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Just gonna vent a bit here….

I am on day 30 now and wow, this is a slow process. I’m down to one crutch but in a boot anytime I leave the house. The boot will be around for another two weeks minimum. I can put my full weight on it but movement without the boot (like walking barefoot with a crutch) is a dangerous business.

My PT specializes in sports injuries and said it’s probably the worst ankle sprain he’s seen… so I guess I win?

I’m hoping I can get it back to 100% functionality eventually. I know ankles can be screwed up for life, so I’m really trying to keep the big picture in mind and not push too hard. nostr:note1zz73gzwjh8pwtxe2gavpwstslxaj3jxenzf0c3dg0y3yxlftlncs4tquds

Does anyone have a favorite way to access the deepseek model without using deepseek? I figure the Chinese are scraping everything that goes into it.

Everyone is probably already aware of this, but it was only a matter of time before advertising came to AI chatbots. Perplexity seems aware of the problems with this, and is going to try to mitigate it. We'll see. I suspect the game theory will drive a race to the bottom similar to social media.

Although, powerful open source models may be disruptive enough that advertising in AI LLMs doesn't have the influence like it does in social media. Imagine if nostr and twitter started at the same time and nostr didn't have to fight the network effect of most people having their social graph in FB, twitter, IG, etc.

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/why-we-re-experimenting-with-advertising

Been a rough couple of weeks so it’s a Nebraska kind of morning.

Beautiful!

From the little bit that I know, I think Liang Wenfeng is the hero and Sam Altman is the villain in this AI story…

https://open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/p/why-deepseek-is-a-gift-to-the-american?r=7ew6d&utm_medium=ios

lol. I’m worried that’s coming, although for now his eyes look okay (not cloudy) and he seems to see okay.

Ugh. That’s no good. Was yours a fracture?

My dog is at the age where it’s unclear whether he can’t hear us or has just stopped giving a shit about what we say.

Great images!

I’ve not had a physical injury this bad since I broke my collar bone in two places in high school. It’s been a long 8 days but my ankle is slowly improving. Very grateful for my wife who has had to take on basically everything, including taking care of me.

https://z-cress.micro.blog/2025/01/27/i-exercised-for-days-in.html

Quote from Seneca that resonated with me.

“I say, let no one rob me of a single day who isn’t going to make a full return on the loss.” —SENECA

Totally agree that parents need to take responsibility. Although this (thankfully) is changing quickly, many parents don’t understand the harms. What’s the big deal with fun dances snd funny videos? When a company is doing this level of harm at such a scale, and doing everything they can to hide it from parents, I don’t see a major problem with banning it.

Suppose a food company creates a food that is highly addictive but also toxic and targeted at children. (Honestly this is probably already happening - is a pop tart or a taki even food?) I don’t see a problem with banning that food. This is analogous to the TikTok situation, in my view.

Actually I think the better justification for banning it is that it’s a tool of the Chinese government to use soft power to manipulate, spy on, and stupidly jot only our children but our entire citizenry. In my mind that’s root reason we should ban it - the fact that it would minimize its impact on our kids is a positive second order effect. nostr:note1lrdnkxlpcr6ezwpx4mfnjtmwtcraqp9xpa9d5k28zxg8f5j0k6ks5gxc94

Maybe I’m missing something. It seems like there’s a structural difference between an open communications protocol and an application owned by a puppet company of a foreign adversary.

Are you asking if I would want things *built on* Nostr banned?

No, I don’t. I don’t think Nostr and TikTok are in the same category of things.

Hopefully TikTok will be banned as scheduled.

“And even if parental controls worked and parents chose to shield their kids from bad stuff, they can’t because TikTok’s content moderation is poor. An internal study found that the “leakage rate” (of bad stuff getting past moderators) is as follows: 35.71% of “Normalization of Pedophilia” content; 33.33% of “Minor Sexual Solicitation” content; 39.13% of “Minor Physical Abuse” content; 30.36% of “leading minors off platform”; 50% of “Glorification of Minor Sexual Assault”; and 100% of “Fetishizing Minors.” For those who think that social media is relatively harmless, we urge you to read the quotations and internal studies described below, in which employees of TikTok discuss the vast and varied harms that they are causing to literally millions of American children each year.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathanhaidt/p/industrial-scale-harm-tiktok?r=7ew6d&utm_medium=ios

It dawned on me today as I was taking notes on a video about weekly reviews that I could probably upload a picture of my notes to Claude and ask it to transcribe them into text. And, even with my poor handwriting, it did a great job. I also asked it to format it as a bulleted list with sub bullets, which it did. If my handwriting was slightly better it would’ve done an even better job.

I love to take hand written notes but I hate that those notes get stuck in a physical notebook and are difficult to reference or build on later (unless you carry that notebook everywhere). They’re also difficult to search. This is especially the case if you’re looking for notes from months and years ago. It seems this problem is solved.

Congratulations!

Some things related to AI that I don't think are being discussed enough.

https://z-cress.micro.blog/2024/12/30/agi-or-not-we-cant.html