Gonna be interesting to see how this tech is used.

I really find Altman hard to listen to.

Did he ask him about Worldcoin? @Car

I played with Notebook LM's podcasting feature a while back. Tricked some friends into thinking it was a real podcast talking about their business.

Personally there's no way I could listen to it but several people I played it for thought it was great. But, I don't think they actually listen to any podcasts.

I have a feeling that the knowledge that it's AI will limit the success regardless of how real it sounds. That is not to say it can't have success.

LOL

Recently found a guy locally that has made it his mission to get the the woman over forest management replaced over the severe mismanagement of the forests in my region.

I thought I was well informed. Dude has filmed other forests in the state under different leadership and showed how they are doing cutting to reduce fuel loads. And then our area where this isn't happening.

I spent a lot of time in these areas as a kid and they used to do logging and clear cutting for fire reduction. Those days are gone and the most recent fire had a non-response which allowed it to grow quickly.

It has to be infuriating. I don't own property in the forests but I wonder how much more people like him will take.

LOL

I have spent a lot of time in the Bay area and SF and Berkeley specifically. Berkeley and SF went way downhill before Covid.

Some areas in SF are bouncing back but a lot was lost.

I still wanna visit Wrigley Park

Fair.

True. I visited SF in 2020 and recently. It has improved dramatically. I still think their policies are nuts but they hopefully already hit bottom.

Oakland is still a hell hole. It wasn't always this bad.

I don't cheer for the fall of these places as some do. That's poisonous thinking to me.

Oakland. Probably the worst in California

I feel very safe but I do not live in a flash point city. Or a city at all. Even so, I haven't assumed nothing can happen. I'm prepared.

There are places in the US that are not safe at all. I was recently in San Francisco and never felt I safe there either. But we took a wrong turn in Oakland and I didn't feel safe at all.

I have been in rough areas in many cities. I've also did some international travel in my youth. I haven't felt unsafe for most of the time

Statistically the US is pretty safe with some exceptions. Because many of us can legally carry concealed weapons I have fewer concerns.

Schools are another story. My sons are beyond that stage but if I were to have young children there is no way they would be in government schools. Safety is one reason but indoctrination and incompetence would be bigger reasons.

All that said, this all depends on hyper local and personal factors. Generalizing is easy and rarely helpful. In the US regional hypocrisy is blatantly expressed all over. Take everything with a grain of salt.

So many people are completely missing the point. They don't want to get it. It's their loss.

This one is new to me.

The primary issue to me isn't what he ever said. It's this idea that comes from the extreme left. From the universities. Hate speech and that speech is violence. Both of these ideas are toxic.

Hate? This is highly subjective as we have seen. Words can hurt people and have consequences but they are a different thing from violence.

Western societies have been built on philosophy and debate. The US has a long history of respecting and protecting speech that the majority of people would find repulsive. I remember in my youth hearing about civil rights groups protecting the rights of white supremacists and Nazis.

Both of those ideologies are not only evil but incoherent. They have been resurrected from death by the left stupid actions and the failure of liberal western post war political figures.

My instinct has long been that we need to let these people speak. Mark them. I wanna know who hates people based on race and other things. Just as I wanna see who is celebrating the death of Kirk.

The irony of people celebrating murder is that theses are the same people that want everyone to like them and approve of them. That disagreement is akin to violence and it should be punished.

The fact that they are in favor of murdering a guy they disagree with and hate exposes them for what they are. Groups that simply want power. So in that way, they are not unlike what they hate. This is why they will lose.

Now, thankfully the left is not a monolithic group. I know plenty of left people hate the celebration of murder. Just as plenty on the right do not want people to take vengeful actions.

We have to reward good faith debate and resist escalation. We need to respect natural rights and seek common ground. Reject this Marxist poison.

Completely agree. I hope cooler heads on the right prevail.

Its such a picture of what is wrong in our culture that we have access to learn what someone says and the context but people still ignore the context and meaning to push what they want to push. If one is curious and does the work one can largely avoid being led astray.

Even with the context many disagree but what I have seen so far is pathetic excuses trying to make a demon out of a man who held pretty common views. Very common views only 20 years ago. He was making an impact. He was on his way to being a political leader. Maybe President. Therefore he must have been taken out.

There are plenty of extremists. Kirk was not one. There are plenty of hateful speakers. Kirk wasn't one. When people say he was, they demonstrate how small their bubble is.

I see a lotta pain in the future

One problem we also have is that far too many people still just trust what they hear. Again, this is all over the spectrum but I'm more in-tune with it when it comes from the left.

Over and over again these NGOs that are so-called watchdogs are just wrong. Like way off. They smear people and call them names. Even after Covid we have far to much trust in "sources". I knew non-leftists that were shocked by the decline of Biden. Far too many people have been manipulated into false narratives for their whole lives. And the opposition is often over the top and easy to dismiss.

Sometimes I feel like a therapist for my less in-tune friends.

Shame is in short supply.

There is a very very common human trait that is irrespective of ideology. Confirmation bias. Put another way is when people seek to confirm their pre-existing beliefs instead of to first understand where someone is coming from. Then counter that. I've experienced this for most of my life in Christian circles around internal debates that have existed for centuries. Protestants vs. Catholics and Catholics vs. Protestants. Within the Protestant camp, which is far from unified. In politics you see this.

Instead of putting words in people's mouths. Instead of saying what someone means. Ask them. Do you mean this? Oh, you don't. Well that's what it sounded like to me. We don't even agree on the definitions of words many times. This flows into interpersonal relationships as well.

Articles like this are not in good faith. At least they don't appear to be. They are so common these days I believe because this type of work is rewarded. Believe me. I find it unfruitful to talk about politics and social issues with most people. Why? Because they are just parrots. They aren't even thinking. Thinking is hard. But the few people I can talk to in sincerity and love... it worth so much. I learn so much.

Yep