The New Coffee Room

Wonder what would happen if countries were asked for a show of hands of how many nations feel it is a good time to end using the US dollar as the reserve currency for trade?

Who knew?

Been there, got the t-shirt. Everyone is different. For some folks, pretty mild - for others...not so good. Hopefully, yours resolves quickly and without long-term issues.

Mark Cuban dropped his new Skynet Skylight app today as an alternative to Tik Tok. It is in beta mode and lacks some of the features of Tik Tok - but it also permits people to use such triggering words as "kill" as opposed to "unaliving". The content is neither as youthful (teens dancing videos) or instructional (oil industry news) so far - but we'll see where it is in a week.

Raising the income cap for Social Security withholding - would help the cause.

@Mik said in Better And Faster:

Tutoring is an excellent use of AI.

I've seen a lot of videos of people being queried about basic knowledge questions - e.g. New York City is in what state? Hawaii is in what country? And a personal favorite of if something costs 65 cents, how much change would you receive from a dollar? There are oodles of people unable to answer those questions. Scary as hell. AI may supplant the need for these voters people and even the people who can answer the questions. I love that AI can tailor things to a specific person. A lot of college students are using AI to not only succinctly summarize notes - but come up with flash card like means to help study.

In college, I both learned and later taught statistics - where a lot of the time was devoted to derivation and calculation. A generation later - all of that was unnecessary as software allowed one to focus on the more important issue of interpretation. Now, even that is being supplanted.

It's just the beginning of what will be happening worldwide though from a different cause. Bill Gates says that the accounting and legal professions - along with many others will be decimated by AI. Even now, all of us could be graphic artists with a half dozen hours of experience with AI. I asked AI for help with tax questions. A lot of the make work things of government will be dealt with more efficiently via AI. Computer Sci majors are noting that the infinite well of need is drying up.

Without the videos - but https://archive.is/J2cwu

She's one of the most amazing pianists of all time - gifted beyond comprehension... Article

Long term - people are guessing Oracle might purchase Tik Tok.

Best guess is that Trump will move do another extension. A fair number of the bigger influencers have been moving from Tik Tok to other platforms - and encouraging their followers as well. Some of it has to do with an increased unhappiness with Tik Tok deleting posts for what are perceived as silly reasons - but can be related to the algorithm being updated with new words to search for and call attention to. Most of the big influencers have more than one platform. Still, there are a plethora of people making a living - or at least having as a side gig - income generating opportunities on Tik Tok that aren't so easy to secure elsewhere.

Name - Xtasy

Pritzker has little hope, just not inspiring.