The Trump administration has repealed drinking water limits for four different PFAS forever chemicals.
Water providers will no longer have to test or filter for the pollutants.
When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
Sometimes people at my job will say to me "Oh it's so sad you have no windows in your office. It's so nice outside!" what if I beat you with hammers???
'Arc Raiders' has started replacing AI voices with human ones 🎮
The CEO admits they are 'better'
"There is a quality difference. A real professional actor is better than AI; that’s just how it is"
(via @GIBiz)
americans really spend 4 years in a walkable community (college), say “wow, those were truly the best years of my life. oh well!” and then proceed to buy a house & car in the middle of a suburbanite hellscape
For Japanese people, Zen is healing because all the spontaneity and weirdness breaks them out of their Confucian rigidity.
For Westerners, Zen is healing because pretending to be Japanese breaks them out of their suffocating individualism.