Republicans yet? Or is Biden still knee-capping our national security by producing too little?