It is Monday morning which means it’s time to remember: dentistry should be on Medicare and bulk billed
Notices by Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 07:11:33 JST Liam :fnord:
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 11:17:24 JST Liam :fnord:
In a quiet moment, in which I have the opportunity to relax and contemplate anything I please,
My brain: DRUPAL DRUPAL DRUPAL DRUPAL DRUPAL DRUPAL DRUPAL
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 09:24:52 JST Liam :fnord:
The thing about disasters is that we are all primed with frameworks to interpret them, that we develop in our everyday lives, before they happen. Me, I’m off this morning to a planning meeting and I’m certain that’s how I’ll meet the end of the world; a bit too early in the morning, in a meeting room, with an agenda
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 09:24:51 JST Liam :fnord:
As I was saying before, the American way of disaster as it is of war is to throw very large logistical resources at a problem, which is their strength, in this case to be admired, because no other society in world history has anything like it.
It’s also a source of their conspiracy—from weird ones like Chinese warfare, to the ‘Elon is helping!’—the idea that problems can *only* be met through application of high technology is very set in culture.
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 10:31:49 JST Liam :fnord:
Okay the answer of course is that developers recognise they’re building for households of non-romantically-cohabiting adults sharing for economy. That much makes sense and it’s even good that the market is responding to conditions. But that doesn’t explain why you need a Versailles Hall of Toilet Bowls
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 10:31:49 JST Liam :fnord:
My partner found an ad for a flat that was three bedrooms, four toilets. Who shits that much? Who is the market for this?
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 09:04:20 JST Liam :fnord:
Current status
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 15:38:39 JST Liam :fnord:
The thing about commercial AI is that they’re the evil mirror version of the personal computing vision of the 1980s: that ordinary people would be able to personally, reliably, securely, automate their own data, and have control over their own productive processes, and LLMs fail on every count. The promise is now that my own work is in competition with these things
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 15:38:38 JST Liam :fnord:
AI, make me a William Morris wallpaper
[the ghost of the crafts movement reaches out from the past to punch me straight in the testicles]
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 15:38:38 JST Liam :fnord:
The promise of LLMs that hope to replace working processes is instead to destroy any link between creative endeavour and worth. Since they’re fundamentally about stealing, who can know what was made with great effort and what was just a prompt and a process? It makes everything low-effort, high-throughput, low-margin work.
The labour theory of value has been threadbare as a theory for a long time but it’s destroyed now.
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 15:38:37 JST Liam :fnord:
It’s perverse. We have computers powerful enough to do literally unimaginable tasks with data, tools that can and do create extraordinary things. Tools that the arts and crafts people of the late 19thC would have boggled at, the potential to push creative activity right down to anyone’s personal computer
And yet the prevailing culture of using them is so bad that even *programmers*, who by rights ought to relish the privilege of making whatever they want, resent computing. This is a culture not a tech issue.
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 17:41:45 JST Liam :fnord:
Anyway IMO the area of greatest and least justified paternalism which has reduced the scope of young people in society, inhibited their freedom, impoverished them in experience *and* materially, and forced them out of public life, is my own profession, urban planning
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 20:46:26 JST Liam :fnord:
Why don’t you just use libre office. Why don’t you just choose your own working conditions. Why don’t you simply walk out of your office and never go back to your job
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 19:37:29 JST Liam :fnord:
Put your hand in the hbox, Paul. The box contains badness 10,000. I hold at your neck the Gom Jabbar
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 19:12:39 JST Liam :fnord:
Citizens, it is time to march toward the sound of the #tgif :tgif:
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 11:57:49 JST Liam :fnord:
Bluesky is the Microsoft Word of social media, which I mean in the derogatory sense, as the fediverse is the LaTeX of social media, which I also mean in the derogatory sense
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 16:08:20 JST Liam :fnord:
What you think archaeologists do: maintain a long-term view of human habitation and the challenges of our species, discovering revelations about past traumas and achievements, and unimaginably unfamiliar cultures
What an archaeologist actually does: look at near maps to tell you probably where the 1920s night soil toilet block went, and a bit too excitedly about it to be honest
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 11:01:10 JST Liam :fnord:
The thing about Sydney and real estate is that you look at a price guide, you say, fucking hell that’s a lot of fucking money, and you haven’t even accounted for the standard Real Estate Lie that the real price is actually 15-20% higher.
If it goes beyond that it’s not underquoting, it’s ‘an extraordinary result for the market’
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 16:02:34 JST Liam :fnord:
@zens what the hell how can they not have cream? Isn’t sour cream a huge thing
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Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 12:28:32 JST Liam :fnord:
Send me more ludicrous American ‘I voted’ stickers I cannot get enough of them