AI content under capitalism is the natural progression of this attention world we're in. I'm glad we're in a place that allows us to sus out things like this but I'm going to avoid it like the anti-labor and worker plague it is. I have to be tremendously better about also where I source my entertainment from. Like I've gone down the renegade route for big labels but I don't do that for indie artists, I pay for the whole album even if there's only one track that I like. So to also contort and repackage someone one's work in a world where intellectual property laws permit companies to rob the commons and flip it for profit is really irresponsible and something I can't get with. (https://jacky.wtf/2022/12/FJrz)
There's some takes about the open social Web that I'm realizing are results of the trenches of centralization in how people think people should interact. Globalism (or at least forcing _everyone_ to be subject to a set of approved communication standards) wasn't the way. It erased dozens of cultures and forces us to reintroduce them through a colonial lens. If anything, we should focus on building region-specific networks, overlayed with topic-centric ones and simplify the ability of us to form (and disband) groups. From there, it's golden, IMO. (https://jacky.wtf/2022/11/BJS8)
So I'm still working my way through https://www.roamagency.com/isbn9781642591699/, an amazing and simple explainer of how capitalism works through the eyes of Marxism (which is objectively real-life and less of the fluff that's sold to us).
The book is talking about credit and it was then I realized how consumer credit might have been the final drug to lock people into capitalism with no way out. That with rising costs, you have to either choose to sell FUTURE debt or somehow "opt out"
So I refuse to celebrate this "holiday" coming up. My partner are going to read, watch a relevant documentary or movie and make some dinner to ourselves instead.
What do y'all play to do for Indigineous Peoples of the Americas (Turtle Island) Day?
What are some outlets y'all listen to independent artists on? I'm looking at things like Deezer, Jamendo and more recently, Resonate (https://jacky.wtf/2022/8/UxVC)