splaystate.bsky.social
in search of a six-billion-year summer
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sorry I realize this is not helpful
I just think the handwringing isn't going to change the fact that they have the keys to the car you can simply choose not to use
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just don't use it
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Aww why? That sounds like everyone was excited to see you back at it!
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well that's definitely a problem I can Grok
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well that's definitely a problem I can Grok
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Ecosia is a 'green search engine'
AI is just a new semantic search that for now is worse
My sense is that it will make the internet more fun specifically because search engines are going to implode and people are going to have to find things by actually surfing the internet now
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yes, it's enshittifying. Everything is!
Mojeek and Ecosia offer AI-less search
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what does this even mean
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in hindsight I wish I didn't say it was braindead-- I just wish staunch rejectionism with mo desire to learn how things work wasn't a thing
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Why are you making such a brain dead take?
New technology was created. People are figuring out what it's for. You are going to get stupid use cases.
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This connotes humanity with a distinction from being natural and is honestly just not true.
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I don't even know where this cramming is coming from
Experimentation and implementation at the hands of people who can make the decisions to do so is not forcing something down your throat
did you do this when the internet became a thing too
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I mean it somewhat sincerely because we seem not to think of history anymore
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😩 if only it didn't have a scholarly price tag too
congratulations on publication!
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now wait for the one-time login link to be sent to your email
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okay idk whatever amount of time
anyway can we please care about adapting the present instead of castigating people for being wrong at some point
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it appears that I chose a correct albeit particularly grating observation because you keep returning to it
mundane meaning underdeveloped
mundane meaning thought-terminating
mundane meaning what is wrong with the internet
think more expressively, the words are there for you to use them and grow
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you are right!
so maybe don't brigade people for theirs changing over time!
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lol
the misogyny
how predictable
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wtf are you even saying with that lol
I am asking you to be more serious with your thinking specifically because the internet smoothes out all opinions into the same shapeless sludge
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omfg you got me
no but seriously, I am asking you not to devalue the words you are reading because of who said it and instead to see if they apply to your view of the world
if they do, use this to your advantage in compiling your own worldview rather than a regurgitation of who pays him
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why are you holding such a mundane opinion that couches someone else's reality in the context of your perspective
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oh my god who cares
why do you care
commentary on the current moment is commentary on the CURRENT moment, which changes constantly
do not be so obstinate as to consider opinions as immutable and people to be infallible
be more ambitious with your compassion
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the idea that opinions can't change over time or that the situation being commented on can't reflect a changing circumstance is so lacking in nuance and pragmatism as to edge on intentional ignorance
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also: he was right! we weren't back then!
10 years is a really long time!
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the idea that opinions can't change over time or that the situation being commented on can't reflect a changing circumstance is so lacking in nuance and pragmatism as to edge on intentional ignorance
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who
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does this help
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have you read Benasayag's "The Tyranny of Algorithms"?
hyperrational mechanisms can't actually do much more than simulate the world—they don't experience it with all its unpredictability
I take comfort in this perspective by believing more jobs and creativity will come from it, not less
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I gotta let my people know that their miles were worth the comment
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this feels like trump but new york ish
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that's a little harder to do than you think.
realistically, you do this through sustained readership /after retention goes down/, meaning that once you have spread really wide, you can reach those you retain.
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this is true for so many things, god...
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It's strange because the alternative can't be built easily on the basis that the average user needs aggregation and aggregators end up needing a profit model past a certain point of growth