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Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player.

Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that #politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best.

Politically outspoken, overanalyzing #PopCulture, building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t #maker #3Dprinting #nobots

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2026-06-15 09:14:11 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj I agree that this is an important question - because yes, if he could just do his usual "fuck you, try to stop me!" thing, he would have, which implies that he doesn't have the power to resist this court order.
- whic obviously begs the question: Where *does* his actual power end? Since lawsuits etc. keep stopping his initiatives, he's certainly not as powerful as he thinks & opposition should be delineating those borders & then hammering on them.

2026-06-04 08:01:43 UTC

"Even if only a small percentage of the people who use your product experience harm as a result, if your product is intended for widespread deployment (as chatbots are), you will end up harming a lot of people..." - @nprofile…ugpy
This is an incredibly important point, because it's the completely accepted principle of responsibility that the tech world has built its success upon being exempt from.
This has to change.
#it #tech #business #BigTech
#nevent1q…44e7

2026-04-02 19:31:11 UTC

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@nprofile…gfcd The weird thing is that anyone thought he'd have their backs in the first place. He has never, ever failed to throw other people under the bus if it suited him, or if he just couldn't be arsed to keep up appearances for a few minutes or was caught off guard in an interview or whatever - how the fuck does each one of them make themselves believe they'll somehow be the one person in the whole universe other than himself that he will stick up for?

2026-04-02 11:27:06 UTC

"what's objectionable about Anthropic – and the AI sector – isn't copyright. The thing that makes these companies disgusting is their gleeful, fraudulent trumpeting about how their products will destroy the livelihoods of every kind of worker [...] And it's their economic fraud, the inflation of a bubble that will destroy the economy when it bursts [...] It's their enthusiastic deployment of AI tools for mass surveillance and mass killing" - @nprofile…ugpy
#AI #anthropic #Claude #unions
#nevent1q…cc84

2026-04-01 18:13:46 UTC

I mean, maybe you can abstract yourself from the US *everything* situation for this - I can't & it pisses me off, even if I'm still in awe of it all.
The only solace for it I can think of is, this is a single dad, a black guy, a woman & a Canadian, executing one of mankind's greatest technical accomplishments through collaboration & science & you just know the regime hates everything about all of this 💛
Dunno if I can keep awake for the launch to 😝
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08IOsxF1os8
#Artemis #science

2026-03-30 08:12:45 UTC

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@nprofile…l70y There was always an audience of people who want to be awful & proud of it - our mistake was allowing the social consequences of being an asshole to erode, in politics & in our personal lives.
https://cdn.masto.host/helvedenet/media_attachments/files/116/317/117/589/507/868/original/6eff328052bb7e86.png

2026-03-30 06:23:21 UTC

What an absolute bullshit analogy. There is literally no similarity here - a ghostwriter is a person, a chatbot is not. There, end of "debate".
I'd sign off the topic with one of my award-adjacent comparisons but this is too stupid, even for me.
I'm rapidly losing my respect for the title of "professor".
#AI
#nevent1q…46k0

2026-03-29 08:51:13 UTC

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@nprofile…k95v Agree - that effect where a black wrought iron texture graduates into a shiny, polished steel surface is so cool 🤩 this little utility knife I bought from a knife maker ("The Knife Guy" 😁) at a market a little while ago has a bit of the same thing going 💛
https://cdn.masto.host/helvedenet/media_attachments/files/116/311/606/672/150/825/original/e4a40a73efa1a70c.jpeg

2026-03-24 21:24:38 UTC

From the desk of Corporate Translation™️: "Sharpening focus" is business speak for "we're in deep shit & we don't know what to do about it".
The bubble hasn't popped yet, but it's deflating with an increasingly loud fart noise...
#ai #business #tech
#nevent1q…rrw5

2026-03-24 13:29:50 UTC

"Markets are absolutely capable of inducing reward hacking in participants. The metric becomes a target. You think you're betting on the outcome of an event, but what you're really betting on is what an oracle will say the outcome was. No matter what the outcome is or how robust it is against outside influence, the oracle can be influenced with a gun to the temple..."
If you're greedy & have no moral compass, reality is nothing by an inconvenience.
#capitalism #business
#nevent1q…rh76

