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Nate Silver is such a loony bin. How can anyone take this guy seriously is beyond me. What a buffoon.

Lack of sunlight has such a profound impact on my mood and behavior. I truly think I have an a year long Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) lol. I was so bright and chirpy for the past few days while it was bright sunshine outside and I am already dour and crabby with the rain coming back in again and everything getting gloomy again.

And just like that Nikky Haley fell in line. Conservatives are so predictably bad it’s hilarious!

Is it just me that finds this whole Kendrick Lamar and Drake fight a dangerous normalization of some serious accusations? Like literally Lamar has accused twice that Drake is a pedophile and everyone’s just supposed to lap it up and wait for…. Drake to respond via song? Like jee, thats some serious fucking accusations that I hope the law somewhere is deep diving to see if there is any merit. It feels even accusations like these have just been normalized by media and folks are just waiting on Drake to drop his next “diss”. WTF is wrong!

First [Slack](https://www.techradar.com/pro/slack-is-training-its-ai-models-on-your-chats-unless-you-opt-out-in-a-tricky-way) decided on its own that they can train on customer data without opt-in, and now [OpenAI](https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/scarlett-johansson-responds-shocked-angered-openai-chatgpt-her-1236011135/) decided to model a voice character on Scarlet Johansson in spite of her telling them no. This is **exactly** why I am simply opposed to these companies taking my data without my permission to do whatever the fuck they want in the name of some common good and training AI it seems.

OpenAI just seems like a scam company. Their work is amazing, but jeez, its incredible how entitled the motherfuckers feel over your data. But I guess this is not a unique problem to them. Every company wants to use your data, without attribution or payback but to make something to charge you back. In some cases, like Scarlet found out, even saying no isn’t enough. Where the fuck is the limit anymore?

The week has begun on a positive note in that I was able to procure tickets for Taylor Swift concert in one of my favorite cities. This came just in time before the kid’s bday so she’s gonna have a nice little surprise on her bday! Did not have to pay any sort of ridic price at all, and the guy I dealt with was an absolute gentleman! He sold his tix since his girlfriend is now expecting a kid on or around the date of concert.

>Change what you can change and make peace with things that you cannot change.

Yes? Read this on some work profile today. I feel like I am right now here, but also feel like above is quite dour!

Work has not been fun lately. Its not my own team, but I guess I always end up having this itch that I am done with the team around the 2 year mark. My ex-manager has a mental clock where she changes teams every 2 years no matter what. I feel like I am very much like her and need to emulate her.

We are watching Oppenheimer with our almost-teen and my god this film really is very very very good. I do not think I liked it that much when watching it in theater that much but Nolan did really hit out of the park didn’t he? Especially the first 2:15 part of the movie!

I wouldn’t be surprised if Israel had something to do with the helicopter crash.