Every article I read talking up Bluesky as an alternative to Twitter, when it mentions Mastodon: “Bluesky is federated like Mastodon except it's easy to use because it's not actually federated.”
I have been reading this strange series for days now nonstop. The first book's only 1.99 right now, so give it a try.
https://amzn.to/3OU6MHxI find all the reviews inaccurate. It's like an Italo Calvino take on YA.
One takeaway from Creativity in the age of AI: to fix AI we must fix our society.
Technology as invasive species

Spring Symposium | Creativity in the Age of AI
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial IntelligenceI'm playing with Ai as much as I can in my rare spare time, because I want to figure out how to partner with it.
I won't say it will never replace people. It will definitely destroy jobs. But it can't destroy humans being humans. We need to fix our economic system so everyone can have meaning from their jobs.
Creating these models by stealing from writers and illustrators is a sin. They already are incredibly cheap (unless they are famous.) Don't take what little money they have away.
Pay them to keep making things, or what will our AIs learn from?
Just because someone is amazing doesn't mean you should stop making. Phone cameras were a great gift because they make it possible to create visual art without the hours of practice and training of talent.
What if AI can be this?
It's a profit centered world that thinks "replace people"
This story shows us a way forward
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2023/05/02/1172791281/this-company-adopted-ai-heres-what-happened-to-its-human-workersWhen I say "create" I mean, sometimes I want to make things because I want to make things.
This is profoundly human, and I think modern capitalism has taken so much human activity away from us. I love to listen to music, but I also love to sing. I love to play games but I also like to make them. I love to read but I like to write. I hear folks say, I'm not good enough to (write/draw/sing) but we are all good enough. We all deserve to make for joy.
I love teaching in every way I teach, books, classrooms... but sometimes I just want to create. Software can try to take that from me, but insert "cold dead hands" metaphor here.
Love:
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/the-great-replacement-not-that-one
The Great Replacement (Not That One, the Real One)
ChatGPT is here to burn our crops, curdle our milk, seduce our lovers and corrupt our youth. That's it, that's the subtitle.
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