2026-03-23 12:11:03 UTC

No, seriously - I can't possibly overstate the value in my life that has come from the internet or how it has enriched me.
Like Ed Zitron & @nprofile…ugpy have both written about at various times, I'm not mad at technology - I'm fucking furious at the fuckfaces who deliberately ruined it, just so they could squat their ignoble asses upon a mountain of riches like the shittiest, saddest little saggy dragons imaginable.
#tech #business #enshittification #TechnoFeudalism
#nevent1q…0da4

2026-03-09 17:43:53 UTC

"Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) to the rest of us. They are wronger than the median person, and the consequences of their wrongness are exponentially worse than the consequences of the median person's mistake." - @nprofile…ugpy
#nevent1q…7l8w

2026-03-08 08:31:50 UTC

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@nprofile…2wxk With the lack of scale reference I am forced to assume this is a huge river monster, the likes of which I was genuinely kind-of afraid of every time I was near a stream as a kid 😂 I think there was a children's show or something about a boy catching an enormous, monstrous eel 🤔

2026-03-03 21:23:51 UTC

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@nprofile…2ch3 Also...
https://cdn.masto.host/helvedenet/media_attachments/files/116/167/346/042/538/968/original/d533b8e66e2344e4.mp4

2026-02-28 22:00:35 UTC

For the record, the first time in my life I had the thought that the world would be better if a national leader was just killed, I was in like the 5th grade & had just learned about Idi Amin.
I was about the same age when I realized why a world where just murdering someone without any form of process would be horrific.
Once murder becomes the solution for one thing, it's only a matter of time before it's the solution to everything.
Understand & remember this in these times.
#intpol

2026-02-27 07:22:35 UTC

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@nprofile…uj37 Unfortunately - and this is true everywhere in the world, including for the DK elections in three weeks - the common response to a bad, or even just unsatisfying, Left™️ leader isn't to get a better Left™️ leader, but to yield the field to which ever Right™️ asshole screams the loudest...

2026-02-26 14:04:16 UTC

"The fear of harsh retaliation for any country that dares to be a Disenshittification Nation is based on the premise that Trump is motivated by a commitment to fairness. He's not: Trump is motivated by a desire to dominate. Anything that threatens the dominance of the companies that take his orders is fair game, and he will retaliate in any way he can." - @nprofile…ugpy
#enshittification #AdversarialInteroperability #tech #business #DMCA
#nevent1q…85ag

2026-02-22 21:10:08 UTC

Semi-regularly re-posting this...
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2026-02-22 08:34:13 UTC

I'd like to comment on the common "AI is just a tool" thing: I'm a woodworker by training & that means a lot of machines - but almost every craftsperson knows how to do their job with hand tools, or "lesser" machines.
Similarly, a writer can write without a text editor - just as well, only slower.
If loss of a tool = loss of your skill & knowledge, then that tool isn't an asset, it's a liability. You're signing over your ability to do business to whoever sells & maintains that tool.
#AI
#nevent1q…77zp

2026-01-28 09:46:44 UTC

"After generations of Davos-style oligarch worship, there are damned few politicians who dare to unfurl a sail and aim the tiller for a world that works for working people.
But every time some politician does, that sail bellies out with the wind with an audible snap [...] Any ship rigged for a better future is propelled by a wind that is a fiercer gale than any we've seen for generations." - @nprofile…ugpy
#politics #uspol #intpol
#nevent1q…0835

2026-01-26 09:22:30 UTC

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@nprofile…gfcd This is so true & no more evident than in the fact that some of the biggest fascist enabler capitalist entities are the social media & online shopping giants who somehow convinced themselves you can't just go IRL & be fine. Like, yes, AMA is approaching half the online retail market but is still not even 10% of US retail overall. People play ball & have dinners & parties & political discussion all the time without social media. They think they're The Matrix but they're not.

2026-01-21 14:42:27 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj @nprofile…v2v2 You don't need Premium to avoid ads - just a decent adblocker. I haven't seen a single YT ad in like two decades.

2026-01-21 09:15:29 UTC

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@nprofile…zx3a Climbing looks so cool - except for the shoes, which might be what keeps me from trying it if I'm being honest with myself 😂

2026-01-14 09:40:09 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 I'm inclined to think that it's even worse that Americans who *are* on social media don't know it's happening, because the platforms are on the side of the oppressors...

2025-12-25 22:28:41 UTC

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@nprofile…2v6k @nprofile…998y Pretty funny, but the real brilliant bit is obviously the random groove thing 🤩 I'm not even sure you could emulate that with a regular digital track, like on a streaming service, but with vinyl it's fairly straight-forward & there were quite a few artists, comedy & otherwise, who played with having multiple different grooves on the same side of a disc - AFAIR Monty Python did one without telling anyone, just to take the piss 😂

2025-12-09 06:00:32 UTC

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@nprofile…zdpc @nprofile…998y Precisely. It's not about the amount, it's about what the punishing effect is on the person. Like, if you took 10K from me now I'd be mostly (!) OK, just pretty miffed, but a year ago I'm eating oatmeal for months & a few years earlier it would have put me on the street - the way it should work is we figure out what kind of consequence we're aiming to place on a person with effects like that & then translate it, including to billionaires.

2025-12-08 13:20:58 UTC

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@nprofile…998y Higher fines, though - you don't deter someone who has everybody's money from anything with a fine that amounts to shaking out his couch cushions.

2025-12-04 08:28:44 UTC

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@nprofile…5l40 I fear the real problem is that people can easily be convinced that this is all just a problem for stargazing nerds & nobody else, if they don't believe that already. We need a clear & graspable idea that this will cause everyone significant harm, or the consensus will be to just let the tech bros bro.

2025-12-01 11:04:46 UTC

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@nprofile…n3jh @nprofile…p9dw I miss out on things like this, because I run the Simplyprint front end on my OP 🤨 on the plus side, SP decorates the UI for every holiday - swings & roundabouts I guess 😁

2025-11-20 12:41:39 UTC

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@nprofile…e4ry Well, no TV for well over a decade - but I don't feel like that's much of an accomplishment 😂

2025-11-04 15:39:14 UTC

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@nprofile…y70r - if you believe that they will honor a request from somebody they don't fear, which negatively affects their profit margin. So...

2025-10-13 15:27:52 UTC

I said not too long ago that maybe the inconvenience of non-networked systems was a feature, not a bug - a primary layer of protection against abuse & accidents.
Seems this dude I don't know on a TV show I don't know, played by the always awesome Edward James Olmos, agrees with me.
https://todon.eu/@dusk/115367292177868537
#tech #privacy #security

2025-10-12 13:47:35 UTC

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@nprofile…09m3 Also, thank Odin for incompetent wrong-doers.

2025-08-28 17:22:24 UTC

"The United States is a rogue nation spurred on by rogue companies in Silicon Valley and beyond that are intent on using the power at their disposal to extract maximum short-term benefit regardless of the long-term cost. It’s about time other countries give up their appeasement campaign and get serious about isolating the declining hegemon and its tech oligarchy..." - @nprofile…uzew
https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/115106917588374660
#intpol #uspol #tech

2025-08-23 06:43:29 UTC

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@nprofile…hrmg AFAIH Keith is the origin of the myth/trope of rock stars exploding hotel toilets, because he once exploded a hotel toilet with a cherry bomb 😂

2025-07-15 20:32:54 UTC

"Google needs to keep up the story that it is growing. Once Google stops growing, it becames a "mature" company and its PE ratio will fall from 20:1 to something more like 4:1, meaning an 80% collapse in the company's share price..." - @nprofile…qz4x
Not to be the I said so guy, but it's near a decade ago that I first started muttering about maybe not calling Google a startup anymore - which is essentially & rather insanely what they're still doing.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114859081313037001 #tech #business #AI

