I 100% agree with you. I trust my doctor. I don’t trust the app. Prior to this we were using zoom.

It records the sessions then makes a transcript for “note taking.”

I edited my post with the text of the agreement they wanted me to sign. It sounds like the AI is for “note taking”. I wouldn’t be having sessions with AI. The AI would record my sessions, make a transcript, then the DR would have to review/edit the transcript, then delete the recording. I don’t like the idea of my sessions being recorded, and I don’t trust that the app will delete the recording. Companies lie all the time and get away with it because the punishment is rolled into the cost of doing business.

The alternative is finding a different provider. I already have a long list of offices to call. Getting a list together was the first thing I did when they notified me about rolling out this app.

I can, but in truth I don’t care. I don’t want my data being used to train AI, and I don’t want my treatment to be guided by AI.

THE PROPHECY HAS COME TO PASS.

It’s like that vegan joke. How will you know if someone is a linux user? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.

silly me making registry entries and edits to remove their bullshit from the OS.

We delivered more security assistance to Israel, our ally, under my leadership than ever, ever before. We will keep doing that… I have many jobs as leader & one is to fight for aid to Israel. Remember, he isn’t fighting for NYers, or for Americans, he’s fighting for Israel.

Thief of hope; does that make him the commander in thief?

Controversial take: Pit the workers against each other while the boss takes even more time off.

Tots and pears

Because most people peaked in HS.

I’ve said it before, and I will say it again:

Epic’s corporate overlords don’t have an original thought rattling around in their collective heads. Their entire business model is to flail around, copy anything that seems remotely successful with a reskin, and hope it sticks.

All that aside, I got to play test early forms of fortnite. It’s original inception was sort of like a plants vs zombies game, but with building. When PUBG blew up in popularity, EPIC completely threw out the original design of fortnite and reworked it into a battle royale game to jump on the PUBG hype train to make lots of moolah. Nothing about fortnite was original, and lots of the content that was added are just copies of games that were already amazing, (nod to guitar hero and rock band,) or reskins of fortnight assets into other things that are popular.

It’s felt like fortnight has been keeping epic alive for nearly a decade. 10 - 15 year olds that were playing fortnight and buying with mom and dad’s $ are grown up; AAAANNNNNNDDDD they don’t have disposable income. 20-24 year olds are experiencing 7.7% unemployment, if they have a college degree. Those numbers get worse the less education young people have. Avg unemployment is about 4.5% vs for highschool kids and kids working through college the unemployment rate is 13%. Epic’s entire profit model depends on a never ending supply of children with access to infinite disposable income.

So if Epic wants to do well financially it’s going to have to:

• Take risks (leading to the production of products that people outside of their usual customer base want to purchase.)
• Support policies that ensure plebs have $ to buy their reskinned bullshit.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

Is this image from the Saudi Arabia air base where the sentry aircraft was damaged by an Iranian strike?

Bee extinction means no polination, no polination means no crops; penny wise and pound foolish.

Seems easier than engineering edible yeast to get them the sterols they need.

The solution is so simple. Crop/pollen diversity. Instead of letting fields lay fallow for crop rotation, they could plant diverse wildflower meadows to improve quality of bee health for the traveling bees that get shipped around for crop rotation. Or the bee keepers themselves that sell the services of their bees, could ensure diverse flower and pollen options when their bees aren’t traveling.

That was the first thing I noticed too.