Colonizer born on "treaty 9" territory. White. Male. Pretty cishet. Meliorist. Absent-minded. Trying to be woke.
Always open to critique on anything I post, from text to ideas to vis art. I don't boost images without alt text.
Creative interests: #writing, #sketching, #chiptune, #netArt, #webWeaving, #gameDev; #reading, #scifi, #games.
My aesthetic is things that appear rough, but are trying their best. I can also be a bit odd in my delivery, but I promise I am a sincere person.
@purplepadma hell yeah! I know of a couple people who stopped deoderizing during lockdowns. It's not for me, but even at work, I'd rather smell a little body odour than perfume.
It's funny, I find I really only mind someone's smell if I don't like them. Or maybe I have that backwards...
@Knightky new logo? New Divinity?? (Furious web search noises.)
Also happy Friday to everyone else (I picked up extra shifts Saturday Sunday 😪 no I don't have anyone to blame but myself, but at least I can whinge about it)!
@cmconseils I never studied health of biology so if a study came out suggesting "turns out vitamins aren't real--they don't do anything" I wouldn't even be that shocked.
The proliferation of scam culture, then, is not just a product of technological change but also a rational response to late stage capitalism.
Capitalists compete, which risks profits.
In response, capitalists have chosen consolidation to mitigate the effects of competition, which has driven ever-increasing wealth inequality.
That inequality makes it harder for anyone not at the top, even less-successful capitalists, to get ahead.
And so some capitalists have turned entrepreneurially to scamming as a way of an asserting control over the income produced by workers that they could not control through the traditional process of owning firms and assets.
Because those are all already owned by the richest of the rich, or soon will be.
The AI bubble will burst eventually and cause immense suffering when it does, but just as NFTs weren’t the last major global scam, AI will just be replaced by yet another scam, and another, and another, until capitalism eventually collapses under its own weight.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192132/ocasio-cortez-everything-feels-like-scam
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@alexisbushnell good luck! I hope you get some much deserved support ❤️🩹 Also, "peoply day" is such a perfect phrase. I will try to remember that
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds I've also fallen back to Ubuntu (i3) and don't feel great about it. I think my new years resolution will be to fully commit to another distro.
@theplaguedoc haha nice! 💥 Although I have to admit that as I was reading your first paragraph I was wondering if this was the setup to an elaborate pun.
@catsalad several command line tools (eg. grep) let you specify --colo, thus bypassing this entire embarrassment.
If you come here for the World Cup, you lose the right to talk about white America ever again.
@JessTheUnstill *desperately looking around for a "next page" link...!*
@endeavorance no fuckin way...
@burnoutqueen yes!
@joyousjoyness definitely cat
@StillIRise1963 that's not totally fair—they also run on fear!
@TonyStark just remember that "the economy" in this austerity context actually stands for "rich people's yacht money."
You can't have necessities let alone nice things because it would hurt... rich people's yacht money.
Gen AI is slowly producing the Library of Babel -- in which all books exist, but it is mostly an overwhelming plethora of nonsensical books, so that finding the useful becomes hopeless due to lack of searchability. #NoAI
@alisynthesis @kde KDE is my favorite because there doesnt appear to be any limit to the "make mouse bigger when shaken" functionality, so when I'm in boring meetings I can fiddle the mouse and see how big I can make it before it snaps back.
Thank you KDE team for this innovation.
@hamatti that sounds hideous. I had a dream the world was ending, and that sounds more pleasant than the night you had 😪
