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Angela Collier is a physicist (?) with a popular science youtube channel. She was talking about human shaped robots recently:

https://youtu.be/rwsowgBE_P8

There’s a lot of crossover between human-like robots and chat bots and slavery.

There was a photo earlier today.

Consensus is that he’s having monthly treatments for something.

Bamboo shoots are a common ingredient.

Grandpa sundowner has no idea what hes planning.

Thanks for a considered response. As in all things, there’s nuance and I acknowledge there are benefits.

I’m genuinely curious as to whether you think reliance on this service will diminish someone’s opportunity to build the related skills?

I dislike this immensely and actively seek health care providers that don’t use these tools.

My core problem is that I want a professional who engages with me as a human and knows me.

I’m a professional (not in health care) but I “know” all of my clients, and I don’t think that’s an unreasonable expectation for a client or patient. When I pay $100 to talk to a GP for 10 minutes, I don’t think it’s too much to ask for them to have a conversation with me, really truly listen to me, and spend a few minutes writing some notes.

In the case of a mental health professional the time spent after an appointment with a patient is much greater. I don’t really want what I’ve said to be automatically converted to notes for a human to review. I want a human to consider the human to human conversation we have had, in the context of other conversations we have had and the relationship I have with them, and use those insights to produce appropriate documentation.

Finally, I have a strongly held belief that relying on the assistance of gen AI reduces one’s skills and abilities. For example, consider two therapists who have just completed their education and accreditation and start seeing patients. One uses gen AI to produce notes for every patient, the other eschews this practice. Ten years later, which therapist would you really trust to listen to patients and be able to distill the key elements of the conversation both spoken and unspoken?

That said, I’m aware that these services are becoming an industry standard. I suppose they may help therapists see more patients, and in the context of public health that might be a good thing. Whether or not I would use a service like this if I were a therapist is a difficult question to answer. If I were just starting out I think I probably would. That is to say my beef isn’t with you personally using a service like this, more that it’s becoming an industry standard.

This kinda seems like the mutterings of a crazy person.

He hasn’t had a plan since day one and as each moment passes he has a different thought about how he might possibly extricate himself from the mess he’s created.

Later today he will threaten to bomb their schools, then the military will keep preparing for boots on the ground, then he will tweet about how they’ve already destroyed Iran’s leadership, then he will say he’s going to tariff allies who aren’t helping, then he will say the strait is open, then he will say high fuel prices are really great for American fuel suppliers.

That’s true, but I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say that there’s a chance this conflict could escalate, and precipitate a global depression, at a time when mankind faces other disasters like climate change.

Like a global financial depression lasting a decade or more, some climate change tipping points, some food chain collapse, water shortages, increasing severity of storms and droughts.

All these things weren’t caused by this conflict but this conflict was an unnecessary burden at the worst possible time.

It’s true that “worst in the history of geopolitics” is a big declaration, but I think this is in that kind of magnitude.

I’m glad the regulator is at least taking an interest.

Sadly this is just how large corporations work in 2026. Say what you will about booking dot com, but all of these middle man companies are the same.

Like if you’re an uber driver or door dasher or airbnb host, the company is always gushing with platitudes about how you’re a valued partner, until something goes wrong. At that point there’s no one to talk to and you very quickly discover that they hold all the cards. As in: if you build a business “partnered” with a much larger corporation, you are entirely at their mercy in any kind of dispute.

They will not seek a balanced, fair, or reasonable outcome because they know that you don’t have any choice but to accept what they offer.

People always say this about LO.

I have a small finance consultancy, and we’re a LO shop all day every day.

Its fine.

Its almost always that they’ve been following specific workflows or processes for the last n years and find that particular workflow isn’t directly supported in LO.

This is so pathetic. What an embarrassment.

Trump will be remembered for his many crimes and ethical bankruptcy. Inevitably after he’s gone, there will be no incentive to cover for him, and the incentive will be to blame him for the terrible state in which he will leave the US economy and international relations.

Anyone with a pulse knows that he is a child rapist. Anyone with above-room-temperature IQ knows that he was deeply involved in Epstein’s operation, acquiring, grooming, and warehousing girls. Any genuine investigation will produce evidence of that.

He’s also single-handedly destabilised the global economy. The trillions of dollars his dumb ideas have cost everyone in productivity are just breathtaking.

Operation Epstein Fury is probably the USA’s biggest and most costly unforced strategic error in history. The consequences will resound through the coming decades.

The culmination of this context is that he has accelerated China’s rise to dominance and the USA’s collapse into irrelevance. As an Australian, just 2 years ago I was keen for us to cosy up to the US in the hope that the yanks would help us push back on China’s expansion of influence in the region. Honestly, now I feel more comfortable with China than I do with the US.

I read another commenter in another thread recently call it Damnatio Memoriae, a process often revealed in archaeology and / or ancient history whereby successors or the populace try to scrub a ruler from history.

Not really related to this article but I absolutely despise the penchant for the right to refuse to allow journalists they don’t like to attend press conferences.

Heyyy, hold your horses there zippy.

There must be at least several years of headlines about insider trading and nepotism before we get that far.

The population isn’t ready for armed resistance. I doubt they ever will be.

Nah. Segregation isn’t the answer.

No, it’s obvious that the republicans are going to try to manipulate the outcome in their favor.

However, if the swing against them is large enough they won’t be able to push the needle far enough back their way.

I suspect hes the most hated.

a closure will no longer crash the world economy

I don’t think we will reach that point in a meaningful timeframe.

My understanding of the global oil market is rudimentary but… even if we were only using half the oil we presently are when the strait was shut down, the same portion would likely be coming from there, so the “shock” would still be the same because increasing production elsewhere to increase supply is non-trivial.

That said, if a big chunk of transportation infrastructure has been “decarbonised” then sure, fuel costs might increase while transport costs are less effected.