i have been floated

well i just lost a friend who said AI is morally and ethically wrong on a fundamental level, and that anything i make with the help of AI tools has no value, so that sucks. is this what it feels like to support the wrong political party these days??

what's funny about it is that they seemed unaware of the fact that saying my AI-assisted output has "zero value" could be seen as offensive. then when I pointed out most of the internet in a few years will be running on AI generated code, all the services we use will be AI generated, they said "and those have no value either, only to the shareholders"... uh... what about the people who use those services and derive, uh, value from the services........ and that's why they use the services........?

anyway, sad that anti-AI brainrot has stolen a friend from me. it was a slow build.

amazon said 'rate 6 products and we'll tell you a joke' so i rated 6 products and then the joke appeared for a split second and vanished before i could read it. not sure i will ever recover from this disappointment.

I think the thing that annoys me about discourse around Crimson Desert at the moment is that the game literally just came out and there is so much content in the game that likely no one has experienced yet, that no one can have a genuine opinion on the entire experience of playing the game. But yet people are waving opinions around like objective fact. It’s annoying. Whatever. Social media is annoying, it has destroyed discourse around anything, in both directions, negative and positive. Nothing can just be accepted for what it is.

Every time I pick up my phone in here, I start freezing to death. Holy shit it’s cold in a conveyer belt sushi restaurant.

Okay so first up Crimson Desert doesn’t suck. It’s rad.

Secondly, I’m hitting 200 lifetime plates today at Kura Sushi. This is a milestone. I may not have eaten ~20 of those plates but we’re gonna just count them as mine.

I am pretty hyped for Crimson Desert. I hope when it comes out in ~2 hours that it doesn't suck!!!

AI psychosis or otherwise negative effects people experience from using AI is such a huge problem we haven't even begun to see the ramifications of. I already know a handful of people who have undoubtedly suffered negative effects to their personality and mental well-being after becoming obsessed with AIs. Most terribly there's a guy I know who was a really good writer, but he's clearly leaning on AI to write everything for him and his unique voice has completely vanished. It's a tragedy. Sometimes it's more minor, like when a bozo suddenly thinks all of their bozo ideas are actually fantastic because an AI has glazed them into delusion. But then sometimes it causes someone to go fully off the rails into raw delusion, usually delusions of grandeur about their capabilities, so basically the bozo problem but just mixed with neurodivergence or mental illness, so it starts to seem a little more schizophrenic. Ugh. I love this technology but it's like feeding methamphetamine to children who've never even had sugar before.

I had a comment on Hacker News get a lot of upvotes today and the amount of people who came out of the woodwork to spread negativity and pessimism in response to it made me feel like it's not really worth it at all. Most people on the internet are jerks!

My wife got me a Commodore 64 Ultimate for my birthday and it's nifty, but I started having a problem with it where, after running the device for a bit and not interacting with it, the C64U Menu would stop coming up when hitting the multifunction switch or the C+RESTORE keys. The only fix was to reboot the whole thing. Strangely, when this would happen, the video stream would keep working from the device but the web service would flake out too. Eventually even after rebooting I would have an issue with the web service coming back up.

Well, today someone posted on Reddit that they were having the same issue, but they identified that it seemed to be related to their HDMI cable. So... I unplugged the HDMI cable from the back of the C64U and it's been 20+ minutes now and everything is still working great! I think there must be some sort of problem with HDMI in the 3.14 firmware...

What a strange sequence of events led me to this place in my life.