The fact it's being pushed on all of us as this panacea for the cost of human effort is just disgusting, even if the technology is truly impressive.

Every company salivated at the thought of using AI to enrich themselves, but not a single thought seems to have been given to the human element of it all.

It's about as cruel as the 10yo MacBook I gave my daughter when she was younger. She loved that thing.

My boys have their own walk-man cassette players, and I've made a bunch of mix tapes both for them and myself to play in the car.

My daughter had my ancient JVC receiver that I got from my parents as a stereo - handed down to one her brothers.

We pick out DVDs, VHS and Laser discs to watch sometimes, sometimes on old CRT TVs as well.

I have all my game consoles in good working order so there's a ton of options for stuff to play that isn't cutting edge.

My daughter loves that there is a CD player in her car, so she learned how to burn mix CDs.

This is all alongside modern tech so they get a good mix. Hopefully it gives them a bit of perspective.

I was hoping it was a display of some of the mix tapes or other peripherals they were using.

We didn't turn on mobile data for her smart phone (hand me down pixel) until about a year ago.

She is very responsible with it and it hasn't been much of an issue. She had no problems making friends, and if her phone was filtering shallow people out her friend pool a bit that probably wasn't a bad thing.

Now, my oldest son is dying to have a smartphone but really he just wants to use it as a tablet. I installed lineageOS on an old D821/Nexus5 and it can run some mobile games, and we have a chromebook.

We'll try the same flip phone in middle-school route for him. It fulfills the basic needs of emergency contact, and is a good test of responsibility with lower stakes.

It certainly was not as easy to setup as Windows.

It was really surprising how put together it all is. The steam integration is seamless and it can play a ton of stuff even on an older NUC w/out a GPU.

It was the first time I can say that installing a linux OS was easier and friendlier than Windows.

I've been in IT a while, and am more of an AI skeptic - but I'm OK with it being used as a tool where it makes sense in my field, and it certainly has some value.... but shoehorning it into everything and using it as a general replacement for human creativity is a no-go for me.

It's a relief to know GenZ is feeling this way, and I hope having an entire generation against it will help pump the brakes a bit.

Will they need to nap as well?

On that note, I'm so glad all my kids are past potty training.

A living bundle of neurons that can grow and learn is exciting to think about.

It's also terrifying to imagine the ramifications considering how things are going with silicon based AI.

He won't get a cent when I play on my MVS carts on actual hardware, so there is that.

https://www.doncio.navy.mil/CHIPS/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=547...

> In practice, both do mean exactly that. "Nontoxic individualism" is collectivism, "nontoxic masculinity" is femininity. You're not slick, everyone gets the language games at this point

You lose that freedom of movement if:

Your car breaks down

Your car gets stolen

Your car gets totaled

You lose your license

You can't afford insurance

You get too sick to drive

You lose bodily mobility

Your mental faculties decline

If you can't drive, you have to depend on whatever public options there are around you. Good luck.

In order for someone else to have those benefits, they also need a car.

If as a society, if we could feel the same way about public transit, bike lanes, sidewalks, that you do about your own personal vehicle - we'd be better off.

What makes you believe that she had any intent to attempt an attack?

Intent is where this falls apart, as she had no intent to harm with her vehicle. The interaction up until escalation by the agents was peaceful.

Even if the agent was in harms way, "totality of the circumstances" need to be reviewed before it can be said that deadly force was justified (see Barnes v. Felix ruling below)

https://www.shawbransford.com/supreme-court-unanimously-reje...

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-1239_onjq.pdf

It is a gift of time and effort, from both the student and teacher. The ability to be inspired by other works and draw from them, not merely imitate them.

You can ask any human musician to make music that is either inspired or outright copied from another artist. They have a moral compass to do so in a way that is not infringing on the works of others.

A music AI model will ingest what is thrown at it, and generate whatever you ask of it. It is a tool, and if it is ingesting human works to be formed into something else, proper attributions and royalties to the sources need to be made.