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Go solarpunk!

Improve your local community in other ways. Or give in other ways. Not sure what would apply in your local community - I live in rural Western Europe and that’s very different from what you describe. People here set up donation boxes, swap shops, create food banks, organize markets, create safe spaces for minority groups, community gardens … mostly volunteering time. Not sure you are in the position to do this? Sorry things are so heartbreaking. I hope we all figure this out soon.

How did you like Georgia? I keep beong obsessed by it (because music).

How did you address your trauma? What methods did you find worked?

trying to catch trains, trying to find the correct room at university …

Me too

I know nothing about how an international union could work - need some smart people to help.

I have been thinking about the possibility of an international screen workers’ union. My own job is in translating, but there’s millions of people doing data entry, AI-related stuff, graphic design, devloping etc. on a kind of semi-freelancing basis, often via job platforms that keep part of our earnings. I’ve often thought a union to bring all this workforce together would be great.

But is FOSS actually more vulnerable?

I was leftie before I was techie. If you don’t know anything around tech and computers you wouldn’t know what to do. Even as a fairly tech-adjacent professional it took me quite a while.

Then again, I only became a real leftie again after kicking all the corpos out of my computer.

Tech used to be (and still is) obscured by heavy gatekeeping. We who understand a little more like to joke about those who don’t, and I guess we’ll have to stop that if we really want to unite the left. Don’t ridicule, explain. The person might never have had a chance to learn the concept.

For speech to text I also found Speech Note (not to confuse with Speechnotes, some similar thing from a different team I believe)

I found KDE Simon, and Numen … I’ve only ever used a commercial product, Dragon Naturally Speaking, many years ago. It was used so I could speak instead of typing texts but it did have functions to assign commands as well - don’t think it worked on Linux though.

I had this procedure done as a child. Very simple, zero problems. I never even remembered it before your post.

yes

TLDR: Because AI is shite

‘Tech Billionaires give all wealth away to end world hunger.’ ‘Tech Billionaires lobby for wealth tax with national governments.’ ‘Tech Billionaires realize they are normal people like anyone else, not super smart world-saving geniuses, and finally shut the fuck up.’

Now these would be news.

tested it to determine the amount of potassium hydroxide

Oh shit I read ‘tasted it’ and was like ‘these people are so determined to science they even taste nasty old oil!’

Great project, thanks for sharing!

Currently sitting next to silent bf silently. We just grunt at each other for days in a row. Live with someone wanting constant interaction = hell.

The future is simpler, I hope. But I guess most people are in this community for the spaceships …

This AI BS is wealth concentrating and selling us back our own content and culture. It creates something that is vaguely like the real thing and not entirely awful, but cheaper, because no human had to be paid.

We should just refuse this garbage. And AI in driving has not been great so far. The technology has ‘just been around the corner’ since decades. What we really need is more good public transport, cycleable and walkable cities, and less individual robotic clown cars on the road, no matter if they are slightly less foolish than the human ~~ clowns~~ drivers.

Fuck robot trucks, bring back equines and bovines, there’s some real intelligence for you, plus they turn their fuel waste into fertilizer.