Mastodawn

I just finished _Against The Machine_ by Paul Kingsnorth. I think there is a lot to argue with in some of his “answers,” but the central premise grabbed me pretty hard: the society we’re in isn’t good and we’re likely to find life “better” outside of “The Machine.”

Taylor Smith 2d ago

Ian Douglas Scott 2d ago

Advertizements in SF really want you to know we're at the "adding one more AI will fix it man, just one more AI, I promise" stage of the bubble.

Taylor Smith 4d ago

Listening to @atpfm today. @caseyliss mentioned someone getting that “this-won’t-work-in-future-OSes” message on a Mac Neo.

I got this message **yesterday** when opening the ”Creator Studio” version of Logic on my brand new M5 MacBook Air. So, I’m assuming it’s related to something in the library or something, as @siracusa estimated.

Kind of comical and/or maddening to be “warned” about future developments by the company who built the thing while you’re using the newest, “best” versions of their stuff!

Taylor Smith 4d ago

It's so effing hot and it's not even Spring, yet! No end in sight. Ugh.

Taylor Smith 5d ago

Picard Tips 5d ago

Picard engineering tip: Maintenance of existing systems is just as important as building new capabilities.

Taylor Smith Mar 15

A #jazz gig at the House of Hungary (in Balboa Park #SanDiego), today. Kind of ironic there is an American flag behind me.

Taylor Smith Mar 14

Megan Lynch (she/her)Mar 13

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In the spirit of "you can't get what you don't ask for" and "trying to be more positive about online community just like the old days", I have an immodest proposal for kind Mastodonians in Spain, France, Germany, and other European countries I might pass through.

I start in València and need to move on starting March 30, eventually arriving in Freiburg im Breisgau on April 23, then back to Albania. I'm somewhat flexible about where I go in between using my Eurail pass.

Taylor Smith Mar 11

JA Westenberg Mar 11

The entire machinery of online discourse around building and creating has been so thoroughly captured by entrepreneurial "logic" that we've lost the language to describe what it feels like to simply make a thing that helps someone, give it away, and move on with your life...

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-noble-path/

The Noble Path

It is a truth universally acknowledged that an indie hacker in possession of a widget must be in want of a business model... Every tool is a startup now. Every script is a SaaS product. Every neat little hack you cobbled together on a Sunday afternoon to solve your own

Westenberg.

Taylor Smith Mar 11

I am playing a gig, with a band I’ve played with for many years, on Friday. The leader wanted to hold a rehearsal today, before the gig, as he has a new song he wants to play.

Come to find out, he asked some stupid AI dingus to “write” the “song.” I already dislike playing in this band, and I am wondering if this will be the “last straw.”

Taylor Smith Mar 9

Babbel:

Hooray for small victories!

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