mastodon 4.7.3Voice Actor, English Teacher, and Author of the Alora’s Tear Series
“It’s just a tooool…” 🙄
A poorly maintained 1970s gas lawn mower is a tool.
A well maintained modern gas Toro is a tool.
An electric Ryobi is a tool.
Even a push clipper is a tool.
But the best thing for humanity and the world is to not have an American-style lawn at all.
With this version of the tech we’re talking about, the progression is the same. Until the tech exists without the exploitation (or somehow entirely reverts it), this will remain true.
“ai” is a godsdamned scourge.
RE: @nfd@social.lol
One day Mimestream will have snooze (across devices).
RE: @stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social
Someone responds with how their model is so much better, missing the entire point that it’s only better at hiding this fundamental flaw of the technology from the user.
If this looks foolish, know that it’s exactly what you choose to do every time you use an LLM or similar tech.
For @gruber@mastodon.social
(who has probably gotten this a bunch by now) and anyone else who checks manually:
Tap and hold on the App Store icon, drag down to Updates, release.
Now, you still have to pull to refresh, but prior to 26.4 you had to tap/hold/release, pull to refresh, scroll past account info.
So, an improvement in number of taps to task.
Go Mastodon! Also, a good time to consider making the fediverse healthier by spreading out beyond just flagship instances. 🙂
RE: @stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social
Well that sucks. I do hope it gets better, then.
Also, do not use the word “writer” with someone who allows an LLM to affect their voice. Really if they’re using it at all besides perhaps punctuation.
You’re not writing if you’re not writing.
If developers want to march into the sea hand in hand with their Claude code, fine, but leave writers out of it.
@LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com I’d like to add:
top half
bottom half
Don’t know if I’ve ever had as truly mixed feelings about a game as I do about Dragon Age: Veilguard.
Some honestly terrible writing and VO direction choices. Some really good ones, too. Visually beautiful. Like, gobsmackingly beautiful at times, if a little odd in art direction for some costumes.
Two of my favorite set pieces in any game.
Great opening, slow middle almost enough to kill it for me, absolute BANGER of an ending. (especially if you’ve played all the games)
A certified *banger* of a love letter to the Mac but concerning the MacBook Neo specifically:
https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
RE: @BasicAppleGuy@mastodon.social
Black for time-of-purchase aesthetics, white for long term aesthetics.
Remember that scene in Austin Powers when Dr. Evil says “One Miiillion Dollars!” but it’s the 90s, so they laugh him out of the fucking room?
Yeah. Just thinking of that today.
RE: @Cdespinosa@mastodon.social
Just the worst timeline because we won’t regulate (or outright make illegal) the shittiest business models and practices.
No. We should have said, “absolutely not” to these *markets*.
RE: @mattgemmell@mastodon.scot
Meanwhile, in a civilization.
