Notices by MylesRyden (mylesryden@social.vivaldi.net), page 2

@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.