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   Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 14:24:00 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces

   *Being and acting "futuristic" is not just classy, but actually fun -- unless your increasingly dystopian society is on a visible downward spiral and everybody knows it

   https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/keeping_up_appearances

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     Daniel Detlaf (humanservitor@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 20:59:53 JST Daniel Detlaf

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     @bruces

     You're not wrong, but are still engaging in the same sort of reductive social sorting.

     I could as easily write "For example, in some spaces being *seen* to portray AI users as shallow and opportunistic is important for status"

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 29-May-2025 00:01:07 JST Rich Felker

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     @bruces LMAO social status among corporate lackey clowns...