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20 days with no signal.

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Here is some noise — AI evangelists are not being honest with us or themselves.

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I’ve always struggled with communication—especially when it’s verbal. Yet I never fail to construct lexical barriers and make things harder for myself.

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The odds are against me but I always take the long shot like a degenerate.

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@technogeek75 2011? Where have I been?

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Things to get done—in no particular order:

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@mercurialblonde.bsky.social We’ll have to also consider what our incentives to make art will be.

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Money? Fame? Maybe we’ll be able to push through if those in power see a way to profit from it. But they’ll probably just steal it and commoditize it.

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It’s cheaper.

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Today I learned the concept of vagueposting.

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An argument could be made that my posts follow that formula.

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But what are my incentives? I don’t have anything to sell.

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I’m a Gen-Xer with nostalgia for an Internet powered by Geocities, Angelfire, and animated GIFs.

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We spend hours arguing about fairness without ever defining the terms.

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Now, before I engage, I ask: do you even know the difference between equity and equality?

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The difference is measured in miles or millimeters.

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I read about a dystopian future led by AI displacement and I worry.

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Then I remember the engineers I’ve met throughout my career: I start to panic.

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It is not my responsibility to solve everyone’s problems. It is my responsibility to treat them with respect—as members of my tribe.

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Some will be ungrateful. Resentful. Hurtful. I will never know why. Over time, I will not concern myself with the answer.

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What happens when I stop trying to live my life as if I’m the hero of the story?

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What if I tried to elevate everyone around me instead? Not for some reward in the afterlife, but because watching others reach their potential is the reward.

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Every minute spent staring into a screen is another minute of my life handed over to the tech authoritarian class.

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To me, it’s just wasted time. But not to them.

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It’s another minute I’m not creating an alternative life: a life without them.

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Every six months or so, I log back into the socials to see what’s going on.

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Within hours, I’m reminded why I leave: a flood of anons opining about things they know nothing about.

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Seemingly innocuous, but incredibly divisive. As if by design.

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Today is the day I will break through my doom scrolling echo chamber.

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A digital émigré stepping into the analog world.

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But let me post this first.

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