I'm stoked to see XO23 when it opens in downtown Seattle. Great way to use #art to occupy some otherwise empty space. → https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/seattles-downtown-banana-republic-store-to-become-art-space/
One funny thing about ChatGeePeeTee and similar is how they’ve made people realize just how generic a lot—most?—writing is. The new eternal question: is that the robots coming for us or just the sort of standard bland writing whose quality I’d never worried about before? [cue the insipid handwringing; ignore the irony]
The simple answer to the AI/parrot/simulacra angst is to embrace one's cynicism about the future of human beings, a very unspecial animal that so many hold in inexplicably high regard.
Monday morning #truth.
I have a tiny number of followers (and don't follow that many more), but I find myself loath to lose them with a move to #akkoma or the like, despite those systems having some important features I would like to see in Mastodon. I'm a web crawling, typing example of the leveling phenomenon of "good enough" syndrome.
Thanks autocorrect, but “perineal” is a very different, though often related, thing than “personal.”
New on ye olde blog: The Sins of the Father → https://fncll.org/the-sins-of-the-father/
I believe the #fediverse is the most promising way forward for social software (people connecting on the web intentionally and sans algorithms). But I’m increasingly convinced *I* am not one of those people who can healthily use and be part of it. I’m not completely convinced, which is why I’m still here, but it’s close. Maybe all roads for me not only lead to the #blog as @jimgroom says, but for me *only* the blog.
It’s becoming real through the looking glass stuff, too, with what they are calling “constraints.”
Of course the one sit-down coffee shop close enough to get to right now is dominated by a Christian book club explaining to each other how, without religion (of the Christian kind, of course), people would be thieves, rapists, and murderers.