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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • Anecdotally, it doesn’t feel like the experience is contracting, or part of a shrinking community. It’s worth asking what the data means, and whether it’s bad, but there are definitely other reasonable factors too. Users from interoperable platforms like mastodon and piefed, individual people using fewer accounts, or even fewer lurkers, could be responsible for a good chunk of the data.










  • This is one of many examples of a class of problem where the technology is the easy part. There’s room to improve the tech certainly, but the technology sufficient to solve the problem is already well understood.

    The hard part is how to get people to actually do the necessary changes. To consume less, get fewer gas cars on the road, increase the amount of nuclear, hydro, solar, geothermal, and wind in the grid, and minimize coal and gas use. To reduce land use by cows, and increase land use by trees and native plants.

    But maybe AI is the secret here. We have tools that are in the hype moment whose training data already contains several reasonable solutions to climate change. Maybe if AI “finds” the solution to climate change, people will finally listen




  • I would not automatically jump to the worst case conclusion that he’s definitely exhibiting serial killer traits. Like, if he views them as pest animals, that’s not exactly normal and healthy, but it isn’t clear evidence of something much worse either.

    Ideally, he should probably talk to a professional to help him deal with it in a healthy way, if he isn’t already. Telling your friend and/or their parents that you’re worried about him, and quoting specific things he’s said, is probably a good place to start.