Notices by MylesRyden (mylesryden@social.vivaldi.net)

@glynmoody

Agreed. Getting rid of or reducing inheritance taxes is the worst thing a society can possibly do.

@darnell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3tyiOpX-Gc

@shibacomputer

I know I am an old guy, but I second and echo the sentiment of this post and will go one step further...

Is is really necessary to have music/video playing constantly? You can't make it through the evening without having four movies playing? Do you actually enjoy this "content" (it's a tell that it is no longer, "entertainment" it is just "content.")?

To me now, 99.999% of YouTube (TikToc, Reels, etc.) content is beyond boring and poorly made, most pop music is Muzak and adverts are beyond irritating.

Buy an old computer, set up a little streaming set up. Or buy a CD/DVD player. But some CDs/DVDs and play them when you really want to pay attention to them.

The funny thing is that the "attention economy" is going to collapse when the advertisers realize that all of this is just background noise that we fill the air with to kill time while we wait to die.

@Catvalente

Funny how the motto of the TechBros is "Move fast and break things," and then people are all confused as to how we are surrounded by broken things so quickly.

@tinydoctor

Wish we had a dollar bin like that one!

@KevinMarks

I know my voice is not much here, but I will continue to argue in favor of "creeps" or "creepy."

Weird is just out of the mainstream. But these a-holes want to spy on you to make sure of what exactly you have in your pants or to see exactly what you are doing in your bedroom, so they can punish you for it.

That's creepy. I think that would resonate with women voters than "weird." And trust me, many, many people think that an old man who talks and behaves like #TFG is creepy. He is totally the guy you avoid at the company picnic if you are female. Vance too.

#GOPCreeps #CreepyTrump #CreepyVance

@br00t4c

Wait, one of the #GOP #SCOTUS "justices" is self aware?

They have been doing "textual backflips" since Scalia.

@BeAware @tom

I have never seen that, but then again, I am not looking for it either.

@BeAware @tom

Actually, I was going to suggest social.vivaldi.net 😃

I am thinking they are pretty committed and it will be stable for quite some time.

@br00t4c

Yawn.

@wdlindsy

The real problem with all of this, that I think even the supporters of Alito don't really understand is that even HE can't define what "godliness" is. Ironically, it is like pornography, he just knows it when he sees it.

Today it is abortion, tomorrow contraception and then criminalizing any premarital sex. Whatever "god" whispers into his perverted ear. No matter which side of the line you think you are on now, you can just as easily be on the "wrong" side tomorrow. Even Alito doesn't know where the line will be next week.

This is exactly why the Founders wisely kept religion and law separate.

@br00t4c

Every single word TFG utters is projection pure and simple.

@trevorflowers

One comment I didn't see in the thread, which has some great comments by the way, is the assumption on the past of many, perhaps most people that UBI means that no one would work.

Which is ridiculous. People love to do and make things when they aren't getting paid. The problem is getting people to do shitty jobs. So, put down another benefit of UBI that there would less shitty jobs.

@Tipa @me

In that case, I feel bad for you and am glad you found another instance.

Left or right, at some point telling other people what they can and can't do is a bad thing. I would absolutely agree that the data scraping that AI companies do is a bad thing, but I don't see how my joke pictures of #JohnMastodon actually hurts artists enough to ban the practice. Now, an art gallery or magazine, that is another thing. But I digress.

I do think as we get many more larger more "open" instances, like Vivaldi, that kind of experience will become less likely.

On the positive side, I have seen very good evidence of very cool instances -- for example there is an instance for people who like type fonts, more organizations now have their own instances and so on.

@Tipa @me

I have to be honest and say, I don't even know what a "judgy host" and how it can matter.

As you can tell, I am actually using a "corporate" host, run by the Vivaldi browser people as I was already using the browser.

I have run into a few judgy people and sometimes they are correct, I should have alt-text on my pictures, but no I am not an expert at it and sadly it is not a super high priority for me to get much better at it. I have totally been dumped on from time to time for expressing unpopular opinions, but that is par for the course.

Oddly, one of the things I have been attacked the most for is when someone complains about Mastodon, and I make the mistake of saying, "You can really make your Mastodon experience anything you want it to be, have you tried (X,Y,Z). I have had people go absolutely ballistic on that.

And here I am saying the same thing again. I'm a slow learner, I guess.

@Tipa @me

Always sorry to hear that people have bad experiences, but in this case it is the fault of the people, not the platform. The mute/block button (which I wish was more prominent in the interface) takes care of those people (for the most part)

I have seen a very positive uptick in Mastodon over the last month or two. Seems like lots of new actual people and many more organizations coming on board, my timeline gets more interesting every day.

@LeftistLawyer

If it looks like the planet might by some miracle survive, add in "Move fast and break things."

@thomasfuchs

Agreed.

But to be somewhat fair (which not all techbros deserve) I do think that the original impulse is not all bad. For example, much of this research started out to see if human thought could actually be modeled because such a model would be useful for brain science.

Of course, we are nowhere near modelling human thought processes -- and low and behold this thing we have instead can be used to make money! And the whole project goes off the rails.

@thomasfuchs

Never was a technology so misnamed as "AI." It is a giant, somewhat more sophisticated autocorrect, guessing the next word to be used.

If you want to know the current state of "AI," totally trust your autocorrect to text your significant other and/or your boss. Or maybe your mom.