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Finished Alone Together, by Sherry Turkle, recently. I liked its discussion about solitude, and the contrast of the isolation induced by technology, and obviously social media. In seeking solutions, I like to think that the Fediverse stands out. Its decentralized, user-first ethos offers an antidote to mainstream social media's isolating algorithms.
Twitter is falling apart. Reddit is falling apart. Facebook fell apart ages ago. Meta is a trashfire. Instagram is baloney. Google can't even search for anything you want anymore.
You know what website still miraculously works?
Wikipedia.
You should donate to keep it that way.
Chat GPT is great. If you are a teacher with writer’s block you can ask for something like “End of year comment for student who needs to have more confidence in their work and who asks good questions” and it will spit out *paragraphs* of the most bland, corporate, superlative content-free, schlock you’ve ever seen. This will make you so angry that you’ll remember how to write.
It’s all “actionable” this and “out of the box” that … omg just poke both my eyes out right now.
Youtube tests blocking videos against ad blockers
https://beehaw.org/post/539978
GTA is removing content, paywalling some of it
https://beehaw.org/post/535250
Reddit is blocking third party Apps [no citation needed]
2023, the year of sticking it to the digital minorities so you can squeeze that one extra decimal percent of profits? In other news, Fediverse mods don't know what to do with this flood of users, axes sales rising.
Every time you hear the Reddit CEO talking about how they need to become profitable, remember they raised $250m and then spent the last couple years building this: https://nft.reddit.com
Generation AI: How will tomorrow's kids cast spells?
https://paper.wf/altz3r0/generation-ai-how-will-tomorrows-kids-cast-spells
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