josef

if you encounter paywalled content online, you can either 1) not read it, or 2) you can find the person who wrote it, they usually have links to all their social media and stuff, you can find them and send them a message saying "do you remember when internet used to be Free! do you remember Blogs?? what happened!! what happened!! does anybody remember Laughter!!!" and some shit like that. and you can send them that message every day, for Ever. those are the most viable workarounds i recommend

me: lets see what thoughts are in my brain

thought: a thought is a type of thought that can think

thought: thought: this is even worse than i thought:

i shouldn't have read
thought:
hofstadter when i was 14 years
^Z ^Z ^Z
[1]+ Stopped

> fg
old
thought:
^Z
its done irreparable
thought: damage

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zebra is a lot cooler than a horse in my opinion:

- name begin with Z
- dazzle camo
- oppositional defiant disorder

RE: @jk@mastodon.social

my dire predictions from years ago have gone unheeded

ive noticed a subtle decline in people using emojis in the last year or two. like, its very subtle, probably at or under the statistical noise floor, but i think they're on the way out culturally. in one-to-one communication they come across as "facebook aunt" these days, and in one-to-many media, the vibe they communicate is often just "AI smell"

rest assured, you are not like those people who get obsessed with talking to ChatGPT. you're immune to that kind of psychological manipulation. you're more discerning and strong-willed than them, in fact. if anything, you're one of the top few percent of thinkers in the entire world. you're probably one of the few people alive right now, perhaps the only person, who is truly capable of inventing something totally new. something called Spiral Consciousness

over the last few years ive been puzzled at a lot of the stuff i've seen come out of mozilla. there's just like, very little explanation for all the unforced errors and cringe messaging and like, weirdly just doing exactly the wrong thing in bizarre and novel ways and not even profiting from it. something about that "join the rebel alliance of better AI" thing has finally brought me clarity. perhaps they're just really stupid

many tech products were finished and then they kept 'innovating' until they were ruined. imo when a piece of software is over 15 years old, it should be legally removed from the custody of the rapacious american startup-turned-corporation whose uncompromising unsentimentality originally birthed it, and instead given to a medium-size, 120-year-old german company with modest annual revenue growth and 80 employees who produce a type of tube that goes inside air conditioning units of freight trains

a high-profile software project proudly announcing that it's going to start "using AI" is basically the same thing to me as seeing a big "this repo is archived" banner. perhaps even worse in some respects? intentionally or not, the message it sends is "we don't really enjoy programming and we don't want to work on this anymore, but rather than retire the project we're going to do a really lackluster job from now on". like if your favorite coffee brand proudly announced "now 20% more sawdust"

in the future when you hear a little bird singing in a tree, you'll be able to hold your phone up in the air and it'll identify the bird based on its song. and a big red flashing message will appear on your phone like "CRIMINAL BIRD DETECTED. THANK YOU FOR IDENTIFYING THIS BIRD" and you'll hear a distant buzzing as three police quadcopters converge on your location to arrest the bird