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It's not the cameras that are tracking you, it's the machine vision that reads licence plates, and that has not been around longer than you've been alive.

All these loops can detect is if a massive chunk of metal moves over them, no PII. Knowing how many cars use a road is critical in knowing if a road is congested or not, and that helps make roads better for everyone. It's not part of the surveillance machine. This kind of sensor is no more nefarious than the 100 year old sensor in your toilet that stops filling the tank when it is full.

Take your tinfoil hat off.

TL;DR the same way you detect lies, be skeptical of untrustworthy sources and think critically.

If nobody wanted them, including you, then you have your answer, no? Or maybe you are undecided? It sounds like you can't decide if you want to keep them or not. Nobody here can make that decision for you.

Personally I don't think an art project or a donation amounts to much more than avoiding the question of whether you want to keep them or not.

LLMs have no opinions. They are merely mathematical models that predict how an average person (mostly Internet people) might respond plus a little bit of invisible priming baked in to steer the behaviour a little (which is also easy to change yourself).

A lot of these chatbots, notoriously chatgpt, are heavily primed to pander to the user.

Gonna go out on a limb and say, I don't have any issues with the power of modern ceiling fans.

The bigger, the quieter, the better. I'm surprised he didn't instead comment on this trend of small, ultra fast ceiling fans that sound and look like a drone on the ceiling of the bedroom.

A hobby is pretty much anything you do other than what you do for your own or someone else's sustenance. Getting paid to barbecue for customers paying you? Not a hobby. Grilling some burgers at dinner time because you or your family are hungry? Not a hobby. Spending hours and weekends on end slow cooking a particularly challenging piece of meat? Hobby. Eating an expensive piece of meat (as a treat)? Also a hobby.

Checked luggage.... so that they can get at the bag carousel faster and wait even longer? I think you mean let people with no carry-ons off first.

Remember clipart and wordart? It was colourful and flashy and easy, and everywhere in PowerPoint presentations and word documents and even online. For a few years. Then it vanished.

Turns out, easy and flashy doesn't have a lot of staying power because when something is easy, it is ubiquitous, and when it is ubiquitous it stops being impressive.

AI slop is easy and flashy, and will probably run its course as people become tired of it.

There will still exist AI content, but it will not resemble the slop we see today.

You can make a chair using nothing but hand tools. That's a wonderfully hobby, but you're going to have a real hard time turning that into a business and putting food on the table. The hand-made chair is probably of even be better quality than the mass produced one. And that's great for a few people, but most people probably want the cheapest chair that just barely gets the job done of staying together.

Depending on where you are in the world, and how much of this is coming out of pocket, this is either really good or pretty bad.

Hear me out: what if repealing section 230 would end up killing our social media monoculture, since it would be impossible for these platforms to operate. Instead, what if people had to host their content themselves, you know, like we did back in the day, when the Internet was fun.