mastodon 4.7.3A thirst for a future worth living in.
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It's telling to me that the Fediverse—which provides all the self-governance of a DAO, and all the decentralization of web3—has no interest from the VC bootlicker class.
It reveals a lot about how a plausible technological benefit evolves into a grift. web3 nonsense was never about new paradigms. It was about constructing bags and conscripting bag holders. The proof is right here. Those guys are now chasing AI, instead of viable expressions of the goals they claimed to be so invested in.
2025 decisively settled the debate of LLM “usefulness”
LLMs have extraordinary utility as the engines for agent software, and this conclusion is inescapable
Like any novel technology, more questions remain, and reasonable people can disagree about them.
either way, a new category of software is now possible. We have witnessed a before and after moment that’s far more complex than “should a robot write code for me”
Cat and Ashley work so hard to do justice to both:
- the scientific rigor of their fields
- the human duties of making those fields serve us equitably, honestly, without distortion or manipulation
You have been misled about girls and math ability. Don’t miss this one:
@grimalkina@mastodon.social
This weekend, Apple will let you watch anything in its TV+ library.
I hope you’ll consider spending that time with Silo:
