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michaelc

@michaelc@scholar.social

Current indie game dev; former business adjunct at 2-yr college, educator for the tea industry, high school algebra and Latin teacher. Ungrader.

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A while back I asked if anyone had compiled sites/tools who have committed to not jam AI into every corner of their product.

I didn't find any, so I guess that means I'm gonna do it.

What kinds of tools would you like to use AI-free? I'll start: Word processing. I want to be able to write without interference, and create documents without being second guessed.

You?

Boosts welcome; will update this post with a link to a resource page of anything I find.

michaelc , to random
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There's some solid science in this article by @pluralistic, including the observation that "...chlorophyll only makes oxygen in the presence of light, which is notably lacking in your colon"

More importantly, though, he illustrates that the world is complicated and if you just shrug and say it's too complicated or nobody really knows, you're helping the worst of the forces to win. Having a good info environment requires effort to learn and understand complexity.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/05/corrupt-for-cocoa-puffs/#flood-the-zone-with-shit

GottaLaff , to random
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👋🏼Bye rainy Oregon. Hi drier Washington!

michaelc ,
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@GottaLaff Welcome to the state! (Though Seattle's supposed to be getting wetter soon...)

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I keep seeing these discussions in left circles about how terrible social media is. It angers & frustrates me that Mastodon & the Fediverse don't even merit a mention.

"The Majority Report" goes as far as dissing Threads but never mentions the fedi.

There are only 170 comments. Why not leave a comment asking why "the left" keeps complaining (rightly) about corporate social media but ignoring the alternative?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqY7sLRaUWQ

michaelc ,
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@futurebird @bjc @secretsloth

Another wrinkle I didn't see below is that there are lots of people who really go through a lot of effort to not think about things. As an old colleague used to put it, "You've got all the numbers, you're just not doing the math."

It's just easier to keep doing what you're doing, plugging along, rather than consider that there might be a problem. That's hard itself, but if there IS a problem, you'll have to solve it and change. Too hard. So don't think.

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