I don’t want to share my location nor have anyone else’s shared with me.
Friends and partners can text “I’ll be there in 5”
My friend shares her location with her mother. Her mother then nags her with like “Are you seeing someone new? You’re spending a lot of time in north brooklyn now.” Like, who needs that, or even the temptation of that?
A tech solution is not going to fix a social/mental problem like fear of cheating.
If I was going to make something like this, it would have to incorporate trust chains. I don’t care if some maga-hat says this lady is horrible. I care if my good friend Alex says she’s horrible. One person’s “this person won’t shut up about communism” is a big red flag (no pun intended) but for someone else that’s the dream.
When you sign up, you’d need to be referred to someone or be a root node. Anyone connected to you can be weighted differently. If some section of the tree is misbehaving, prune it.
But that’s a lot of work
Google probably wants to keep you on google.com, where they have ads. By doing the AI stuff, you never click through to someone else’s page. They get 100% of the interactions and can sell all the clicks.
It’s monopoly stuff. They should be stopped, with whatever box of liberty is needed.
Last book: “Last Call” by Tim Powers. It’s great. Poker and archetypes. Big inspiration for Unknown Armies, which I loved.
Current: Medusa’s web, also by Powers. Not sure if I’m into it yet but it’s got some of his signature weirdness
If they know, and it’s not vital, and they don’t care, then I think less of them.
Some people have less self control than a toddler
I mean that seems like it would be pretty effective.
Do they vet the people? Could someone hypothetically sign up for the app, case the rich person’s situation, and then do crimes? Sounds like a good way to find rich assholes.
I got laid off back like six months ago. Job market is bad.
And yet billionaires are still living the life and the stock market ticks upwards.
Dexterity is avoiding getting hit by the asshole going the wrong way down the street
Strength is dragging them out of the car afterwards
Sometimes people are my old job post AI stuff and I just tell them “stop using the lie machine”
Automobile companies should be held accountable for destroying and lobbying against other modes of transit, so not really the best metaphor. Also destroying the environment is pretty bad.
Also there’s no cosmic law that says tech companies had to make LLMs and put them everywhere. They’re not even consistently useful.
These big companies have blood on their hands and it seems like no one is willing to do anything about it.
That’s a quote from Eco’s essay on ur-fascism, for the unfamiliar
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism
The main things reddit has going for it is more people, and better SEO.
Privately owned for profit orgs are extremely vulnerable to enshittification.
Cheaper if you ignore the externalized costs.
And yet the right wing is whining about moon laser climate control instead of this kind of thing.
A sort of country blues song about how my cat would ignore my friend until they went into the bathroom to poop, and then the cat was all about hanging out and being affectionate.
“You only love me when I’m pooping…”
I don’t think I’ve ever played fortnight, and the crass, advertisement, nature of it is extremely off-putting.
I also don’t think I’ve ever paid money for a skin in a video game
Half of US adults can’t read at a 6th grade level. I think speed and accuracy of reading is also pretty low (I read like 80 wpm and 80% accuracy somewhere, but i couldn’t immediately find a good source for that).
If you’re on a text forum like this you’re probably well above the average person, and your experiences are not universal.
That said, I don’t have any data on hand about readability so you could be right. I’m sure people have studied it.
Social media was always kind of garbage, and the modern algorithmically sorted stuff is worse.
I’d rather just text my friends