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@edfinnerty.bsky.social
220 followers 65 following 170 posts
I'm a Byliner. No clearly identified human author/artist, no sale, no read, no view, no click. Pretty sure my meager follower count is inflated by bots and scammers. I do not maintain my posting history.
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 16d
I feel like this is somehow risky to say, but it shouldn't be: I cannot possibly care deeply about every issue. I cannot possibly be informed about every issue. Nobody can. I'd rather be honest than performative. I'd rather read what those who do care have to say and keep my mouth shut.
M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 13h
That's one of the stupidest fucking things. And their orange dictator boss put the lie to it by posting that video of himself in a crown. What bunch of cowardly, weaselly people. Also, no person of faith hides behind lying about that faith. And that's what he's doing, lying.
M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 13h
I've never been especially fond of em dashes, but you're right. There are so many ways to spot the slop. There's no need for such an awkward heuristic.
M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 15h
Yes, submit yourself to a lifetime of surveillance and put your life in the hands of a bad piece of code in order to avoid the horrible burden of...writing down your wishes.
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 15h
In case anyone didn't know this already, all of the major 'AI' salesmen are officially the bad guys. All of them.
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 1d
Also, people have called bubbles in real time. They've done it multiple times. Industry boosters posing as academics like you simply ignored them, then pretended after the fact that they never said a thing in the first place.
M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 1d
No, that second part isn't possible. You only think that because you 1) haven't the vaguest idea what you're talking about, and 2) you're biased in favor of whatever a billionaire tells you to be biased in favor of.
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 1d
And at what ecological cost? All for the 'AI' scam for which you have become an unapologetic booster.
M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 1d
Factually, it was tech boosterism.
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 1d
You've proven the existence of a third (at the least) with this post:
3. I haven't any idea what I'm talking about, but I want the rich and cool kids to like me, so I will hype the 'AI' that they assure me is awesome.
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 2d
Looking forward to Peter Sagal's apologism for this round of the NYT unambiguously violating the public trust and abandoning anything approaching journalistic ethics. Because he has friends who work there.
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 2d
What kind of civilization would want this?
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 2d
He *seems* like an insufferable douchebag.
M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 3d
For clarity, they want and have success without struggle or craft, success they decide is meaningful just because it is lucrative.
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 3d
They think everyone wants what they want and have.
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 3d
That'll do it.
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 3d
Broadcast radio and TV, what records we could afford, a few books that we bought, the encyclopedia that we owned, the library. My dad would give is the comics from the newspaper when he was done with it. We just played outside instead. We only had a few early video games.
M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 3d
All true. I'm a couple years older than you. I remember all of that vividly. I grew up in suburbs with access to good libraries, but even with that, we generally just didn't engage with all that much media.
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 3d
There is no way he made that statement in good faith. He knows he's not telling the truth.
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 3d
All valid options, yes. And any change is going to involve some adjustment. It sucks, but that's all there appears to be beyond the slow (and currently jammed) mechanisms of government.
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 3d
I mean don't participate in LLMs in general, staying way from Google as much as possible, etc.
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 3d
My opinion of those companies can't get any lower. And it appears we're helpless to do anything other than not participate.
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 3d
Err, half baked. Pardon the stray 'the.'
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 3d
All these "smart" people really aren't. We need to get our heads around that reality. The entire industry has a get rich quick scheme mindset. It's not geniuses making brilliantly engineered innovations. It's greedy people throwing half the baked junk out for the grifter CEOs to push.
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 4d
a man dressed as benjamin franklin standing next to a fire
ALT: a man dressed as benjamin franklin standing next to a fire
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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 4d
With each passing month, the supposed titans of industry reveal themselves more and more to be nothing but vapid, idea-free seekers of get rich quick schemes. A bunch of far less likable Ralph Kramdens pretending to be visionaries.
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