Mastodawn

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116736495067438407

You can't make this stuff up. (But they do.)

I mean, they always did. I co-founded a web development firm with @Serena back at the beginning of the web, and we got written up by one of these firms as being one of the top five or so web development firms in the country. It was bullshit. They didn't go out and research it. The guy who wrote it was friends with our CEO. The same was probably true with the other firms. But boy did it result in an infusion of investment.

Kee Hinckley 2h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@leitleinkultur/116738833079650022

"Texts by men were somehow smarter when they didn't have them written by AI yet, but by women"

Kee Hinckley 1d ago

Anil Dash 5d ago

So, the biggest IPO in the history of the world has the vast majority of its future value being created by an AI platform whose only distinction, thus far, is that it is the only one that's generated sexualized imagery of children? And they're going to force it into our 401ks so we're bag-holders for all the assholes who put stupid money into buying Twitter?

Kee Hinckley 1d ago

Nanoraptor 1d ago

We're not fixed objects but processes of living and dying cells. Most us is constantly being dismantled and rebuilt. Skin and blood comes and goes. Muscles, guts, tendons and even your bones remake themselves in the warm and dark.

We're less like grown full-sized statues and more like a standing meat wave around a pile of teeth in a flesh sea.

Kee Hinckley 1d ago

NANCY COMICS BY BUSHMILLER 1d ago

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
June 14,1940

Kee Hinckley 1d ago

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin 1d ago

** Addendum, since the previous post is the text I've used for years:

Please do not use generative AI to illustrate, animate, or otherwise adapt my stories.

The world doesn't need that crap.
**

Kee Hinckley 2d ago

I just successfully went to the Casa de Moneda, and submitted all my paperwork proving that I'm a resident, answered questions about where my house is, what color it is, what callejones it's near, and various other things so that I could get my tax ID (RFC). Which I now have in both paper and password protected USB form. (And for which I had to give up my image, electronic signature, fingerprints and irises.)

I originally planned on going with someone to translate, but the person I asked said that my Spanish was fine for it.

So I did it all in Spanish. And it's probably the most smooth set of Spanish interactions I've had in my life. I think I only had to have something repeated twice, and that was at checkin. And I was able to respond to everything without thinking. I'm kind of amazed.

¡¡¡And nobody gave a damn about my gender, or what sex was on my ID!!!

Kee Hinckley 3d ago

I love this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKhVlJsBqms

Alana Balagot - You Can't Erase Us (feat. Trans Chorus of Los Angeles) (Official Music Video)

YouTube

Kee Hinckley 4d ago

Tech Tangents 5d ago

I put out a video that was critical of AI without AI being mentioned in title, thumbnail, or description. And it was dogpiled with pro-AI comments almost instantly.

This video has almost 2.5X as many comments per view as my most recent "controversial" video, and 4.5 the average.

I don't want to say that AI bots are being used to astrorturf videos after scraping scripts, but I have a hard time believing this is real based on experience.

Kee Hinckley 4d ago

The Joy of Tech 5d ago

Human communication is disappearing! https://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/3265.html

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Location	Guanajuato, MX
Occupation	Retired, writing SF&F, and tech and social commentary