Would you miss it? Would any of you miss it?

I guess you’re right. Might as well give up now, put zero effort into making anything better, and simply wallow in my own smug pessimism.

People need to be more media litterate and more skeptical of news stories instead of taking them at face value, regardless of Deepfakery. So many articles that pass as “news” are filled with opinion and adjectives designed to ellicit an emotional response.

People need to learn to look at a piece of information and ask questions.

• Who wants me to be reading this?
• What emotions (if any) is this trying to ellicit?
• What objective information can be taken from this story?
• What are the sources for that objective information? Are they reliable?

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Even a Fox News article can have some insight into the goings on if you can parse the information from the spin. Deepfakes are just going to be another level of spin, but if people are informed enough, they’ll be able to logically differentiate between a real news story and a damning fake video.

However, that doesnt solve the age old problem of willfully ignorant people and the confirmation bias…

Fuuuuuuck caught myself doing this the other day while looking at a map lol.

Weird that AI isnt replacing things like management, CEOs, stock investors, accountants… you know, jobs that tend to be about numbers and efficiency, which you would think AI would excel at.

Instead, we have it skirting copyright by stealing other people works and changing it just enough to not be a direct copy.

Boy, that Chef must have egg on his face.

The Museum of History in Canada has a cool solution to this regarding some of their indigenous artifacts.

They either come to an agreement with the people who the historical item belongs to for the museum to keep it, or they give it back with either a placard explaining why the item is no longer at the museum, or reproduction in its place with a sign explaining that its a repro.

It used to be, when there were actual bargains worth fist-fighting over.

Now they jack the prices up leading into November, and return prices to normal with “SALE” in bug red letters, or offer a piddly 10%-15% discount and act like its a door crasher.

I always thought that tides were a really underutilized source of energy.

I mean, look at the Bay of Fundy. The equivalent of all the water in all the rivers in the entire world cycles in and out every single day. Thats a lot of movement and a ton of potential energy there.

Skibblezz DeWicket

I dont know about that.

See, this world is rough, and if a man’s gonna make it, he’s gotta be tough. If a father knew he wouldn’t be there to help his son along he could, hypothetically, give him that name, say goodbye, and know his son would have to get tough or die.

That very name would then help to make him strong.

Americans will use anything but metric smdh.

Oh, man, so much.

Free/pay what you can kitchen, for starters. Subsidized rental properties, all sorts of community projects.

“You can never truly idiot-proof something, as there will always be a better idiot.”

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Last line of the article: “Just like choosing not to ride on airplanes isn’t really an option, for many, using social media isn’t much of a choice either.”

That, and not only is not riding on an airplans an option for a lot of people, its their reality for a lot of people and out of reach financially. Way to be completely out of touch, Gizmodo. Couldn’t have used a worse example lol.

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You knew that Canada had the recipts when Trudeau went public with it. He’s not prone to causing friction between countries for no reason.

Fun fact: the Director of the “Turn Down For What” video ended up directing “Everything Everywhere All At Once”.

The Canadian Government about Residential Schools