Juice

@Juice@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Stop the Affluent from Rigging the Housing Market⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, the response to NIMBYism is not YIMBYism, it’s public housing.

  In my city developers have rigged local government so that they can build anything they want, anywhere they want, and not pay any taxes on it for 20 years. They build luxury apartment buildings as rapid gentrification schemes, but dont worry, our city’s laws ensures about 20-30% of units must be made available to low income renters.

  One of the latest projects will only charge $2500 per month for a family making up to $29k per year. This impossible standard eads to the units staying vacant, which works to keep vacancy at a level that sustains sky high rent across the city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a paramedic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Shutup I’m not crying you’re crying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F.B.I. Arrests C.I.A. Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars in His Home⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Drugs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another redundant app⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At first I thought it was whited out but now I think its intentional and tbh I fw this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨????⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so stressed out I’m gonna eat this baby!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨d wha⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I noticed this a few times I tried using ai to solve a wordle I was about to give up on. It isn’t just worthless, it like can not guess a 5 letter word based on a few rules like “second letter not a, d or g; first letter l, last letter w; word is not " lower”

  Its not that it can’t solve it, it can’t even guess slightly correct. I think ai language isn’t as connected to “spelling” as we think, I’ve heard of people using ai to translate instructions to Mandarin and then feeding the Mandarin query in because Mandarin is more “meaning dense” therefore uses less tokens and gets better answers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We’re NHS analysts organising together against Palantir. Here’s why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CEO of Palantir: I want to use techno fascism to create a global monarchy that can be controlled from bunkers deep underground of that ensures I remain powerful during the climate wars

  Regular people: we fucking hate this guy

  Palantir workers: this company is evil as fuck

  Western Politicians: hear him out, Thiel is extremely wealthy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨insert mental health condition here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Italy is a fascinating region to study language, it was broken up into city states well into the 1800s, with some of those city states serving as the center of culture and intellectualism for all of Europe, at various times. So there was like these very advanced areas of Italy, and these very backwards parts, and the 1800s was all about getting people all speaking the same language, the Florentine dialect.

  I bet if someone took on such a study it would be a very uninteresting read. Also Italians are friendly and speak good English I bet you could connect with someone who could help explore the topic more!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨insert mental health condition here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I’m drawing a line between the late medieval period when there was accelerated social development of the EU, but not enough scribes and scholars, and so their work suddenly became very sought after in a new world made of contracts and written agreements. So I’m probably talking about arguably two different things. First when writing in a very formal manner was a literal sign of intelligence, because that kind of intellectual work became a necessary component of late pre-modern statecraft, and hence highly valued by the ruling classes of the time and place. The second connection is to cursive, which is a formalized writing that had real legal and business value just a few generations ago.

  So I’m sure I am butchering the history of any actual scripts that were mentioned in this effort post. But as someone who has a pretty lively fascination with handwriting, font and text in general, I’d love any questions, clarifications, resources, criticisms and reprimands that are due!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨References: [1] out of his ass⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit, reverse the flow to the warp coils! Dump all energy from life support into forward shields and laser missiles, our only chance to defeat the psychic alien is to reverse and restart time for .00001 second, creating a terminal in the psychic time loop. Once free, we can concentrate our dark matter on the psychic alien, stunning him for just long enough to get him to buy a sketchy timeshare on Mars.

  Thank you quantum computing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨insert mental health condition here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, not trying to step on any mines here, and I get this is literally only a 2D representation of a phenomenon.

  But what jumps out to me, is how “neurodivergence” is being defined kind of ahistorically. It supposes that neuro divergence is an essential, natural quality in humanity. That has real problems when we try to describe objective reality, especially the parts of us that aren’t tangible.

  Did ancient people mostly have 2 arms and legs, 10 fingers and toes at birth? Yeah, by all accounts. Were ancient people as intelligent as modern people? That question gets a little funky, because who and what gets defined as intelligent, is really historically and geographically dependent. European kings sent away to the most far flung monasteries to bring in trusted advisors who spoke multiple languages and could write awesome cursive; at the same time Fibonacci was bringing algebra and the foundations of calculus home from Turkiye and publishing them in Italy as brain teasers. Now cursive is worthless except as a craft, maybe some marketing, and calculus became the intellectual basis for the industrial revolution.

  So if “neuro divergence” can be defined historically like intelligence, which in some ways the graph itself supports this claim, then we can’t rely on an idea of human nature to make a point, especially since we are talking about scientific medical detection of a concrete divergence or disorder.

  So like, what is divergence? What is being diverged from? The baseline has always been a vibe.

  I’ve read studies that show better outcomes, increased happiness, better social integration measured among children and students with autism who spent time working on farms around animals. Structured, satisfying, hands on work, that used to make up most of the population. Now farmers is a micro minority, either owning land and charging people to work it, or working land for not enough money – hard, degrading, difficult work.

  Other factors like screen time, social media, increase in dietary simple sugars, all show measurable changes in behaviors of people with ADHD, social anxiety, autism, bipolar, borderline disorders. Academics like Michel Foucault have studied how mental health treatment and psychiatry (additionally schools, and hospitals) are directly descended from the development of mass imprisonment and incarceration during the industrial revolutions in England, Germany, etc.,

  Foucault also reviews sources that show more kind and forgiving attitudes in society toward people with severe social dysfunctions and intellectual disabilities. I wouldn’t go nearly as far as saying that people with disorders and divergences were better off – I believe that the medieval monastery was a “safe” place for a lot of people with what might now be described as neuro divergent, but also acknowledge the medieval church exploited poverty and mental illness for official and unofficial purposes.

