“what to do when someone texts you an apple emoji.”

I’m extremely curious to see how this plays out.

GILA! GILA!

So uh… Who ya creepin’ on?

Anyone have any context here? No idea what I’m looking at

Holy shit thank you. Reddit on Mobile was such an unusable mess to me that I’ve just been using old.reddit. Absolute game changer.

Still fuck that place, but now I can check in my my favorite old niche communities without getting cancer every time. Cheers!

We know how it, by your definition, “works.” That’s the problem.

!iptv_subs@lemmy.opensupply.space There might be better places to look, but you can get started here. I’ve been on King TV for about two months now and it’s pretty legit. The stream quality isn’t as good as YouTube TV or FUBO, but for $15 a month I’m not complaining.

I quite enjoyed “Avogodro Corp” by William Hertling. It’s the story of an email predictive text engine that grows into something more than that. Simple story but an interesting thought experiment.

“The Nexus Trilogy” by Ramez Naam is more complex and has a much larger story, but it draws heavily on singularity theory, transhumanism, and posthumanism themes. The first book only touches on AI tangentially, but there’s a heavier focus on it later in the series.

“I Have no Mouth and I must Scream” is an extremely dark experimental piece that envisions a malicious AI as a mad god. It’s mentioned elsewhere in this thread and is absolutely essential if you’re going to be reading or writing about AI, in my opinion. This one is more psychological horror than hard sci Fi, but will stick with you forever.

That worked! Awesome, thanks, I tried a few other methods last week with no luck

Because this is the Internet, I feel like OP is gonna to get at least a few creepy DMs over this.

Fellow adult with ADHD here, welcome to the club! What you’re feeling is referred to as “imposter syndrome” and it’s one of the more pesky symptoms of our particular affliction.

Just knowing it’s a symptom of ADHD has been a huge help to me… When those thoughts creep in, I just remind myself how hard I’ve had to work to get here.

I know for a fact that I had to study for some of my licensing exams three or four times longer than some of my coworkers, for example. Those coworkers don’t know that, and I wouldn’t care if they did, but I know how hard I’ve had to work to get where I am and I’m proud of it.

Sorry, I’m going to fully disagree with you there. There was no “Satan” behind the Satanic Panic; there weren’t hoardes of satanic teens sacrificing animals to Satan and eating babies, or any sort of movement trying to make that happen. It was just a fundie misinformation campaign designed to scare old white people into voting Republican.

The threat of AI-generated and assisted misinformation and disinformation, however, is very real, and has had disastrous effects in the real world. A casual glance at what Cambridge Analytica’s algorithms have done to the US political landscape is all you need to confirm these things are very, very different.

Default UI, just on dark. Might look into photon though.

Nope, I’m on Mobile. Since all I really use lemme for is text posts, links to articles about things, and the occasional star trek meme, there’s just no added value in using a client for me. I have no interest in ad-supported software at all, so if there’s a decent FOSS one I’d maybe try it eventually, but unless there’s something as minimalistic as BaconReader, probably not.

Am I weird for still just using Firefox? I don’t see the need for a standalone client.

you’re breathtaking!

You’re not lazy, you’re not stupid, and you’re not a loser. You just have ADHD, and once you figure that out things will get much, much easier. Hang in there.

This is the way