In the month or so I've had Claude, I've built an app I use every day and almost completed a system for my business that will ease my life and improve the quality of service I provide for years to come, all without the 30-50k that software as a service companies want to charge. So. There.

That is all.

Artists? It's a video game. Probably need a 1/3 of what they needed before. The details don't especially matter. Coders? I can't code, but I bet you I can make an improved Balatro clone in a week or two. Marketing? Lulz.

Models and meteorologists want a *vertical* sample of the atmosphere. The ideal sensor would not bend, deflect, or drift off with the winds aloft. Balloons do a *lot* of drifting.

The soundings returned by the balloons are all skewed to some degree or another.

Agree. Sometimes my notifications are a war zone, with up and down mods. back and forth.

Yes, I've seen downright seditious and threatening ov violent harm in a few groups, and the person suffers no consequence. Someone might have reported you for just having a different opinion. When spring outside of an echo chamber, people in the echo chamber go Reeee!

Especially if you answer certain groups who appear to enjoy "punishing" those who disagree with them. Some even enjoy the experience.

Want to make social media utterly irresistible to young people?

Ban it for them.

I recall as a rebellious 13 year old, I started smoking. Developed a 2+ pack a day habit. Started drinking. It wasn't because I enjoyed it all that much, but it was an adult thing, and forbidden. Turned 19 and quit. Wasn't fun any more. Now it's coffee, and the occasional wee dram of a good bourbon or perhaps tequila on date night with the missus.

But now there is a new "adult" thing for the kids.

It is not to say that social media is not bad for them. It certainly is. That shit is ruining prople, ruining relationships, and spreading lies and disseminating malware. But banning it is certainly an enticement for the kids.

I admire the Left's newfound opposition to pointless regulations, lol

... if they chart?

Gee, how could Iran find allies in Minnesota, lol

I mean, people totally won't use this to report stuff that they simply disagree with.

I know, right?

I suppose you could just claim I'm making shit up. I'm not complaining about being targeted unfairly, but allow me to explain.

If you get banned, then whine about it, saying "They're so mean!" That is complaining about being unfairly targeted. Exactly.

I noted I was, then surmising what I might have done wrong. In your world, is everyone of one mind? And all thinking in lockstep? And that any decision among all would be the same? Perhaps you live in an alternative universe of puppy dogs and rainbows. In the real universe, there are differing opinions. Sometimes certain opinions are prioritized.

Bloody hell, there are a fair number of people In here who would love to have me banned from Slashdot. Although I seldom swear, some find themselves violently disagreeing with me - I even have a few stalkers, who mod me down when I post objective truth. So you're claiming I am dissembling, or posting violent threats or whatever you made up in your head that I'm omitting for - what - internet pity? That's rather amusing.

Search quality has dropped off so far over the past several years that it's almost useless. Too much AI slop out there, apparently. Gemini gives useful answers. I set up an agent that queries gemini and serves those results immediately then looks at what gemini says and does its own deeper search. There are usually significant differences and improvements with the deeper search. Or I can spend 20 minutes digging through forum posts and spam websites, trying to find the answers that might be eight links down or not there at all. It's a fucking mess.

Back before Youtube became a little more inclusive I got banned from an address, and they wouldn't say why. As far as I can tell, it was a post I made about some women seem to always pick abusive mates. I must have been reported for that. Unfortunately, that is an objective truth. But not one that was politically correct at the time. So I pissed off someone that made a complaint, and that complaint landed on a person who shared that. Or maybe an algorithm issue - who knows?

https://www.psychologytoday.co....

And yes, Slashdot's moderation method, which allows people to mod posts up or down, then allows users to block out posts below a certain level is the best moderation concept ever.