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@PragmaticAndy
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Andy Hunt is a programmer, consultant, award-winning/best-selling author and publisher. One of 17 authors of Agile Manifesto, co-founder Pragmatic Bookshelf.
Today I learned that washing the cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice is the best way to preserve the finish.
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You should be yourself. If not, then be Steve Wozniak.

Steve Wozniak interviewed for CBS:

"I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups [...] I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out."

He turned 75 4 days ago.

There's something almost biblical about stealing from music artists to build AI murder weapons.

@nachtfunke if you just want a streaming service that isn't Spotify, I believe Tidal is fine. They pay artists a little more and they don't spend their money on killing people. I don't know if they have an AI branch.

If you would like to support a musician for realsies, buy their CD or digital download. There are plenty of stores you can do so, but because you own what you buy, you'll never be dependent or stuck with a particular provider.

About infrastructure: Jellyfin is a fun thing but I don't recommend it to the average person. I would recommend just buying music and listening to it with an mp3 player program like VLC. About as simple as an iPod.

Friends, please stop linking to Spotify like it’s ok.

The company steadily siphoned money from independent artists, then spent millions to host Joe Rogan, then littered their library with AI music, and now the CEO is investing in AI weapons.

There are plenty of less damaging ways to listen to music and podcasts.

I think the term "post-AI" has so much power, are people using it much yet?

Just like postmodernism didn't reject everything about modernism, post-AI needn't throw out all AI.. But look beyond its dodgy ideals and hype to focus on other stuff.
We don't need AI institutes, AI art funding calls, AI panels etc, when AI is an over-hyped, all-encompassing, meaningless marketing term. We don't need to give airtime to nihilistic accelerationist weirdos behind AI corporations. We've had enough discussions about the questions of authorship in generative art. We might want to use some statistical inference model in something we're doing but it isn't the thing.

Lets have 'post-AI' events grounded in our desires, experiences, interests and challenges as humans living on earth, without isolating ourselves from people who sometimes find LLMs useful..

Actually @anu1905 and I talked a bit about this in the context of algorithmic art here: https://youtu.be/V4AxoPjZNTY?feature=shared&t=9

(h/t to @synte + @laura_porta)

After AI Symposium 2024: Session 3

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Seen in my LinkedIn timeline. They didn’t include the source or location, but I loved this sign too much not to share.

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#NoKings #poetry #Trump

@mckra1g That's how it looks to every non US citizen concerned about the US.
@mckra1g In part because 90 million fucking wastes of carbon didn't vote.
@mckra1g I tried to take the empath...

@mckra1g und "Führers Geburtstag" wird auch wieder zum Feiertag

(Ich hoffe die Übersetzungsfunktion von Mastodon schafft das.)

@mckra1g I wish I had the imagination to think up any of these great puns. They are fabulous.
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Always take OUT the psychopath