2025-06-11 13:24:29 UTC

Wow, that is *a lot* of bullshit. Honestly, I'm baffled by the gargantuan effort some seemingly educated people bring to insisting on straw men & flawed assumptions.
Dude, even if @nprofile…gd2c & the rest of us weighed unreasonable demands on #AI (which we fucking don't; all we ask is the same accountability every product should live up to) your "Rawlsian" claim still assumes benefits for which, at present, there is absolutely no proof.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/revisiting-parrots-paper-42-months-later-michael-lissack-fwfde/

2025-06-01 15:27:00 UTC

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@nprofile…wjfe What they're building isn't government, it's a regime.

2025-03-27 08:35:07 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz Yeah, but the problem is, most of them will just hold out for him switching back. Remember, they're not against going after "the bad ones", including illegally & violently - they think they're getting bundled into that by mistake, even believing that if Der Führer Knew (go ahead & Google that phrase) it wouldn't be happening.
Most likely not a single MAGA voter will switch sides at the next election, generously assuming there'll be one. They love the performative cruelty too much.

2025-03-24 08:15:54 UTC

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@nprofile…c29r I think I read somewhere that Elmo & his Hitler Jugend crew is gutting the IRS? I suspect that might make tax collection rather more difficult - which, yes, in this situation is a good thing.

2025-03-22 10:48:21 UTC

Trying my hand at "knækbrød", "knäcke", or crispbread if you prefer it international-ish 😁
Looks pretty good I think, will let you know how it tastes after lunch 🙂
#cooking #baking #food #kitchenfie
https://helvede.net/@jwcph/114205662090068400
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2025-03-22 10:41:47 UTC

On my #CaboVerde trip last winter I stayed on the island of Sal, so obviously I brought home some salt 🧂 you'd think salt is just salty but I really do think this has a particularly lovely saltiness - I use it for special purposes like baking, more about that in a moment... 😁
It's pretty chunky though, so some crushing is required sometimes 🔨
#food #cooking
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2025-03-20 13:04:51 UTC

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@nprofile…f0x4 You do know that this was never about cost saving, right...?

2025-03-09 20:21:20 UTC

Exactly, @nprofile…ka48 - and even then, all this is just the profound practical problems, before we get to the profound human problem: That even for what we believe to bve our most goal-oriented tasks, the process is just as important as the outcome.
Even the simplest decision has you checking in with your feelings, memories, relations, values etc. & you know how I know that?
Because a human being isn't a machine & doesn't & shouldn't work like one.
https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/114132845100804152 #ai #tech #humanity

2025-03-08 15:24:34 UTC

"Should we blame the paperclip-maximizing Slow AI corporations for attempting to escape disruptive capitalism's chaotic vortex? I don't think it matters: I don't deplore this whiny cowardice because it's hypocritical. I hate it because it's a ripoff that screws workers, customers and the environment." - you & me both, @nprofile…qz4x
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114127373931928966 #business

2025-03-06 17:06:22 UTC

"America is exceptional in that it represents the one place where there are lots of wealthy people who are totally defenseless. We're an all-you-can-eat buffet for the privacy-annihilating voyeurs of Silicon Valley..." - @nprofile…qz4x
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114116513666734815 #privacy #tech #business

2025-03-01 20:43:19 UTC

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@nprofile…2hrv - or better yet, don't meet with those fuckers & make it loud & clear why not.

2025-02-28 23:18:00 UTC

This just in: Fuck Sergey "Glasshole" Brin right in the ear.
https://zeppelin.flights/@dmoren/114083231957574142 #tech #business

2025-02-27 12:40:23 UTC

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@nprofile…st4p @nprofile…qz4x I don't want to speak for @nprofile…qz4x but my reading of it isn't meandering at all - I thought there was an extremely clear narrative through it, which is in no small part why it feels so disturbing. It isn't detours; all of this is part of the same system (which masquerades as complex but is actually surprisingly simple & crude) of shifting power away from workers & into the hands of the Boss Class™️...

