For a post I'm writing/making on alternative software/services to Big Tech I have this working title: Big Trek from Big Tech.

Too convoluted, too cheesy?

I love wordplay but sometimes I take it too far and just create confusion. 😅

I how I wish more journalists would read and take to heart the insights delivered by David McNeill and Emily Tucker in this highly recommended article.

Well, more people period, perhaps.

"More broadly, and despite what some ‘expert researchers’ would have you believe, our thinking has always required and will always require an awareness of and responsiveness to a world wider than our theories of it, and our language has always depended and will always depend on shared experiences with others of our kind. Our experiences of suffering are among those experiences through which we understand what it is to be conscious. Fantasizing about the potential future suffering of a chatbot is one way to deny that difficult truth at a moment in history when to actually become conscious of the suffering that so many human beings are now enduring requires real courage."

https://www.techpolicy.press/suffering-is-real-ai-consciousness-is-not/

@relentless_eduardo I remember Mosaic if we’re playing that game 😉. The special thing with Internet Explorer 6 is that it really hindered web development for quite some years.

There was even an official countdown site: http://www.ie6death.com
and so many campaigns… http://www.stopie6.org/

You know you’re with your peeps when you can just say “Remember Internet Explorer 6?” and everyone is like “Oh, yeah. Fuck”.

@CptSuperlative @jhpot Here:

https://aftermath.site/humane-ai-sad-trombone

(The original post is not updating for me.)

I could certainly be commenting on "AI" all day long, but I do feel the post I wrote two years ago is still as true as ever. The hype mob is just hoping we'll grow tired of repeating it.

https://axbom.com/ai-responsibility/

@fantomtexter @doktorzjivago @joacim @kolombiken Ah, the plot thickens. Jag undrar vad som gör att våra olika instanser hämtar så olika.

@joacim @systerfrida.se@bsky.brid.gy Intressant, Bridgy verkar inte alls plocka upp kommentarer/trådar? Hela tråden är mycket läsvärd men kräver inloggning på Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/systerfrida.se/post/3li3eeqhz3c2h

@mralancooper Easy can be dangerous 😉

I would say Ghost is just as simple for publishing but a bit pricey if you don't self-host it. It's what I've been using and recommending for blogging for some years now.

There's also Posthaven
https://posthaven.com

and Write Freely
https://writefreely.org

Both of those are focused on letting you get on with just writing.

All services are up again. This actually all took only about an hour and 20 minutes. I’m very relieved. 😅

@JoWa Tack! 🤩

@fasterandworse Thank you :) All backups, and snapshot, taken – hope I won’t have to use them.

Upgrading my server to Ubuntu 22.04. My websites won’t be reachable for the next couple of hours.

Realising that it was a smart move to put Akkoma (this instance) on its own server. I don’t like it when all my comms go down at the same time.

Hoping to get everything online again by 10pm CET. (Sunday, February 9)

@mensrea I my mind he has already has with many of these posts. He openly calls people stupid, and he says that smart parents don’t have many kids, because the third and fourth kid have much lower IQ.

After he has so intently moved into writing about AI, usability superstar Nielsen has certainly doubled-down on making everything about IQ.

My post with quotes highlighting his obsession with IQ was updated today.

https://axbom.com/jakob-nielsen-quotes-about-iq/

@fsologureng On brand for Nielsen:
https://axbom.com/jakob-nielsen-quotes-about-iq/

@mpt I’m glad you’re familiar :)

@smallcircles I like this. Thanks for pointing me to it.

Both an amusing and tragic autobiographical account of a UX advocate descending into incoherence after overdosing on misrepresentations of AI.

https://jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/ai-scaling-laws

@mralancooper I just solved today’s wordle in 3 using PFFTT as the starting word 😂

@mralancooper PFFTT is pretty bad, and funny because it’s accepted. But MAMMA may actually be worse.

@fabienmarry

Exactly. Same for me. I often argue to that walks should not only be encouraged during lunch but actually be an expected part of the working day. In accordance with ability of course.

@wolverinuno In the 90% I believe the statistic includes about 6% of the time in cars. All this will of course vary from country to country, and the average of course means that some people will spend a lot more time in indoors and vice versa.

Some quotes from a presentation I did on #solarpunk and design last year:

The average person will now spend 90% of their life indoors (US data).

This happens even though we know that a lack of exposure to sunlight is causing low energy levels, problems sleeping and depression.

When sunlight on our screens disrupts our work and we stand up to pull the curtains, shutting out the sunlight, it is a testament to our resistance to nature – in service of the machines.

We must admit that we will never be able to live independently from the other elements of nature, such as animals, plants and even microorganisms.

Spending time in real, actual nature should be part of your design process.

Compassion is not fostered in front of a screen.

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And if you want to do the exercise that accompanied it:

Imagine future where the phones of today are long gone but we still have technology that supports communication in favor of universal wellbeing and community support

What values are driving your design work?
What aspects of the world "before" were reformed, transformed or abolished to arrive in this new reality?
What is technology-supported communication like in this future?

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The photo is from my walk earlier today. If you look closely our dog is visible in front of the tractor.

”You can d­iscourse and quote-dunk and fact-check until you’re blue in the face, but at a certain point, you have to stop and decide what truth you believe in. The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad news will eventually yield the final piece of a puzzle. But there is also such a thing as having enough information. As the internet continues to enshittify, maybe what we really need is to start trusting each other and our own collective sense of what is true and good.”

https://www.404media.co/you-cant-post-your-way-out-of-fascism/