You know, working together on something outside might be absolutely the ticket. Genius.

Well those sound like people who aren’t good to open up to.

I do sympathize though, I pretended to be a guy for several decades, and my wife put exactly the same kind of duality on me that men put on women.

I was expected to be sympathetic and nurturing in some contexts and aggressive, jealous, and demanding in others, and I was just supposed to know when to switch.

And there was an amount of vulnerability I was able to display, but beyond that I’d get told to suck it up.

I think somebody needs to come up with an ad campaign that’s Therapy For Men. Big sweaty hairy guys with thick beards looking after each other’s mental health like BROs. It worked to get men to use soap.

(Seriously, I think counseling is too female-coded for a lot of men to be comfortable with it unless they’re fucking the person, or they start to want to fuck the person because they’re unused to talking about things).

That’s kind of how I read it too.

But as a side effect it means you’re still allowed to photograph your own books at home as a private citizen if you own them.

Prepare to never legally own another piece of media in your life. 😄

I was at Google when it came out, I was like “sure this would be fine to use too, but everybody is on chat and Gmail and I kind of need to actually reach people…”

I think they just figured it would get dogfooded automatically because it was slicker than chat and Gmail, but under time pressure you’re just not gonna do it unless you have to.

And there was zero chance I was going to get anybody in my personal life to use it.

The article says that they are changing their policy so that even if you turn it off it will still be feeding your actions to AI.

Read the article yo.

Try lineage or graphene before jumping into the money pit maybe?

I’ve got two kids. I told my older one “you’ve got a blackboard in your brain, practice making it bigger and making the things you write on it last longer”. He says “oh yeah you’re right cool”.

My younger kid doesn’t have one. Just, not there. She has an incredible eye for color and immediately sounds like a native when learning a new language, though, which neither of the other two of us have.

I’m wondering whether this is a privileged/feels like deserves privilege white guy thing.

Down here with the queerdos and minorities, I’m seeing people engage more fully with each other, be more willing to take on friends and lovers, in the last few months.

Some are getting caught by chat bots, yes, but a lot of people are out there trying to grab human connection while we still can.

I certainly feel like the “I’m the übermensch and revel in cruelty, empathy is a weakness” mentality that the straight basic wypipo have adopted will not only discourage other people from wanting to be their friend, but also discourages themselves from seeking friendship, because they see it as a weakness.

It’s almost like an OS that wants to be useful is a better experience than an OS that wants to push you ads and steal everything you produce to feed into llm slop-generation.