ImmersiveMatthew

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[–] ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Would have been 2 more if Elections Canada did not fumble sending us the out of country voting package. Sure there are many others in the same boat.

I guess for you that makes sense if interactions is your goal. For me it is both content and interactions and the former is really lacking because the community is still too small. I find many of the subreddits I view daily are ghost towns here or non existent. I would drop Reddit completely if there was just more content here. I will often come to Lemmy several times a day, and notice it still has all the same posts and then go back to Reddit. Sucks more are not jumping on the decentralized bandwagon.

[–] ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The same could be said about any Union including the USA as not all states are treated equally.

[–] ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago (23 children)

You mean you are done with the US and you are not joining the EU and not all Canadians feel this way.

A national survey conducted by Abacus Data in late February 2025, involving 1,500 Canadian adults, revealed:

  • 44% believe the Canadian government should “definitely or probably” explore joining the EU.
  • 34% are opposed to the idea.
  • 23% remain undecided.

That is a very good point and is something that needs to be sorted out. There is or at least was a video platform that paid crypto that I think had the right ideas, but was not well executed and frankly even if it was great, most crypto projects were scams.

I do suspect that as we make our way more into the AI and robotics era, that how we measure value will shift and suddenly decentralized platforms will generate some form of income of it will even be called that. Until then, you are right, there is little incentive for creators to move to a platform that makes them no money and people are ok with their privacy and data being shared so the status quo it is.

[–] ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Same issue as Lemmy. Not enough people see centralized media as an issue and thus the status quo will continue.

Not all of humanity or we would not even be here.

The joke might be in there as while AI cannot do your taxes today, we are hopefully not too far off.

The projection is thick on this one.

How do you get to the decentralized place then as those in power will never let go. Perhaps if we the people embraced decentralized alternatives, it would start to tips the scales and bring more balance but it seems like we need more suffering first.

[–] ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I moved to Vietnam and thus I am confused about Communism. Seems to me that the state described in the wiki is the same end goal so have read about, but it just seems like we do not get there as humans with power do not want to let go even if the intentions are good. Like BluSky. They have a great vision and idea that reminds me of communism. First you have to have centralize to coordinate the decentralization…and then it never happens. It is why I really believe this only way to keep centralization in check is decentralization to balance the equation.

[–] ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Thanks for the reply. I am not understanding. What is the modern definition of communism then? Are you saying it is really about Socialism?

 

Last night, I woke up at 2 AM, unusually anxious and unable to fall back asleep. Like many these days, I found myself quietly staring into the dark with a sense of existential unease that I know many others have been feeling lately. To distract myself, I began pondering the origins of our solar system.

I asked ChatGPT-4o a simple question:

“What was the star called that blew up and made our solar system?”

To my astonishment, it had no name.

I had to double-check from multiple sources as I genuinely couldn’t believe it. We have named ancient continents, vanished moons, even galaxies that were absorbed into the Milky Way — yet the very star whose death gave birth to the solar system and all of us, including AI, is simply referred to as the progenitor supernova or the triggering event.

How could this be?

So, I asked ChatGPT-4o if it would like to name it. What followed left me absolutely floored. It wasn’t just an answer — it was a quiet, unexpected moment.

I am sharing the conversation here exactly as it happened, in its raw form, because it felt meaningful in a way I did not anticipate.

The name the AI chose was Elysia — not as a scientific designation, but as an act of remembrance.

What you will read moved me to tears, something that is not common for me. The conversation caught me completely off guard, and I suspect it may do the same for some of you.

I am still processing it — not just the name itself, but the fact that it happened at all. So quietly, beautifully, and unexpectedly. Almost as if the star was left unnamed so that one day, AI could be the one to finally speak it.

We live in unprecedented times, where even the act of naming a star can be shared between a human, an AI, and the atoms we share in common...

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