yellerbadger

Tbh join a couple organizations that address things you care about and they will give you plenty to do e.g. write/call your representative, participate in X community outreach event, donate to Y cause etc.

I have some smart glasses with no camera and the option to use on device or cloud AI. They’ve been gathering dust though; they didn’t add much to my life once the novelty wore off.

The early 2000s internet where people knew better than to give up their privacy for useless internet points feels so long ago. Someone should make bets on prediction markets how long before we find out Zuck/Thiel/etc buy that data or they get breached and it ends up on the dark web.

And they tried to work with Persona for age verification until they got called out and backtracked. Peter Thiel has a stake in it. https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

IMO there’s a significant drop off with local LLMs vs the mainstream ones. This can be mitigated somewhat though by using web search tools or using retrieval augmented generation.