That is entirely true, if your lens of perception is simply "make profit." On the other hand, having a large number of unhoused people using emergency services and making part of cities unsafe

I don't know, but it has to be something that makes it more attractive to BUY and OWN Hive, than to SELL Hive.

It's a bit sad in the sense that the original premise for technology was that it would save time, but much of it actually requires more time, due to what you might call "creeping elegance."

I miss the days where you just switched something ON, and it was ready. No "please download the app," and "log in with Google," and "verify that you're human," and "please

It's a stretch, but Elon was appointed to the new "Department of Government Efficiency" aka D.O.G.E. by the inbound Trump administration, and yes there were several memes, including this: That

That's pretty cool! Just having a look at Snaps for the first time!

The thing is, few people actually like art. They like Thomas Kinkade. Truer words were never said! When we had the galleries, we'd often have people stop in with fabric swatches from their couch or curtains,

That's a very sweet drawing of the lynx @elenasteem! We actually see lynx come through our back yard in the wintertime.

Sometimes we do seem to forget "the reason for the season" as it gets drowned out by rampant commercialism. This time of the year, I periodically will buy a "suspended" coffee, when

No Egyptian geese, but we do get our share of Canada geese. They hang out in a lot of the parks where we walk, especially if there are ponds and lakes... and they can be very aggressive if you get too

Oh, that's a lovely sequence with the crow and the goose; love it! Crows can be such cheeky creatures, we get quite a large and noisy flock around here, and they try to steal all sorts of loose objects

Oh, I agree. The purpose of art is definitely not to sell it, but — it is to share it — as a form of communication I can't necessarily put into words. In my own case, it is the expression of sacred geometry'

The primary thing we are hoping for is that new construction is done according to some kind of plan, not just a helter-skelter mess of "everything goes." Our city government leaves a lot to be

Happy early Birthday to you! I've got 10 years on you, and definitely relate to your list. As the years wander by, the main difference I notice isn't problems with the doing of things, but how long it

Ah, the joys of flats! In another lifetime, I drove a VW Rabbit, fondly known as "The Death Rabbit" mostly for its propensity to suddenly lose all power while driving down the highway or in city

It did all happen incredibly fast. Which often seems to be the case with technology; it comes in and changes a paradigm much faster than we "evolve" to parse and process it. For me, art is a

"Certified Human Creation." Since we have NFTs, perhaps we need to come up with an acronym for art that is entirely human-created.

Well put.

I can't say as how I have ever felt really "knocked out" by anything AI created. I have come across a few things that were "quite interesting," but that's about the extent of it. I've

AI could be a tool in the context of perhaps having to perform some kind of relatively time consuming and laborious and repetitive process where the objective is that AI can do a "decent" in