John-Paul Flintoff

https://mastodon.social/@johnpaulflintoff

Writer and artist (7 books in 16 languages) Not sure if hashtags in here are a Good Thing but hey:  #london based #speccy #lefthanded #creative #writer #artist #performer have a #textpattern #blog striving to #posse including #newsletter had a #breakdown then #recovery - blah blah - let’s see what happens now

My books: https://flintoff.org/books-by-john-paul-flintoff
My art: https://flintoff.org/art/portfolio

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Last Notes

2026-05-26 11:41:56 UTC

“AI is a technology that grows less profitable every day, and bosses have to force it on workers and young people.
Now, it's true that some workers don't have to be forced to use AI. Workers who enjoy a high degree of autonomy (that is to say, workers who are positioned to ignore workplace coercion) can adopt AI in ways that they feel suited to.”
@npub1fdr…lvhs does this suggest it’s a boom for the self-employed?
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/26/the-ai-will-continue/

2026-05-14 15:43:24 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/14/who-it-does-it-for/
“There are some very good DRM-free audiobook stores, notably Libro.fm and Downpour.com (Google Play also sells audiobooks without DRM). But most people have never heard of these” @npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-05-14 15:42:33 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/14/who-it-does-it-for/
“Amazon's Audible controls 90% (!) of the audiobook market, and they will not sell any book unless they can permanently lock it to their platform. That means that every time a writer sells you an audiobook on Audible, they create a "switching cost" that stops you from leaving Audible for a competitor. Not only is this fundamentally unjust, it's also terrible for creators: if our audiences can't leave Amazon, then we can't leave Amazon either” @npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-05-14 15:41:04 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/14/who-it-does-it-for/
“Making my working notes public is a hugely effective way of producing and refining critical work, and it's been my method for 25 years” @npub1fdr…lvhs 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

2026-05-14 15:40:21 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/14/who-it-does-it-for/
“when the AI bubble pops, that won't be the end of AI – it will be the end of the bubble. When the AI bubble pops, we'll have mountains of GPUs at fire-sale prices, skilled workers liberated from the imperative to help their bosses promote their stock swindle, and open source models that will yield tremendous dividends to anyone who sets out to optimize them” @npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-05-14 15:39:23 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/14/who-it-does-it-for/
“AI is also really good at figuring out how to do individualized price-gouging, another thing that shouldn't exist” @npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-05-14 15:38:11 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/14/who-it-does-it-for/
“Media companies say they have the answer to the AI art question: they'll create (or assert) a copyright that lets them control AI training. This is an incredibly transparent ruse: media companies are artists' class enemies, and if we get a new right to control AI training, our bosses will demand that we sign it away to them as part of their non-negotiable, one-sided standard contracts” @npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-04-07 14:01:22 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/06/empiricism-washing/
Oh dear, Ireland!
“Ireland attracts these companies by allowing them to evade their taxes, but it can only keep these companies by allowing them to break any law that gets in their way, because if Meta can pretend to be Irish this week, it could pretend to be Maltese (or Cypriot, Luxembourgeois, or Dutch) next week” @npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-04-04 13:22:10 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/04/digital-subjugation/
“Every day, Trump proves to the world that American tech isn't merely untrustworthy – it's a live, dire, urgent danger to your state, your companies, and your people. The best time to get shut of the American internet was 15 years ago. The second best time is right fucking now.” @npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-04-01 16:16:23 UTC

http://scripting.com/2026/04/01/135829.html
“As revolutionary as AI is, some things aren't going to be done with prompts, pretty sure of that… Think about how you drive a car, you don't slowly tell the car to "turn the wheel left and tap the brake, now right, and hit the gas." Maybe this will turn out to be like the difference between using a mouse or a keyboard. Some people thought keyboards were obsolete when the Mac came out in 1984. I'm using a keyboard right now.” @npub1e02…7m30

2026-03-31 19:17:16 UTC

https://anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/
“proprietary formats … require listeners to be on those platforms — locking in both creators and their audiences so they are stuck as they begin the enshittification process.” @npub16sj…va89 @npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-03-11 20:51:22 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/11/modal-dialog-a-palooza/
“If the purpose of a customer service department is to tell people to go fuck themselves, then a chatbot is obviously the most efficient way of delivering the service.”
@npub1fdr…lvhs you are on a roll today!

2026-03-05 22:19:00 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/05/executive-dysfunction/
“All things being equal, the world would be a better place without Vladimir Putin or Elon Musk or Donald Trump in it. But these incontinent, impatient, terrible men do have a use: they transform slow-moving crises that are too gradual to galvanize action into emergencies that can't be ignored.”
@npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-03-02 11:32:57 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/nonconsensual-slopping/
“a fatal flaw in the idea that we will increase our productivity by asking chatbots to summarize things we don't understand: by definition, if we don't understand a subject, then we won't be qualified to evaluate the summary, either.”
👌 @npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-02-23 21:25:35 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/23/goodharts-lawbreaker/
“one thing that is even harder to co-op than acne – "unmonetizable content," the Kryptonite of the platforms.”
@npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-02-23 21:22:04 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/23/goodharts-lawbreaker/
“always very funny when someone accuses me of publishing this work as clickbait – clickbait for what? To increase bandwidth consumption at my server?”
@npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-02-16 10:02:15 UTC

- reply

Contd:
“The conversational trilemma – the unresolvable need for scale, trust and information – has been with us since the earliest days of online socializing.”

2026-02-16 09:59:27 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/16/fast-good-cheap/
“This explains why groups sometimes schism: they've gone from being "just big enough" to being "too big" for the needs they filled for some users.
… another reason for schism is the desire by some members to operate with different conversational norms.”
@npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-02-16 09:57:19 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/16/fast-good-cheap/
“this weird bell curve where the community needs to be big enough where people want to post content. But it can’t get too big where people are drowning each other out for attention.”
@npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-02-16 09:55:46 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/16/fast-good-cheap/
a community-member's "trilemma": a set of three priorities that can never be fully satisfied by any group. The trilemma consists of users' need to find:
a) A community of like-minded people;
b) Useful information; and
c) The largest possible audience.
Any given group can only satisfy two of these three needs… Users can't get everything they need from any one group, so they join multiple groups.
@npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-02-07 13:31:49 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/
“if you had to secure someone's permission before you were allowed to criticize them, critical speech would be limited to takedowns of stoics and masochists”
@npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-02-07 13:27:37 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/
“"streaming" is a consensus hallucination: there is no way for your computer to display a video that resides on a distant server without downloading it”
@npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-02-07 13:26:06 UTC

“Youtube, of course, is the internet's monopoly video platform”
@npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/

2026-01-30 17:18:07 UTC

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/30/zucksauce/
“If ad-supported media was a restaurant, it'd be one where you got thrown up against a wall, relieved of your wallet, fed a handful of gruel, and then got kicked in the ass and sent on your way” @npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-01-30 17:13:19 UTC

“like every pirate, the tech companies dreamed of being admirals” @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/30/zucksauce/

2026-01-30 15:33:18 UTC

“Making my own clothes (and making up quotes)”
1st episode of a new series
John-Paul Flintoff introduces his book "Through the Eye of a Needle" - a memoir about discovering meaning through making his own clothes.
He reads from the book's cover, reveals a slightly embarrassing secret about one of the cover quotes, and shares the prologue featuring a pivotal moment on the London Underground with a crochet hook in his pocket.
#slowfashion #making #activism #memoir
https://open.spotify.com/episode/246KjChlEST7Gb3rKY69x1?si=7JMCwcMDSSGgVv_QfcGOwg