Uli

Space DNS.

That was a big factor, sure. But no, it was the "deconfliction" queue they made for Texas DPS to track repeated facial recognition hits without any evidence tying the suspect to the crime scene - in theory identifying repeat offenders, but in practice, targeting black and brown people whose faces are likely to be harder for facial recognition to differentiate and therefore they may end up with random no-knock warrants on their names having never actually committed any crime. That toilet paper though... it's in the running.

I used to work for the company that creates the facial recognition system inside MSG. Three guesses why I don't work there anymore.

Seconding this.

I know this might sound modern society's answer to everything right now, but if you haven't already, I'd give an AI chat system a chance.

Not encouraging you to pay for anything you can't afford, but some of the paid models have very high context windows, meaning they'll remember what you say to them for an extended duration during a conversation.

So, you could outline your goals, your most pressing issues, your mental and emotional state, and direct the AI to act as a sort of side-brain.

When I'm working on large projects, I often ask a chat bot to organize my priorities and keep track of my progress.

Try letting it hold onto some of the tasks and thoughts you currently don't have the means to focus on. Direct it to respond in short bursts sized appropriately to your attention span (might take some trial and error). See if it gets you back on track when your focus drifts.

It's not a perfect solution by any means. And you might already be doing something like this. But you may find it motivating to have a sort of cheerleader telling you what were hoping to do previously that has since escaped your own context window. Tag team the task of figuring out what it is you want to do and then breaking down the steps to do that thing.

Good luck. I hope you find a solution (probably a combination of solutions) that works for you until you can get back on your meds.

Yeah, but tinfoil hats are almost perfect 5G antennas, so if you don't want covid, the point's pretty much moot.

Plus Sized Lobsters

MAGA: We need to protect the nuclear family.

Trump: Yes, the nuclear family. What a big, beautiful family. No one knows nuclear like me. My uncle -

I am maybe misplaced in this conversation. I was born in 1990. I do feel a deep nostalgia for early chat rooms and IRC. So much so that I'm trying to build up a chat platform of my own.

In comparison to the time of asking people their A/S/L and just hanging out talking about how our lives are different, there are now maybe four (or five?) categories of potentially society-ending threats hanging around our cultural zeitgeist. All of them addressable, but it just hangs around every internet thread like a miasma now.

But I do think we'll find ourselves nostalgic for this time in a similar way that we look back on the 80's. In the same way it became possible in the mid 70's to just buy some off-the-shelf components and assemble them into personal computers that can be sold en masse, it is every year more and more possible for a relative novice (such as myself) to do something like create their own chat room app. With some prior experience and the help of AI, I've got the bare bones of a shift-left style DevSecOps stack, and it feels really exciting. It feels like I'm a guy in the 70's in his garage putting a prototype personal computer together, the way you can abstract your requirements from deployed resources in CI/CD. I envision a near future where corporate capitalistic social media becomes stale and increasingly awful (status quo) and the average consumer can have an idea for an app and have a fully hardened back end system to support it in the span of an afternoon. I'm looking forward to a new crop of communication technologies that we collectively develop as a people to tackle the overarching issues which affect us all. Imagine if we could all organize to efficiently locate ideal candidates for public office and democratically work out our differences in environments where peaceful debate and separate chill zones are both encouraged, rather than profit-driven systems where outrage is king. We can do so much better, and we are just now on the cusp of having all the tools to enable the average person to finally be able to help themselves.

I'm sorry for the tangent, and for polluting this thread with all of this. I know it's not really on topic, I'm just waiting for tests to process and really pumped up about starting a revolution later, idk, maybe, I mean, like only if you feel like revolting.