Her mother immediately began searching Facebook Marketplace for room partitions with doors and ended up finding a family on Manhattan’s Upper West Side selling EverBlocks — reusable, oversized plastic building blocks they used to create a room for their young son.

The set included a door, and Barre realized that combining the blocks with IKEA wardrobes would give her both privacy and storage.

The price, however, made the idea even more appealing. While the traditional flex wall she inquired about had been quoted at $1,975 plus tax, the secondhand EverBlocks cost her about $700.

I feel that, if people.com has received compensation for this article from everblocksystems.com, they should be legally required to prominently disclose that fact.

The idea that the people wrecking the world are playing 5d chess and only pretending to be delusional idiots becomes less believable by the day. Things may get worse, but their plans are going to blow up in their faces, because they don’t contend with reality and that makes for bad plans.

There’s no way this is a real photo lol

Well that sounds like a much more practical solution

A big part of the premise EA people seem to be working with is that earning a lot of money is itself beneficial or at least morally neutral, so what makes the most sense is to spend your time and energy earning as much money as possible so you can spend that money to enable and compel other people to do charity work, the good of which will supposedly outweigh anything you can do yourself directly.

Personally I see this as a catastrophic underestimation of how evil capitalism is. Anything you do to contribute to the economy is harmful, and you can’t make up for that with more structuring other people’s lives in employment arrangements. The best thing you can do morally with respect to money is to both earn and spend as little of it as possible. Other people’s actions do not count as your own just because you paid for them, if you want to do good you have to do it yourself. What the world needs the most is de-financialization of our lives, and doing the most good should involve contributing to that with your own life and also helping others move away from being ruled by money.

Maybe the terraforming plans I’ve heard exist for mars, where they redirect asteroids with the needed materials to crash into it over thousands of years, would work, although they would have to be real careful not to miss if it’s the Earth’s moon instead

Speaking to Wired, Lamm explained that the project was twofold. One part of the project would oversee the genetic engineering and cloning of the ideal dogs for war, and the other would develop tech for them to use on battlefields.

Sounds like weaponized cyborg dogs is where this is going

Well hopefully the quality degrades enough that people stop using Instagram

Pretty much only Lemmy. I use it because I believe centralized social media and the companies that run it are killing the internet, and want to put energy into something that might replace it instead of creating free content for Reddit as I did for years.

Yeah idk why I have this impression, I saw it like 30 years ago and don’t remember too many details

That movie was terrifying in general, personally I was more scared of the ceiling lamp

The type of bias described in the article (more code vulnerabilities if the prompt mentions the code is for groups not aligned with the Chinese government) does not seem like it should be so complicated to avoid.

Also blocking communities, if you browse all and hate most of the posts and comments there.

Maybe should modify “modern tech” to everything downstream of scalable agriculture

There are valid reasons for it, very privacy conscious people often hate sites that require or use javascript because it enables advanced fingerprinting and other threats and is basically impossible to vet

Advancing a favorable narrative does seem like the reason for this report, but knowing that Anthropic is very biased isn’t enough by itself to say their claims are bullshit. It’s still worth considering and critiquing the argument on its own merits, stopped clock is right twice a day and all that.

People are advising about choosing a career and interests, but I think it’s a good idea to start by thinking about your relationship to the economy and capitalism and how you want to contend with it. Are you ok with working for the rest of your life? What types of work would you be able to tolerate or be able to enjoy, if any? What are your preferences and priorities with regards to how you are perceived, standard of living, family aspirations, financial security, where you will live? What advantages or disadvantages do you already have going for you? What assumptions are you making about what is financially possible, and could you be wrong? If you aren’t sure of these things about yourself, how could you find out? It’s worth trying new things to learn about the world.

This stuff is important, because there is more than what type of work you end up doing to what the shape of your life will be like.

I feel like people would buy a game if the alternative was just that you have to compile it yourself and not have Steam achievements

It’s not like there is a shortage of games on Steam that are willing to disclose that AI was used in their development and have already done so. The prospect of not disclosing and keeping that a secret seems like a really uncomfortable way to do things.

I really like the idea of a Sneakernet where its operation is somewhat abstracted rather than entirely manual.