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alexcox

@alexcox@mastodon.social

I host Do By Friday, Roboism, Technically Queer, and Two Headed Girl.
Eventually I’ll figure out a clever way to say “I make podcasts which in professional circles is called an audio producer” that makes me sound funny and cool. Until then, hello, and thank you for listening! Email me at alexcoxfm at gmail dot com! 💌🤖

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hotdogsladies, to random
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I just had an idea for a neat thing Apple could do.

Y’know the little tabs that pop up when you select text in iOS?

It’d be cool if the device learned which actions you tend to choose in a given situation.

So, if you choose “Translate” more often than, say, “Format,” they could make that a little easier for you.

This is an idea that I just had.

alexcox,
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@hotdogsladies I thought you liked the Mac

alexcox, to random
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I’ve been bouncing in my chair for new tech podcasts that aren’t just angry about everything. https://nileane.fr/@nileane/112553298160006824

alexcox, to random
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i bet one day my niece is going to be like "yeah my auncle is super progressive but they still slip up and use words like 'guys' and 'dude' at thanksgiving" and you know what guys she'll probably be right to do so

alexcox, to random
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Parapals know sometimes when a company makes a proclamation of their principles, I grind my teeth so hard it makes dentists sweat.

The difference is https://omg.lol/ has already shown its values for years, and this post is a concise way to get information to friends looking for a new home on the web. https://social.lol/@prami/112505849786155620

niclake, to ai
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I'd been writing a post for #weblogpomo2024 talking about some of the more comical fuck-ups all of these #ai and #llm have been spewing. And now I'm fucking furious.

Note: content warning for depression, self-harm, and suicide

https://niclake.me/ai

alexcox,
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@niclake don’t get me wrong I love this post, and seeing the dangers of enterprise use of AI is also so tied up with capitalism that divorcing the two the way a lot is tech media is driving me up a wall. I like your framing of the motivations rather than just the consequences. The Slack response especially broke my heart because they’re like “well this is happening so here’s how we’ll make it save!” as if they had no choice in “AI magic”: https://mastodon.social/@alexcox/112514873407645136

alexcox, to random
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I thought I’d forgotten to turn my bedroom fan off. Nope. Along with the hourly crashes for the past two weeks, my MacBook sounds like…this.

video/mp4

alexcox, to random
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Tired vs. Wired

alexcox, to random
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The first one is totally using a Sidekick notepad.

https://sidekicknotepad.com/

@imyke you’ve been trained, son https://zeppelin.flights/@TSindelar/112458032311045181

danilo, to random
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That’s what really gets me

you watch all these movies, read all these stories

it’s always an accident that the computer fucks us

it’s always “SHIT, despite the best of my intentions, there was an angle of this I did not consider, and it was from there that humanity was destroyed”

but the Silicon Valley guys are like “let’s make that one dystopia we saw, I call being the rich guy”

just a deep lack of imagination
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alexcox,
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@danilo yeah that’s what constantly eats away at me. The pure lack of originality makes it even more dubious as to why they supposedly have such passion but apparently lack any novel thought

alexcox,
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@Sevoris @danilo that speaks even more to the lack of imagination. Phillip K. Dick didn’t feel the need to show why maybe manipulating a consciousness into being and dooming them to paranoid and violence might be a bad thing especially because of the dystopian backdrop.

There are more and more stories that ARE far more on the nose, like Ex Machina, where the billionaire weirdo is literally murdered and guys still stand up like “we have our own Eva!”

alexcox, to random
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Capitalism managed to memory hole the third act of every sci-fi story out of Silicon Valley’s collective memory.

andycarolan, to pokemon
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If you had just caught a shiny (normal) Rattata, would you evolve it into a Raticate? 🤔

#Pokémon #PokemonGo

alexcox,
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@andycarolan MAYBE if it was PVP relevant…good thing Gible works in Little Cubs because that shiny Garchomo is just a darker muddy iPhone 14 Pro muddy purple

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