Those ones tend to stake themselves eventually, or get obsessed with seeing sunlight “for real though”. They’re not in it for the long haul.

We all know that scene in Robo Cop 2 is going to happen eventually.

Hey at least he stuck around.

Most people do value these things, they just don’t have the political power to enact them.

The people who do have that level of power see it as a move that wouldn’t help them, and would hinder their political goals in other areas (they don’t have an infinite budget, and they have people to pay or whom they owe favours).

…and those who have this sort of money to burn, only got that money by being tight fisted and ruthless, so lost the mental agility and empathy to do this sort of thing.

But yes, the majority of poor, tired, politically disempowered people do support this sort of thing… Then a swath of them think “but I could never go to such a place, too many wheelchairs and gross children” and another group thinks “Don’t we have better things to spend money on,? Local parks, drunk driving issues, business relief”… So it becomes a question of a whole hierarchy of values.

Different values win under different political, cultural, and structural systems, with different inputs, and most of the time “supporting the values” doesn’t necessarily mean supporting the pragmatics - let alone adopting the role of someone actually driving and pushing every day to get this sort of project funded, supported, known about, popularised, paid for, and then built, run, and maintained.

So is that you? OR - do you - like most people - “value” these sorts of things on an esoteric, personal level… But you’re mired in other states of being still.

There’s meaning, then there’s meaningful. We all mean well, but few of us are capable of meaningful actions on this scale.

So the question either needs this sort of understanding automatically (so everyone knows the pragmatics), or to be turned on the person asking? Don’t you? Where’s your meaningful action?

It’s probably down here with the rest of us, which is what makes it uplifting when one person manages to have the skills and opportunities to put themselves in a position where they can step up, and they actually do something.

Yeah, but the question was as to whether Gemini is listed as an app. The answer is no, Google have snuck it in whether you like it or not.

Yes, it’s on there. I have a phone, never downloaded or installed Gemini, but because it’s a motorola with a special extra button… I can push that button and up pops Gemini.

The only way I can stop it is by disabling the Google app, then the button becomes innert again (which is how I like it).

So yes, it’s embedded in the Google app. Disabling the Google app may aslo cause other issues (such as Google Home/Chromecast not working).

Operation Sundial 2.0, electric boogaloo.

“And the Libertarian founding fathers defeated the woke pro-slavery communists, to get rid of the DEI british and found America (which was uninhabited at the time)” -Grok

Lwgalise the plantain.

I yeah, I meant that second thing. The fafo one.

But yeah, Project Cybersyn… Maybe someone will try it again one day. I like systems that are based on a belief in the human hive mind, and feedback loops.

https://www.damninteresting.com/nineteen-seventy-three/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

A little bit like 9/11. Just a little.

No human needs this, this is the march of the companies against humanity.

Sometime before now.

Can’t wait until we figure out that improving society for the people in it, improves society overall.

The answer always seems to be: Cloudflare is fucking up again. This isn’t the first time.

The number of pro-Isreal bots is ridiculous.

I’ve heard that’s how a lot of wealthy people feel. They want the absolute best for people in their family, and that’s about it.

Governments get really intense creating propaganda when they goto war. So if they’re going to war with Iran, expect lots of propaganda.

Turns out the science was the questions we asked along the way.

I tend to vote for the Australian Greens party. They never seem to win the US elections though.