News about AI might be annoying if you're not working with it, but the new age is inescapable.

A lot of the progress is privatized and militarized as a priority. With computers becoming your personal genius, it's like a ginie in the bottle.

Companies that develop AI are sticking it into everything and getting the results they need for the most part.

The result they didn't get is people using it for daily life, it's mostly for queries that you would type in google, or professional use to get work done for you.

The militarized version was probably one of the first things that AI was being used for. Normal people were always wishing that it wouldn't be the case, but when it came out that Palantir is happy to take on the dirty job, no one bat an eye that it's already in use to efficiently "eliminate" or achieve whatever destructive outcome required.

Strange to think that whatever good people want to wish for and hope doesn't come to fruiting, someone has already made it to do just that without remourse and being proud of it.

Most of the development is obviously financially motivated. If people's comfort was a priority, we would have mute buttons on microwaves.

Sometimes I ask myself what would be the alternatives, and it's basically goal motivated. Greed and manufactured scarcity with a sprinkle of confution keeps people strained and focused on money to keep their basic lifestyles. Majority of people have to keep an eye on what they can allow themselves and worry month-to-month or day-to-day about their financial allowance to live the way they want to.

On one side, it controls how much we consume. On the other side, some people suffer more than others. With the shift in reduced labour, automation, digital currency, it's all going one way until someone finds a way to make money off of it or take power. If that happens on a large scale, a lot of people will be confused on where it's going and how to adapt leading to major losses across the board. This scenario is based on a power trip of AI companies, private investors, and governments allowing it to happen.

Ideal outcome would be to offer alternatives that suite individuals that don't box them in. e.g. if banks roll out digital currency, maybe don't disable the old way of trading, keep those ATMs, keep banks open for business to every individual. Provide just benefits of using new types of systems, let people grow into it.

But we've seen with C0VlD lockdowns, and English "mandatory digital ID", that it pretty much becomes required to belong to the new group overnight because someone sitting in a leather chair decided so.

Any time such changes are made, we don't even question nor are told who is pushing the agenda and what are the real reasons. It's like they discovered "human hivemind" and monetizing it.

Ok, this is more than AI progress, but it all comes together as an ongoing generational progress. Young people (under 25) are unlikely to understand this world until they dive in, into few different areas and how the world actually works. Some understand how we're being played, others are blissfully unaware of how a simple media campaign can push them to "new age ideal lifestyle" i.e. non-traditional identity. That seems to be over for now, but scary to even think back to the days when being "straight" was treated as a crime, and mental gymnastics grew exponentially, until even a presence becomes a crime because labels become automatic.

Likely people can change and express differently so that certain destructive ideologies come to light.

Similar to the AI boom. We're likely to create tools that take advantage of current generation until it catches up and turns things around to something that works in practice for the people.

I'm thinking of a funny presentation of "AI infected robot" that was made to hold a pellet gun, and asked to shoot, but the robot refused and wouldn't do it on command. When asked to "play" as if it's shooting him, there was zero hesitation and the robot shot the pellet gun at the man.

Such cases of course are being patched in "progressive" way. Instead of locking down the behaviour, the AI will be trained to learn more about personalities, limits it should consider and outcomes. The only outcome for now is unfortunately that any damage caused by AI is to shut it down, or fix it. It's treated as an actor that has zero accountability. Where we didn't get yet, is governments making the companies accountable for any damage due to negligence for the most part. That might be easier said than done, because AI doesn't work as obidient entity. It's more of required trimming of it's abilities.

A lot of the development we often don't come across - is behind closed doors. But it's still coming to the same point where all knowing ideal entity is created and will be praised for having foreseeing abilities. That will be not due to it being that smart, but actually using the information available that we all rely on. Just like a forecast for weather being available 7 to 30 days ahead with fair accuracy, AI will be doing the same, but with any information, building additional relations between all the things that you're not even thinking about. 

At times AI can suggest something that is not really part of the idea that you're trying to build, but good to consider. It will be pushing those abilities.

All that happening in parralel with all other advancements where digital world will be meeting physical world - science, equipment, cars, various systems that leap across to having precise human abilities.

This will be the great deception that it's an amazing great thing. The real question is, does it contribute to our happiness? I can answer it now - it will take away knowledge of what happiness is or how to have it.

Keep your human elements with understanding of what AI can do for you. 

It's like another species on this planet. Interacting with a penguin can be fun, but it won't build you. Even if it's directly connected to your brain, it will take over what you are, rather than add to you.

All this I think is due to humans liking to experiment and get an exciting outcome that is consistent. People working with those things are exited with the capabilities, but it needs our attention and consumption to prove experiments to be lifechanging influence.

All in all, at times we may feel to have no choice. Or things changing around us that we don't quiet grasp. Having alternatives, or striving to find your way of doing things is likely to save you, rather than follow a blueprint made for you.

If you haven't heard yet, new potential cure for cancer has been discovered by a Japanese lab. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...160655.htm

By using bacteria from "Ewingella americana" frog it causes what sounds like, biological chaos (for cancer).

The bacteria thrives inside low oxygen area such as a tumor, and multiplies 3000x within 24hrs destroying the cancer and getting the attention of the immune system to take out the leftovers.

The bacteria did not seem to be interested in any of healthy organs (in mice).

Within 72 hrs the there was mild inflammation, but otherwise non-life threatening.

The bacteria's half-life is 1.2hrs at which point it gets flushed out. It only survives for few hrs, meaning that it doesn't stay inside organism for long at all. Just long enough to show your immune system that it found something that you shouldn't have and will stay there until it's gone.

