OK well, maybe if we ignore the images and just read the text we will find valuable information!

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omg that bottom ‘finger’ …

There’s a looooong thread on mobileread forums about how to do this. Amazon changed their ebook format a year or two ago to make it harder to remove the DRM, but someone usually comes up with a new way to do it every time Amazon tries to foil them.

This is the thread I have bookmarked – I haven’t kept up with it all since I quit Kindle back when they removed the “download & transfer” option to let us save our own purchased property. But I think their newest format has been figured out now, so if it’s possible to do, the instructions should be in that thread.

In my small city (midwest US), it used to be very common for the cops to shoot people’s dogs. It must have been a fun sport for them–they’d just say the dog charged at them and that was it. It would happen at least once every couple months or so.

Until one day about 15 years ago, when a cop responded to a house alarm in the middle of the day. Apparently the lady didn’t realize it was armed or didn’t get it turned off in time. She had a small poodle which ran out into the yard barking and the cop immediately shot it dead, as per usual. Except oops, there was one problem. It was a judge’s house. It was a judge’s wife who witnessed the callous killing of her harmless pet poodle, not just your average citizen this time.

And thus ended the dog-killing streak in my city.

Since it’s a safe R district, as long as he’s not there voting it’s a good deal.

“He’s not even a Democrat”

As they used to say when I was a kid: “Takes one to know one!”

My guess is there was one reason for the scaffolding: so they could hang the tarps to block the view of the letters being taken down. After all there were multiple live streams being broadcast, so they delayed it for 12 hours. They knew if we could get photos of it in progress, the pictures would be everywhere. Now the only photos will be just the wall after it was done.

I know you can do it from mastodon, so I suppose you could also do it from lemmy. For example if I want to comment on a peertube video (without having an account on the peertube instance), I just paste the url of the video into my mastodon account’s search bar which brings it up in the results as a post, and from there I can Favorite it and/or reply to it. The fav adds 1 to the likes and the reply appears as a comment on the video.

Also from that post I can click on the profile and then Follow so all their video posts from then on will show up in my timeline.

This latest problem wasn’t with playing videos on FT, it was with finding and fetching the feed/list of videos for your subscribed channels. IOW if you directly pasted in the url for a video it would play just fine, you just couldn’t fetch the list of available videos directly from FT.

“But the water’s clean”.

Many years ago when a friend and I stopped at a rest stop and the sinks looked dirty. I said, “It’s not very clean”, they said that. Now for some reason it still pops into my head any time I wash my hands in a public restroom. Whyyyyyyyyyy.

My favorite working years were in the '80’s when I worked evenings (4pm - 12:30am). I was in my 20’s. I took classes, taekwondo, easily scheduled any appointments, went to the store when it was less busy, etc. I’d get home before 1:00 am, relax for 30-45 minutes and go to bed, then awaken naturally in the mid-morning, no alarm clock needed! I’ve always been a night owl so it was the perfect schedule for me. I’ve also worked overnight shift which was the worst, not good for sleeping, during the day when it’s bright light and hot and people making lots of noise.

Correct and common sense ruling. The tech broligarchs can’t buy the judiciary in other countries like they do here in the US.

Wait so trump’s 5D chess economics plan to lower prices by making everyone run out of money is working!

“And you’re ignoring the reality that a ton of stuff going on in your mind isn’t conscious at all, …”

Yes, I was ignoring that aspect because the subject was about consciousness. Of course that doesn’t mean the the subconscious isn’t also operating from a mental model or process, just because we’re not consciously aware of it.

“First and foremost, consciousness requires a model of self, but that’s not required at all, …”

I didn’t say a model of self was required, but just some kind of mental model–which is probably not the best way of putting it but I don’t know all the proper scientific terminology. Maybe it is, if you define consciousness as being aware of what is “self” vs. what is “not-self”. I’m not sure it is, at least in the simplest cases.

“… trees and other plants are clear examples of living beings that have no mental model at all. But, they have sensory input and reactions.”

Plants (or at least the part of the plant being affected) can react to a stimulus, but I think that can easily be explained as happening through a mechanical and/or chemical reaction locally. I wouldn’t call that kind of stimulus a “sensory input”. If it was, then what would the sense organ or means of receiving or transmitting the sensory input be, and what would it be that receives or processes the input? There’s no nervous system or comparable structure.

Anyway no one can even define what consciousness really is. I just thought the comic’s view of consciousness was oddly specific and highly unlikely.

Yes, they’ve been wanting to do it for many years, even before 9/11 but especially after (remember “Total Information Awareness”?–back then the backlash stopped them, but now the populace has been mostly tamed and made compliant). So now with AI/LLM they have not only the perfect cover to build the datacenters but also the means to process all that data–never mind hallucinations, they’re fine with that too.

Survielllance centers for all the data being stolen off your smartphone and flock cameras.

Yes, and other sources. That’s my theory as to why most of them are being built in the first place, regardless of AI.

So they’re saying the cause/purpose of consciousness is to reduce all the input data into a way to communicate with other humans via speech? Weird. That also makes the strange assumption that only humans, or beings that need to communicate, would have consciousness.

It seems fairly reasonable to suppose that any organism with sensory inputs that can act independently (perceive its environment and interact with it) would have to have some kind of consciousness to operate through. IOW to interpret the input signals and form a kind of mental model out of them. Regardless of how simple or complex that consciousness may be or whether communication might be involved.

Not really, read up on Kaczinsky’s motivations, see his manifesto. He was targeting symbols of the new techno-industrial system, what they did in their jobs, not based on their personal lives.

This guy’s associations with epstein and tump came years after the bombing.

Yes, Long meant tall in Old English and Old French.