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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • here’s a good write up about why federating with threads is a bad idea, below is just a tidbit, I read it ages ago so just picked some dotpoints.

    Less emotionally, I think it’s unwise to assume that an organization that has…

    demonstrably and continuously made antisocial and sometimes deadly choices on behalf of billions of human beings and allowed its products to be weaponized by covert state-level operations behind multiple genocides and hundreds (thousands? tens of thousands?) of smaller persecutions, all while ducking meaningful oversight, lying about what they do and know, and treating their core extraction machines as fait-accompli inevitabilities that mustn’t be governed except in patently ineffective ways…

    …will be a good citizen after adopting a new, interoperable technical structure

    https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads




  • hello I will not be creating art if it does not generate a profit for me personally, the artists I work along side of, are only useful to me so long as I am making a profit. I cannot wait to replace the people who work for and with me with computers.

    seriously you’re there fucking employer, you’re just saying you can’t wait to fire them.

    you know how you constantly see little reminders of how bad cryptocurrancies are for the environment, blahblahblah, yeah? imagine how much energy goes into generating each chatgpt response, or each 30-60 second AI video, I think I’ve only seen that mentioned in one article and it was on some independent outlet.

    someone create an AI that washes dishes so I dont have to work anymore.