On one hand, I realize that the office may be required by law to restrict certain information, so I see why they may need to know with certainty who they’re giving it to.
On the other hand, all of that user account info is going straight to Elon Musk on January 20th, so I agree that it sucks.
I had to use Edge at my last job and I really tried to like it, but it kept pushing all these unwanted ads and “features” at me. I much prefer Firefox.
He’s cutting out the middleman. See? Efficiency! /s
I have a young relative who uses a chromebook for school. I bought the same model for cheap, and guided them through opening it up, looking over the internals, and putting it back together again.
I was going to show my fam how to wipe it and install linux, but then I came across the need for using google’s ecosystem (for a project I’m collaborating with others on.) I have a flip-phone that I use when I need to give out numbers, so I used that to make the google account. Basically I only ever log on to that google account on that chromebook, and only for that project, so it’s compartmentalized.
Your source number 2 involves a hard interdisciplinary research problem: “what is meaningful language use?” My grad school thesis was tangentially related to it, so I’m most familiar with it from the AI perspective. Early AI researchers quickly realized that you can’t just dump a dictionary into a computer and suddenly have it understand language. You can add high-level “scripts” to the computer (Schankian scripts), but then it will just be manipulating symbols (chinese room problem). You can tie the symbols to things in the world (symbol grounding) or to its own processing (embodied meaning) but how do you coordinate those symbols with other agents, be they people or machines?
Think about that last question for a moment. Do you have an answer? I don’t think anyone does yet, so whatever you’re thinking is probably a good start towards further reading. @fubo@lemmy.world’s reply points out some of the issues involved, and these issues suggest the problem’s interdisciplinary nature: psychology, sociology, corpus linguistics, philosophy (both analytic i.e. Wittgenstein and Kripke, and continental as suggested by @AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world’s reply), cognitive science, neurolinguistics, etc. Literary theory is fun too, they say things like: an interpretation is situated, subjective, and performative. OK, sounds great, but how do you turn that into something that a computer does? It turns out that there are a lot of great ideas, but there’s still a lot of work to do to tie it all together. (and unfortunately way too many people think deep neural networks / LLMs can just solve it all by themselves grumble grumble…)
Given the above, to answer your specific question: “Is [meaningful] language mostly solipsistic?” I think most people would say “probably not”, with the caveat that it depends on how you define your terms. Clearly there are very important processes that work only in your own cognitive system, but it seems likely that external factors also play a necessary role.
Yeah! They are absolutely super lame. The only scene I remember from when I first watched this is the part where the kids are being driven to the concert by their dad, who looks like a totally 80s retro guy, and I thought the kids were kind of cringe. Years later I realized that ICP were in complete control of that documentary – they intentionally put that scene in there! Part of their whole message is that it’s OK to be a cringe scrub who everybody looks down on, because there are plenty of other people like that, and you can still be a good person and have friends and not give in to despair. So unlike other conceptions of the underground and counterculture, they’re not claiming to be cool or hip, and their clown personas enable them to emphasize this.
I suspect if you ask them who their bio pic is, you will get a very long explanation of who they are and why they like them.
The documentary has a lot of scenes with younger fans and the adults who are just worried sick about what those kids are getting into. For a more recent view of ICP’s fandom check out American Juggalo, on Vimeo (2011, NSFW)
Soul Train was a classic, but there was something special about New Dance Show. The music, the people, plus the look like it was filmed in someone’s basement.
Yeah, beehaw defederated from lemmy.world, home of !cat@lemmy.world.
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Insane Clown Posse - The Mighty Death Pop
See, this is why I keep speech recognition turned off…
Well they were planning on Effing it, so maybe they were wearing “protection”.
The poachers just taught gorillas how to make traps. Now the gorillas are gonna go full Rambo on them.
kek, I was the first person here on slrpnk.net to subscribe to that community, but would be surprised if that were also true on lemmy.world.
odd… wat happens if you look here: https://sh.itjust.works/c/wholesomegreentext
4channers always loose
counterexample: !wholesomegreentext@sh.itjust.works.
One of the things I learned as a scientist is that for any major accomplishment, there are thousands of people who did difficult, necessary, and not-widely-recognized work to make that accomplishment possible.