Every once in a while I'm suddenly like, "Oh, shit. I made this fucking irreversible life decision to change sex, something I dreamed of since I was young, and now it's here."
Like, it's frightening and also relieving all at the same time. So much grief for time lost, so much fear about my future, but also more joy than I was ever able to generate before.
I'm just so bored of AI
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/im-just-so-bored-of-ai/I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is.
Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first time? Listening to a stoner ramble on about their mystic crystal revelations is amusing for the first five minutes, but quickly gets tiresome. Wow! You got your little computer friend to automate calling your mum? Great job, mate! Can we talk about something interesting now?
Just as bad are the people telling me how bad smoking is for my health. Yes, I know! That's why I don't. Yes, I know that hanging out with friends while they smoke is bad for me - but loneliness is probably worse. In fact, you screaming about how every puff on a fag reduces my life expectancy by 37 seconds makes me want to inhale a whole cigar so I can die early enough to exit this tedious conversation.
If you want to enhance your consciousness / rot your brain with AI - go ahead. Just stop wanging on about it like you discovered the secret to eternal life.
And to the rest of you, stop pissing on people's chips. Haranguing and scolding have never convinced anyone of everything.
I can't fucking wait for this bubble to burst so we can go back to chatting shit about literally anything else.
#AI #rant6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
From 2018 to 2022 a company. Apollo Fusion was planning to sell and deploy Mercury based propellants for satellites what it new would cause 20 tons of mercury _per year_ to be released into earths atmosphere, which would 100% destroy the entire world if sustained for long enough.
milune - you believe in jesus, i believe in p*$$y ( official music video ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgzs2h3kKiE
#PopMusic #NewMusicThursday #sapphic #lesbian #wlw #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqiapn #lgbtqia
#Pride in #Paris was cancelled because of #ClimateChange. Meaning it was 44 degrees and the city banned it and also alcohol.
A correct decision, but...
😠
It looks like for every 100 posts I make I get on average a bit more ethan 1 follower.
Of course, the posts where I spend hours figuring out and writing generate the most followers.
The pithy offhand comments generate the least.
Between these is the posts devoid of fact and strong on stance - which are low effort and generate a lot of followers.
If my goal is to attract followers, I would increasingly minimize research and analysis, and just take strong uninformed states on things.
Trump's new 'Golden Eagle' compared to Nazi symbol in alarming White House update
https://www.aol.com/entertainment/trumps-golden-eagle-compared-nazi-151932554.html
RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116840170861608982
if you're cis, please help me get a job so i can take care of the four other trans queers in my immediate household that need support before i've fully tapped out my retirement fund
i'm not asking much. the opportunity to show somebody with hiring powers my ongoing projects would be a life changing kindness
(edited to sound less angry)
I really, truly hate how accurate this is.
#politics #democrats
On a related note, I've clearly transitioned long enough that it doesn't feel weird for me to use the word bitch.
Hmmm... I kind of realized today, that I'm kind of a bitch. I definitely lack the social softness that many of my peers have.
I've also, very clearly, been dealing with a similar thesis for a while: human behaviors exist within a set of constraints and affordances, and moralizing without recognition of the systems that a person exists within is oppressive.
I can't even with the fucking #American POV and their shitty uninformed opinions about #AC in #Europe.
The #heat #death count in Europe isn't anywhere close to as much higher as is widely claimed, because it's comparing Heat Stroke death to Excess Deaths during heatwaves over baseline.
Second, AC is massively more expensive to install in Europe on average. My exterior walls are half a meter thick, and my widow is the size of a Manhattan studio apartment.
That means the _only_ way to install AC would be to:
A: Cut through medieval stonework
B: Install custom windows.
C: Use a terrible and inefficient movable AC.
It is absolutely and completely preposterous.
There isn't a "cultural antipathy" toward AC. AC is a terrible solution to the problems Europeans actually face,
Behavior in socio-technical systems, such as the #Fediverse, are created structurally by the architecture of that system.
The moralizing of individual behavior that emerges from structural problems is very much the same as "carbon footprint", even if the larger sociotechnical framework is different.
All sociotechnical systems exist with cybernetic feedback from the users, and the less adaptable the technology is, the more adaptable the users will become.
Both shitty bots and dogpiling behavior exist because the sociotechnical environment creates the dynamic.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@clonedhuman/116827754614439489
the people who are destroying the planet have names and addresses
This is also a useful analogy: https://starlite.rodeo/@ana/116827964038251187
So, it might be desirable to actually change ActivityPub. There are actually a lot of things I think ActivityPub really sucks at, but those could be fixed by extensions.
For Example, ActivityPod allows SSO style interactions which can allow Federated posts for comments in webpages.
This is relevant because technological decisions are typically made with respect to technological constraints and idealized users instead of idealized technology and user constraints.
The moment you put a person in front of a technological system, they interact with that system and change it, the system then changes the behavior and thought patterns of the user, which then changes the way they use the system.
Thus, these are cybernetic systems.
That's why dark patterns are leveraged. Without the cybernetic feedback loop the dark patterns don't work.
The problem with OSS, intentional communities, and open standards is that very often the cybernetic relationship is entirely ignored.
Attempting to reenforce norms through individual blame and social pressure, which is how these communities tend to deal with this, creates fragmentation in communities, and pushes people from those communities.
(I could write a whole other essay about how social cache is an often ignored source of power and is very frequently used for oppressive purposes, entirely enabled by group / mob dynamics.)
The solution is to create systems that structurally align with the values. In the case of Federation this could be only allowing federation with communities that implement certain protocols, and amongst those protocols could be Kripke Relational Semantics defining who is and isn't allowed to repost a toot.
Form here I have two other points. One is on ethics, and the last ties back to the post that started this thread addressing sociotechnical systems and individual accountability versus systemic behavior.
Unless you adhere to Libertarian ethics, which is strict contractualism and NAP, then you must recognize that not all shitty behavior is a consent violation.
It's not a consent violation write a parody of your music without permission. It is shitty, which is why Weird Al always gets permission first. (It also saves legal headaches, but it's optional.)
A relay that, for example, just reboots every single post on a server to all other servers as an opt-out service is a shitty thing to do.
However, it's absolutely allowed as part of the Activity Pub API, nor is it a violation of the well established Fediverse norms. There is no reasonable expectation that content you post isn't going to be seen or shared by randoms.
ActivityPub is structurally designed as a way to publicly publish through FOAF semantics to an arbitrarily large audience.
If this was G+ and you took a screenshot from within one community and pasted it elsewhere, which happened all the time, that actually _is_ a consent violation because the entire design of G+ was to be able to keep communication intra-community instead of inter-community.