MountingSuspicion

Not really true. Plenty of mom and pop shops close because no one wants to run it and they don't want to ruin the reputation of their family business by selling it to someone who might not run it well. I worked for a few places where this happened.

I'm sorry to hear about your circumstances.

Me and most of my friend/family group have married in the last few years and I don't know if anyone would have bothered if there wasn't a promise of forever. There's often the desire for a home and kids and it's (in my opinion) hard to do that if you don't have a commitment from your partner. I don't want to raise kids alone or have to do custody arrangements if I can avoid it.

If housing and child rearing were more communal it would maybe be different but I think the commitment is kind of the point.

If you'd be willing to share your experience please feel free to. I didn't have the experience of married parents or even watching them interact/divorce so I'm always on edge regarding the kind of issues I'm possibly missing in my own relationship.

How/when did they get in trouble? I didn't hear anything about it and nothing came up immediately after a search. It seems like a huge jump to say that they are going to be forced out of the industry. Additionally, he was still offered millions of dollars. Plenty of people would have jumped at the opportunity.

AI is definitely going to be a problem for the industry but your comment seems like a stretch.

I read the wiki and a few articles about it a while ago when I saw the video that brought attention to the app: https://youtu.be/od7P-RhLjLQ

I don't think the wiki or any articles I read seem misleading. I understand that he did not personally set any of this up, but having a separate app where people pay money to interact with you seems like shitty behavior for a celeb who is already beyond rich. I'm not saying it's as bad as a crypto rug pull, but it's giving similar energy. Clearly there are some people who were getting something out of the app, but it feels kind of predatory. If he wanted super fans to keep up with him he can just send out a newsletter. I get notifications when certain people I follow are touring near me and it doesn't require a special app. I would probably feel differently if he put a lot of effort into engaging with fans there but it would still feel tainted with the fact that some people are spending money with the hope he'll notice them.

It's like having a patreon with no actual perks. If Taylor swift or timothee chalamet made a patreon and you could maybe get some nebulous benefit from joining I would think that's also shitty behavior. It's not illegal, and I understand that in theory the app was free, but the conceit is to make money off these parasocial relationships with you and it's just gross imho. At least with merch or patreon subs you know what you're paying for. I highly doubt he was even the one responding to most super fans seeing as most posts were copy/pasted from other social media platforms. He probably had some doing it for him.

I didn't watch it but my understanding is that Hawkeye passed on the torch and he probably was going to be more in the background instead of the star. I don't know the exact parameters but I imagine it would not be as much screen time or physically demanding scenes. Fuck Disney for being a shitty company but I'm not sure if this is 100% attributable to that.

I was never a fan of his, but when I saw this I decided he's just not a good person. What a gross thing to do to people who support you. I hope to not have to see him in anything going forward.

This will also benefit small devs. Your points regarding side loading are valid, but plenty of people will not use that feature so this is a big win regardless. Plenty of solo dev apps allow tips or have paid features so now they are able to direct you elsewhere and get the full amount.

This is all obvious theater and many of these are just pics of these people. No way to tell if they've actually been arrested before or if it's just random security footage, but the text differences might be that different states have different terminology. What classifies as rape or molestation or contact or anything else can differ from place to place. It might still be AI, but it's not unusual for the same crime to have different names depending on where it was committed.

I don't watch him, and everything I know is from second hand accounts, but there is real trauma associated with poverty. As someone who grew up poor (sometimes, not all the time), with family that also grew up poor, it really affects your mentality. I'm not saying it's necessarily a distinct mental illness, and you can make the argument that everyone's life circumstances affect their mental state, but that seems like a level of trauma that is affecting his life and health. I'd say it's abnormal at least, if not actually diagnosable. There's a lack of love and respect for yourself that must be occurring to live like that. No one deserves to live like that and the fact he was possibly raised like that and thinks it's acceptable is truly devastating. I hope he gets help. This makes his statement seem like less of a "fuck these people" kind of thing and more of a "no one ever showed me love or empathy or cared for me so I have no concept of how to extend that to others." Legitimately extremely sad.

Very true. I remember people listening to a local station not because of their music, but they had the best traffic coverage. It was the generic top billboard songs station, so maybe that skewed perception, but plenty of people only tuned in on their way to work for the traffic and would listen to other stations if given the option otherwise. I totally forgot about that.

I think a lot of the job is a hold over from a pre Internet era. Yes, stations do you have to regularly state what channel you're listening to, but before the Internet DJs provided pretty useful information regarding what was playing. You couldn't just look up on the fly the lyrics of a song to find out the name or the band, or if they were playing in your area.

DJs used to give listeners that information, and potentially provide additional context or similar bands that would be of interest. It was hard to get that information at the time. I know some relatively young people who still listen to DJ morning shows, but they listen for the skits And humor, not for the music insights. At this point, I don't think there's really much need for them, but I imagine nobody wants to be the first to fully get rid of them. I imagine people are upset about this, but I don't know that they would be any less upset if they just decided to do away with DJs altogether.

People pay to take this exam. Someone decided to pocket some of that money for their org and have an AI org do some of it instead of qualified professionals. They didn't bother to check the output. It came out poorly and now they have to eat the cost of going back and fixing it. The students and proctors are not compensated for the added time and stress, but paid the same for an overall worse experience. It's a microcosm of everything wrong with the way AI is being used.