Notices by cwicseolfor (cwicseolfor@urbanists.social)

@jmcrookston Given the amount of messianic, delusion-enabling, psychotic break accelerant shit, and the LLMentalist concept, I suspect what we’re seeing is a reflection of a ready audience who had heretofore been quiet consumers of horoscopes and tarot services.

In other words, chatbots are coming for psychics’ jobs. Which is about as bad as anywhere else, because at least if a human mindreader thinks someone’s at risk they can invent a need for the person to go to a hospital.

@Infoseepage @JoePajak Honestly though if we can get manufacturers into a marketing turf war they’re the ones most immediately-this-quarter financially invested in normalizing mask wear, so maybe we go on knowing the actual science and let ‘em anyway.

@Fragglemuppet @nora I really appreciated this discussion in all its dimensions. I've been rereading LotR - something I love on different and new levels as an adult, I was a teen reading ahead of the movies last time - and it's been a tumult of unexpectedly keen nostalgia for freedoms and family I've lost since then, and ways I hadn't been cut down by life myself. Who I was.

There's definitely some exercise (as in work) of self-compassion that comes into play.

@oxtyped @JessTheUnstill Money happened. It's not terribly different from, say, surgical studies - the people there for passion to help others are *exhausted* from being surrounded by people who basically showed up because it was a way to chase a multiple-six-figures income.

Tech is worse because it's far easier to BS and politic your way up, but that same model is coming for medicine, or arguably already has in the form of hospital management.

@Fragglemuppet Friendica does have Groups but I think they may not be in wide use yet - and if they aren't posting publicly I don't think they would end up in your feed. You can sort your feed for Groups posts in the Account Types menu in the left sidebar (desktop) or menu bar (mobile); I'd probably also sort for Local or Global Community first then select Groups to see what's going. Since the infrastructure is new I don't think there's a lot of niche content just yet, I mostly see news groups.

@Fragglemuppet Twitter's character limit and slower uptake among friends meant I followed people in a more interest-based way - lots of writers and artists. Facebook being under real names, I avoided public content and mostly went to share with my own crowd.

I've nudged some artsy friends to try fedi and they all report much more engagement in the fediverse - no surprise, since all the views/impressions aren't from bots! I'll keep dripping the idea on the rest.

@Fragglemuppet I'm liking it! Being Fedi, if you find you prefer either platform and want to follow people from the other you can, comments flow smoothly. I find it most like Facebook, and this more like Twitter, so use them similarly - Friendica for IRL friends, Mastodon for internet co-humaning. The comment nesting and Embedded! Retoots! are nice from an interface perspective though I'm not sure how it plays with screenreaders. Some nice solarpunk, gardening, etc. hashtagged content there too.

Facebook feels like the unventilated smoking section of a run-down bar on the bad end of town, on the night the bouncer finally quit.

Hope is a verb, not a vibe.

I really appreciate the covid-conscious community here, as I'd meant to pick up more respirator filters and somehow it fell off my list.

Shopping around I was able to find them $2.75 per pair cheaper than that ubiquitous burning-rainforest vendor, with free shipping.

Phenomenal 2024-updated covid zine - briefly debunking the market-sanctioned narrative about where we are, then providing actionable info (useful despite institutional abandonment) replete with ready citations.

https://newlevant.com/covidzine

@airshipper @frawst Doesn't have to make money, just has to goose the stock prices. C-suites and other uppers are often largely compensated in company stock because it's easier to dodge taxes and looks better on the balance sheet.

@dalias @hannu_ikonen I have seen SO MANY people describing this exactly. It's horrifying and I'm so sorry.

@hannu_ikonen I wish I could buy ahead the things I'm most worried about but they don't want you doing that with prescriptions, even scripts absolutely nobody else could use. I need to get more HEPA filters, thanks for the reminder. Just loaded up on respirator filters. Seeds are another good thought.

@alcinnz @dwenius I wish we could "name and claim" these companies, or that they'd do it themselves. I'd rather work with organizations passing the bar on the ground for not burning the planet.

@dnkboston @blogdiva @GaslitNation I suspect George Miller knew just what he was doing with the War Boys in Fury Road. Today’s is a generation of children who have been raised with the sense they have no future, and live in a dying world, but unlike any of those trying thanklessly (or oppressed for their efforts) to slow the bleeding in societies pretending it’s accidental, children of death cults get to be affirmed, proud, full of purpose.

@HauntedOwlbear THIS. You can prevent your favorite (metaphorical) bar becoming a nazi bar by KICKING OUT THE DAMN NAZIS WHEN YOU SPOT THEM. It's not that hard to make a place inhospitable to harmful ideas, you simply call them out. Being nice and polite to nazis comes at the cost of being kind or inclusive to anyone else.

@Zumbador @inthehands Very much this. I don't think the hopelessness was intentional in relation to the pandemic specifically, but it's a feature, not a bug, in late-stage capitalism, which is the context in which the pandemic went from natural disaster to rampant social murder.

Cf. abortion bans, the looming specter of bathroom bills & book bans: rights revocations mean you can't guess, so you can't plan. It's terrorism. For many it rehashes existing trauma too.

@inthehands on repeat:

@goatsarah ... if you are in possession of a Tumblr, this would do numbers, and someone (not me without request to be clear) is gonna end up posting it there anyway eventually, would rather reblog the original source.

Glorious, btw.