Lemmy Sparkling Lemonade

Humans believe things. We’re very symbolic animals.

In old Aztec lands, it was a crime to pass counterfeit cocoa beans. They used them as a medium of exchange.

Ancestral AI. The ancients will be angry to be left voiceless, only modern ancestors admitted.

Ive used Mullvad browser on my laptop for a while now for general purposes, It comes with ublock and noscript. I use Librewolf secondarily, and Firefox with noscript blocking everything for sites I want to limit anything but the main site.

https://mullvad.net/en/browser

Early AI 😄

The term AI is actually from the 1950s

The phrase “artificial intelligence” was coined in 1956 by John McCarthy during a workshop at Dartmouth College, where researchers aimed to explore whether machines could think like humans.

Went up by one already, I only saw this a little earlier today, was at 13, now14.

Me neither.

That’s how I turn mine off too.

The Vile Offspring from the book Accelerando.

Vile Offspring: Derogatory term for the posthuman “weakly godlike intelligences” that inhabit the inner Solar System by the novel’s end.

Also Aineko

Aineko, is not a talking cat: it’s a vastly superintelligent AI, coolly calculating, that has worked out that human beings are more easily manipulated if they think they’re dealing with a furry toy. The cat body is a sock puppet wielded by an abusive monster.

That’s the plot from the Logan’s Run TV show

In a change from the book and film, the television series had the city secretly run by a cabal of older citizens who promised Francis a life beyond the age of 30 as a city elder if he can capture the fugitives.

Damn people, enshitifying the internet for the advertisers.

I switched to GrapheneOS which uses Vanadium browser by default, which doesn’t support any content blocking yet. I use ProtonVPN which seems to block everything.

I always carry a spare