2025-02-27 12:31:52 UTC

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@nprofile…5tym @nprofile…npxa The entire modern economy, based around digital tools, is a sham, designed by the powerful against our collective better knowledge for the purpose of shifting power away from workers & into the hands of the Boss class... https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/

2025-02-27 12:24:11 UTC

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@nprofile…alsa That's probably because you're already logged in, then - or, maybe there's regional differences, what do I know...

2025-02-27 11:02:13 UTC

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@nprofile…alsa Yeah, but can you actually launch the meeting? That's when you get the "log in or wait for moderator" prompt...

2025-02-27 07:57:30 UTC

I'm sorry, do I have this right - that Jitsi, the meeting platform specifically presented as an alternative for people who want to opt out of #Google, can now only be used IF YOU LOG IN WITH A FUCKING GOOGLE ACCOUNT!?
And the #tech world wonders why we hate their guts... 🤬
#privacy #BigTech

2025-02-19 07:50:14 UTC

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@nprofile…fynq @nprofile…8xrs As I've said several times: Making things as awful & unfair as possible creates a marketplace where They™️ can sell exceptions. So yes.

2025-02-17 07:34:36 UTC

TL;DW, you'll notice that while #AI tools are still as if tailor-made for fraud, they're still just supplements to the same kind of scamming & lying that has always been going on.
Oh, also: If you ever use stock video clips, then buyer beware - unless it's literally just a mood-setting texture, i.e. if it's supposed to represent anything real, make sure it is. Don't spread fakery out of laziness or lack of attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMw8gqFd_ME #tech #video #fraud #CorridorCrew

2025-02-13 16:04:57 UTC

OK, I did it - currently just starting the process of re-installing almost 100 #Garageband plugins 😝
I did do one fuckup that could have been major; I'd saved some setups in some of those plugins - & GB itself - which I forgot to save out as files & keep. However, most of them were guitar amp models & since I'm still not good at that but getting better, rebuilding them probably isn't the worst thing that could happen 😂
https://helvede.net/@jwcph/113984788125162309 #BedroomProducer #tech

2025-02-12 12:41:58 UTC

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@nprofile…args There are SO MANY lovely artist here in the #fediverse - I've bought a few items & as an avid online shopper, I can confidently say that buying art directly from artists is the most satisfying experience 🥰

2025-02-11 14:23:15 UTC

"Elon Musk has just announced that he's killing [free IRS tax filing]. Yeah, I know, no one elected him. That doesn't seem to matter to anyone, least of all Democrats on the Hill, who are still showing up for work every day and trying to engender a "spirit of comity" rather than screaming and throwing eggs..." - @nprofile…qz4x
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113985516566620146 #resist

2025-02-10 09:42:24 UTC

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@nprofile…2slc Also, even with the head start of other people's R&D, Starship is embarrassingly slow compared to the Apollo program - which, at this point in its timeline, where Starship isn't even manned yet, had flown over a dozen missions, including five to the moon & putting a space station in orbit, and had retired gracefully.
"Developing at high speed" my lily-white ass.

2025-01-26 22:44:31 UTC

Reminder: When a sentient AI really applied itself & thought the matter through, it came to the conclusion that the purpose of life is to end.
#PopCulture #AI
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2025-01-21 08:09:59 UTC

My friend just sent me an OpenDocument file (expected, not being spammed/phished here) & just to see what would happen I clicked to open it on my Mac - and what happened is that PowerPoint tried to open it, then stalled.
One small problem with that: I don't have PowerPoint installed on this system.
WTF!?
#tech

2025-01-18 08:01:28 UTC

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@nprofile…x8nv Cool! 😊 N00b question: Are there particular benefits of running effects before the interface, compared to just a clean signal & software effects after - or is that more, like, a matter of taste & preferences...?

