aspiring-geek83.bsky.social
Misadventures of an Aspiring Geek
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2) You seem to have responded to ONE post that is not your own, try giving the level of interaction that you are looking for
3) You follow 58 people, that's not many if that is the only way you fill your feed
4) Speaking of which, follow feeds! There is a Sewsky! one that looks pretty active
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1) Your AI profile picture may be giving people the wrong impression. Many here do not like AI, especially in the arts & crafts spaces
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They're not concerned about the welfare of struggling veterans or homeless people unless they can be used to deny other groups support and care, under the guise of "helping our own first".
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They don't "think the children" when the clergy or other authority figures abuse them, but Lord forbid a drag queen reads them a book or we teach them the proper words for their body parts and tell them it's ok not to want to kiss relatives on the mouth.
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Let's make it even emptier for them? bsky.app/profile/did:...
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I hate to be a broken record but you need to curate your experience here. If all you do is interact with stuff you don't like, you're not gonna have a good experience. I filtered out all the crap I don't want to see and filled my feed with stuff I do. Barely ever look at Discovery.
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Elonia is fighting with his sugar baby and has time and money to pay people for hit pieces on his app's competition?
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You seem to mostly follow other writers, some of which your colleagues, other Slate staff and accounts of other publications. Don't you think this might influence what you see, along with the interests you selected? Curating your feed(s) is admittedly a bit of work here, but I find it well worth it.
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I am happy to pay a little more for the convenience of being able to just pick things up from a store closeby. But when many of the cheaper options are effectively just online offers to coax people into the store to upsell the more expensive stuff actually in stock, I call shenanigans. (2)
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Yes, and if they were too blatabt about it they could be sued. Plenty people do pay for the samples they use. Everything AI does is stolen by default, and there is no accountability.
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"Artists are gatekeeping" is just short for "I don't want to go through all that effort of learning how to make art and then making it, I just want cool things I can claim I made, immediately after I've thought of a broad concept." #fuckai
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It's not a whole lot of extra effort and helps people. I just made it mandatory in my settings to add alt text before posting so I can't forget it.
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Nah, let them try and nobody bloody go, not even athletes!
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Someone needs to show American people what police stations in Northern Ireland look like to this day and explain why.
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The European powers aren't patient, they've been cowards enabling Israel's thirst for expansion for decades and I do not see this changing any time soon.
When Israel goes for Lebanese and possibly Egyptian territory next, more excuses will be made not to intervene while moaning about more refugees.
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"He also pleaded that in the same period and location, he did attempt, by inviting, inducing, counselling or inciting a child to s*xual touching."
Oh ffs!
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So he got less than a year for each, amazing!
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"He said he placed it in the mid-range and said he was constraining himself by not putting it higher than the headline sentence in the previous assault case." - why? 134 prior convictions, many of which violent. His family so in on it his victim fears they'll tell him where she is!
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I admit that Google has become so much worse when it comes to actually finding whqt I am looking for. Not only are there too many paid results, but also more junk ssites and paywalls. I can see the illusion of using gen AI like a search engine seem more straightforward.
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The world has seen the culmination of decades of: the collective delusion that is American exceptionalism, allowing white southerners to romanticise the confederacy, and the country being effectively run by corporate interest groups. A season of dems ain't fixing that rot.
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I sure hope investors will grow impatient before they can pull an Uber, after the flop that was blockchain / NFTs they're less likely to keep throwing money at things like that.
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Companies will pay if it can be used to replace labour. That is who AI companies are aiming for as their customer base. Not the chancers using AI to snag logo commissions on Fiverr or swamp Redbubble with sticker designs or Amazon with word salad books.
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Enticing as many people as possible into using AI, for the usage data, accelerating societal acceptance and creating dependency. Down the line when enough people and especially companies are hooked and industries "disrupted", prices will be increase to make profits. See also: Uber, AirBnB.
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That does, as the kids say, slap!
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That must have been so interesting, I wasn't quite around yet at the time!
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That was pretty much my reaction when we saw it online. They clearly don't make sports memorabilia like they used to. There were a lot of olympics branded cameras for 1980. really clever marketing: kosmofoto.com/2020/07/the-...
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These people do not want to abolish labour for tbe betterment of everyone, they just want society around them to change so they don't have to make any effort to be a contributing member of it.
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They're usually too lazy and self-indulgent to work for themselves but also too full of themselves and combative to take direction from a supervisor or be part of a team.
I was in a relationship with someone like that, they were always the victim of a bad boss ("All my exes are crazy, I swear!")
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They swear up and down they're not conservative, despite their disdain for those who struggle to navigate the labour market. I've interacted with a good number of them and this has always baffled me, until it clicked that these are incredibly selfish people hiding behind the cause of abolishing work
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You work in customer support? Well too bad your mindless callcenter job is going away, loser!
They just reguritate the conservative "We took away coal jobs and filled the auto industry with robots and are fine" drivel, completely glossing over the fact that the people affected weren't "fine".
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They make assumptions about what people do for a living and then put a value (!) on it to justify them being giddy about others struggling to pay the bills. You're an artist? You must not be very good if people prefer AI! Maybe try branching out from drawing f*rry p*rn! (Who's gonna tell them?)
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I also note your lack of an answer as to what you think people affected by job automations should do.
You tell others here that they brought nothing useful to this discussion and yet you have nothing of substance to offer yourself. Figures!
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Yes, and how did many people who worked in the automotive industry end up after that? Entire streets in the Detroit area turned into ghost towns because families had to up sticks when skills honed over decades became mostly obsolete.
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What is the grand plan you propose for while all jobs slowly being automated? For people to constantly re-skill and hope the next job takes a few more years to be wiped out? Position themselves to hopefully be the last one left in the department to supervise / QA the automated processes?
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I have no idea who that even is. I personally know people affected and they worked in their fields for years. Doesn't surprise me someone with zero empathy has no friends in the creative industries they could ask about this.