Chase

how do you describe a sequence of events without implying that the earlier events caused the later ones?

A restaurant told me they don’t take reservations “to keep it fair” and I am thinking about what sort of internal model of “fairness” that fits into.

Is it really that simple?

I am spiraling. The more I think about this the more I don’t understand how having different colors makes products in almost any category more competitive. It seems like it would be an obvious answer. But “people have favorite colors and are more likely to buy something in a color they like.”?

Do products that come in lots of colors sell more than those that only come in one or two? If so, why‽

Are there really enough people that wouldn’t buy an iPhone, but then it comes out in purple and they’re like “ok I’m in!”?

This is a serious question: Why are products offered in different colors?

From gatekeeper to stair master, the Jack Dorsey story

He mayo may not be the cutest dog ever

Pachelbel’s Canon hold music on the pediatrician office phone line? Is there an option for me to simply punch myself repeatedly in the face until you pick up the phone instead?

Wild how “telling people how to feel” doesn’t work

gotta find out if jery ever get ipad

skeet

The word hellthread is redundant because all threads are hell

This was a fun question! Didn’t realize it would set me off on such a thinky-streak. Thanks @jon.bo!

Alternately, AI Foom happens, we are all digitized because AI can keep us “alive” and “productive” more effectively in digital form, and our relationship with computation becomes “it is the foundation of our existence”. Have you read “The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect”?

…heavily monetized pipes to be processed on shared compute (“the public cloud”). A lot of this is already happening but could be escalated a lot more depending on the monetization/surveillance schemes and incentives that win the future.

…depend heavily on shared centralized compute resources that require a network connection. e.g. some will get powerful personal devices that can run a whole Siri (but good) locally, and only download data from the web as needed for that. Others will have to send all their algo requests through…

I thought about this some more. My answer before was more about how people interact with the outputs of computing. Another answer is that I think some people will get more and more computing locally at their edge devices (phones, home devices) to run their individual algos, while others will…

A lot of stuff gets completely automated out of any individual’s awareness. Individuals pay subscriptions to be able to take back personal control, or to better, more individualized algorithms for automating what information they see, what they do, how much they “feel like they can make choices”

I have the Tern Quickhaul and it is possibly my favorite powered vehicle I have used! I’m getting rid of a OneWheel and a Boosted Board. Tern e-bikes are the true cyberpunk vehicle of the future.

idk we don’t know each other i’m just reading the book now! Nearly finished.

SAND
employee
use only

Have you read Hollow Kingdom? A novel about the zombie apocalypse from the perspective of a crow living in Seattle? Seems to sit at the intersection of your interests.

this book called “But Is It Art?” was required reading for one of my college art classes and everyone called it “But Is It Fart?”

This is my whole contribution to AI art discourse.

I kept trying to interpret this as some kind of koan until i realized you were describing literal events you witnessed 😂

What a day

Dental hygienist just told me that brushing my teeth twice a day instead of once would be 50% more brushing while my mouth was full of dental instruments so i couldn’t “actually…”

Devastated.

Can I have some codes plz?

Thank god @skatie420.bsky.social made it onto here. Platform massively enhanced.