Who of us haven’t thought we were the reincarnation of Jesus after talking to a chatbot? /s

I like yellow mustard with my fries

What’s happens to us will affect everything unfortunately

Hothouse Earth leading to extinction event. Likely no humans and little other life. If Earth is lucky, it might cool down eventually and another chance at life will occur.

Hey hun, new Doritos slogan just dropped

Yes! BlueSky is an echo chamber!

Well that’s terrifying

All social media platforms are echo chambers. Those who enjoy the conversation stay, those who dont leave. The top talkers of each platform set the narrative. Mods help boost them by hiding content they don’t like, which becomes a reinforcing loop.

Sounds like I touched a nerve here while just stating a fact.

Because BlueSky is an echo chamber.

This is more or less how I feel as well. I yearn for something that I feel proud of again, yet feel held hostage by a salary. To add on to this…

I spent years studying and learning to be good at what I do. It feels like with the advent of agents, I’m suddenly less useful than I was before. Colleagues who were juniors (IC1 or IC2) are being up-leveled to staff simply because they started regurgitating agent output - essentially being meat proxies. They barely understand what they are saying and don’t hold up to scrutiny when I ask them questions in voice calls. They can’t answer without prompting an AI. It’s frustrating to no end. I thought I was having a mid-life crisis, but it’s the industry that changed.

Now I am trying to pull back and go offline when I’m not on the clock. If there is no difference between knowledge that is hard earned through study, exams, or degrees, and all it takes is to be a meat proxy, what is my motivation to improve my technical skills for a profession?

Apologies I should have linked a source in that claim. I only had a rough understanding of it and had read an article on phys.org that mentioned that previously. Arguably still a big concern since we could not be seeing the actual warming done in present day 2026 for another decade or more.

The thing that doesn’t get called out enough is that many greenhouse gasses have a lag time before they actually start causing heat. CO2 for example takes about 20 years if I recall correctly. So we are seeing the results of what was emitted years ago… not necessarily the current emissions.

Fuck yeah. I can get behind this 1000%

Damn good quote. Any recommended reading?

My wife loves tart cherry juice. The good stuff. So I kind of know what you mean

Both are viable. Ubuntu is based on Debian. It may come with some additional bloat. Really it comes down to what you feel comfortable with. Neither will be a bad choice.

This makes me tear up a bit. All those lost books…

I have been getting recruiters from Amazon and Meta soliciting a lot lately for networking roles, but both of those companies are trash. Most likely it is just a quota for the recruiters and was sent with AI, so I don’t bother to respond.

Not when you have to poop around her

My dog has PTSD, or as I call it poop and toots stress disorder. Will get up and walk out of the room looking dejected when anyone farts. If someone is on the toilet, she is scared for her life