Going for a walk is generally a good thing.

In-N-Out can only place restaurants in certain locations due to internal supply chain limitations. I haven’t confirmed it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if their food was sourced locally because of it.

Go down a hyperfocus rabbit hole.

Ever since the deployment of machine generated results for search engines, there has always been a competition between the search engines and various others using search engine optimization to get to the top of the results. It isn’t worth it for Alphabet or Microsoft to fix their search engines if they can push you to AI, so their non-AI results naturally degrade.

So I’ve been having to remove pictures of people posting anime style upskirt images of people in child expressing bodies with the text effectively “I will not be responding to comments because everyone is mean”. Most of the time, I only find out because other people reported it as CP or CP adjacent.

With my own choices of art that I used to post, I tried pieces which can generally be viewed in public given I’m on an instance where people can expect to view the content anywhere. I don’t care enough to go through the discussions to get buy in to show legitimate art, let alone what looks like AI CP.

Am I drawing a line further than what an art museum would show? Yeah. But an art museum is going to be more enclosed with walls, a greeter, and an expectation that most children won’t enter it unaccompanied to make it a point of discussion in the community. I’m also not willing to go through the effort for others who do not wish to be a part of the community other than posting.

If someone wants to create something more, all the tools to create their own instance are available.

I remember how other wildly successful people have made mistakes and try to remember I can’t do a near zero fault run in life.

Valve’s revenue stream requires defending the app store. I look at the Steam Deck as being the first time it made sense for a large company to invest in consumer Linux, since it defends access to the app store.

Alternate between going full retirement mode by turning the money into $200k a year and planning for a mass collapse by buying farmland tucked away in the Appalachian Mountains.

Not really. Colonization requires some administration from the colonizer.

The bigger danger is that it is American companies that operate a lot of the technological and financial backbone of the world. That market is going to disappear as other countries implement their own sovereignty measures.

That’s typical of her relationships.

Google used open source as cover to to illegally dump into different industries to expand its monopoly. It did the bare minimum to prepare for the antitrust litigation that never came.

I expect that the takeover of AI is going to be slower than AI companies make it seem. I also expect that AI won’t be run out of major companies as the ownership of data becomes a bigger deal.

One big thing which will become a big deal is that AI is able to take novel approaches to hacking. I suspect that infrastructure will become less connected as it becomes impossible to keep infrastructure operational without an air gap to the Internet.

A lot of kids are going to rely on it for their education and they’ll be incredibly brittle employees. I suspect that screen time will be seen as incredibly toxic to kids.

Social media in general.

Watching a lot of stuff from the era, it seemed to completely miss the mark on how social media as a concept would work.

It is even worse as there are two feet.

Yeah. The attempt was made to convert everything to metric for official government documents, but that just meant most businesses paid people to convert it back for their use.

Painting a roof white has shown a measurable lowering of temperature inside the building. Any issues are likely caused by the material used to make the roof white.

If you ever come into some money, whether it be a raise, bonus, or gift, don’t let it sit in your checking account. Move it to somewhere that is able to earn money.

You don’t have to invest in the stock market to invest in a 401k. There are funds dedicated to bonds and you can pick the funds with low overhead ratios. You can even pick treasuries if you really want to.

It is better than shoving it under the mattress.

The Gen Z stare is a rational response to the risk that anyone can pull out their phone and start recording.