2025-01-16 08:18:07 UTC

"Imagine setting up a website to literally rate the hotness of female students at Harvard & 20 years later you have a Wikipedia section dedicated to war crimes - good job, Zuck, you make me wish Hell was a real thing..." - @nprofile…npqj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaE9w_Jy7gQ #meta

2025-01-15 08:41:16 UTC

Nope, flubbed my experiment & still don't get it: As I am following my own #pixelfed account with my #mastodon account, shouldn't I see my Pixelfed boosts in my Mastodon feed? - because I don't; I see my PF posts, but not boosts...
I've had federation explained to me 1.000 times & read dozens of guides, but the truth is I still have almost no idea how it works. Pretty sure that's not a good thing 😬

2025-01-15 07:13:37 UTC

When I started my own Big Tech Detox™️ in earnest last year, I obviously considered Proton - and boy, am I glad I chose another option...
(I went with Startmail, for the record, and I am pretty happy with it so far)
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113828863869838695 #tech

2025-01-10 11:51:14 UTC

Also: Social media do not need alternatives. We - people, societies, business - can exist perfectly well without them & the loss of value will be temporary & brief.
There are other US coroporate tech services which will indeed be difficult to get rid of without alternatives, but please stop conflating Facebook, Xitter et all with those services.
https://suomi.social/@lari/113803299782553541 #tech

2025-01-08 20:57:36 UTC

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@nprofile…7v9l @nprofile…nj7h Looks good! In my workshop stacking things like that is like screaming JENGA! at the universe, but I appreciate that most people probably aren't as clumsy as me 😂
How do you like the speedpaints? I read some reviews; they sounded good & were on my shortlist when I looked for at nice set of base paints this December 😁 I ended up choosing ATOMs but I'm well aware that I'm only getting started acquiring paints... 😝

2025-01-08 12:10:43 UTC

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@nprofile…ptpv I agree. One of the reasons it took me like a month to work myself out of the funk I was dumped in by The Election™️ (even though I'm on the other side of the planet) was that it took some effort to come to terms with the realization that the reasonably decent world I believe to be inevitable is further off than I thought & will probably not be achieved whitin my lifetime (I'm 55). Not that it stops me believing in it, or doing what I can to precipitate it.

2025-01-06 08:44:47 UTC

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@nprofile…c29r Once again: It would not only have been easy, but also proper journalism, for #ThePress to be like "The GOP promises to make life better for working people, just like they have always promised but never, ever done, here's a bunch of examples of the same lie".
That's what should happen; if someone says it's raining you look out the window to see if they're right. Maybe check their window to tell if they're deliberately lying.
That's the job that the 4th Estate refuses to do & here we are.

2025-01-03 18:19:54 UTC

If Meta was a gaming company, they would be rolling out games where NPCs play against each other & all you, the person who paid actual money for the product, can do is watch them play while ads cover half your viewport.
To be clear, #Meta is still making money, which tells us one thing: Their business model is fundamentally fraudulent - they're selling advertisers "access to human beings" while filling the platform with bots.
https://journa.host/@w7voa/113765659525376577 #tech #business

2025-01-03 07:52:56 UTC

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@nprofile…h4hy That's wrong, though - CGI is almost always far more expensive.

2025-01-02 21:34:35 UTC

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@nprofile…h4hy For me too, definitely. I also find it super-ironic that the '77 version absolutely nails the worldbuilding on a fairly modest budget & with whatever tools existed at the time - to the point where people are still imitating it today, nearly 50 years later - while the updates utterly fail at the very same job despite far greater resources & much more versatile tools...

2025-01-02 21:06:09 UTC

Also, as long as I'll live I will never understand most of the changes Lucas kept making... look, even if we can't agree whether Mos Eisley needed to look bigger & have nya-nya-singing, plot-irrelevant robots, or the stormtroopers needed more Dewbacks, or the Sarlacc should look like Audrey II from Little Shop, in many cases the new additions literally just block part of or whole scenes and/or make noises over dialogue...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEch4j4KyoU
https://helvede.net/@jwcph/113760199326959073 #movies #StarWars
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2025-01-02 18:34:45 UTC

Look, of course I love the #StarWars Oridge Tridge but "Empire" & "Jedi" don't make much temporal or navigational sense...: Luke is sent to a planet & just randomly lands a hop & skip from Yoda's house. Meanwhile, Han, Leia & Chewie are surprised by a huge asteroid field right next to a planet they've lived on for long enough to build an elaborate ice base there, fly into & immediately leave it, hang out on the back of a Star Destroyer for ten minutes, then declare they're in the Anoat system 1/

2025-01-02 16:38:56 UTC

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@nprofile…dhpg I would be highly flabbergasted. Yesterday I didn't even have a lawn.

