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hackers.town: 2022-08-31 Wed 06:58
might need to have the time zone talk again but i ain’t talking about nothing until i drink some coffee
better do it now i got three minutes
hackers.town: 2022-08-31 Wed 07:07
“The End of Social Media and the Rise of Recommendation Media” giving probably the most pro-algorithmic-content view I’ve seen, which I read as a strong argument to spend less time on the big platforms.
via @bmann
https://every.to/p/the-end-of-social-media
hackers.town: 2022-08-31 Wed 08:19
I got camera off for this meeting because I’m doing a lot of thinking. My thinking face always makes people ask what’s wrong but no that’s just my face without social masking.
hackers.town: 2022-08-31 Wed 12:50
About to start hour six of meeting mode. Getting hangry.
hackers.town: 2022-08-31 Wed 15:03
Finding out that Stable Diffusion was trained on images from Pinterest (Where Artist Credit Dies™) seems so poetically appropriate.
Artists: don’t let someone haggle you down over this either. “I can do myself free in 30 seconds” “Fine go do that.”
hackers.town: 2022-08-31 Wed 15:10
And gotta be honest. Even though I have a visceral reaction to the stolen art generator, I also recognize it’s a tool and artists should learn how to use tools that interest them. So go make AI art but pls more interesting than painterly celebrity slashfic.
hackers.town: 2022-08-31 Wed 19:09
It may have been a long-term advantage that my first tech work was with folks I didn’t entirely trust.
Great folks, sure. But —
It has never occurred to me in 25 working years to leave my screen unlocked when unattended.
sometimes i take the computer with me