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The pandemic stole the last Popeye’s buffet from us: https://nola.eater.com/2021/12/8/22823504/last-popeyes-buffet-closed-lafayette-louisiana

Do I need to add a sarcasm tag when saying a 92 year-old ogre is “hot”?

I have the same feeling about this as I have about text written by A.I.: why would I want to read something no one could be bothered to write? Art isn’t interesting because it’s technically adequate. It’s impressive because a human (or humans) made it and it meant something to them.

I’m all for A.I. as a tool for creative people and doing rote tasks but I don’t get the point of A.I. generated “art.”

My ex wife.

That’s sarcasm. But when I was in college, there used to be Popeye’s all-you-can-eat buffet locations and also a “Super Popeyes” that sold liquor and fajitas when you were flush and had $20 bills. I don’t want to eat unlimited fast food today but I wish young people today could have the experience of being lit and eating all the Popeyes.

20 kelvins. It’s “high temperature” but only compared to the usual 4 kelvins needed in previous designs. (This isn’t another sketchy “room temperature” superconductor claim where the media is going to go ape shit and then we’re all going to be disappointed in a few weeks.)

If I recall, Spotify moved away from it just because the client/server model got way cheaper and the P2P model had some limitations for their future business plans. I remember them mentioning that offering a family plan was a challenge with their P2P architecture when people on the same network/account were using it at the same time.

It was probably also part of the move to smartphones. Spotify was just a desktop program for a long time and, while I’m not an expert, I would guess the P2P model made a lot more sense on desktop with a good connection than early smartphones on flaky 2G/3G connections. They might have had to run a client/server model for iOS and/or Android anyway.

I’ve also found that The NY Times is getting worse lately, not so much in leaning left or right but just in terms of the focus. Like their coverage of campus politics is so fucking tedious. I don’t give a rat’s ass about what some sophomore at U Penn thinks about global affairs. There also seems to be more access journalism and beat sweeteners. Maybe early in an election campaign is the time for that stuff but it’s still useless bullshit.

It’s closer to enshittification than something where the staff writers suddenly got worse. They still have good writers. It seems more like the editors got worse at assignments rather than the rank and file screwing up their reports.

The idea that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon from less complex things working together. There’s no evidence of, for instance, a city or bee hive having “consciousness” so it’s philosophical, not scientific, but the idea appeals to me.

I think it appeals to me because it’s a bottom up approach to something we usually think of as top down. Emergence in general is very common in nature. Ants aren’t sophisticated but ant colonies can be surprisingly complex. Maybe it’s the same with our cells.

It’s probably hard to schedule a hearing when you’re busy begging for a reach around from every dipshit failson who inherited a private jet.

I stopped using Facebook in like 2008 but for work reasons, I have a Facebook account called “[My first name] Dev Account” and the profile picture is “I do not use Facebook” in like 8 languages. People tag it in photos.

I’ve been a dues paying (if not always very active) member of DSA since forever and I really think it’s the only alternative to the Democratic Party. They (or we) run candidates in primaries but operate within the unfortunate reality of a 2-party system. If you’re to the left of establishment democrats, it’s the most effective place to put your energy even if it’s not perfect.