A common theme in industrial accidents seems to be people who want to appear as if they're doing something, no matter what, get flustered, lose track of what's going on... and don't -stop- themselves, instead choosing to make random actions.
An equally common theme is management who lets this stuff skate, either from being unable to identify it (lack of technical/social ability to assess someone else), or quota pressure of some kind.
What if the reason nothing is being done about climate change is because the people who CAN do something about it prefer to "let it do its thing" as a natural culling of the human population?
#thought#art#musing
I've been thinking for a while on why #AI "art" bothers me so much. I think besides the rampant theft, grift, financial harm to artists and inherent insult to their craft is that art is an attempt to connect with other people.
A moment, a place, a feeling, etc. that the artist experiences and wishes to convey to others, to share; even across time and space it acts as an almost shared dream for all involved.
AI can't do that. It's soulless and bereft of any intent.
I think the empty and just banal disdain it seems to just exude is what I find the most disgusting.
We all know Arthur C. Clarke's adage, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
What "advanced" is getting at, when stripped of colonialist associations, is:
1️⃣ How reliably does the tech work?
2️⃣ How well does the average person understand the tech they use?
More reliable technology seems more magical, as does tech of which we are more ignorant.
Today, much tech works much of the time, but few understand it. This is dangerous: it puts the average person in the position of an unmagical person in a magical world, vulnerable to harmful contracts with powerful beings.
i will hopefully get back to nerd-ing over the following week (holidays)
i got spectrwm running on my alpine install, but, in a moment of weakness, i used setup-desktop to get X running and now my package list has gone 📈
not really sure how to go about stripping it either. might mess around with it. if nothing else, it's not like the install was difficult so i could always revert.. but that's just effort ._.