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Personally i see UBI or similar schemes as a weak quick fix for a much larger problem. I'd like to see legislation around how an AI can be trained and if its using art, that needs to be properly licensed and not stolen. With the sheer amount of money being thrown around by big tech these days, I absolutely do not believe they can't afford to pay people for the art they are using, and if an artist tells them to do one, they should fucking do one.

They are great, here in my hometown (Nottingham, UK) we have a little place called Louisa's, and as far as I'm aware, she's the only vegan chocolate maker in the UK. She does direct trade with small family farms so that everyone gets paid fairly (direct trade > fair trade), she also knows a lot about the cocoa plant and so will visit her farmers to help them grow better beans and ensure these farms are run in an ethical fashion.

Her chocolate is absolutely divine too, if you can, order from her.

Warning, it's pricey, but hopefully you'll understand why!

No where in this text can I see a quote from him saying that he'd legalise all drugs. This "public health approach" sounds like decriminalisation, which is what I'd advocate for, but not legalisation, I don't want to be seeing Tesco value acid available behind the counter, right?

Won't do anything about personal theft, fuck you should have had insurance. Skip out on a 2 quid tram fare though? They're all over that.

This country is ridiculous.

Please stop calling them punk, they ain't that.

Have never had it, never will. Social media for work? No fucking thanks.

And yet in Notts I've now been seeing police on the tram stops with like 10 tram staff making sure people are paying their 2 quid for a tram ticket. I really don't understand why the police really care about a 2 quid tram ticket but won't look for a stolen bike that cost 700 quid.

It's the brain worms, it's always the brain worms.

Controversial comment: Bring back the headphone jack.

A mate of mine calls them bicycle Tories.

I'm a web Dev and I use LLMs a lot, one of the best uses I've found is to make small tools, for example, I have a tool where I can specify a name and a list of variables, and it will output a stored proc template with my preferences, and some code that I can use in my chosen language to call the proc.

If I need to use a code library for a single task but it's 3rd party and I'm not going to use it again, I'll get an LLM to write me some examples so I can understand how to call the thing, saves me a lot of brain power.

I also use it to write me functions that I don't have available but I know have been written a million times before, like an LPAD function.

I'm also using it for music recommendations, new version of chat can search the web and amalgamate multiple sources like Reddit, last.fm and give me a neat little report on bands I might like to listen to based off artists I give it, I'm currently using it to explore psychedelic music from places like Turkey.

I also used ChatGPT recently to generate me 2 images of a guy to get around discords age check so I didn't have to give them my actual face.

I did try and get it to help me write a dating profile but everyone could tell it was LLM written so I binned it.

I've literally been saying that for years, like, no shit Sherlock this should be common knowledge.

Nearly half the right to buy houses in Notts are owned by landlords too, and it was obvious that was going to happen.

Why are our politicians so fucking short sighted?