Wow. Could you do the Harry Potter thing, and make old pictures with friends and family come alive?
Like this : Mona Lisa rap 
? That’s last year news ( Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track - Ars Technica ).
Fellow bike-commuter here — even if I don’t have the cute avatar to show it.
It’s not that I think that by doing so I save the world. It just feels more sane.
You would not even mention biking if you were a Dane. Of course you do! The only thing new is that many now have trailers to their bikes. Sometimes big ones with cover and small bench - for transportation of children and dog(s). Many passing by my house every day.
Still bikes can not take over transportation everywhere. Distance IS a factor.
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Absolutely!
As with all things — what to eat, how to commute, what technologies to use — there are important concerns to bear in mind, but no simple black-and-white prescriptions. (Nor are there any choices that are obviously or uniformly innocent or deserving of emulation, since there may always be more details, more opportunity-costs to take into account.)
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But it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. The auto enables people (initially) to live farther away. Then it becomes the norm. This enables urban sprawl and traffic congestion.
The better solution is bikes for local transit, and trams and trains for longer distances.
In my SciFi version of 2025, Russian and the U.S. would end animosities and would be working on an international bridge across the Bering Straits. Bullet trains would then connect Europe and the Americas without the need for planet-squashing airplane emissions.
Anyway, getting back on target, I don’t think AI emissions are a fair consideration anymore than whether a particular artist only eats beefsteak 3 times a day. We don’t apply that filter to any of other activities, so why this?
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I can’t say my consumer spending is perfectly conscientious (and that would be a full-time job!).
But certainly I have been influenced by political and moral considerations, and remain (imperfectly) open to them. There are businesses I try not to frequent. There are boycott movements that I have gotten behind. I appreciate things like the “dolphin-safe tuna” certification, even if it’s not perfect… And I’m decidedly not jumping on the cryptocurrency train — and not just because I’m broke.
It’s naive to think that conscientious attention by any one individual (or even a social group) can by itself “solve” a systemic problem. There’s also cynicism in the insistence that our choices don’t matter, so we shouldn’t even try. (And I’m very glad that you’re not making the even further argument that it’s not even worth talking about energy-gobbling as a relevant consideration. 
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It requires you only to understand that what the venture-capitalist class eats is… whatever they want.
Of course they’re not focusing on what one ordinary @Mark_S the bicyclist does, but on what a whole generation does. The generational collapse of many skills (a collapse that fosters dependency) will take years, but the profits aren’t waiting solely for that.
Can you call it “eating losses” when stock performance is already based on long-term projections? Corporations are developing this tech with an eye toward profiting in the long term, and they can already see signs of profit on the horizon (which brings more speculative investment in the short-term).
In the meantime, encouraging us to use it “for free” serves at least three purposes:
- Research (Users of these free alpha/beta versions are big data: What do people want to do with it, and with what do they entrust? What text do they type and paste into it, for free? Will people click on follow-up prompts and volunteer to improve the tech, or at least let the corporations know where they may be red flags that would really disturb people?)
- Cultivating buzz, investment, advertising, and “can’t-imagine-living-without-it” familiarity. (And evidence of that does bring shorter-term financial backing.)
- Discouraging people from committing to (and investing in credentials for) the fields that seem likely to suffer from attrition in the age of big-data-digesting systems. If the writing on the wall is big enough, there will be fewer people mobilizing to resist the race toward human-involvement-optional attitudes to any of the tasks that used to be vocations [screenwriting, acting, illustrating, reading aloud, editing, proofreading, playing acoustic instruments, soundtracking, translating, customer service, coding, driving, piloting, navigating, researching, drafting, designing (floorplans, menus, electronic hardware, auto parts, clothing), teaching, scheduling, diagnosing, managing, patroling, harvesting, processing, assembling, packing, inspecting, sorting, mapping, certifying, clerking, accounting, auditing, monitoring, analyzing…]
All this doesn’t mean that Big-Data-Engine capitalists are cackling away in villainous conspiratorial tones in smoky back-room meetings, any more than Henry Ford was rubbing his hands together over how there would soon be bedroom-suburbs whose residents could not exist without cars. People who develop a short-term useful but long-term dependency-inducing solutions (free baby formula starter-kits, sterile GMO seeds at discount, social-media accounts, prescriber-kickback opioids) can sleep soundly, experiencing plenty of praise, in addition to the adrenaline of ambition and challenge. They’re not a special kind of bad person; we all prefer to see what we do as meaningful, and we are especially attuned to voices that buoy us up with appreciation.
