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James R Kirk

@ Kirk @startrek.website

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  • Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

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  • It seems we agree on the facts, but not on what "useful" or "helpful" means. I honestly have never, ever considered deciding on what food to serve guests be "labor", but in the interests of replying in good faith I asked an LLM the exact prompt you gave. It gave a long, detailed reply, but here is the first part labeled "1. Welcome / Cocktail Reception":

    Mini prosciutto‑wrapped melon balls • Brie & caramelized onion tartlets (store‑bought puff pastry) • Stuffed mushroom caps (herb cream cheese + breadcrumbs)

    I want you to consider that this not actually helpful in the slightest, and is fact creating more work. Consider: is there a vendor nearby that has these items as an an option for event planning? Is this a recipe that even exists? Does this information further my mission of having a wedding in any conceivable way?

  • Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

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  • Those paragraphs are what I'm talking about. The author fails to explain what the LLM actually did that was helpful. It's like saying "I used ChatGPT to plan my wedding menu" without any more details. What did it actually do? Why was it helpful? Those are the things I continue to not understand about these tools.

  • Smart glasses and socializing

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  • I recently asked a friend to remove their meta glasses while we were out to eat. It was awkward for a moment but they were understanding, and we had a good talk about privacy and tech after.

  • I decided to abandon Windows on my desktop this year. After some searching I ended up with

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  • I'm relatively a Linux newbie and "open app store and click install" couldn't have been more user friendly to me, so I'm very excited by it all

  • I decided to abandon Windows on my desktop this year. After some searching I ended up with

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  • Bazzite has been the most plug and play distro I've ever used!

  • Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

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  • Skipping AI is not going to help you or your career. Think about it.

    OK well I've thought about it and I still don't understand. Surely, this thousand word essay can explain what ""AI"" can do right? Surely it's not the same vague nonspecific claims about "missing out" on the future?

    It is simply impossible not to see the reality of what is happening.

    Huh. Guess I'm just really dumb then.

  • Got my account ban for 3 days for hate. I'm gay, disabled, and have an African American boyfriend.

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  • Mods can we have a rule against these posts please

  • RFK Jr. unveils new ‘upside down’ food pyramid

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  • It really is just kind of a vibe, isn't it.

  • RFK Jr. unveils new ‘upside down’ food pyramid

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  • I was taught they are starchy but that was grade school days and I won't die on this hill. I certainly didn't mean to imply peas were unhealthy. What I found odd is that they are on opposite ends of the pyramid from "whole grains" which is a carb I would personally say is on about the same level as peas overall.

  • RFK Jr. unveils new ‘upside down’ food pyramid

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  • They stopped using the pyramid a longtime ago, but yeah this one isn't bad:

    As a pile of (mostly) healthy food it's fine. But as an infographic it completely sucks.

    EDIT: It's interesting they would have frozen peas at the top (mostly empty starch) but whole grains at the bottom (assuming the bottom means "sparingly"). Also red meat and butter should not be a large part of anyone's daily calories.

  • TCL's newest NXTPAPER phone is a versatile mid-ranger with up to 7 days of battery life

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  • Well I'll be

  • TCL's newest NXTPAPER phone is a versatile mid-ranger with up to 7 days of battery life

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  • Looks cool, when can we have that tech in a tablet for reading?

  • The US Media is equally complicit

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  • Oof, I wouldn't want that in any community, but a community specifically about disinformation is particularly disturbing. I reported this thread to the mods, if it's not removed shortly I guess I'll be reporting it to my instance admins for removal too.

  • The US Media is equally complicit

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  • I notice that a lot of mods on the fediverse sadly carry over the reddit tradition of doing the bare minimum amount of actual moderating.

  • Anna's Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension

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  • Are these the same people that refused to suspend Kiwi Farms and 8chan?

  • The US Media is equally complicit

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  • This post is disinformation with an editorialized post title. Here is the actual source: https://www.semafor.com/article/01/03/2026/new-york-times-washington-post-held-off-on-reporting-venezuela-raid

    The decisions in the New York and Washington newsrooms to maintain official secrecy is in keeping with longstanding American journalistic traditions — even at a moment of unprecedented mutual hostility between the American president and a legacy media that continues to dominate national security reporting.

    Tl;dr: the only thing that's surprising is that they kept this tradition even with Trump's attacks on them. whatever your feelings on the topic this behavior is not our of the ordinary.

  • Mixarr – a music discovery companion for Lidarr/Plex

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  • I think your URL to the github is a hyperlink back to this post...

  • Introducing Hypermind: A fully decentralized, P2P, high-availability solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

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  • I love the description.

    Hey everyone, so you just finished setting up the *Arr stack and your dashboards lookin crisp. But you look at your htop and see... unused RAM. It’s disgusting, isn't it?

  • A beginner's guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative | TechCrunch

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  • Neat!

  • A beginner's guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative | TechCrunch

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  • Nextcloud is federated?