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I wish I knew that before putting a screen protector on mine.

Ah, putain!

Agree to disagree. I trust the research more than anecdotes.

You could pretend you’re in letterkenny. That’s kind of fun.

“HowAreYaNow?”

“Good,andyou?”

“Notsuhbad.”

It’s just a dialog check to get through. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZAz_MROU2I

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jwn3X1nv_NI (CW: Cutting)

Caleb Stine, there’s no harm in being crazy

There’s no harm in being crazy
If you learn how to hide it, at just the right times
And we’re all a little lonely
You just can’t let it on at the check out lines
When they ask you how you’re doing you just gotta say, “fine.”

Two things happening.

Signal never supported the type of RCS that google messages and iMessage use.

You might have an easier time evangelizing signal if it also did SMS. But I believe them if they said the mixed messaging was more damaging to the UX than the slight advantage it granted.

Especially since it can’t do RCS, since google is a monopolist.

My hardware is old. Has hardware decoding for old formats.

They need more regulating so they can’t be abused by trolls

It is useful because it’s a protection against AI messing with our futures.

To illustrate the point re: transcriptions:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40326654/

The Unexpected Harms of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Reflections on Four Real-World Cases

Kerstin Denecke et al. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2025.

Results: The incidents discussed include: Whisper’s harmful hallucinations; UNOS’s algorithm delaying transplants for black patients; the WHO’s S.A.R.A.H. chatbot providing inaccurate health information; and Character AI’s chatbot promoting disordered eating among teens.

If you buy into the story that “someday they’ll all be using it” you are doing the AI boosters’ job for them. It is not a foregone conclusion, and there is no reason to accept that future.

I can share my experience here.

I initially opted-out. I did not want a LLM in charge of summarizing something as important as a medication consultation. I’ve seen the kinds of errors it makes, the way parts of its training data make their way into your file without you having any knowledge or agency.

My provider then came back to me and said it was an error that the original form said you could opt out. Everyone had to sign it, it was HIPAA, it was nothing to worry about, etc.,

I tried explaining my reasons, but they didn’t care. I said that if they couldn’t budge, I would have to change providers. They gave me 90 days of my prescription. My primary care physician agreed to continue my prescription as long as I needed them to. And not long after, I was able to find another psychiatric provider who did not require an AI release.

Also, my primary care doctor asks if I will allow AI transcription every office visit. I feel bad that by saying no, she has to do more work typing. But I feel that the harms are too great, the risks are too much to say yes. While I have the choice, I want humans to be end-to-end responsible for what words are in my medical file, and not by pressing “yes” to agree with llm output.

The same reason you can say fire truck but not fuck.

They also make an android app

I could never get past the grind, but it definitely feels like you’re discarding a lot of adventurers

I loved playing trópico 4 good. Just trying to do the best for my little Sims and never squirreling money away to the swiss bank account.

The dark urge can be played sort of good too. I watched the Christopher Odd playthrough and he stayed mostly morally good I’d say, although eventually did become a mind flayer.

Wait what point is that

It is hard to understand the graph because it is so hard to read.

If they wanted people to read it they could have made it easier. Us ahdh people have it hard enough as it is.

Remember when Newsweek had journalists employed?