My PCP recommended me to a specialist office that does neurological testing at scale, so I was able to get through it all pretty quickly. I asked about it at my yearly insurance physical in March, got an appointment for online testing on the 3rd, and got my results two weeks later. I was surprised by how easy it was. I have pretty good insurance from my job.

Here’s the specialist I used

I’m not sure if they take patients outside Michigan or not, but everything I did was remote, so I don’t see why they couldn’t. Their reviews on Google are bad, but my experience was great, and I’ve had friends say good things about another doctor also at this practice

I’ve definitely found that I do better when I can keep 100 different things balanced against each other. It gives me somewhere to go when I hit a wall. It can obviously get overwhelming when something goes wrong though

I feel this big time. I go to sleep with an audiobook on, so I have something to focus on. Otherwise, it takes me forever to sleep, because my brain keeps distracting me

It’s not a cheat code, you’re enriching yourself! Could very well be exactly what your anxiety needs!

I have definitely used my difficulty starting tasks to help myself lose weight. I find its way easier to just be hungry than to make food. Most of the time.

I still have to make sure I’m not eating snacks without thinking about it. A good option for me has been keeping easy, small, healthy foods, that can get me through hunger pang. My favorite is a pot of Greek yogurt. They’re like 80¢ at Aldi where I live. Fresh fruit works great as well! And for late night treats, I eat frozen fruit. It fills the ice cream niche, without being packed with calories and extra sugar

YouTube continuing to advertise to children while claiming otherwise

The report said Musk sent Fong a direct message asking if she wanted to have his baby despite never having met her in person. Fong confided in friends about the advance, and once Musk found out, he unfollowed her, and her X earnings reportedly nosedived. At the peak of Musk’s engagement with her posting, she apparently raked in $21,000 over a two-week stretch on his platform.

Coercion is rape.

As long as the Clown episode doesn’t come on 😨

Play Decimate Drive

The other people interviewed answer those questions if you keep reading

“It really weighed on the creativity of my role, and again, spat in the face of my expertise”, [Ricky says]. “It wasn’t just this though; the tool itself lacks the intent, context, and limitations of what we’re doing. It doesn’t have other aspects of the project, influences, references, or personal experiences in the back of its mind, because it doesn’t have a mind. Whenever we design something for a game, it’s drawn from somewhere, influenced by other things, and filtered through our own experiences as a human. These AI ideas lose ALL of that…"

“What follows from these discussions is me explaining why, usually over hours rather than minutes, that these tools have no place in a professional game development pipeline or production and actually hinder the development of visuals”, Francis says. “I also find myself explaining to them how the iteration and ‘idea’ phase of a project is where the best stuff happens, how exploring things through artistic labor is where your best ideas come to fruition, and why would we want an AI (that we don’t even own) to do that for us with art that isn’t ours to use?”

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If he’s not arguing to improve it, he’s arguing that it shouldn’t exist at all, which is worse.

We must move away from binary tales of catastrophe, not towards naive utopianism that ignores problems and risks that comes with change, but hopeful solutionism that reminds us we can solve and mitigate them…

I don’t like Black Mirror, but I would never say that there’s no place for it. It obviously resonated with a lot of people, and it was probably an entry into the genre for a lot of new sci-fi fans. Very ‘Old Man Yells At Cloud’

It definitely reads like a criticism of Black Mirror to me

Black Mirror fails to consistently explore the duality of technology and our reactions to it.

Absent is the plot twist of Pandora’s box that made it philosophically useful: the box also contained hope and opportunity that new knowledge brings.

Black Mirror didn’t fail to do those things, it wasn’t interested in them

I don’t like Black Mirror. I think it’s generally lazy and sensational. But what this person is saying is not a valid criticism, it’s like saying the Bee Movie would have been better if there had been an extended car chase. Louis doesn’t want to improve the show, they want something else entirely.

If you want a contemporary forward-thinking scifi, check out author Becky Chambers!

I work for an ISP, and this is a common practice among my peers

I think the US have certainly shown that we are not a reliable ally, and for Ukraine specifically, I don’t think it would be unfair to say we’re straight up your enemy, now that our president is a Russian asset.

It’s just another way to bribe him

… Meta’s security systems were unable to identify…

I think you mean incentivized to ignore

They must have been really derivative

Plainclothes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (|CE) agents

ITYM secret police

Now we’re going to have to go north for medicine and graphics cards