Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

Ouch. This hurts

Virtual Reality in the 1800s

#Video #TunnelBook

2/23/2023 @ 7:15 am near PCC Sylvania in SW Portland. No new snow this morning, but we definitely got our fair share last night.

I worry for the poor hummingbirds!

#pdxtst #pdx

My dog is very confused. On one hand, she's happy that all of her humans are home. On the other hand, she's frustrated why none of us will take her for a walk. #DogsOfMastodon.

An inside source tells me NWS Portland on-duty staff are staying near the office overnight because of the travel chaos in tonight’s snow event. #Portland #pdxtst

we did it guys, we created a new gilded age

"By 2021, the top 1% income share has reached an all-time high of 27.4% much higher than the previous record of 23.9% in 1928"

https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2021.pdf

#ChatGPT and its ilk are effectively a large-scale DDoS attack on not only specific tasks (such as teaching, software maintenance and fiction editing) but on human creative inspiration, sense of self and ability to make meaning of the universe.

notice how they are
- creating work for us rather than saving us work
- automating inherently energizing and rewarding tasks such as making art rather than tiring and tedious tasks such as filing taxes
- flooding social networks with generated content that makes it harder to connect with real humans and build community
- distracting us with questions like “what if this machine is sentient?” which keep us from noticing and acting to prevent the suffering of actual humans

that thing where all search engines have become basically unusable because they’re stuffed full of AI garbage? i fear that’s about to happen to everything.

i don’t believe this is necessarily intentional, but no machine that learns under capitalism can imagine another world.

*Hacker Noises*

“Bill, come check this out! The squirrel in that tree hasn’t moved in like three hours. It’s freakin’ weird.”

Chasing The Unseen - enter a vast world filled with fractal geometry and gigantic creatures to climb!

https://www.alphabetagamer.com/chasing-the-unseen-alpha-sign-up/

by #gamedev Strange Shift #indiegames #indiedev #gaming

Rick Astley must find Lent very difficult.

"There's an app for that"

And now it's a web app because nobody wants to target just one platform and each platform distribution system is too painful for independent developers to set up.