ThomasW

The lesson of genAI has very little to do with genAI.

The real lesson here is that as soon as your bosses found something that could approximate the worst possible worker in your team, they obliterated entry-level jobs.

It's not coming alive. That's nonsensical. But your bosses are already alive.

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

Spock holds a tricorder. “This whole planet is bullshit,” he says. Spock (c) Paramount. Probably, in an IP sense, but maybe not culturally speaking.

Ever have those days…?

That flight tickets are often cheaper than the same trip with train. We need carbon taxes.

SMOFCon is really good for those who want to know *how* to run a convention.

Election meme: 50.1 Everyone gets a puppy, 49.9 diarrhea forever

Everything feels like this now

How Finland has replaced coal power with wind in less than 10 years Wind power in Finland has more than doubled since 2020 to supply a quarter of the country’s energy.

Finland almost coal-free four years ahead of schedule. Coal power has dropped to less than 1% of its energy mix. Wind energy has more than doubled since 2020, now supplying 25% of the country's electricity while reducing consumer priceshttps://buff.ly/MOTqcuf
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selling memberships to 2026 yet?

the magical thinking about testosterone + estrogen is off the charts these days. the gender anxiety seething beneath the new right is unreal. they are frightened of the modern world--and of themselves. they might not like what they felt if they looked inside

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend...

The next-next-next generation of #StarTrek will need to adjust to the fact that the Federation's model for "pluralistic democracy with moral authority" should now be the EU, not the US.

The plan is working. Boycotting Tesla is making right wing dipshits so angry that they are buying electric cars to own the libs. 😊

Uggi the dog and a copy of my book The Night Guest

I see Hugo nominations are open and people are doing eligibility posts and … I think The Night Guest is eligible for the novella category?

Anyway no pressure, just look at this pretty dog.

Now that corporations & entities are people, since you can run for US president if you were born in the US or were here when the Declaration of Independence was made, Canada is eligible to run for US president. So is Lake Michigan.

Somehow, Palpatine returned.*

[*No irony]

Inside me are two wolves: one thinks it is an ethics committee and the other wants a big nap.

Recent studies show that sea turtle populations are booming worldwide. Loggerhead nests off the northwest African coast: 35,000 from 500. Kemp’s ridley nests: 17,000 from 702, and a 2023 survey discovered 150,000 green turtle nests in New Caledonia. https://buff.ly/40AUae1
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Never Forgive Them In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

I see Yoon Suk Yeol has decided to move from the 'fucking around' stage of his failing presidency to the 'finding out'.

I think U.S. is about to have a cultural revolution, though not a woke or progressive one, but one like China had during Mao era.

Reminder: during times of turmoil it does not matter if you aren't interested in politics, politics is interested in *you*.

Pikkujoulukausi alkaa. Pre-christmas season starting …

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If you're gen x or millennial, odds are you have known some people online for *decades*. Across multiple now-dead forums, across vast gulfs of time in internet years. You've probably got a friend group that outlived multiple sites.

Not really. It's just another walled garden. Eventually the owners will allow ads in to bring revenue, then the usefulness will be crushed under the increasing weight of ads until we have to find a new IRC clone.

And fond memories of Trillian! We need a service that connects across sites!

Which is interesting. Gen X and millennials grew up having to learn how to use computers, how to go online, etc.

One of these skills later generations didn't learn, was how to reconnect outside walled gardens.

If you're over the age of 30, your first internet friends were outside walled gardens, they didn't really exist yet.

You found them, and then found them in half a dozen different places none of which were the really *important* thing. The important thing was they were there.

This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on.

They've outlived dozens of ships.

And, weirdly, this same group of people are also the ones who also learned how to preserve their media the same way.

Not *only* do they still talk to a person they met on ICQ 25 years ago, but they still have the same rip of a movie they pirated then too, or such.

People who are much older, are busy oogling shrimp jesuses and big boobied centaur women on facebook.

People who are much younger, only know 3 or 4 walled gardens and only maybe 1 has died on them so far.