Notices by Alonealastalovedalongthe (alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe)

@dannyman just watch the majority report, kyle kulinski, hasan piker or some other lefty youtuber shit on him, cheeto doesn't get number then

@kai

They have clearly genuinely given up with Windows 11, and it tickles me that they think we are all to dumb to see that.

@kai

No, my heart experiences love and warm fuzzy feelings watching Microsoft absolutely fall apart though.

I know they don't seem interested in running and maintaining an operating system anymore, but the idea they are going to force the entire computing experience into cloud apps is a hilariously bad strategy that Microsoft is especially ill-suited for executing.

I don't mean this as a negative thought, more hopeful I guess, or really more humble since I am trying to call myself out for still falling into the same limited habits of looking to the wrong people for guidance even as the milk has long spilt all over the floor.

In this moment where I am seeing everyting torn down around me, and I see all the people in powerful positions around me saying "all we can do is be polite and civil while they steal our future from us!"....

...I am reminded that the people who know how to fight this are the exact people who are never allowed to be in positions of power.

I mean we all hopefully know that right, but like.... I didn't expect the experience of it to be this direct and stark.

@BeAware

no, the vacuous assholes that work in tech?

Where did you see the word "all" in my response?

There are plenty of cool computer people and it honestly feels a little silly that you need that point explained to you.

@BeAware

Yeah we know technology is useful, the point is to label them for being the vacuous assholes they are...

@killyourfm

Maybe they should use all of their powerful AI to figure out why consumers hate them.

people need to stop telling people everything is going to be ok, it should be evident now that it isn't.

does anyone have recommendations for good beginner and intermediate blender guides?

Either video or written is fine!

@AnarchoNinaWrites

Lets not forget the absurd amount of money poured into enabling these people by rich assholes with no better hobby to do either.

@ryanhoulihan

wow damn I gotta buy some of those gift cards, that shit sounds like armor

@sabogato

I actually think the Mindless Scroll is a wonderful coping tactic for getting some modicum of enjoyment out of life when you are far too exhausted to otherwise get any enjoyment out of life.

This isn't to say that corporate social media isn't designed like cigarettes to get people unhealthily addicted, but I think it is a conceptual mistake to think of the Mindless Scroll as inherently unhealthy like smoking cigarettes is.

The Mindless Scroll is a symptom not the disease.

@sabogato

Those people self reporting short attention spans should worry less about their attention span being permanently eroded by technology and more about why they are so beaten down and exhausted that the only thing they have energy and focus for is mindlessly scrolling.

The reason people say "I can't read a book anymore" has nothing to do with their brains (for the vast majority of cases) and everything to do with the amount of stress, anxiety and exhaustion daily life throws at them.

Like the fuck.. some of the most successful youtube creators in terms of cultural impact regularly make 3 hour videos on shit and young people gobble it up like candy.

It is just downright absurd to say social media is destroying our attention spans at this point.

I know I have made this kind of post before but it is just becoming more and more obvious as content creators settle into niches of making multi-hour deep dives into complex topics and the trend shows no signs of stopping.

Gotta love how it is STILL a trope that social media, smartphones and technology are destroying our attention spans while simultaneously young people have mostly replaced getting their knowledge from vanishingly brief snippets of talking heads on massive news channels or radio stations with a constellation of media all the way from short tiktok videos to multi-hour youtube essays on gender or politics.

@beep

Wait so the counter to worker concerns about AI replacing them is... an annual meeting where management lectures at workers about why they are being replaced and devalued by technology?

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