Same with music. And video games. And writing books (self-publish to Amazon for pay-per-read). Content creation technology/platforms are very readily available now.
cRazi_man
joined 6 months ago
There's more good stuff to find than ever. It's just that it's hard to find. There's too much volume of content out there to sift through, and mainstream tastes have changed so it isn't as easy to find since the stuff that's popular really isn't your taste. You likely liked the stuff that's was popular back then. Look harder. Find the niche like-minded communities. Look for content related to what you already like. There are tons of new good movies, games, music, etc out now and you just need to find it. Even for news you can find the sources you like and filter out toxicity.
My organisation has fired a bunch of people and plans to replace them completely with AI. They're pushing us to use it. Soon it will be mandatory to use ambient, always on AI for all information recording. There's mention of working areas AI camera surveillance to monitor for efficient use of man hours (don't know whether the tech is developed enough for this or how practical this is). The guy working above me is doing some sort of degree in implementation of AI in business and his answer to a lot of problems is "AI could probably do that for us". Meanwhile we get training to tell us that we will personally be held accountable for any errors in the AI output we use, and we will be held responsible if we input any information that was would be deemed confidential or sensitive. BTW, copilot is already activated for all our work outlook, calendar and one drive accounts and has all that data; so not sure what would be considered more sensitive information to give.
Bring a whole laptop to play games? Get a Steam Deck! Or if you want a smaller form.factor then get a Retroid Pocket 6.
Other than this:
- Learn something (language, art, etc)
- Read something
- Listen to podcasts
- If it's a private office then do a Costanza and sleep under your desk
- Watch TV shows or movies
- Take up knitting or crochet
During
I've progressed quite far in the technical science part of my job. I'm at the top end of the graph and encouraging my junior staff to simplify their language and message. Some things absolutely need technical terms, but they don't need to use overly complicated words to say "this has moved up" or "this thing is bad". More often meaning gets lost in using euphemisms instead of being clear about the message.
I've moved up the management role as well and really can't bring myself to move from the bottom end of the meme graph. Management really has its own language so they can say lots of words in meetings with very little meaning. We're in the business of doing shit......are we going to do shit or not?
WTF does it mean? Are we doing the project or not??
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You get big electricity bill. They get free data to sell.
What's the downside for them?
It's all meaningless anyway, so my purpose is to appreciate the joy of what is in front of me and enjoy my existence while it lasts.
You think news headlines are concerned with inconvenient shit like evidence?
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Why is this something widespread? I did chemistry up till A-levels and no one ever asked me to memorise the periodic table and no one gave a shit about committing it to memory. WTF is going on.