Hold me tight and think of home

Crossed over half a bridge by balancing on a single steel beam in an effort to pursue a wanted criminal

Chased an armed criminal into and through moving traffic (bonus: almost got crushed by a car)

Chased kidnappers into moving traffic and onto a highway multiple times (bonus: fell off the highway once, had to be fetched like a frisbee)

Climbed an entire football stadium up to the roof (more steel beams were involved)

Rode upside down on the ceiling of a highway tunnel (bonus: somehow landed upright when gravity finally remembered to apply to him as well)

Crossed the collapsed passage connecting two skyscrapers

Used a parabolic antenna as a ramp in order to throw himself off a roof hard enough to almost reach a nearby river

Used a metal pipe he uprooted himself as a landing ramp after jumping off a building in order to slingshot himself into the air for a cool shot with his soccer ball

Caused an avalanche

Things Conan hasn't done with his skateboard:

So are

colostomy bags

Diapers

insulin pumps

Oxygen systems

rollators

hearing aids

compression garments

prosthetics

FREEDOM AIDS

- service animals

- noise cancelling headphones/ear defenders

- wheelchair attachments

- fidgets

IT’S DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH YALL

No subscription. Just program.

On your computer. You got to use it forever and ever and never had to worry about it going away.

Because it was physically on your computer. As a program. That you actually owned. Not because you got it separately, but because it was a standard inclusion with your computer.

I'm sorry but I'll just never get over it. I remember when companies cared about their products being usable out of the box. I remember when our things belonged to us.

I have many reasons why I will not use those tools, going from lack of accuracy, lack of ethics, and a higher waste of energy.

But my main reason is this:

I will do things the hard way. I will learn how to do things the hard way.

Because AI is a subscription. And when the world is dependant on AI, they will raise the price of that subscription.

And when the company I work for decides that paying for AI is too expensive for their bottom line, they will remove it.

So yeah, if things had gone the way they planned, they would have waited until people were a lot more dependent on AI than they are to jack up the prices, and their costs would be low enough that they could make a huge profit. But the financials are starting to look pretty dire. It's an open question which companies will even survive long term -- so it might not be a question of "will the AI be too expensive" but "will the AI even be available."

I'm 43. If I started using AI to do all my work, and then I had to stop using it, I would still have my previous experience to fall back on. I'd probably have to relearn some stuff, and it would be annoying, but I could do it.

(Yoinked this from LinkedIn, genuinely interested in seeing how responses align with demographics) (so far it’s those of us over 35 being indignant but I wanna see how those fully plays out) (it’s cultural and technological history/memory, bruh)