bobbyfiend

After I eventually parsed that sentence: think hard about how logic and language work. A person promoting a lot of horrible things isn't the same as that person inventing them.

You seriously don't know anything about Trump?

As some witty folks have put it, LLMs can't give you anything truly, interestingly new when all they're capable of is some weighted average of what's already there. And I'll be clear in saying I hate with the force of a tsunami the way AI is being shoved at us by desperate CEOs, and how it's being used to kill labor, destroy copyright law, increase income inequality, destroy the environment, and increase the power of huge corporations headed by assholes like Altman and Musk. But AI is getting pretty good at that weighted-average-of-what's-out-there, and a lot of the work done in several industries can benefit from that. For me, one of the great perversities or tragedies of AI is that it could be a targeted, useful tool but, instead, it's a hammer to further erode freedom. Even the coders, editors, advertisers, educators, etc. using it to do their jobs are participating in a short-term selloff of their profession to their CEOs, shareholders, etc. at the expense of large numbers of their colleagues or potential colleagues who will now never get jobs.

It's like if someone invented the wheel and Sam Altman immediately patented it and sold it to Raytheon.

I have a very good friend who is brilliant and has slogged away slowly shifting the sometimes-shitty politics of a swing state's drug and alcohol and youth corrections policies from within. She is amazing, but she has a reading disorder and is a bit neuroatypical. Social niceties and honest emails that don't piss her bosses or colleagues off are difficult for her. She jumped on ChatGPT to write her emails as soon is it was available, and has never looked back. It's been a complete game changer for her. She no longer spends hours every week trying to craft emails that strike that just-right balance. She uses that time to do her job, now.

Imagine staying onboard with someone promoting nearly every horrible thing in our world just so you can have easier email access.

I don't think I do this like you're suggesting, but I have my email hosted at opalstack. I've been really happy with them. I don't have a server-side spam solution yet, though. I just set up spam rules on Thunderbird on my local machine.

Ohy god it took me a full minute to realize that I wasn't looking at three stylized vaginas.

To be fair, I have seen several neolithic Venus figurines lately.

Yeah I think some people seem to mishear a certain key phrase as "seize the means of oppression".

This isn't a fair comparison.

That said, it's been horrifying to realize that the current leadership of Israel appears to have learned only one lesson from the Holocaust: This time, we get to be the Nazis.

Privacy mushroom?

Works in XFCE, too (well, Thunar/XFCE, anyway)