Notices by Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)

@andybaio sadly the podcast has no transcript, so I guess I’ll have to wait for *someone* to spoil it for me

@infobeautiful excuse me, sir

but I'm curious what people use in new england or the pacific northwest

@ramiro are you looking for an over-the-shoulder bag or more of a backpack?

@tclark as someone who has done and wants to get back to code-based algorithmic artwork, one thing I'm going to have to figure out how to clarify is the distinction between "I wrote an algorithm that makes something, tried it with various seeds / parameters, and curated its output" vs "I used a prompt against a database of stolen goods"

anyway Phantasy Star II was the first RPG game (j- or not) that I completed, and come to think of it, the only JRPG game outside the Phantasy Star series I ever enjoyed was Final Fantasy VI

I tried a bit of Expedition 33 but that "memorize every enemy's (elemental or otherwise) weaknesses/strenghts and try to min/max for every situation" game play just... doesn't appeal to me anymore

@tclark time to break out the procedural white noise generators

@tclark yeah I took my stuff down from soundcloud this morning, then deleted my account

I haven't gotten to the point of having an artist's statement up yet but perhaps I should

we're once again going with the TIC80 for our engine/"fantasy computer", and its 4 channels are gonna be a real challenge, but I'm up for it

a bit of morning listening for inspiration on the music for the game @technomancy and I are doing for the spring lisp game jam

and you know, the implied message behind these people's "well it's here and it's the future so get used to it" is basically "adapt or die" in more flowery words, which, extending the metaphor, is "hey if you get too loud about the kid in the Omelas hole we might throw you in there as well"

anyway, I've lost respect for a tremendous number of people in the technology field over the past few years, and I can't pin that on *me* changing or even *them* changing, just, circumstances giving us better opportunities to reveal ourselves. And it's very disheartening.

If you're feeling something similar about the people around you, you should know you're not alone. I suspect there are a lot of us feeling this right now

yes this is a post about AI, Climate Change, *looks around* and well, you know

to take a general approach to the ...feeeling... of late, in the metaphor/parable of the kid in the Omelas hole,

it's not much to discover a lot of people you thought would have walked away from Omelas, haven't, because well, you haven't either (there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, no one's an island, the cost of true independence in our society is very high, etc)

what *is* shocking and demoralizing is rather discovering how many people you thought were decent are actually celebrating the kid in the hole's suffering, and how many more are advocating for throwing more kids in the hole to suffer because just imagine how much cooler society could be

@janl more and more the idea of a career change feels releiving to me

@sohan sadly, ceobot.com and aiceo.com are taken; I'm sure there are other domains that could work for the idea but this sounds like a great page to get up

@janl and yet they're all proclaiming "this is a must for anyone serious" ?

@mhoye permissions, schmerissions; the point of copilot is to be able to replace all your employees with a monthly subscription to copilot, and if you break a few eggs along the way, well

@sohan I bet an AI bot could do the CEO's job better

so it turns out writing your own music tracker whose interface is a plain text file isn't *that* hard

@janl can you elaborate on what they mean by the quoted words? like, if you aren't doing this thing we think you're not legit? like, you must do this in order to listen to the podcast?

@puppygirlhornypost2 I need an emoji for Helix