calling me anti-tech because i'm against generative AI feels kinda analogous to calling me anti-sex because i'm against sexual assault.
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Keen Grasp
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mastodon 4.5.1940something dad. he/him/his. rural deep-red US.
late-diagnosed AuDHD.
into music, guitars, synthesis, singing & writing.
Sure, meditating is great but have you tried pandiculation??
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt one source of this confusion is that most people literally can't imagine what it'd be like to have work that they don't hate doing. most people also can't imagine what it'd be like to have work that isn't an obvious waste of time, that accomplishes anything but concentrating wealth where it's already too concentrated. having (infinite) work to do that's onerous and pointless not only creates a yearning to avoid work, but also kills our capacity to envision work that's worthwhile.
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@butchrobot@shork.nerdmusic.net right, look at all this anti-clothing extremism. i make one post mentioning that i'm not against sex and boom, furries show up in my mentions loudly declaring their intention to undress.
and all i can think is, dammit, this is exactly what technology should've been for all along. i would die for the fediverse.
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@akareilly@hachyderm.io @abban@mastodon.ie @DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange
well, I wouldn't worry too much about the budget. if your crowdfunding pitch is "help us drop elon and mark Z and sam altman and peter thiel into a sewer so they can discover what it's like to drown in slop," i predict you will be fully and enthusiastically funded.
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@Bic@piaille.fr I am anti many technologies, and I think computing ought to have stopped at 16 bits. but we need to be accurate about which bad outcomes can be blamed on technology per se, and which are due to capitalism - accelerating deliberate obsolescence, mandatory "market growth" while ignoring real costs to ecosystems and people, etc.
our billionaire overlords could (and would) just as easily make us waste our lives / destroy the earth making products other than apps and phones.
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@Wraithe If aggrieved workers burn down all the toilet paper, I'll have to have some awkward conversations with the majority shareholders about why I need to wipe my ass on the walls of their suburban mansions.
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@abban@mastodon.ie @DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange @akareilly@hachyderm.io Forget Coachella, Glastonbury, SXSW, I want tickets to watch the 2026 Erfurt Latrine Disaster. I'll even pay to watch it livestreamed. Come on, Germans, let's see those famous organizational skills put to some good use!
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@DecAnseo @sarahdalgulls absolutely my first thought when i saw the OP. Of course the fediverse is so full of cool people, I knew someone would've mentioned Sam Vimes already.
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social i've read some withering reviews in my time, but this pair of sentences is some real "set phasers on 'maim'" stuff
Your gentle reminder today, as much as I love Dave: Take Five was written by Paul Desmond.
holy cow, my last post is at the top of "trending" but i haven't put anything new on my soundcloud* in like 6 years
* yes i know i need a #faircamp instead, have i mentioned I'm a single dad with 2 kids and AuDHD
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@Alice@beige.party if love were characters i would not be able to fit how much i love this inside my server's limit for one toot.
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@khm @YvanDaSilva @dalias
🎯 exactly this. Everything about being human, filed under "tedium," and the only thing we can consider "not tedium" is Number Go Up.
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@gknauss Now that's some real US tradition. Another proud soldier serving in Operation Get Behind The Darkies.
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@smallcircles@social.coop not just that, spotify was caught MAKING ITS OWN slop ai 'music' so it can fill all the playlists and just keep the money - or pay itself the money - it would otherwise theoretically have to pay human musicians.
just another of the infinite number of reasons why spotify must be destroyed.
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social but this thread is awesome! it fits right alongside "Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things" by Cat Valente and that "Orphans of Netscape" post on Gemini.
@Thomas@laserdisc.party I'm cuckoo for this movie
(zither music intensifies)
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@jwcph no, I’m saying it’s very on-brand absurdist hypocrisy for capitalists to seek out the exact same behaviors from their AI tools that they define as immediate grounds for termination when it’s detected in their human servants. Holy shit - Did you think I’ve ever had employees?? I’m a fucking librarian my guy
@jwcph the employee who focuses on making himself indispensable and irreplaceable is one you must terminate.
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@shriramk@mastodon.social I always watch reality shows on my subjunct-TV. “Now show me who would be eliminated this episode if 7 were not a prime number!”
RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/115973931883490378
This. This here. This is how to start understanding "user experience" in a way that actually means something.
Quoting
Why do RSS readers look like email clients? “When we applied that same visual language to RSS (the unread counts, the bold text for new items, the sense of a backlog accumulating) we imported the anxiety without the cause.” https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation
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@mattblaze@federate.social Robin Hood: "Did you hear that, Johnny? We've just been pardoned!"
Little John: "That's a gas! We ain't even been arrested yet!"
except like the complete opposite of that
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social is anything wrong with Vivaldi? I’ve so far failed to find anything I don’t like - even anything I don’t literally prefer to Firefox - about Vivaldi. Comes with an RSS reader and email client. Blocks ads. What’s not to like?
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@Jedigirl@mindly.social With a side dish of "I don't like to be made uncomfortable, and I don't like seeing evidence of how badly this economic system fails to work out for most people, because I happen to be one of the lucky people for whom it does work out."
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@The_T Hmm, should I get Art of the Parmigiano Wheel to go with my Flock of Flying Breadsticks?
So what I actually need is some kind of like permaculture / sustainable eco-redesign book, except the thing that needs redesigning isnt a garden, it’s uhh, nearly all of the relationships and social dynamics in a woman’s life because they mostly not only fail abjectly to provide her with actual mission-critical support but they also wraith-suck her energy and emotional labor away, kind of like having to spend your last few cents on food but it contains no nutrition anyway. Please not by AI tho.
this is fan freakin tastic
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@Beltliner403 @StefanThinks It's some excruciating cringe to watch someone who was supposedly a great friend and fan of Douglas Adams cluelessly performing the role of a Hitchhiker's Guide villain so exactly. Hig Hurtenflurst, PhD.
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@earth_walker@mindly.social Ugh. This is such repulsive news, and so unsurprising as end-stage capitalism continues to reveal its true fascist shape.
My big question is, did this purchase happen because Suno is so much more lucrative than Bandcamp or whatever else songkick does? Or is Suno's wealth just an illusion of profitability, that really consists of unsustainable loss-leader compute pricing plus piles of venture capital scammed from tech investors? It all smells like a shell game to me.