It’s kinda a weird way to phrase it like one caused the other, btc had been trading at 60-70k usd for around 2.5 months from around a month before the US+Israel war against Iran started

I use user tags if someone is just being a blockhead, but I’ll block them if they’re being harmful running apologetics for some heinous shit or pushing obvious misinformation

They are guessing machines, predicting the next token. At best it’s equivalent to the language center of the brain, but it still needs many capabilities like logical reasoning to weight and evaluate different actions and outcomes wrt values or goals to not just mimic the behavior of thinking agents. It’s one of many steps in a long line of experimentation and engineering building towards AGI but we still have no idea how close it really is, maybe 10 years, 50 years, 500 years, etc. They are useful for specific tasks like a hammer or newspaper or search engine, but because of all the fear based investing to not miss the next big thing people with more money than brains invested heavily without understanding the limitations or actually capabilities of the technology.

There are scientific targets and experiments being run

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis-ii-science/

100% there is a big political component to the effort, but there are also data that we can’t get without getting farther from Earth

Discworld is great and so many series within it to start with, guards! Guards!, the color of magic, mort, etc really enjoyable to read. My second fav after LOTR for fantasy.

Edit: a couple more fun ones are the forgotten realms/sword coast/icewind Dale/etc d&d setting books like drizzt by r.a. Salvatore and the Diablo novelization series by Richard knaak that reads a bit like Conan the barbarian or berserk

There’s 1 listener supported classical station and 1 listener supported news station, the rest are garbage constant ads or worse

You use rotating passwords, challenge/response phrases, secret handshakes, etc. Even without this dystopian nightmare scenario it’s good to at least have a crisis/I’m in danger secret word or phrase with family members in case someone needs help without making the situation more dangerous.

Just go slow and pay attention, if you’re really nervous trim first then use a chemical hair remover just try it on a spot first as some can be sensitive or allergic to it

I saw the series but never any of the movies, saw it in high school and it was pretty good for an intro to giant robots fighting monsters. Not my first anime I think that was 8 man after or Dragonball z.

If you buy groceries with a credit card instead of cash they will track that too, I’ve received coupons in the mail for specific items I’ve purchased in the past without any rewards program.

A car built after 2010 so it’s full of cameras and lte connections and gps etc so car companies and the advertisers they sell data to and the governments they backdoor always know what trips I make, how far, how long I stay, etc.

I think his influence is there in a lot of works even if he’s not called directly by name as often as some of his contemporaries. My experience with his books were mostly in translations for learning foreign languages.

I think it’s going to be different for each kid but teaching how to be self reliant was a pretty big one for both building confidence and being willing to try and fail at things, face your fears, etc. Don’t know what a word means? Look it up. Not sure how to cook something? Check the recipe. Bored? Go to the library or park, etc. learning how to figure things out for yourself in a safe, stable environment seems to make a big difference.

Tldr; hospital and er administrators (capitalist business bros running for profit healthcare businesses) want to deregulate ai-reads for poors to push more rubes through the for profit healthcare system that makes money on more throughput & not get sued when outcomes get worse, and keep more time consuming but necessary doctor-reads only for premium healthcare payers.

So many having access to the bulk of human knowledge and so many driving head first into conspiracy theories and magical thinking for comfort seems pretty cursed

In a time of constant attention distractions and exploiting addiction triggers and misinformation some folks choosing to reject corporate media to actually read books and primary sources and get PhDs to do more academics seems pretty blessed

The em field seems like 50 different things but it’s all different frequency ranges of the same thing is pretty mind blowing

I like to keep it simple; a load of linens and undergarments on hot and a load of everything else on cold, repeat as needed.

First verse of mad Tom o bedlam:

From the hag and hungry goblin.
That into rags would rend ye,
The spirit that stands by the naked man.
In the Book of Moons defend ye,
That of your five sound senses.
You never be forsaken,
Nor wander from your selves with Tom.
Abroad to beg your bacon,
While I do sing, Any food, any feeding,
Feeding, drink, or clothing;
Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
Poor Tom will injure nothing.

Artisinal napping

Bespoke meandering

Daydream stylist

X-Men pinball machine, there’s a spot under magneto with a magnet that holds the ball in place for a sec