{"generator":"GNU social 2.0.2-dev","title":"Conversation","totalItems":2,"items":[{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/timbray","displayName":"Tim Bray","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/111562-original-tmp20260427205435.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":139,"height":139},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/111562-96-20260428000015.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/111562-48-20260427221701.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/111562-24-20260428000015.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"111562"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/111562-96-20260428000015.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He\/him.These posts are coming from a member-owned cooperative: https:\/\/cosocial.infoMy posts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, see https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@timbray","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"timbray","displayName":"Tim Bray","note":"Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He\/him.These posts are coming from a member-owned cooperative: https:\/\/cosocial.infoMy posts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, see https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/"}},"content":"<p>I\u2019m pretty sure that some flavors of <a href=\"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/tags\/GenAI\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#GenAI<\/a> will find wholesome uses in the post-bubble future, but for the moment I feel a wave of revulsion every time I encounter AI cheerleading because it never NEVER acknowledges the force-field of greed and fear under the overhang of the multi-trillion-dollar bet being made by people I loathe who are oblivious to the oncoming financial and social wreckage they are facilitating.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-08:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/timbray\/statuses\/116800584438081828","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/timbray\/statuses\/116800584438081828","objectType":"note","content":"<p>I\u2019m pretty sure that some flavors of <a href=\"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/tags\/GenAI\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#GenAI<\/a> will find wholesome uses in the post-bubble future, but for the moment I feel a wave of revulsion every time I encounter AI cheerleading because it never NEVER acknowledges the force-field of greed and fear under the overhang of the multi-trillion-dollar bet being made by people I loathe who are oblivious to the oncoming financial and social wreckage they are facilitating.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@timbray\/116800584438081828","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"genai"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-24:objectType=thread:nonce=14197cf88870d91b","notice_info":{"local_id":"12796287","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-06-24T18:40:28+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@timbray\/116800584438081828"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/inthehands","displayName":"Paul Cantrell","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/53259-original-tmp20231130153900.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/53259-96-20231130154634.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/53259-48-20231130154634.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/53259-24-20231130154634.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"53259"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/53259-96-20231130154634.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Composer, pianist, programmer, professor, rabble rouser, redheadComputer Science at https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/(Student projects: https:\/\/devgarden.macalester.edu)Artistic Director of https:\/\/newruckus.orgFreelance dev, often with https:\/\/bustout.comMusical troublemaker https:\/\/innig.net\/music\/The heart is the toughest part of the body.Tenderness is in the hands.\u00a0\u2014 Carolyn Forch\u00e9searchable","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@inthehands","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"inthehands","displayName":"Paul Cantrell","note":"Composer, pianist, programmer, professor, rabble rouser, redheadComputer Science at https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/(Student projects: https:\/\/devgarden.macalester.edu)Artistic Director of https:\/\/newruckus.orgFreelance dev, often with https:\/\/bustout.comMusical troublemaker https:\/\/innig.net\/music\/The heart is the toughest part of the body.Tenderness is in the hands.\u00a0\u2014 Carolyn Forch\u00e9searchable"}},"content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@timbray\" class=\"u-url mention\">@timbray<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/social.treehouse.systems\/@wwahammy\" class=\"u-url mention\">@wwahammy<\/a> <\/p><p>A comparison I found helpful and have been using more lately: it\u2019s like the difference between trucks and Cybertrucks. I have concerns about both, but they\u2019re very different sorts of concerns. If I say \u201cNever buy a Cybertruck!\u201d and someone replies \u201ctrucks have many good use cases, actually, like delivering produce to grocery stores and moving pianos,\u201d then we are not having the same conversation.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-08:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/inthehands\/statuses\/116806544473163447","object":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/inthehands\/statuses\/116806544473163447","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@timbray\" class=\"u-url mention\">@timbray<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/social.treehouse.systems\/@wwahammy\" class=\"u-url mention\">@wwahammy<\/a> <\/p><p>A comparison I found helpful and have been using more lately: it\u2019s like the difference between trucks and Cybertrucks. I have concerns about both, but they\u2019re very different sorts of concerns. If I say \u201cNever buy a Cybertruck!\u201d and someone replies \u201ctrucks have many good use cases, actually, like delivering produce to grocery stores and moving pianos,\u201d then we are not having the same conversation.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@inthehands\/116806544473163447","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/timbray\/statuses\/116800584438081828","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@timbray\/116800584438081828"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/timbray"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-24:objectType=thread:nonce=14197cf88870d91b","notice_info":{"local_id":"12796288","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-06-24T18:40:26+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@inthehands\/116806544473163447"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6501707","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}