Your setup is closer to “statistic” than “anecdote,” so curious how many drive failures you’ve had?

What is the primary OS you run to manage all of the components?

I have now!

I think for me, the challenge is finding something that breaks down trends and ideas without resorting to discourse that’s been overworked. Vocabulary that already has been politicized by society won’t change any minds because exposure immunizes people against ideas, even good ones. The revolutionary idea becomes mundane given exposure plus time.

That’s what I think is unique about Adam Curtis, is he studiously avoids any framing that feels like a rote “capitalism” critique, but instead speaks to something more fundamental to human nature.

Yep, same. I really enjoyed All Watched Over, which I feel presciently explains some of the techno-fascism trends that have taken over the last six months, and of course Hypernormalization which is the corollary politically.

I feel like we’re in an era of anterograde amnesia where national memories reset every two weeks, and his work makes me feel slightly less insane, both remembering and filling in the gaps of how we got here.

I’m not aware of any similar. But since it’s so rare I come across people who actually know who this is, I’ll ask: what’s the best one, in your opinion?

I get that it’s usually just a dunk on AI, but it is also still a valid demonstration that AI has pretty severe and unpredictable gaps in functionality, in addition to failing to properly indicate confidence (or lack thereof).

People who understand that it’s a glorified autocomplete will know how to disregard or prompt around some of these gaps, but this remains a litmus test because it succinctly shows you cannot trust an LLM response even in many “easy” cases.

Hmmm, interesting. I’m just using the default Lemmy interface (lemmynsfw.com instance) and Firefox on a Windows 10 PC, at the moment. Definitely no larger version appears when expanding or clicking.

Edit: It loads on Connect on Android, but is a two-stage load with the higher quality version loading after the lower quality version. For some reason that isn’t happening on the PC web client, must be a bug.

What is this, a meme for ants? (image size is very small and no larger version available)