2024-12-29 17:47:58 UTC

It's literally the same veggie sauce stuff I make for pasta - but somehow it just tastes different this way. Like lasagna, even. I guess the addition of bechamel sauce (store-bought, but reinforced with a little nutmeg, salt & pepper) really does some heavy lifting, flavor-wise 😁
#food
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2024-12-27 22:56:24 UTC

Except the #AI replacements for influencers won't get better results - but they'll be 100% under the platform's control & every penny they do manage to generate, the platform gets to keep.
Notice I didn't say they'll be cheaper; AI is about to tank every commercial "social" platform because it's (also) ludicrously inefficient & has no economy of scale benefits - but they're committed to the magical thinking that it'll somehow solve itself & the above will be the excuse.
https://social.vivaldi.net/@peterjfullagar/113727120691018702

2024-12-27 10:24:00 UTC

Once more, all together: THE PRIMARY USE CASE FOR genAI IS FRAUD & CRIME!
https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv/113719958270426873 #AI #malware #tech

2024-12-26 08:09:21 UTC

My daughter finds the best memes 😂😂😂
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2024-12-22 12:06:46 UTC

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@nprofile…l53d I could not possibly agree more, @nprofile…args - "We", as in the #fediverse, can't both be about the freeedaaaaahm from corporate dominance over all our lives, and also at the same time a gatekept garden, im- or explicitily only letting The Right Ones™️ in. If everybody doesn't have freedom, nobody does - then it's just privilege.

2024-12-19 10:10:33 UTC

The tools eagerly sold to - and bought by - industry, purported to maximize profit without sacrificing quality, DO NOT & CANNOT FUCKING WORK!
This article by @nprofile…a5hm just underscores once again what I keep saying: The primary application of #AI, currently & for the foreseeable future, is fraud.
https://mastodon.social/@markhurst/113675863825870621 #tech #business #hype

2024-12-18 21:00:45 UTC

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@nprofile…qz4x @nprofile…fgyc I once had a sleeping bag with sleeves & now I don't know what to call it... 😂

2024-12-18 18:11:02 UTC

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@nprofile…d6h6 Then I'm sorry to say it will be way worse than that. As bad as McCarthyism was, it was "just" a government-sanctioned witch hunt against "communists" - the next four US years is full-on fascism, which for starters means the witch hunt is for literally everyone, and that's before we get to the brazen malicious stupidity, to say nothing of the racism, misogyny & corruption...

2024-12-17 08:02:26 UTC

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@nprofile…ypxz It is - and stories like this demostrate how utterly goddamn insane that is. For my entire life someone has regularly come out with some version of "assigning a monetary value to life or health will motivate quality & development" & it's absolute horseshit; it would if proper quality was the only way of maximizing profit but They™️ will always find another way & then people get hurt.

2024-12-15 08:22:11 UTC

Reader beware: This is a real-life tragedy worse than any horror movie 😭
It persisted for decades, not least because...:
"It was difficult to find lawyers to represent residents; the damages in wrongful death lawsuits are dictated by how much the person would have conceivably earned for the rest of their lives, and residents of Forest Haven would be expected to earn little, if any, money..."
When will we learn that money cannot replace empathy?
https://mastodon.social/@AbandonedAmerica/113653847137869462 @nprofile…ypxz

2024-12-14 15:50:23 UTC

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@nprofile…args Reminds me of a story about the search for life on Mars: Allegedly James Lovelock (of GAIA fame) was one of the scientists asked to define the search parameters & he said "You don't need to go to Mars; you can see from Earth there's no life", referring to how an ecosystem of life will change its appearance. Of course that's not exactly the kind of answer you want if you're trying to secure funding for a Mars mission so it wasn't included in the final report 😝

2024-12-12 20:33:54 UTC

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@nprofile…3sf2 Is that Lilli von Schtupp...?

