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ChatGPT-5 is here No, it can't talk or shoot the shit; it's too busy getting shit done.

ChatGPT-5 is here.
No, it's can't stop to shoot the shit, because it's too busy getting shit done.

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Toggling between ChatGPT models was never an issue.

Knowing what the stupid names of the models meant for users was an issue.

Close second goes to UI that buried model selection in the first place.

Close third - abysmal AI literacy, even ChatGPT product literacy.

#chatgpt5 #chatgpt4o

As a technorealist, this analogy is the most nuanced way to consider AI’s impact:

AI is like fire.

When we first figured out the technology of harnessing fire, it forever changed how we eat, how we live, what do. Even our physiology.

But it could also burn down your village.

#ai
#technology

I’ve noticed that the folks who tend to do well with AI, those who find AI to be profoundly useful are in fact neurospicy or divergent.

Using AI has made life with my ADHD so much manageable. #ai #adhd

Recipe for the secret sauce to a fun/meaningful/interesting/awesome/insert-adjective-here life:

1) Meaningful friction.
2) A dopamine hit after the friction.

Anyone who's had a cold, carbonated beverage after a long hike, bike ride, etc. knows what I'm talking about. #life

One of my new pastimes: AI walk and talks. Brainstorm and discussion around the gunk in my head processed out and distilled.

Hi friend!

Any other non-tech nerds out there who are equally into AI, food, and analog stuff (like notebooks, journaling, typewriters etc.)?

“Workflow” wasn’t invented by tech or AI bros.

Half my best workflows are still manual—even with AI tools. And all highly effective.

100% manual, automated, or AI sprinkled in—it all counts.

Start with what you actually do, not what looks good in a flowchart.

#aitools #productivity #workflow

Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.

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For anyone feeling overwhelmed by AI:

Stop with the shiny object syndrome.

You don’t have to become an expert or implement the latest AI tool that’s released.

In fact, you shouldn’t.

I’ll start: I’m V. I’m a journey to learn and think better and recently have been using both AI and analog methods to experiment.

I write and share about my metalearning and meta cognition epxeriments on the interwebs.

New to this part of the social universe. And, I’m loving it. Looking for new folks to follow in any and all genres.

Give me a shout. Let me know what you’re passionate about, why you’re sharing it (would love to follow along). Do you use the feed to help you create and think?

Finally watched Adam Curtis' "Century Of Self" this week and it helped me understand our current political moment a bit more.

According to Curtis, the rise of mass marketing in the 1900s changed the "citizen" into a "consumer". And I believe a similar shift is happening again.

Short thread...

Them: How are you?

Me: OMG, it’s already and only the end of January.

The first few bridges of this song have been on repeat in my head.

Observations as daily AI user:

ChatGPT was slow all week.

And now Claude from anthropic is experiencing high demand and is slower or shorter in responses.

Are people using both more this week now more than ever?

Or are these companies prepping to release something new?

I dunno what to love more: @robert.thecure.com being on BlueSky or my beloved @flavorflav.bsky.social hyping him up for being on Blue Sky.

It’s been inspiring to see everyone come together for LA,,, but there’s one community I need to highlight.

Not enough is being done for the black families after the LA fires. Ive partnered up with GoFundMe and the BMAC to create ONE main GoFundMe campaign to immediately help those in need.

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

We’re looking for beta testers!

Here’s how it works:

📱 Create a short video
🦋 Post the video to BlueSky
✨ Tag @skylight.social

We’ll reach out with an invitation to join the beta!

In da clerb we all confused. #tiktokban #wtf

Likely conversation (speculation).

Putin (to Trump):

“We’re thinking about (aggressively) purchasing $10b of TrumpCoin this week.

Also, please cease arm shipments to Ukraine.”

Congress has been for sale a while. Now the world is for sale.

The TrumpCoin is the democratization of kleptocracy.

It was just as cold for Obama's inauguration in 2009, fyi.

TikTok goes dark in the U.S. TikTok has gone dark in the U.S., the result of a federal law that bans the popular social media app for millions of Americans — at least for now. TikTok users began receiving a message about the ban around 10:30 p.m. Eastern. As of Saturday evening, the…

TikTok goes dark in the U.S.

Wherever you stand culturally or politically on the TikTok ban, know that a good chunk of the country will be missing their dopamine hits. Entire communities and narratives are inaccessible. Livelihoods are gone. Be kind. #tiktokban #tiktokrefugee

During the pandemic TikTok was our third space. Seeing the plug pulled in real time and watching entire communities vanish hit me harder than I anticipated.

Anyone else here a TikTok refugee finding other refugees?
#tiktok #tiktokban #scotus

Sound familiar? I'm writing about it and my journey as a non-techie human with AI. Follow along.

Living that productivity paradox life: Making spreadsheets to track how much time I waste contemplating the meaning of existence.

At least my existential dread is well-organized.

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