...not that I don't have crushes still... but I've always had those, and have gotten very good at ruthlessly suppressing them. -.-
@naga I've heard it said many times before that BMI is BS; this seems like one more confirming anecdata-point.
@netkitty KITTEN.EXE is free of AI, blockchain, surveillance, digital rights management, advertising, and proprietary formats!
Oddly, it hasn't worked that way for me... but I have some messed-up stuff to untangle still, and also my ideal of femininity is perhaps a bit niche.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @gwynnion
Yeah, that seems like a good first attempt anyway. I was also thinking something about context -- in the context of, say, 1970, something that worked like a modern cellphone would be an extreme luxury -- but in the context of today, it's in some ways a downgrade from the land-lines that everybody had (or even "had to have") in 1970, and folks on the lower end of Maslow's hierarchy are more dependent on them than people who are doing better.
(Kinda tangential anecdote: I remember in the 1990s I was working with a homeless org, and one of the things we did was provide a phone-number that local homeless people could use when applying for jobs. That would have required a secretary in the 1970s or 1980s, but by the 1990s phone-company-based voicemail had become affordable -- so multiple people could share a line, get their messages from any phone, and only delete the messages meant for them. A luxury in the 70s became a poverty-lifesaver in the 90s and then became basically obsolete in the 2010s.)
@devopscats The big takeaway I got from that (watched it yesterday, I think?) is that this is much more efficient and also has no moving parts.
I'm thinking there are applications far beyond heat-power reclamation, if I'm understanding it right.
The fact that it can be run in reverse to do cooling (which seems kind of like it would have to be a thing -- can't turn heat into electricity without cooling it down, or else you have perpetual motion) is especially intriguing: conventional HVAC heat-pumps just move heat around (so, cooling one thing heats something else) -- but this converts between heat and storable electricity? Where do I get one??!
Someone apparently did a little research via LLM, and posted it on X-Twitter for some reason (I can't remember the name of that site which lets you not link directly to X-Twit or else I'd use it) -- it does include source-links.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @gwynnion
Well, you can keep warm off all the power they burn while running LLM agents and blockchain mi... [is pummeled to oblivion by a barrage of iPads]
@kottke I suspected as much. Sad to have it confirmed. One more reason to kick these entitled twits to the curb as soon as humanly possible.
@tenzochris It's kinda hard to be joyful what with everything that's going on... but yeah, we need more joy.
I do have some creativity if you want. (Mainly music. Might or might not be to your taste.)
All I can find quickly is this -- https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/02/1166980 -- from which I gather that experts have testified to the UN along the lines described in the meme, but as far as I can tell the UN has not ruled on the matter.
...but that article is from February.
@anne_twain @gooba42 @futurebird
They were never what I'd call a good thing, but yeah -- technology has allowed them to become much more invasive and manipulative.
...and I'm still not really convinced they even work particularly well most of the time.
This is the mindset which sees nothing wrong with nonconsensually scraping the web to train LLMs, I guess.
@harper Do you have a doc who will do video/remote appointments? Obviously in-person would be better, but they might be able to figure something out or at least give you advice that is better informed. (I'm presuming here that making a video appointment would be easier than an in-person, and might therefore be more doable.)
@harper It might just be infected -- sounds similar to a thing I was worried about and had checked, but the doc said just to keep an eye on it; it eventually went away.
When I see something advertised, that usually makes me suspicious of it -- because they're spending money promoting it rather than making it a better product.
I suspect if neurodivergent people were more the norm, "advertisements" as we know them simply would not exist.