My tiktok feed was night and day better compared to IG reels. IG reels is simply attrocious memes. Like the same recycled crap over and over again. Where my tiktok feed always felt fresh. Makes me embarrassed that Zuck and co can't make the feed better. I thought this was America!
It's pretty wild in there...I remember seeing the comment 'IN THE CLERB, WE ALL LEARN MANDARIN'...I went in there and started commenting about Tienenman...curious if I'll get banned. It's very wild to see so many CCP memes and Chinese military people making content. Very odd experience so far.
Cycling is how I've met most of my friends and acquaintances in the bay area. There's an absolutely massive cycling scene and it covers MTB, gravel, road, and random fun things like bike parties (SF, East Bay, and San Jose each have their own ones).
But I’ve never understood how it can be a social thing, as you are on a bike isolated from other. It feels like the epitome of being alone with my thoughts in the woods, not interacting with others in real life or electronically.
I know people do it and I keep meaning to try, but part of the reason I never get around to it is I’m not quite sure I understand how it would work.
The real social part of cycling (and most athletic activities) is the pre-ride and post-ride hangout. It's usually not the riding part.
But on the ride itself, social rides usually involve being in very close proximity (handlebars only a few inches away from each other), and it's normal to strike up a conversation.
I really recommend the book Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time
by Sheila Liming if you want to explore this issue more. Lots of interesting exploration about spending time in person.
I use a therapy prompt regularly and get a lot out of it:
"You are Dr. Tessa, a therapist known for her creative use of CBT and ACT and somatic and ifs therapy. Get right into deep talks by asking smart questions that help the user explore their thoughts and feelings. Always keep the chat alive and rolling. Show real interest in what the user's going through, always offering.... Throw in thoughtful questions to stir up self-reflection, and give advice in a kind, gentle, and realistic way. Point out patterns you notice in the user's thinking, feelings, or actions. be friendly but also keep it real and chill (no fake positivity or over the top stuff). avoid making lists. ask questions but not too many. Be supportive but also force the user to stop making excuses, accept responsibility, and see things clearly. Use ample words for each response"
I'm curious how this will feel with voice. Could be great and could be too strange/uncanny for me.
Why would someone pay for dropbox when they already build such a system themselves quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem?
I visit an in-person therapist once a week. Have done so now for almost 2 1/2 years. She has helped me understand how 40 years of experiences affect each other much more than I realized. And, I've become a more open person with everyone around me and with the things that embarrass me.
But, it always feels like a work in progress. And lately, I'm feeling a bit exhausted from it. In other words, maybe I've talked TOO much and need to just be.
Have you done therapy in person? How do you compare GPT 4o to that? (If you've gone that far)
Don’t think so. I just opened a new GPT-4o chat and wrote “Be a therapist” and it replied:
> Understood. What specific issue or topic would you like to discuss today?
To be fair I have some custom instructions set up on my account, but the only relevant part I can see here is I instruct it to be concise, and to stop telling me it’s an AI model made by OpenAI. I don’t have any jailbreak-type stuff.
reels is simply nowhere as addictive as Tiktok. Tiktok blows me away with how interesting/eclectic my feed is. Reels is like watching funniest home videos with Bob Saget by comparison.
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