Just finished Paper Towns by John Green with very mixed feelings

I have been mildly irritated at the whole book right up to the last 30 pages where it kind if got better. I can’t really put a finger on what has annoyed me, but it just feels wrong and somewhat artificial

Oh… Sorry 🤦‍♂️

Just finished Paper Towns by John Green with very mixed feelings

I have been mildly irritated at the whole book right up to the last 30 pages where it kind if got better. I can’t really put a finger on what has annoyed me, but it just feels wrong and somewhat artificial

As if facebook, reddit, twitter, instagram are any better…

Even Lemmy sometimes doesn’t qualify for being a social media

It would just take one to put it out

They are sayin 50 now!

FYI for users outside of EU who maybe don’t get the cookie notice.

They have quite a few partners who all care about you privacy

Every year, they make lists of the happiest countries I’m the world.

If they can measure this by asking people, then I guess they should be able to measure the individual person’s happiness too by using the same or similar questions

Happiness would be a much stronger metric

That’s my point though. Marriage is no that. You don’t care for a partner like you did in the 50s

Why is ‘married’ still a lifegoal…

I thought it was 'super intelligence ’ now /s

‘National Security’ again…

Pickles in his happy meal is a national security threat if you ask him!

‘we’ as in Trump family and friends

I’d pay if it wasn’t based in the US.

Credit due: you could say it’s a way of draining the swamp…

It was not sold. It was taken/stolen

The internet itself was once a niche alternative to mainstream knowledge

The way I see it is, that we are all good or even experts at something. The internet is not only about programming alone. The frustration comes from people who 30 years ago spent time discussing and sharing all kinds of knowledge on websites, forums or wikis but now, large corporations charge money to present the same knowledge more conveniently, but not always in the right context

This includes programming, but also gardening, how to ferment cabbage, how to clean a smoking pipe, what to feed guinea pigs.

It is definitely doable, but will take many decades

Obviously by someone who has never been to nude beach apparently

But why would AI companies bother with that?

I think it’s a PR move to start selling security plans along with their AI, just like antivirus subscriptions back in the day