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Dreamer. Muesli enthusiast.

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@cstross@wandering.shop avatar cstross , to random

Why agentic AI creeps out women: because it's written by bros for bros who want Stepford Wives, and conveys that vibe: commercial AIs are fine-tuned to perform as cheerfully submissive handmaids, not working partners:

https://abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built-stepford-ai-and-called

(via Soyweiser : [Article on the Ick generated by AI shit from the... answered Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post,... by BlueMonday1984 in TechTakes )

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@rysiek @cstross Read to the end, it's a full throated call for women to embrace AI as a tool of feminist empowerment, written by the founder of an AI consultancy of some sort. Now I too have the ick.

@conniptions@mastodon.social avatar conniptions , to random

No, LinkedIn, it is waaaay to late to entice me back with casual games.

There is only one LinkedIn game, and it is the alphabet game. Once you have collected contacts whose surnames begin with all the letters of the alphabet you are done. But you have to actually know or have worked with the people involved, or it doesn't count.

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This is in fact slightly unfair - it was there that I briefly got back in touch with the Muslim kid I was friends with at age 5 to tell him that the joint Jewish-Muslim kosher-halal butchers shop we had excitedly realised back then was completely possible (since kosher meat and halal meat are so very similar) actually now exists. So there is that.

@conniptions@mastodon.social avatar conniptions , to random

No, LinkedIn, it is waaaay to late to entice me back with casual games.

There is only one LinkedIn game, and it is the alphabet game. Once you have collected contacts whose surnames begin with all the letters of the alphabet you are done. But you have to actually know or have worked with the people involved, or it doesn't count.

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Also, "back". Like I've ever actually used the site except when unemployed and desperate. Feh.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

Do you think anyone who lives in Hove has ever tried to start a collective for any reason, and called it a Hove Mind?

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@TheBreadmonkey "It means nothing to me", you might say :)

NB - I am not being in any way clever, let alone 'tremendously', but this video may shed some light - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJeWySiuq1I

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

Do you think anyone who lives in Hove has ever tried to start a collective for any reason, and called it a Hove Mind?

conniptions ,
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@TheBreadmonkey Nothing for it but to open a music shop there instead specialising in 80s pop: Hove Iyenna.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

The Internet is full of photos of cats sitting on keyboards but where are the photos of keyboards sitting on cats

conniptions ,
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@mcc They are the same photos. You just have to turn them upside down.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

Simplenote is probably the single piece of software I depend on most. I use it for everything— todo lists, calendars, there's so many things that a text editor with sync and search can do.

Over the last two months Simplenote has been degrading. First paste stopped working right, then it started throwing the "couldn't sync" error even when there was nothing to sync, then it frequently started just not saving text I entered, seemingly without giving the "couldn't sync" error, yeeting into void.

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@mcc oh pants, not just me then :(

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

Getting on the train oh, I always focus better on trains, time to plug my laptop in to the handy plug under this seat and get some dev done

Sticks hand into backpack for the laptop charger

Fishes hand around for about ten seconds

Uh… fuck

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@mcc I would, fwiw, at this point read a shopping list by Le Guin. So many sf writers of that generation, on which I grew up, turn out horrible disappointing on reread now. Not her. But I should shut up and let you get on reading.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

There are now four separate, unrelated tech products named "Lynx", three of which are currently available at market https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/tiktok-lynx-cross-platform-apps/

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@ieure @mcc I cannot think of a better use for Lynx than to implement Lynx in it. Lynx would still not, of course, support Lynx, but on the other hand, er, something. Probably.

@Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron , to random

Mastodon is financed by crowdfunding instead of venture capital not because we don't know that venture capital exists, not because we don't have bills to pay, and not because venture capital isn't willing to give money to new social media platforms. VCs don't want a sustainable business, they want a big exit. Every VC-backed business is on a timer to deliver or die.

conniptions ,
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@Gargron To deliver money, and not the actual thing it was supposed to deliver. They should call it 'PC', not 'VC'. Poisoned Chalice.