I think he means those vinyl things people put over their cars in place of paint. Sometimes to change the colour for decoration and sometimes with things like a company logo or the like.

Are there no other messages showing for you?

This is why I laugh bitterly at the notion that Canada is somehow a “nice” society that “celebrates” diversity.

I’m sure it looks this way if you’re white. It doesn’t look this way if you’re “Asian” (between people who call us “their fetish” and people who do what I reported above), if you’re Native, if you’re Middle Eastern of any stripe, if you’re Indian, if you’re Somali, if you’re … You get the drift.

A person who bullies. In the workplace.

All the people who “accidentally” said things like “they (Chinese) just don’t value life like we do” within earshot of me kind of merge together in my memory as one enormous workplace bully.

The ones who would then pretend to spot me and wide-eyed add, “Oh, not you Dianne. You’re one of the good ones” form the second enormous workplace bully.

There’s a reason I moved here “for a year or two” … almost 25 years ago.

OK, I won’t call it AI.

(Because it isn’t.)

“AI” at this point is at best a marketing term. Every second thing in my phone (a phone that is ANCIENT by modern hipster standards) is labelled AI, especially in the audio, photo, and video processing field.

And yet in reality it’s just “really sophisticated audio filters”, “really fancy image recognition and enhancement”, and “really fancy frame stabilization”. It was all called “AI” because back when I got it, LLMs hadn’t yet made the term toxic (again).

But as an actual thing? An actual intelligence that is 100% artificially created? We’re no closer to it now than we were in the 1950s.

So you do that thing that every scientist says is a good thing: curve fitting!

No, there isn’t. Because there’s no “AI”.

I mean how do you build an artificial version of something you can’t even define?

I think we’ve got 100. Or 1000. Because LLMs will not be leading to any kind of actual AI ever. And degenerative “AI” will be such a bomb (like every previous wave of “AI” that was “the future”) that it will set back all research into AI for another decade before a whole new approach is tried.

You know. Like every previous wave of “AI”.

Ensemble Unicorn Codex Faenza

I like microwaved eggs for scrambling.

Not even slightly surprising to me. Mention China, directly or indirectly, and the fee fees of American neocon thugs get hurt and the downvote brigade comes out to fight as only they know best to fight.

I thought Kissinger used violence to dismantle democracies, not TikTok?

I try to have a piece of fresh fruit (whatever’s seasonal: right now it’s mangoes) about an hour before I go to sleep.

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The downvoting brigade is out in force I see.

Terrified, are we, about an alternative to the current broken system?

Who said anything about GPS, though? It could easily be those “bluetooth beacons”, right?

Yes, let’s just ignore almost a century of research on perception and go with that, shall we?

Yes. That’s exactly what “elitism” means. 🙄

There are a whole lot more threats than cars at crossings that you might like to be aware of.

(And before people straw man this, it’s an example selected for comedy potential, not a comprehensive list of all possible environmental hazards you might want to keep aware of.)

Just unnecessarily redundant ones for those of us not so addicted to our phones we can’t last 20 seconds without looking at them.

I know! Maybe they need traffic lights built into phones! As you approach a traffic light, they link up with the intersection and tint your screen green and red depending on the walk/don’t walk status! You’d never have to look up from your phones again!