  But it does raise the question of how people, who may be intellectually “equal,” when raised under different conditions develop quite differently. And the way our current system functions, it uses value judgments and certifications, etc., to slot me into a specific place. But once in that place, i have to almost be a certain kind of person in order to succeed. The role isn’t suited to the person filling it, but to the needs of the organization. And usually the org needs to make money.

  If there is greater social stigma towards disorder and divergence than there once was, that plays a major factor in whether people even want to be diagnosed. Lots of people have commented on self identification with neuro divergence as being a “tik tok trend” or some such. But a friend of mine, in an unofficial obit she wrote for someone older, made a point to say that previous generations looked at MH like it meant you were off to meet the business end of an ice pick.

  For myself, learning I have ADHD and treating it has been holistically helpful. I’m open about it with people, we will see if it bites me in the ass.

  I just worry a bit about the framing of “people have always been this way.” While I agree it is true in a way; I think our society is extremely stressful and toxic.

  And then to say that the baseline of neuro divergence is unchanged throughout time buys cover for people who are responsible for the environmental changes making people unwell, and getting richer because of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potata Salad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  C’mon, that potato salad would be fucking delicious. Passed down for 3 generations, farm grown ingredients.

  They may not have any museums in Ebensburg, but what they do have, is carbohydrates mixed with Mayonnaise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays PRAGMATA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It gets really good. You are being set up to think what youre thinking, keep going

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its easy to forget things you don’t give a fuck about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I see it but thats not what the problem is. The author isnt saying “ai’s points of contrast arent relevant or helpful” its calling out the construction itself. The author complains about the ineffective writing of ai, and then names the wrong problem. Its like saying "the problem with ai writing is ai keeps usimg the word “the”. No that isnt the problem! There are problems and that isnt the one. It isnt a stylistic quirk, its the way the quirk is used that stands out, just like you said.

  But actually I’m just having a laugh trying to fit in as many “its not x, its y” comments as I can. I’m all about criticizing ai but theres so much to actually criticize and this misses the mark

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so silly. The way to explain a concept is to explain it in both the positive and the negative. Its the first steps to understanding, knowing not just what a thing is, but what it isnt.

  I am not defending AI, but this writer is a loon. It isnt a stylistic choice, it is the most basic form of critical thinking. AI is not doing critical thinking, it is copping the style of an effective pedagogy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Times sure have changed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously. Theres no way that television even just weighs barely half as much as people seem to say it almost doesnt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real talk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good post

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Science isn't political!"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “I took the liberty of fertilizing your caviar”

  – RFK jr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem more invested in criticizing it than trying to enjoy yourself.

  I also didn’t say the first season was bad, i liked it. Theres stuff to criticize but SAM quickly became a fav character, as the actress is quite good. The episode where they hyperbolic time-chambered her in order to make her emotionally resilient was quite good, sort of an inverse to the Lal episode in TNG.

  There was stuff to criticize and maybe you just really didn’t like it. Thats fair, opinions about a new star trek show are purely subjective and that is OK. But TV just isnt as good as it used to be, in part because of the shorter seasons, and changes to the industry from streaming. And it wasnt actually that long ago, not for me at least. So idk what to tell ya champ. Starfleet academy was a little rough but that doesn’t mean I think a show is allowed to be straight ass for 100 episodes before it gets good. I think star trek shows, the ones we love, weren’t perfect either in their first seasons. Ben Sisko was just straight up weird at first, Picard was a total dick. Lieutenant Yar was not a great actress (she was much better when she came back briefly in s3), Whorf’s make up looked stupid and bad.

  Certain things about the production cycles of shows do change over time. A show can get better writers, the actors can get better in their roles, more viewers mean better budgets and pay. Some shows start out good and then quickly decline. I’d rather have 6 seasons of a show that started out rough but got better after 1-2 seasons, than something that starts good but starts to suck after season 1 and gets canceled in 2-3 seasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A season today is only 8-10 episodes. TNG was legit pretty wonky for the first 20-30 episodes.

  Like it wasnt bad, I really like Holly Hunter, and several of the characters were felling really strong in the last few EPs of season 1. But I do worry that the shorter seasons just aren’t really conducive to telling Star Trek stories.

  A movie might be cool, but it will never happen. And we will have to see what they do with season 2. The show doesn’t have too much margin to get worse, like bad writing or directing. Some things about the show, like visual effects and sound effects, like there were just a lot of really bad decisions around it. Nothing that couldn’t be fixed tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a shame, it was just getting good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an interesting way to put it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Juggalos are still identified as a domestic terrorist org, probably for this exact reason

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I was punched in the face for driving at 20mph'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most chill construction trade subcontractor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon misses flash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The polycule is a state of mind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon misses flash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your “couple” is a whole extended polycule

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No More Neutral ⚛⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is way too common to confuse the abstractions we use to understand reality with reality itself. Like the scientists who work with this stuff are really consistent in keeping the two separated, but the moment a theory gets in the hands of a journalist or god forbid a politician, it starts wreaking havok

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a suspicion you weren’t advocating for capitalism. But just in case someone comes along and thinks “yeah make capitalism more efficient,” I like to underline the fact that “efficiency” has a different meaning if someone is a worker than if someone is a capitalist.