Yup we should put AI in children’s toys because AI needs to be everywhere. The linked bear was willing to talk about raunchy sex stuff with kids, advise them where to get knives and narcotics. Of course OpenAI cut the company off of their API, but that doesn’t stop the hundreds of other children’s toy […]| Curtis McHale
Nice to see verifiable proof of this from Manuel and the impact a link can have in getting others to find a new voice to listen to. Be gracious with your links.| Curtis McHale
According to Applebaum, one of the key tactics that autocracies use to encourage citizens to opt out of any type of democratic process is a firehose of falsehoods. When presented with something bad the regime did the autocrat will produce as many reasons as possible that the bad thing, be it corruption or literally killing […]| Curtis McHale
Like this content, become a member to help keep it coming. Today we look at doing without existing in the world, don’t delegate your thinking, and the absurdness of the wealth of some people in the world. Always Doing, Never Existing I don’t know how to exist without doing anymore. I’ve forgotten what it feels […]| Curtis McHale
While Applebaum did reference Donald Trump a few times in Autocracy Inc, the bulk of the book was written before Trump’s second Presidency yet many of the tactics described by Applebaum in the book have clear parallels to what we see Trump’s team doing today. Want to read all my book content, join book club […]| Curtis McHale
I just found Polyphia last night and they are awesome. The video below was my introduction to them. Next up, purchase a few of their albums.| Curtis McHale
We’re not even out of Chapter 1 in this month’s book and another thought has been sticking with me. Democracies love to preach the virtues of freedom – but they’ve never hesitated to install “friendly” leaders abroad when there’s profit to be made. This isn’t the first time I’ve come across the idea either. In […]| Curtis McHale
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The first point that stuck out to me in Autocracy Inc is that many democratic countries believed if they engaged with autocrats economically they’d export their clearly superior ideas and democracy would spread throughout the world. This is a very common thought because we all want to believe that our ideas are the right ones, […]| Curtis McHale
Should you tolerate everyone? What about people who are intolerant and actively work to restrict the rights of others? Should you specialize early or wait? Which brings greater long-term success?| curtismchale.ca
What We Lost When We Made Sex Casual| curtismchale.ca
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This week the AWS issue was the last straw and had me take out my smart lights, Ryder Caroll has good advice on how to take notes that mean something in the future, and what are the costs of tunnelling tax?| curtismchale.ca
The main premise of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution is that while freedom was gained for women in the sexual revolution, many things were lost that were good. Perry digs into this heavily in the first chapter which looks at how liberal feminism tries to say that sex is no more meaningful than any […]| curtismchale.ca
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I did already watch this interview with the Framework founder and found it interesting that their laptops are just barely over 50% Linux according to their numbers. I run a Framework 13 on Fedora using Hyprland and love it. It’s been my main machine for 2 years now and I feel no need to go back to macOS.| curtismchale.ca
While I’ve slowed down so much I may have well just stopped doing YouTube, I too rarely did sponorships. The big thing is that the request for the sponorship and what I had to provide would have increased my work by 2-3x and for that extra effort, hours sometimes, I would get 100-200 bucks due to my small channel size.| curtismchale.ca
The best of the old ways are valuable not because they’re old, but because they are tried and tested. They work. Sometimes they are equal or superior to the new ways, sometimes they’re less efficient. But efficiency isn’t always the goal, is it? – Storing your stuff in plaintext is part of a bigger picture| curtismchale.ca
While we’d like to think our world is one of freedom but it’s not. The world is only free for some while others live under rules made by people who want to strip their freedom. These rules are made by others, often rich white people, as a way to suppress the freedom of others and […]| curtismchale.ca
I bought a DS920+ a few years ago after wanting a NAS for a long enough time that Drobo was the most recommended option. But when Synology decided to force some devices to only use their hard drives I saw the writing on the wall. At some point I’ll get my own server going without Synology in the mix.| curtismchale.ca
The Old Ways are More Likely to continue to Work| curtismchale.ca
Looking around at the productivity gurus writing about their ideal morning routine, or showing off their amazing productivity system, it’s easy to think that we’ve got it wrong. Our system doesn’t let us live the life we see captured in moments and posted on Instagram. The task manager we use doesn’t let us flow effortlessly between tasks checking off everything we should get done in a day. We don’t have the time to get to everything and boy that list of interesting books and articl...| curtismchale.ca