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joannaholman

@joannaholman@aus.social

@joannamuses on twitter. Thoughts on books, Eurovision, Melbourne happenings, music and culture with bonus architecture and cute animal pictures.

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joannaholman, to random
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AI created entertainment content feels like the tech version of meal replacement shakes. Sure both are technically going to achieve something, providing you with some vitamins and protein from the shakes, distraction and entertainment from the AI content. Both might have some small legitimate uses in the context of a well rounded individual life and society. But made a major part of our lives they are both soulless, highly artificial impersonations of the creativity, care and culture making that’s part of what makes us human and which makes living in community with other humans worthwhile.

joannaholman, to melbourne
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There’s been a lot of mockery of women getting excited about Taylor Swift but all the people mocking miss the beauty of it all. I didn’t secure a ticket but went down to the MCG last night anyway. Although we couldn’t hear what was going on inside as well as hoped, the concourse and lawns were filled with thousands of very happy, very friendly people singing, dancing, complimenting each others outfits and trading friendship bracelets. It was delightful. The world needs more spaces for collective joy that are open to everyone.

A crowd outside a stadium at night loudly sings shake it off

liztai, to mastodon
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Only on do I see people judging others being on and #X, seemingly implying that they are better humans for not being on it.
This betrays their massive privilege & ignorance of how cultures outside their own operates on .
People fm less privileged countries rely on them to get their messages out. Self-hosted options are priced for Americans. It is not "the price of a cup of coffee" for everyone.
So, you are not impressing me with the virtue signalling.

joannaholman,
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@liztai And also Mastodon is not the haven for everyone people often act like it is. The culture here around discussion of things like religion can be weird and a bit hostile at times so I'm not surprised people who want to talk about those things have stayed on Twitter or gone to other commercial alternatives.

joannaholman, to melbourne
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Wandered around for a bit in the CBD last night and it was so striking how much nicer the vibe was with the Taylor Swift concert drawing a lot of young women into the city compared to events that draw mostly men.

che5hire, to random
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I think Facebook is such a normie thing that I actually legitimately cannot fathom why anyone uses it.

Like why the fuck do you care what Joe McJoe who went to college with you and only talked to you once is posting about online? Why the fuck do you want to see the weird Catholic minion memes your great uncle posts? You can’t even post anything slightly out of line because your full name is there and your boss is probably e-stalking you :notlikemiya:. It’s like LinkedIn but it just hurts your chance of getting a job instead of helps it.

joannaholman,
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@che5hire @timrichards the news feed is a useless dumpster fire especially now they insist on inserting content from random pages irrelevant to myself or any of my friends. However, I’m still there as it remains the only groups platform most people will use and there’s still a few Facebook groups I find very useful

RickiTarr, to random
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Without looking it up, tell me anything you know about Lithuania or Lithuanians.

joannaholman,
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@RickiTarr They've had some cool Eurovision entries

timrichards, to melbourne
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Do we have the real Taco Bell (rather than Taco Bill) in Australia now? Just spotted this on Chapel St, South Yarra; first time I've been along here in ages.

joannaholman,
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@timrichards we do. The food was quite good but I did have concerns about the cleanliness

joannaholman, to random
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Is there really a market for this?

joannaholman, to melbourne
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It’s kinda adorable that small packs of cookers are still having little marches through the city. They’ve been at it 3 years and still haven’t found more interesting hobbies. There’s barely enough of them to push their weirdly large portable PA system in front of trams

joannaholman,
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@timrichards same. A family member has friends involved in this kind of thing and I had to insist they stop talking about them because it brought too much back up. At least when they started they were in the same vague segment of the galaxy as having a (ignorant and anti-social) point, but now they’ve got every covid spreading thing they wanted it’s just self indulgent disruption

joannaholman, to random
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Members of the wiggles doing tiktok dances is a part of the modern internet no-one prepared me for

timrichards, to random
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Good to see them go, they're a pain to deal with. Luckily I haven't received too many in recent years; even US companies have caught up with electronic payments.

