Damn that puts a big ass smile on my face, congrats for getting a new awesome instrument and composition tool!

It bears repeating. Pete Hegseth is terrible.

My bad, the way you posted it felt like you were kind of trying to troll me by posting an AI response that disagreed with what I said in an annoying way lol and I did not get you were making that point.

True, but this isn’t an accident either. AI is most prevalent in places where authenticity and meaning have already been destroyed by late stage capitalism.

Email writing? There was no fucking humanity left in it before AI came along, it was already a mess of language forms that only complexified over time making a judgement of how to convey something short and simple an extended process of trying to guess what the correct social norms are to employ in that situation.

I hope email and job applications become hopelessly flooded with AI crap, they both deserve to die as a forms of humans communicating with humans as there is no reality, no meaning left to these mediums of interaction. AI is just an underlining of that pre-existing enshittification of communication which boths means blaming AI is missing the point and also that blaming AI IS the point because it is just the newest form of cancer in our society from a long, storied line of dangerous bullshitters and their tools of violence against meaning.

Edit what a perfect example of how fake and fluff filled AI writing is.

All of that could just have been said with “Don’t blame the tool, blame the person using it”

Hey I have an app called HegSaid which I made to support Pete where every speech he is made is translated into a language bros like me and you can actually understand, and not all military policy wonk, complicated stuff professionals like Pete Hegseth use which hurts your brain.

All you have to do is take a picture of a Coors Lite beer you have postmarked for the mail to Pete Hegseth’s office and in return the AI will translate a Hegseth speech for you into an approachable format even someone who isn’t a warfighter can understand.

Such as what happens when we give the wealthy all the power.

Ok so you a Orbital Originalist Extremist then?

HEY HEY that is different ok!

This is why I love hearing large businesses complain about all the fake low effort job applications they get with AI as if this wasn’t the inevitable end state of fakeness and inauthentic corporate language they have been pushing for decades.

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People talk a lot about the protocols that power Bluesky vs. ActivityPub, because we’re nerds and we believe deep in our hearts that the superior protocol will win. This is adorable. It flies in the face of literally all of human history, where the more convenient thing always wins regardless of technical merit. VHS beat Betamax. USB-C took twenty years. The protocol fight is interesting the way medieval siege warfare is interesting — I’m glad someone’s into it, but it has no bearing on my life. There’s no actual plan to self-host Bluesky. Their protocol makes it easier to scale their service. That’s why it was written and that’s what it does. End of story.

So refreshing to see someone call out Bluesky for what it is.

Marktowndon?

I would say the amount of depression, sadness and anxiety I have experienced has carpet bombed my former natural tendency to have an ego about stuff.

Things have been broken deep down in me from it but the silver lining is I don’t obnoxiously over prioritize myself by default!

Don’t be naive

I know what happens there!

Not if you are a lobster, than it is a clawcuff.

Are you comfortable actually pointing to those as realistic alternatives for most everybody?

I see endless rows of corporate silos and a couple of niche little hobbiest communities off to the side, I do not see an environment where corporations can’t do whatever the hell they want.

Don’t get me wrong, I hope I am wrong, but I don’t think I am.

What other browser?