In 2014, Ursula Le Guin warned that corporate power wanted to stop us from even imagining freedom as life got even harder.
Nearly a decade later, people are struggling and the tech industry seems intent on using generative AI to further replace art with cheap commodities churned out with AI tools. It’s our responsibility to stop them.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/generative-ai-closes-off-a-better
If you can look at
http://brander.ca
without laughing, do. My friends find it kind of touching.
It's a 1990s "home page", and everybody (we thought in 1993) was going to have their own home page, share out their life, like mine.
Apparently, nobody EVER found a super-easy enough HTML editor that anybody wanted to do that after social media let you have a presence by filling out a form instead.
People can't even IMAGINE leaving social media. They hate X and can't leave.
"Are human beings intrinsically valuable?
Or is it labor that makes us worthy of life?
If it is labor, our species will become another simple synonym for extinction."
SearingTruth
As William Burroughs said, the system eats quality and shits quantity.
Paris Marx
Roy Brander🍁
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀
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Bill Zaumen
Tony Vladusich
Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