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adamgreenfield

@adamgreenfield@social.coop

Endurance athlete, heavy-music fan, compulsive greeter of cats. My next book is “Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in A World on Fire,” coming from Verso mid-'24. #syndicateofinitiative

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Cloudguy, to random

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    @Cloudguy @topher With all due respect, the wording is a little ambiguous. Your post has propagated beyond the audience you’d intended it for, and while we may well be inclined to trust your credentials and sense of urgency, not every member of that audience is equally able to decode your shorthand or parse domain-based terms of art. What I would personally appreciate more clarity on is whether your heads-up applies to all Amazon customers.

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    @Cloudguy @topher Duly noted, cheers.

    adamgreenfield,
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    @Cloudguy Just to clarify: are you suggesting this for all Amazon customers, or only those who have Echo/Alexa/smart home products?

    herhandsmyhands, to random
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    Militant decency.

    adamgreenfield,
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    @herhandsmyhands Don’t know Pratchett, but that’s a (wonderful) perspective I associate with the late Colin Ward. I’d certainly like to see more of it in the world.

    futurebird, (edited ) to random
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    Caution. Very violent video. A vicious yellow hoard of baby dinosaurs mob a kitten. Then some sort of round mammals join in. Watch with caution.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyfx9FwmHMY

    adamgreenfield,
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    @futurebird ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

    adamgreenfield, to random
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    I have a friend – a cherished friend, of some twenty years’ acquaintance – who’s building things on top of ChatGPT, and guilelessly enthusiastic about the prospect, and has just in general decided to be completely cheerleadery and uncritical about this class of technologies. And I don’t know how to tell him that I think they represent the enclosure of the commons, and a theft from those of us who generated the corpus – accumulation by dispossession happening before our eyes, in real time.

    adamgreenfield,
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    @noplasticshower Thanks. I hope I don’t sound like a douche in saying so, but I do write books about this stuff for a living. : . ) https://www.versobooks.com/products/119-radical-technologies

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    When Elon was losing class action lawsuits for his blatant, egregious, and widespread racism against Black people, and Black folk were decrying his Alt-right antics and the harm that they cause, everyone was fine. Tesla drivers weren't all the devil. People still cheered SpaceX launches.

    Now Elon's Alt-Right antics have come for a much wider circle. Now everyone that stays on Twitter is the devil, and an irredeemably bad person? 🙂🙃

    This one-way solidarity ain't it.

    adamgreenfield,
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    @mekkaokereke If they talk about venture-funded means to achieve that scale, you’re absolutely right I’ll jump all over them. We can’t address the issues with the ways we choose to mediate everyday life with the same mindsets and tools that caused those issues to begin with. Venture capital predicated on near-term, high-multiple exits (also known as “venture capital”) kills everything it touches.

    oliphant, to random

    Musk looks down at old notebook he just found on the floor. It belonged to the compliance officer he'd fired along with the rest of the compliance staff.

    Flipping it open, it contains notes, perhaps notes the compliance officer was bringing to his desk.

    His eyes settle on one note in particular:

    "Mr. Musk, we never added verification as a status symbol. We added verification because we didn't want to get sued."

    Musk looks far away for a long moment staring at nothing. "Oh," he says quietly to himself. "I can see how that would make sense."

    adamgreenfield,
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    @oliphant Generous of you to believe he’s capable of introspection!

    emilygorcenski, to random

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    @emilygorcenski I feel very much the same about content warnings.

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    adamgreenfield,
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    (Hahaha, this one’s taken off like wildfire, and now I feel guilty because it seems like the most recent science points to the fact that some beaches may be able to migrate up-shore. Ah well: you will, I hope, forgive me.)

    adamgreenfield,
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    @acousticmirror That vision fills me with nothing but fear, which I hear is a mind-killer.

    adamgreenfield,
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    @acousticmirror Well, that’s certainly very kind of you to say. But how’s it going to help me with this charred, smoking stump where my hand used to be?

    amcewen, to random
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    Had an excellent introverted Sunday afternoon exploring some of the less-frequently-listened-to corners of my music collection and working on a blog post (provisionally) titled "Notes from a proto-"

    adamgreenfield,
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    @amcewen 👀

    adamgreenfield,
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    @amcewen good man. 👊

    adamgreenfield, to random
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    I've been holding off on saying anything about this — for among other reasons because it involves a specific product endorsement, which I always feel a little iffy about — but the results are so exceptional I want to share them. For the past four months or so, I've been taking a daily probiotic called Symprove. It touts a whole range of benefits, and tbh, while I do have somewhat improved digestion and energy those improvements are too marginal to justify the considerable ongoing expense.

    adamgreenfield,
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    I finally, finally see results from the weight training I undertake. I will never be numbered among the ranks of the swoletariat, but the change is noticeable, it impacts things like posture and the degree to which I "guard" my abdomen when I stand, and it's extremely gratifying. Consider this, then, an endorsement. I obviously cannot promise you the same outcome or anything like it, but the change in my physical embodiment has been so wonderful that I felt like I ought to share the reason.

    adamgreenfield,
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    What I am completely sold on, though, is something that I didn't at all expect a probiotic to do for me, that I have controlled against all other variables of diet and exertion for, and which the probiotic appears to be solely responsible for: for the first time in my adult life I am putting on lean muscle in response to weight training, I suspect as a result of improved protein availability.

    adamgreenfield,
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    I cannot emphasize how extraordinary a development this is for me. I was in an MOS in the Army that required me to physically requalify twice annually at a standard 10% higher than the baseline, and I did it every year for five years in a row — but always just barely, without ever losing the skinnyfat physique I've always carried. I've run endurance races, trained for grueling events, none of that has ever changed. These past few months on the probiotic, though, my entire allometry is different.

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    One feature here that I do wish more people would avail themselves of is the ability to make followed/follower counts invisible. This, quite simply, is invidious information – in the majority of circumstances, I can’t see it being useful for anything but implicit social ranking of a sort I believe we should be trying to move away from. We have other and better ways of formulating our estimates of the worth of someone’s contributions.

    adamgreenfield,
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    @acousticmirror Oh, wait - so you can see my numbers? All this time I’ve been assuming they were hidden.

    adamgreenfield,
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    @cour13r5 @acousticmirror Fackin’ ‘ell. What exactly happened when I ticked the box that said “Hide followers,” then? It just hid their identities, but not the amount?

    adamgreenfield,
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    Well shit, then – folks can just go ahead and disregard this whole post, as it appears I’ve been operating under a pronounced misunderestimation! @acousticmirror @cour13r5

    adamgreenfield, to random
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    I’ve hit “cancel” on things I was about to post, oh, easily six or eight times this week, and in so doing have saved you and me both a great deal of aggravation. A lesson, really.

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    @acousticmirror That’s neat too. TBH I have kind of a lower threshold for boosting stuff – as long as I’m not advancing a foul agenda, or putting my name behind something I know to be untrue, I’m happy to pass along just about anything on the off chance it’ll make someone happy.

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