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   Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Monday, 14-Jul-2025 01:29:36 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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   @TheBreadmonkey I go through this every time I go back home to see my folks, a thing I do sparingly. As someone who did the whole Bay Area tech scene and is still somewhat connected to it, my visits home are still wandering into this hazy bubble where I'm expected to bring the techno-optimistic dispatches from the world. Instead, I bring my disappointment, frustration, and fear, and the cognitive dissonance from my folks and their friends is palpable.

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     GoldenBen (thebreadmonkey@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 14-Jul-2025 01:29:37 JST GoldenBen

     It's quite funny to me that since moving social media it's evident my lived experience is off with some people I've known my whole life. Saw a friend I haven't seen in ages recently who was excitedly telling me he's bought an electric car. Realising what was about to happen, I asked what, thinking - don'tsayitdon'tsayitdon'tsayit - of course it is a Tesla. And I saw another friend for the first time in years recently who kept going on about how terrific ChatGPT is and that she uses it for literally everything (she's the HR Director for one of the largest companies in the world). I wonder, sitting in those situations, if I come across to them as some utter loon. A modern day hippy. Like someone who might turn up at a restaurant with no shoes or socks on and refuse to sit on a chair made of wood because a tree was harmed in the making of it.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Colin H. (glaswolf@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2026 04:42:58 JST Colin H.

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     • GoldenBen

     @TheBreadmonkey We Mastodonians are certainly in a bubble, but it's a bubble of "giving a shit" and I'm ok with that.