So many things encouraging the sailing recently. Marvel just canned Marvel Unlimited to merge it into WEBTOON so they have even more insane power. It’s crazy.

Also, appreciate the non AI flag.

I dunno, the rise and fall and extreme mismanagement of a Seinfeld theme park would make for some great background documentaries for while I work…

“Hi my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair…”

Part of the difference is Rowling still holds so much cultural weight (somehow). So many people still know and watch and purchase Harry Potter stuff. Seinfeld only really holds that weight amongst older conservatives. He’s only popular amongst the people perpetuating the hate. Rowling’s stuff is popular amongst those who should know better.

I do agree we should boycott more (I personally do boycott a fair bit), but comparing the current impact of Rowling to the current impact of Seinfeld is crazy.

My sister’s cat is the exact same way. They dub it the sniff tax.

It’s never that .txt file that says where it was originally uploaded

Sadly no, that is legitimately the style in some areas these days. If you hate yourself, look up Mar-a-Lago face.

You mean the file dump that hasn’t actually been shown to have episode 3 stuff in it or something else?

The usual thing is to share something. If it’s super common most people don’t care, if it’s rare, sharing it again to increase uptime is good. Sharing your own stuff is even better to widen what’s available.

You will run into people who will auto ban you if you aren’t sharing something. I think that’s a bit extreme and dumb myself but eh, it is what it is.

The wiki on r/piracy links here explicitly as their fallback forum and it’s on the wiki here that the megathread is no longer advised as they weren’t updating it often enough. My understanding is it’s the same people moderating both.

The people who ran that mega thread actually mothballed it and recommend Free Media Heck Yeah now.

The wiki with more general advice and FAQ stuff is here: https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/

The biggest piece of advice is do everything possible ahead of time. Make sure any Will or Trust is rock solid. Make sure deeds and things are located and filed safely away. Anything possible.

It toook my wife’s family an extra year to sell her grandpa’s house because a wealthy greedy aunt wanted more money and was pissed she was being excluded from getting anything from the house. Getting things down in a proper will would have cut a lot of that off ahead of time instead of proving that grandpa intentionally excluded the greedy daughter. They also then found out they were missing a few documents (I don’t remember everything, wanna say a marriage certificate they needed to prove some stuff to county with) so just make sure you have all of that possible now. If you can get your name on things I’d imagine it would make it even easier but not sure.

Don’t have a kid yet but currently trying and I’ve been thinking about this lately, especially after seeing my nephews who definitely have ADHD but aren’t being taught how to handle it at all vs my best friend’s kid who also has it but is being guided better so…I dunno. Take it as the thoughts of a guy who knows nothing but has hard core ADHD himself.

My plan is to build on my wife and I’s plans to teach them everyone is different, and that includes how you need to communicate with them. I plan to teach them that people have their own thoughts and wants and needs and being conscious of those is important. I do also plan to teach them that not everyone will like them or want to communicate or be friends with them and that’s okay, so long as it’s just because they’re different and not because you did something to hurt them.

Some people are just not going to accept the energy of an ADHD person, I’m hoping if they know not everyone will like them just because they like different things, that extends to ADHD energy too.

I’m really hoping we raise our kids to be open and honest with us about what they’re thinking and feeling so we can be aware more of their issues specifically.

I also found, personally, getting exposed to different cultures and seeing how they think about things differently and interact differently helped me tackle my own communication issues and realize that some people I thought hated me were actually solid friends and just don’t express much (but they’ve shown up every moving day). Not sure how to translate that into teaching moments for a kid other than teaching them about other cultures and gently pointing out differences in my own friends and how it’s okay.

I’ve got a friend who teaches German and another buddy who’s half Japanese. I’m hoping I can talk them both into taking my kid for a day and doing a culture deep dive.

I’ve always heard Ducky is the go to entry keeb. I’m running one and so far pretty happy with it. Nothing fancy, just a full mechanical keyboard

All I’ll say before moving on is legitimately you should maybe go touch grass.

Neural network does not mean LLM. I’m strongly against them for so many reasons. This is the problem with calling it all AI. My stuff was not generative, it was pattern recognition for a safety program for testing so companies could be held accountable.

Just step outside and smell the roses before you have a heart attack.

Such a strong science backed rebuttal.

I’m gonna go rethink my entire life now.

Being aware of the numerous massive lawsuits currently being levied against AI companies for their theft, reading research papers on cognitive decline in AI users, and being aware of where the majority of energy in the US comes from, especially for new AI datacenters, really does have a cognitive impact, but it isn’t decline.

Bro whatever you’re smoking please share.

Lol. Way to show how little you know. I swear AI bros get the most butt hurt over provable stuff.

I’ve stated my experience elsewhere but I’m a senior software engineer, 20 something years of experience. I have actually created a neural network from the ground up for a previous company. But sure, go off about how little experience I have.

I didn’t link any because the internet exists. Spend literally five seconds on google.

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646

Their conclusions are right in the abstract in black and white terms. And this is just a teeny tiny sample of the papers that exist all saying the same thing.

This is where you go look at any of the studies and start figuring out for yourself.

They’ve been looking at it in several contexts including software development, general problem solving, reading comprehension, writing ability, and more.

In some they were instructed to use LLMs certain ways, in others they weren’t. That’s the neat thing about so many studies being done is they’ve used a wide set of methodologies.