And if you’re skeptical about my sense of the long-game trajectory of this “freebie” tech, I’m curious how you see the profit-model, in the long term. When and how would they cash in?
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@Springer @Mark_S if you don’t already see Not Just Bikes and his latest video (a little long) and a group there is planning to publish the principals. All that needs to be added is more cosmopolitan people spaces for which there are examples elsewhere.
Overall they kinda exist already (e.g. @morosanuae’s vast library of SVG icons [47,000] is a very good example). But easily missed as, rightly, The Forum Washes On; the worthy tides of current passions weather the lighthouses of any weirding ideational (beneficial) maelstrom.
It is more than that, I think.
That the huge diversity of what you can do in TW (as vast as all the Time Lords’ possible destinations) is very difficult to analytically categorize (tag) or formally order for access (hero @Mark_S soldiered on in Links to try – is it used?). And who would want to use it once they get A solution to their thing?
Me, myself, make a note when I see a new wiki that is novel in some way.
Why?
Because if I didn’t I’d forget it’s innovation.
Note: There is NO formal log of “past” TWs (with a description) to consult to re-find them later.
I frequently see queries that need to re-create the wheel. An example being “how to improve the editor”. But I never bookmarked the various previous solutions so I can’t help reduce repeated flounder (verb) nor do I record the v. useful resets members generously provide.
A full solution would be DIVERSE editors for different needs; but that would be askance of (not relevant to) any specific satisfied requested need?
I do agree a big TW Resource Set could really help.
BUT I’m totally unclear how that could be created, maintained or organized to be useful in a sustainable way that would have everday traction.
Just a comment, TT
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Not exactly in the sticks - The last farm was sold a couple of years ago. 
It is a small community - but with 3 big schools famous and visited from all over the world. Nearest city not far away - but most people have to drive to Odense for work or education. I am living in the old original part of my community - and most people pass here to shop. Only one shop in this “stick”.
It is a very special place, lots of young families with children - as it is a lovely place for children to grow up. Many weekends in the summer - people arrives from all over - to the arena for music and other entertainment.
Really it can’t be compared to anything else. You can see it in the eyes of my neighbours when they come home from work - they totally change within a minute of arrival.
Gymnastikhøjskolen i Ollerup | High school stays and short courses I lived there in my teenage years.
https://www.ollemus.dk/
https://www.laererskolen.dk/
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you replied to me, so though I would also answer.
I have before and do in my shack live in the sticks 2-3 hours drive from Sydney, but most of my adult life in the big smoke. I have also camped on the sticks river as well. A preschooler in the PNG high lands also qualifies. Sadley Sydney is only now improving bike trails but in the country we have lots of rail trails.
to learn about bike infrastructure follow my above link.
culturally the tiddlywiki community openly encourages even naive questions and this is good, but I do think getting an LLM to ingest our community content could be very helpful.
WHOOPS! Sorry I used you to respond to Birthe.
But thanks for replying anyway.
I have a friend in Sydney.
OZ, to me, is a great country.
(Could I sleep on your floor?)
OZ, with more “outback” than Barry Humphries impersonations wins.
You were in PNG! Great culture(S).
Why are you computering rather than raising manioc?
I’m guessing you must mean something different, but we should note (for the record, other readers of the thread) that at least there’s this archive of prior versions back to 5.1, with a line for each version as to its key differences from prior ones:
https://tiddlywiki.com/#TiddlyWiki%20Archive
And we may as well include a TW classic overview, too.
I should add, that this “Stick” produced two TW aficionados. @Maans was educated at the free school for teachers. Now if every stick produced that well - we would never need more users.
It is interesting. You kept something alive in the loss elsewhere.
Italy, where I moved a decade ago to avoid narrowing, is now like anywhere else. Shopping is community here now.
What does this have to do with TW?
Well not a lot. Though MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON does.
Bingo.
Your reply makes sense. My comment was probably obscure.
Actually what I meant was the many TW’s presented week-in week-out on the discussion list that had lasting value for at least one innovation.
Also, type “Release” into the tiddlywiki dot com search bar and you’ll have in-depth info on each release.
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If only you had some sort of information thingy where you could store these …