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"Let's put 'GPT' in our paper to get clicks!"?

I have a good Faraday bag. When I am chilling and talking with friends I have them power off their phones and put them in the bag. :)

The more wwe talk about Flock with our friends the faster t will happen. I like just pointing them to https://deflock.org/ for a start.

Hey Flock, show me all toyota tacomas with a Raiders sticker who have passed any check point, in the last 35 minutes.... I dont even care about the license plate.

Have you tried just using nothing? Can we all take a look inward and see how fear is selling us these devices we do not need?

Maybe it is just me and I have nothing left to loose, but the idea of people needing this surveillance is baffling.


To that end, a fake camera is going to be a reasonable deterrent.

It has been useful to me when traveling to be able to see a package on my porch and text my neighbor to grab it for me.


> What Apple does best lies at the combination of hardware, software, physical materials, and human-computer interface design.

And they’re failing at that too! I purchased an iPhone 16e thinking it would be like the iPhone SE, but what I got was worse than an SE. They used an old chip and I can tell you this phone cannot keep up with liquid glass, which they forced me to use and did not let me roll back.

And now we have the iPhone 17 suffering from chipping on the back of the phones.

The only reason Apple is succeeding is the only other thing is worse. And yes, I’m talking about android.


> [the iPhone 16e] used an old chip

What? It has the same RAM size, same RAM speed, and same chip[0] (minus one (1) GPU core [6c, 4g, 16n]) as the iPhone 16 [6c, 5g, 16n] (and almost the same as the A18 Pro [6c, 5g, 16n] minus the enhanced memory bandwidth and video encoding, afaict.)

(I mean, sure, it's an old chip compared to the 17 but then it's a generation older and saying "they used an old chip" is a nonsense truism.)

[0] https://www.apple.com/uk/iphone/compare/?modelList=iphone-16...


6 cm is too big? It’s big enough to get an idea of people moving around. And what about the 5 cm wave of 6G Wi-Fi?

But then we can talk about all the millimeterwave signals that are bouncing around everywhere.


What about 5G cellular? It already supports millimeterwave bands!


How did that full force of the US military work out in Vietnam?

Millions of dead Vietnamese.

In any case that was a war against a hardened, experienced, determined enemy fighting for its freedom from any form of colonial occupation, both as a formal military and as an insurgent force in South Vietnam.

I scarcely think the Mexican population would rise up in defense of the cartels here.


A non-aligned population will look out for their own interests and are aware that the attention of the US is temporary but the cuadillismo that lead to cartels are a durable cultural artifact.

  The Battle of Culiacán, also known locally as the Culiacanazo and Black 
  Thursday, was a failed attempt to capture Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Sinaloa 
  Cartel kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, who was wanted in the United States 
  for drug trafficking.
  
  Around 700 cartel gunmen began to attack civilian, government and military 
  targets around the city, despite orders from Ovidio sent at security forces' 
  request. Massive towers of smoke could be seen rising from burning cars and 
  vehicles. The cartels were well-equipped, with improvised armored vehicles, 
  bulletproof vests, .50 caliber (12.7 mm) rifles, rocket launchers, grenade 
  launchers and heavy machine guns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culiac%C3%A1n

The problem is you can't just target the cartels, the cartels are made up of random Mexican people. There is an almost guarantee that any significant US strikes would be 90%+ civilian casualties.

I think a lot of people would be cheering on the destruction of the cartels.

The destruction of cartels would involve careful policing and corruption controls, the best American administrations have been bad at this. The worst... can barely put its pants on much less dismantle foreign organized crime. You can't shoot a missile at a cartel and poof it's just gone.

They'd probably quickly stop cheering as their own homes and families were destroyed as collateral damage, which is what would happen if the "full force of the US military" were deployed against the cartels.

The last time America invaded Mexico City it created martyrs. It's a fascinating story that they do not teach at US highschools lol.

Curious, because the martyrs were Mexican high-school students.

We were briefly greeted as liberators in Iraq too.

It was never used, there.

Pretty badly for both sides

I don't really think you thought through that one. It sounds like what your saying is that the Vietnamese won and thats the outcome that matters. It does matter but that isn't the issue - it is the cost that everyone is talking about: the amount of destruction that was brought upon the country and people was terrible.

Paper:

https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj-2025-085875

"No high certainty, long term evidence was found for any intervention."

When I read outcomes like this all I can feel is they are thinking about the biology of ADHD very wrong.


40 years ago when I was a history major in college one of my brilliant professors gave us a book to read called "the myth of domesticity".

In the book The researcher explains that when washing machines were invented the women faced a whole new expectation of clean clothes all the time because washing clothes was much less of a labor. And statistics pointed out that women actually were washing clothes more often than doing more work after the washing machine was invented then before.

This happens with any technology. AI is no different.


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