Australia phasing out cheques is a good idea, but we shouldn’t ditch cash https://www.smh.com.au/money/banking/good-riddance-to-cheques-but-don-t-ditch-cash-just-yet-20240206-p5f2oe.html

(maybe paywalled)

joannaholman,
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@timrichards given the older folk riot when banks make a passing mention of one day maybe phasing out passbooks cash is not at risk anytime soon

davidwengier, to random
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Aus post: Your package is coming today, is it okay to leave it if nobody is home?
Me: Yes!
Aus post: If nobody is home, we'll take it to the post office!

What's the bet they take it straight to the post office and don't even attempt to deliver it?

joannaholman,
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@luciedigitalni @davidwengier @andyjennings and if it’s couriers please they consider dumping it at a random house somewhere else in the neighbourhood good enough for their GPS

joannaholman, to random
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Sociologists really should be studying the subset of Aussie social media users who make buying a lot at Kmart most of their personality

joannaholman,
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@ppossej Absolutely. I like Kmart and shop there a bit but when it comes down to it, its a pleasant enough but very generic budget brand. It's a weird thing to obsess over

timrichards, to auspol
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Another good reason for being able to quote-boost is that you could add hashtags left off by the original poster - eg for an Australian politics post. As it stands, I can't boost a politics post that doesn't have that hashtag without breaking the rules of my instance.

joannaholman,
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@timrichards Maybe that would be good sometimes although there's also been times I've left out hashtags because I'm primarily wanting to say something to the people who follow me, not people stalking hashtags

timrichards, (edited ) to auspol
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Mildly disturbing trend of younger men becoming more conservative, though maybe it will even out over time.

Women are lurching to the left. Why aren’t men following them?

(Maybe paywalled) https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/women-are-lurching-to-the-left-why-aren-t-men-following-them-20240202-p5f1zb.html

joannaholman,
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@timrichards unfortunately I think it will get stuck in a feedback look where men becoming more reactionary and far right confirms the appeal of feminist and leftist ideas for women which makes men more reactionary which…..

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to tech
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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

@technology

joannaholman,
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@ArmoredThirteen @Coreidan Agreed. My worry is not even that youtube will do a big conspicuous wipe of things (though they might). It's that they'll quietly start deleting low view count content from accounts who don't log in much leaving people wondering if they were misremembering that they used to be able to access certain content

joannaholman, to random
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It still amuses me that once some people online got so bored and so nerdy they translated most of the bible into LolCat (internet cat speak from the late 2000's/early 2010's). I was once in a share house were people used to do dramatic readings from it https://web.archive.org/web/20120302090831/http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

joannaholman, to melbourne
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It makes me happy that not only does Melbourne Central shopping centre put a great sounding piano in their food court, they don’t lock it when the centres stores are almost all closed. It’s a delight to wander through the nearly empty centre early morning or late at night and come across groups of young people gathered around the piano making music. People seem to respect the piano. It’s been there for ages and I’ve never noticed it be damaged or dirty

joannaholman, to photography
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Audience

#photography #melbourne

joannaholman, to random
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Spotted a good price on iPads and am thinking of getting one. For those of you who have an iPad, do you find it tends to be sufficiently useful in ways different/better than your phone and laptop?

joannaholman, to random
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I know its an Australian national pastime to complain about AusPost and shipping costs but sometimes I'm struck by what a wonder the global postal system is. I recently handed my neighbourhood post office a stuffed animal toy and $22. For that $22 they successfully got the stuffed animal to the doorstep of a friend on the other side of the planet in just under 2 weeks. That journey had to involve at least two flights and a bunch of trucks. It's really kinda amazing when you think about it.

joannaholman, to random
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The problem with dodgy small Australian colleges facilitating international student visa scams is so out of control American youtubers are talking about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-rUlFVqgqI

joannaholman, to melbourne
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I’ve been staying in Brunswick this week and something I’ve really appreciated while walking around is how many people have replaced their grass nature strip with other plants. Attracts bees and butterflies, makes the area look more interesting and is enriching for the many dogs getting walked. It’s not something I’ve seen in other parts of Merri-bek council so I’m not sure if it’s officially approved or something people did of their own accord but either way there should be more of it.

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