@tvaziri.com so why can’t I see the mask in the movie
@tvaziri.com so why can’t I see the mask in the movie
@sameoldstory.co I don’t even think they need to use the product to object to it or anything it’s just weird, like if there was a group going around lying about what was inside a 7/11 (while also insisting you never go see for yourself) that would be weird!
@sameoldstory.co I dislike AI more than I like it but the anti group increasingly sounds like a cult, constantly peer pressuring the rest of the group into saying things that have less and less connection to reality. And it’s strange because everybody has access to this stuff and they could just see for themselves
@sameoldstory.co Im failing to not comment on it, clearly!
@jnatc.im it’s admittedly pretty hard to find one that is able to provide that service (that said 100% of those folks are on Bluesky)
@revan.eurosky.social Yeah I just don’t get how it happens over there! I’m not anti-Mastadon like a lot of Blueskiers are but I have found myself going there sometimes when I sincerely just want to post with nobody listening
@marisakabas.bsky.social Most walled media gardens sell their product by promising discoverability
@revan.eurosky.social I’ve been experimenting with crossposting on all three platforms at once but participating in Threads makes me feel gross and nobody really ever speaks to me on Mastadon so I forget about it most of the time
@supportourpoops.bsky.social I would like to see the AT Protocol lean more into its federated possibilities because I think it’s interesting/I hate it here, but the reality is few people have much interest in these things which means in many cases the federation mechanism becomes captured by the worst (kind of) person you know
@cheatlines.co well now I’m disappointed
@sameoldstory.co Those people are still free to buy all their goods in person and at high prices today but they don’t, for some reason
@sameoldstory.co Right like, initially these online shopfronts were in direct competition with in person stores and the only really they really aren’t today is consumers preferred online shopping by such massive margins. Most goods still go exist in local stores and those places are way empty, whenever I’m in them
@sameoldstory.co Exactly!!! Why don’t people want to read stuff 😭 like surely you remember things better when you read them (they don’t care)
@sameoldstory.co This stuff is aging me prematurely because I just cannot get into this format outside of the occasional funny Reel!! but I don’t get compelled to keep watching. But this is not the normal reaction clearly
@sameoldstory.co This is an arena where the market’s obvious preferences suck enormously for me, because I can barely pay attention to video without professional production values, but user preferences cannot be denied here
@sameoldstory.co I do think a lot of humans struggle cognitively with subconsciously assuming something that’s using language with them is a person, but I feel like that shows up in a more subtle way than what nonusers are imagining is happening
@sameoldstory.co ngl I wouldn’t take him as an authority on much
@sameoldstory.co Yeah I know some people who used it for some legal task last week, which ftr I was kinda vaguely opposed to (but not enough to write it for them myself so what can I say, really) and it was a lot of “This is what he wrote about that” and “thanks to my buddy Claude” talk
@sameoldstory.co I’m not going to say there aren’t individuals with this problem but it is just not how most people are interacting with the thing
@sameoldstory.co Also a lot of this website’s only interactions with LLMs is reading 4o transcripts
@leonenglish.bsky.social Yeah reading through that thread last night I thought the person on that thread was clearly subconsciously assuming K-12 teachers are primarily young people, maybe because that’s who portrays them in movies? Very strange
@matthewdownhour.bsky.social The example on the right is basically what people in my generation who are “good at math” do in their heads without explicit instruction. It makes sense to democratize those skills because the tool on the left isn’t necessary anymore (we all use our pocket calculators for math that’s not headable)
@walmsley.bsky.social Lake Placid is Jaws with a crocodile
@golikehellmachine.com summoning a back up band wasn’t explicitly disallowed but it does feel like cheating
@sameoldstory I’ve spent very little money so far but that could easily change if I decide I need a digital camera. I’m thinking a Canon DSLR that will use the same EF lenses I already have would keep costs down. That’s unfortunately much less cool than my siblings and their mirrorless cameras