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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 20:15:21 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "Fictional utopias are usually just that!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

   We are living in the era of grand, sweeping tech utopian visions promoted by the technology titans of our time.

   Yesterday, this post by Marc Andreessen - that AI would eventually lead to some sort of future nirvana where work becomes easy and where everything costs almost nothing - drew both ridicule and scorn online.

   It reminds me of a post from Popular Mechanix magazine in the 1930s - we would all be working one or two hours a week because machines would be doing all the work. Right.

   The thing is, these folks are on a bit of a utopian roll - there are dozens if not hundreds of grand predictions. A few months prior, Larry Ellison of Oracle suggested that AI monitoring would lead us to some type of perfect society, because, well, in the face of constant camera monitoring technology, we would all behave.

   I think there was a book about that. Oh, ya,

   1984 by George Orwell.

   The latest, of course, involves the madman-du-jour Elon Musk, who suggests that tossing a massively complex technology known as blockchain at a massively complex challenge will prove to be a simple solution.

   Right. Got that.

   It's going to be a very tiresome number of years.

   **#Utopia** **#Reality** **#Technology** **#Future** **#Innovation** **#Progress** **#Complexity**

   https://jimcarroll.com/2025/01/daily-inspiration-trends-predictions-fictional-utopias-are-usually-just-that/

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   AJ Sadauskas (ajsadauskas@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 20:31:31 JST AJ Sadauskas

   in reply to

   @kallekn @osma @pixelfed Over the past day or so, there's been a massive number of people migrating from Instagram to Pixelfed.social for Zuck-related reasons.

   Earlier today, it was particularly bad, because many were trying to pull across their Instagram posts and videos at the same time.

   You can probably imagine how thousands of people suddenly trying to upload hundreds of megabytes of photos and videos at the same time isn't great for server capacity.

   @dansup temporarily switched off file migration and, at one point, federation to keep the site online.

   It seems to have stabilised a little, but it's still intermittently patchy.

   Most of the first-time users are signing up at the main instance, so Pixelfed.Social is likely to be a bit wobbly where other instances aren't.

   Hopefully in the coming days, as more server capacity comes online, those issues settle down...

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   Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 14:36:41 JST Tek say resist

   #FrozenBBS supports DMs now. Message your friends and they’ll get it the next time they come online.

   It's not quite the same as the #Meshtastic Store & Forward, but it requires zero client configuration and has effectively infinite storage.

   Note: they're *not* encrypted. Gotta trust your sysop!

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   Inex Code (inex@pony.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 05:46:15 JST Inex Code

   I've just realized this painting has never been published online.

   It is at least... six years old? I don't remember for sure. It is by Mystery Dog, the original creator of Inex' appearance.