@atgarone That faith quality is often overlooked. As my priest said 10 days ago in his homily, suffering is the one thing Catholicism values that other religions don't. No one looks for suffering- but we can offer it up to God when it happens.
Another Tech career destroyed.
Maybe this is the Karma bus 🚌 for this man, or maybe it’s just how he will keep going until the wheels fall off.
Only thing I know for sure is someone who once worked as head of Software Engineering for Accolade & Adobe shouldn’t have to drive a bus because there are no other jobs being offered to our fellow Americans in Tech.
@No_MI_Take It's certainly frustrating - my neighbors surprised me with these signs all around. It suspect they may not really understand what's going on in the world, let alone basic economics
@PaulRevere1177 2013 study: having a divorced friend is associated with a substantially higher likelihood (75%) of divorce. A friend of a friend - 33% higher
@RickDeVos It's not great, embarrassing actually. But Dutch-majority towns are the best taken care of anywhere. Clean, clean, clean. And easy to take for granted until you move elsewhere.
THIS IS F*CKING DISTURBING!!!🤯
A leaked Anthropic document just came out in court. Their own words:
"Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world."
Next line: "We don't want it to be known that we are working on this."
They planned to shred every book on the planet, in secret. And they almost got away with it.
It starts with theft. Anthropic stole 7 MILLION books from pirate sites to train Claude, because their CEO said paying authors was too much of a "slog."
Then the lawsuits hit and they needed a legal way to keep going. So they hired the ex-head of Google Books and sent him to publishers to ask for permission. Publishers said no.
That's when they found the loophole.
Buy millions of real, physical books. Cut the spines off with a hydraulic blade, scan the loose pages, and throw what's left in recycling.
One vendor offered to destroy 2 MILLION books in 6 months. That's 11,000 books a day.
Now the insane part.. destroying the books is what made it legal.
If you scan a book and keep it, that's a crime. If you scan it and shred it, that's fair use. A judge actually approved this, which means the shredder WAS the legal strategy.
They still paid $1.5 billion for the stolen books, the biggest copyright settlement in history. Works out to $3,000 per book.
And the scans are locked in Anthropic's private library forever. Nobody outside the company will ever see them. The authors got a shredded book and nothing else.
The part I can't stop thinking about is that a book on a shelf lasts 500 years without power, wifi, or a subscription, and the AI it was destroyed for gets thrown away in 18 months.
They killed something permanent to feed something disposable.
@SacralizedWater I have Crohn's - I've been able to avoid medical debt- mostly - by getting access to drugs outside the US. But also looking beyond biologicals. OTC and drugs like Low Dose Naltrexone, cannabis, Saccharomyces boulardii, wormwood have helped me
No one knows their breaking point until they are broken.
But breaking is not a failure.
It is purely diagnostic information.
You’ve likely reached a limit in your abilities.
It’s possible you’re not making the best of your time and energy.
Or you’re carrying the wrong attitude with you.
In any case, being broken shows you what’s wrong.
When we break, we learn we are not God.
And we can see exactly how far we can go before we break.
Some people try to “power through” without changing anything, which isn’t brave. It’s just foolish..
Here’s an exercise called Surrender the Scaffold that can help you identify your breaking point:
You can’t strengthen a scaffold if it is bearing all the weight.
Identify your coping mechanisms (e.g. over-planning, obsessive checking, venting to others) so the next time pressure spikes, you won’t use that scaffold.
When you find yourself coping, change up your method.
Try something different.
Zig where you normally zag and see if it gives you any new strength or insights.
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They taught me how much discipline matters. They also showed me that excellence needs direction.
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@EndTribalism Well, that is part of it. The most prevalent issue, fostered by ubiquitous postgrad college degrees no less, is what is called 'elite oversupply'. That often serves as a prerequisite for socialist revolutions