2024-12-10 22:01:23 UTC

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@nprofile…v7hl You mean you did this & don't even have a chocolate 3D printer!? 😱😂

2024-12-09 09:07:16 UTC

"Generative AI isn’t a revolution, it’s an evolution of a tech industry overtaken by growth-hungry management consultant types that neither know the problems that real people face nor how to fix them. It’s a sickening waste, a monument to the corrupting force of growth, and a sign that the people in power no longer work for you, the customer, but for the venture capitalists and the markets..." - Ed Zitron
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@donnotron/113591752320610658 #ai #tech #business #WheresYourEdAt

2024-12-08 08:02:49 UTC

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@nprofile…q4ju I tried mobile as the alternative connection per your previous post, no dice - don't have a VPN, unfortunately...

2024-12-06 08:23:26 UTC

Matthew Christopher does much more than just beatifully document decay.
In covering the history of buildings & the people who lived & worked in them, he is a cronicler & historian of American culture on so many levels. In the Frankford Arsenal story, for example, we get a glimpse into the culture of what I think of as malicious privatization (not sure there's another kind though)....
https://mastodon.social/@AbandonedAmerica/113602304545883803 @nprofile…ypxz #photography #history
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2024-12-06 06:36:05 UTC

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@nprofile…q4ju Still having issues, unfortunately...

2024-12-05 06:21:31 UTC

Hey @nprofile…q4ju, you OK...? Still can't access my account 🤔

2024-12-04 10:31:14 UTC

So, status of my #deGoogling efforts as of this morning: I managed to successfully move my custom email domain to #StartMail - meanwhile, Tuta is entirely down & I can't access my calendar (or the email associated with it).
Seems I made the right choice, at least between those two 😁 here's hoping Start will add a calendar soon 🤞
#tech

2024-12-03 14:53:22 UTC

"What could be more respectful of copyright than arranging things so that Canadian copyright holders – like a games studio or an app company – can sell their copyrighted works to Canadian buyers, without forcing the data and the payment to make a round trip through Silicon Valley and come back 30% lighter?" - @nprofile…qz4x
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113589355654764825

2024-12-03 08:25:56 UTC

Always remember: They're tinkering wildly behind the veil to make their tech look like it's doing the things they claim it can do...
This, by the way, is true for the vast majority of sh*t coming out of Silicon Valley with CV investment & hype attached to it.
Basically they're all Gina Linetti from Brooklyn 99, an undeservedly overconfident, psychotic liar who thinks saying the words "proprietary algorithm" makes her an innovative genius.
https://mastodon.social/@Kjaerulv/113587890936367893 #ai #tech #business

2024-12-01 22:26:45 UTC

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@nprofile…fd2e @nprofile…hz70 "It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another..." - Mal Reynolds, "Firefly"

2024-11-26 11:22:38 UTC

"When you have a boss for an app, your real boss gets an accountability sink, a convenient scapegoat that can be blamed for your misery.
The fact that this makes you worse at your job, that it loses your boss money, is no guarantee that you will be spared. Rich people make great marks, and they can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Markets won't solve this one – but worker power can..." - @nprofile…qz4x
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113548349587821374 #business #ai #tech #regulation

2024-11-25 15:27:40 UTC

That "Despite Everything, Create" sentiment has been doing a lot of heavy lifting towards keeping me sane lately - might as well share some of it... 😊
https://makertube.net/w/kp4AzwZnpkRXWHACnpvc7j #electronics #guitar #maker #DubyaMakes #3Dprinting @nprofile…26sn

2024-11-23 13:14:04 UTC

Huh... seems like all my #digital things that have some version of that "here's where you were last time you opened this" functionality - from laptop OS to mobile browser to music-app - have started just retaining some random previous state, anywhere from earlier that day to days or weeks ago.
And all at the same time.
It's almost like our digital realm is too brittle to survive.
#ux #tech