Bluesky is saying that torture and self-harm posts are acceptable. That's the end of Bluesky as far as I'm concerned. They don't have a clue what they're letting themselves in for.
I don't believe I'm ever going back to work in an office full of people, I'd prefer to sell hot-dogs in the street.
Being able to recharge energies at various moments of the day is necessary. Being able to take a moment of respite from the intensity of work is also needed. When people are around you 100% of the time you get short-circuited with every interruption.
I don't believe that normies and extroverts are more productive either, they just like to celebrate every trivial interaction more.
I have no idea what drives people in such attempts to force others into doing all the same, as if an uniform and plain landscape were in any way objectively better than a rich and burgeoning scene, replete with a myriad different takes and projects, all of them doing cool and amazing things with great skill.
Saying "Nice, but it's not for me, I'm going to do things some other way" is a valid option too.
I've had him blocked for more than a year and I don't want to delete my account there.
I wanted to delete all of my tweets but I haven't been able to... because you know, third party apps haven't been working very well since last November.
@mmasnick Republicans promise Musk to give him tax breaks and juicy contracts.
Musk redshifts discourse to the very far, far right bringing Q deranged theories closer to the mainstream, divides the waters between good and bad journalists, evicts all of the actual left, together with many progressives and liberals, making it more difficult for them to organise globally.
That people are taking ChatGPT seriously for coding tells you more about the state of software engineering as a discipline than it does about the state of machine learning as a technology.
@andrewt With a pinch of salt on "software engineering", meaning the discipline as practiced in corporate environments under business-side principles as the only priority and traditional engineering principles as an afterthought.
Looking to get off Twitter. The one thing really keeping me there is the larger community of poets, who are inventive and fascinating but also incredibly resistant to change. So if you're on Mastodon, and a poet, and I don't follow you, hit me up so I can change that.
The bird used to be the place
Where proud we were to hang in amity
Some would have claimed, an escape from reality
But then the nazis came, an old priest said, to erase solidarity
Last they remained,
a dead poets society.
I distrust liberals who pile praise on George W. Bush and don't want to see him wearing official orange attire together with his fellow war criminal colleagues Vladimir Putin, Tony Blair, and Benjamin Netanyahu.
