As Amazon loaded their smart displays with ads, a group of hardware hackers found a way to liberate a few early models, turning them into stripped-down, useful android displays. I now have performed four digital exorcisms. I spoke to the person behind the jailbreak via telegram for @aftermath.site
spent the night playing CS 1.6 at a LAN party for a friend's birthday and its crazy we solved the multiplayer FPS in 2000, and then decided to spend the next 26 years making them worse in every way imaginable
I'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.
We gotta come up with a better system than โeverything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are niceโ
Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
Gotchaโletโs dig into that step by step.
1. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ป๐ผ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐๐ต, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. Youโre not just immobileโyouโre immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐บ. That makes total senseโitโs a natural human impulse, and youโve been through a lot.
I guess when you openly break the law so many times in just one year without seemingly any consequences or any real institutional pushback, at a certain point you decide what is even the point of manufacturing consent.
I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.
Mike F @mikefossey Metallica 1986: here's a song called creeping death, it's about a plague personified and it shreds Metallica 1991: this one is called enter sandman and it's about going to bed
Despite threats, billionaires don't leave the largest population centers, because it's where there is the most money to be had from the collective value generated by human beings, and despite what they insist, they don't generate wealth; they collect it.
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapbโ"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
we already had access to every library in the world. it was called jstor and you made nerds hang themselves for accessing it without paying
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learningโthe slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding oneโs own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
This sucks obviously, but it is funny how anytime you see a clip of some fintech bros (or billionaires) talking about their ideas or what it is they do, they look and sound utterly fucking miserable.
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio qualityโyou name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
It really is just the dril tweet.
The answer to how do we keep kids safe online isn't destroy everyone's privacy. It's not force people to hand over their IDs to access legal content. And it's certainly not ban access to the tools that protect journalists, activists, and abuse survivors. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
memebrane. ?
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes weโre cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
This is unbelievably bleak. The clear lack of functioning guard rails around suicide and self-harm is already bad enough, but for it to actually tell someone that a human support worker is subbing in and then instantly pulling the rug and admitting that isn't a real feature is so fucking cruel.
Screenshot reads, "A Carnivorous โDeath Ballโ Has Emerged from the Deep This newly-discovered species is being called the โdeath-ball spongeโ for its appendages, which end in orbs and are covered in micro-hooks meant to capture prey."
Not now, carnivorous death ball
