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  • Gemini replaced Bitchxby on the latest Samsungs.

    It’s in the firmware.

    With the S25 series they even give you a year of full subscription.
    They made it the centrepiece of the launch event of the product line.

    Galaxy devices now come with Gemini, your powerful AI assistant from Google. Long press the power button to get started.

    The Samsung’s front is called “Galaxy AI” but Gemini runs every new feature really - including “cross-apps actions”.
    (The non-obsolete Bixby features retained the name but are part of Galaxy AI now.)

    But even with everything off One UI 7 (and Samsung apps, like camera) is still littered with AI buttons.

    youtube.com/HinL5jCy_oI&t=1270
    (Gemini is now the default action for long-pressing the power button)




  • So nice of her to include a comprehensive disclaimer list, much appreciated.

    Lucy A. Snyder is a five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning writer and the author of the forthcoming Tor Nightfire novel Sister, Maiden, Monster. She also wrote the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, and Switchblade Goddess, the nonfiction book Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, the poetry collections Exposed Nerves and Chimeric Machines and the story collections Halloween Season, Garden of Eldritch Delights, While the Black Stars Burn, Soft Apocalypses, Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger.

    (Between all the Bram Stokers, the badger, & ‘Lucy A. Snyder frequently escaped into Clive Barker’s worlds when she was in darkest academia pursuing her MA in journalism’ you prob know how she writes.)

    wiki/Lucy_A._Snyder
    www.lucysnyder.com





  • I think there is no possible world where people are without meaningful work and are happy about it.

    –>

    Even if they collected $10,000 a month and got to spend all of their time doing hobbies and spending time with family, it would feel pointless and hollow.

    What is the difference between “hobby” and “work” if not what random people decide what is better monetised?

    Both is labour & value added.

    In a world where everyone gets enough money people could do what they actually want. So a CEO wouldn’t be “stuck” being a CEO if they don’t like that job & would rather be eg a baker. In the current system bcs of a huge pay divergence you get an unhappy CEO (who ofc won’t quit) and an unhappy baker that just couldn’t get a more suited paying job.

    But we as a society would get a lot more out of life & cultural progression if people would be happy & satisfied at what they do (job=hobby).

    Empirical evidence (even USA did extensive tests in the 60s) show that given a universal income (so basically no scarcity) basically nobody just sits around watching TV all day, everyone is productive (research, art, services, etc).

    Imagine only having customer support or food industry workers that truly enjoy their job & want to do it.
    How many prodigies are stuck at random dead end jobs with no prospects and life options?

    Labour is what we all benefit from.
    Work is what the employer/owner benefits from.


  • Yeah, but internet was for the people for decades.
    (And it didn’t really cost nature as much. Or stolen from the people so much - even by current laws LLM companies do that illegally.)

    “AIs” are getting their enshitification & monopolies pre-baked into their core bossiness models from the start.

    Not to mention that AIs will definitely worsen inequalities all over the world (like assembly robots that replaced people but aren’t owned by people, and people still need to work 8h/day for decades for some reason).

    (This but AI. I’m not saying, there aren’t/won’t be other jobs, just pointing out how this reshapes & concentrates wealth that on the other hands allows for slave wages with no prospects for full time jobs.)

    If AIs will affect the world as much as the internet (and do so with peoples data), then they should be seen as core infrastructure - and government or non-profit owned.

    Monetisation of all the things is killing us.


  • Why would you assume that my answer would be “one man”? It was an incredibly complex conflict that was really a collection of smaller regional conflicts with various allies between them.

    &

    There’s no singular cause of WW2.

    Because basically all of those reasons are the same as WWI but amplified by the restrictions (manufactured economic crisis) posed upon Germany at the end of WWI.

    That is why I said it can be viewed as the same war.
    (Imho - anyways it’s literally just semantics, perhaps propaganda of the victors a bit.)

    Much like (the recent-ish) Russia in Ukraine - it’s usually not viewed as two separate wars, one in 2014 & the other in 2022. Bcs it’s the same thing, it was oblivious that it isn’t over & both Russia & NATO/Ukraine have all been actively preparing each year.

    However, in retrospect, many people would say when Germany invaded Poland. That said, USSR and Finland were already fighting at that point, as well as Japan and China.

    Yeah, Japan in China started basically in 31 (13 years after official end of WWI, a much more European thing), whereas Germany’s first foreign move was the military invasion of Austria in 38.