"We’re building relationships with code" 🤯

Blimey! And no-one is worried about this? 😱

"Having compelling AI companions for work, to support mental health issues or as a romantic partner throws up some tricky ethical issues"

Andy Spence's blog post 👉🏻 https://wrk3.substack.com/p/the-emotional-economy is quite a read, although perhaps not as poignant as this other one 👉🏻 https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

Seriously, where is the limit? What's wrong with us? 😤

#GenAI #Ethics #PrivacyMatters #Intimacy #Vulnerability #Humanise

"Because in the real world, knowledge is earned through movement. Friction. Ambiguity. [...] That’s how curiosity thrives: in the space between expected and unexpected, between map and territory"

This post 👉🏻 https://www.joanwestenberg.com/how-convenience-kills-curiosity/ by @Daojoan is one of the many reasons why I love #Mastodon and the #Fediverse in general.

The friction that triggers (my) curiosity👌🏻😍

During the time I've been away from Mastodon, I think I have also found a good reason to convince myself to *finally* decouple from #LinkedIn:

You silly boy! You can't build the new (whatever that may well be!) by clinging to a long-gone past no matter how hard or how many times you try!

It's time, at long last, to let go & move on to other pastures...

Good riddance, LinkedIn! Can't say I enjoyed much your user experience & your own motives over the last 20 years.

[knock, knock] Anyone still home? I've been away from Mastodon for a couple of months building my own rhythm with #Pixelfed.

All in all, trying to figure out whether it'll stick around, or not, for yours truly, like #Flickr has done for the last 20 years (May 5th 2005).

It's the oldest #Web20 account I've had out there and I can definitely now see Pixelfed taking over for when things might go rogue.

Time now perhaps to resume my Mastodon mojo as well... What have I missed? 😎👍🏻