They also seem to have replaced their PR team with AI, given all the stuff he probably should have been coached not to say in this interview.

Ah. So it’s not just me.

The turtles deserve better than this.

You’re asking them to put their livelihood on the line for your privacy. They’re gonna choose the thing that pays their bills every time.

I like my coffee hot most of the time but I have enjoyed iced coffee. The main problem for me is it’s way easier to drink a lot more iced coffee than is good for me than it ever was to drink hot coffee at and unhealthy volume.

Ooo. I like this one.

I’m not disputing what you said. Just pointing out the parts of the article that lead me to my conclusion. The Landlord seems to not want to sell off parcels of this land according to their own statement, but to continue coffee operations. What you said makes sense (as far as extracting more rents), but so does trying to buy the rights to the Kauai Coffee Company name to continue their operations because of brand recognition.

You are correct in that I don’t know much of anything about the lease hold system for such lands in Hawaii.

Katayama told the council he wouldn’t discuss details of the lease or explain where the disagreement lies.

James Priestley, the vice president of Brue Baukol Capital Partners, told SFGATE in an email that the firm has always hoped to reach an agreement with Massimo Zanetti.

He [Priestley] explained that, in 2024, Brue Baukol listed 4,713 acres of its coffee lands for sale. “When we received an indication that a renewal was uncertain, we considered leasing or selling the land to another interested steward whose values aligned with ours and could continue the legacy of agriculture on this land,” he wrote.

Priestley said that the company intends to keep coffee operations going, even if ongoing lease negotiations are unsuccessful, and that it would like to “retain all Kauai Coffee employees who wish to continue working with us.”

“We remain open to all options that achieve our goals of supporting jobs, maintaining coffee operations and responsible land stewardship,” Priestley wrote.

“Let me be clear, Brue Baukol Capital Partners has negotiated in good faith for more than two years and has no plans to lay off employees or rezone important agricultural lands (IAL),” he said in his email. “Our focus is, and will remain, on the employees — the heartbeat of Kauai Coffee — and we are committed to doing everything we can to ensure stability and a smooth transition, with or without Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group’s agreement to new lease terms.”

Sounds like a trademark/name dispute even though the reason for non-renewal seems to have been kept close to the chests of the two companies involved.

Text to speech?

I was diagnosed as a child. I don’t… I don’t think I would have a lot of the coping strategies I do have or be as functional as I am if I weren’t (even though I’ve never been on meds). I suspected being medicated would be better (I am also in my 40’s), but at the same time it is very hard to get past my executive dysfunction in that regard. I think I also worry that being medicated will help very little/not at all and my expectations will be shot to hell.

I don’t know if this perspective helps at all.

But for what it’s worth, being diagnosed may afford you some other support systems that might help you at work and in your professional life.

www.udm14.com

Will give you the Google search results as web search without AI but it doesn’t avoid ads unfortunately.

I like it because I can set it as a default search engine to avoid AI without having to run much of anything else except UBlockOrigin.

This works for computer web browsing.

For Firefox on mobile (or your fork of choice) you can go to your search settings and set a custom search engine and type in: https://www/. google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14

Without the space between “www. Google”. It will bypass AI search for just web search.

Please note that Google is still enshittifying search in other ways that aren’t AI related and this doesn’t mitigate that.

Take care of yourself. We’ll hang around until you get back.

I agree with you in general, I think the problem is that people who do understand Gen AI (and who understand what it is and isn’t capable of, and why), get rationally angry when it’s humanized by using words like these to describe what it’s doing.

The reason they get angry is because this makes people who do believe in the “intelligence/sapience” of AI more secure in their belief set and harder to talk to in a meaningful way. It enables them to keep up the fantasy. Which of course helps the corps pushing it.

Ok

I didn’t recognize that I had issues with it but I had issues with it for years. Subconsciously (probably because my mother was such a stickler for eye contact when we were in trouble) I look at facial features and focus on one that lets me fake eye contact, but I don’t often meet the eyes of people.

I’d also like to note that people with both ASD and ADHD often have symptoms that can mask each other, allowing us to pass as not having one or the other Neurodivergences. So just because someone doesn’t see ASD in your behavior doesn’t mean that you don’t have it.

I ran into this problem with a dual boot of windows 10 and bazzite where I wanted to recoup more drive space for Linux but couldn’t load gparted to allocate more space because windows kept trying to claim that space.

Even though this wasn’t the exact problem I was looking to solve it did work for me.

When you go to install Bazzite can you make a separate EFI partition manually for it? Because that’s the part that I think might help you.

If not, can you back up the windows install and reformat?

Is this the issue? And does the video help?

https://youtu.be/GRdz08hJByo

I think it’s wrong that they carry no liability. At the end of the day they know the product can be used this way, they haven’t implemented any safety protocols to prevent this, and while the users prompting Grok are at fault for their own actions, the platform and AI LLM are being used to facilitate it where other AI LLM’S have guard rails to prevent it. In my mind that alone should make them partially liable.

I didn’t. But I also can’t say I’ve been paying attention.