They haven't done human trials yet, but sounds better than shooting up chemicals to poison entire body just to have a 50/50 chance in 6 months.

Apparently this potential treatment completely eradicates 100% of cancer cells, what seems to be in record time.

Unfortunately curing a deadly disease in 3 days is not as profitable as 6 months to 5 years of treatment. So no pharma company will jump to get something like that rolled out.

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Women have their own side of "media". We're split into genders, then by categories that include variations of interests. 

Some social media influences our perception, and that influences what we do.

Long story short, when a celebrity removes her breasts and fallopian tubes because of possibility of cancer due to a gene during a test, maybe just keeping tabs on health with checkups is a sane option. 

Statistically, such operations "doubled" - i.e in the same clinic by 400 annual operations (total around 800).

But as a celebrity, they probably know the basic psychology of the fans - some things will be repeated by them.

I don't understand willing self-mutilation for preemptive reasons. Never mind conscious decisions just for physical alteration.

Although Angelina's "diagnosis" was in 2013, it's still crazy to think how people are influenced to change themselves physically because of their idols.

Going from forum to forum, checking posts.

It's as if the internet has gone quiet. Everyone is fragmented and not quiet saying things normal way.

Short form media definitely hit a toll on people's capacity to express. Or I might be looking at posts from younger generations that cannot get to number 8 for the last few years. Just kidding.

For the moment I have a few things to make sure to be on the ball with. As I go along, will need to make few adjustments to the forum to make it look better - changing the background requires a few other changes across the board to make it work. 

But will just be here echoing on the internet just to put few words online.

With the recent fuel shortage you would think transportation, especially flights would decrease. 

Nope, 23rd of July was a record for a number of flights - 153,359 commercial flights in 24 hours.

Previous record was set in 2023, surprisingly also in July (13th).

"Why so many flights?" you would ask. It's peak holiday time with cheaper flights - summer in the Northern hemisphere, school holidays, enough leave days accumulated at work.

It's interesting to think how many people are flying for various reasons. That's about 20 million people changing location in a single day!

Such capacity of flights can move billion people in just 50 days.

Simple question isn't it, yet seems complex.

It depends on the context - your state of being. The question sits at the core when you go down to it.

• If you're struggling - then it's to overcome challenges.
  
• If you're comfortable financially - then it's family and experiences.
  
• If you're lost - it's to find yourself.
  

Enjoying my little corner of the internet.

The goal of social media is to connect everyone and make as big of an impact as possible. 

It's like going to a shopping mall on a Saturday, everyday.

How about going to a place far away from any malls, bright lights and noise?

I think with the use of the internet everyone finds their favourite platforms. Discord often functions like a realtime forum with their "channels". But coming across a good community that is less focused on gaming and more on everyday living is more rare due to the age gap and interests. Those on Discord often join because of live voice chat for gaming.

At some point we grow out of things and communities change. After going through your growing up stage, maybe there should be something more to explore in real life.

Want to rotate your scanned PDF page? That will be $12.99! - Rip off of the century.

It's one of the applications that has been used most worldwide and on daily basis, but not allowing basic functionality or not having any alternatives was everyone's pain. Being hit with "Pro version" ad, or taking forever to open a single page, or glitching out because AI is initialising in the background.

By far the best alternative I found is Stirling PDF - https://stirling.com/

   

They do have "Pro" and "Enterprise" versions, but you get 60+ PDF tools for Free. On top of that it loads faster than Adobe PDF due to reduced bloat.

If you want an app for your phone - ReadEra. Although made for books, it loads PDFs on your phone without ads and very quickly, just like Stirling PDF.

I must also warn, Stirling PDF is not great on phones yet. When opening PDFs in non-standard size it takes long to open, and zoom doesn't work correctly as of date.

So these are great alternatives that I've been using that have absolutely no compromises, instead giving you tools that you haven't used yet if you never wanted to subscribe to $12.99 to be able to rotate a page twice a year.

As an experiment, decided to backup my C:\ drive and install Zorin OS. One of many distros, but this one imitates Windows, while still with it's own character and features.

When you have the USB ready, there's also a basic checklist to unWindows yourself.

• Backup your C:\ drive
  
• Download Rufus to "burn" image to USB stick (At least 8GB): https://rufus.ie/en/#download
  
• Download Zorin OS: https://zorin.com/os/download/
  
• Write Zorin OS to the USB stick
  
• Check for your motherboard's "BIOS Boot selector key" that will allow you to select the USB to boot from
  
• You may need to re-select your "boot storage device" after Zorin OS is installed, just keep that in mind if you get "No bootable device found" after your install it.
  

1. In Windows power settings, make sure to uncheck "Turn on fast startup" - Windows locks drive C:\ when shutting down and may prevent new OS installation
   
2. If on older hardware, sometimes Windows was working with IDE storage configuration, make sure to set BIOS storage to AHCI just so that you're running storage at it's full potential
   
3. Reset overclocking to stock clock speed - Linux is less stable with overclocking and may freeze due to voltage spikes or bad voltage config
   

• Zorin OS has a "Software" app that has extensive list of apps that can be installed
  
• LibreOffice is preinstalled, but may look into installing OpenOffice
  
• Download the IDEs, Thunderbird, Steam to get going
  

Ferran Torres (Spain) scores to make it 1 - 0 at 106th minute. Nico Williams assisted.

As hard as Argentina began to push in extra time, the team could not play well together to put a goal through.

Spain was a team that went to the world cup to win and you could see it, they persuaded Argentina to give way. With most of the possession, and 20 shots taken at the goal posts.

The biggest show by Argentina, was Fernandez (Argentina) sending Cubarsi (#22 - Spain) into a front flip: