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(based off the RSS feeds I subscribe to)Just a short post complaining about AI
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Jo (CC BY-NC)
Quote from Blood in the Machine The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant
This book details the pushback against the first signs of Industrialisation and Capitalism in the weaving industry of 1810s England.
“We and other countries are already so placed by [machinery] that a very large number of people are thrown idle greatly against their will and they must be supported or starve,” Booth said at the shop. “We know this is so, but are we therefore to conclude that machinery is in itself an evil?”
(…) “Cropping by hand as you now practice it is by no means easy work,” Booth said. “We all know that it is very painful for learners to handle the shears until the wrist has become hoofed up. Now look at one of these machines,” he said, meaning the gig mill. “Observe how smoothly and how beautifully it works! How perfectly it does for the workman the arduous part of his task. By its aid, as we well know, your task has become chiefly one of care and watchfulness.” (…)
“To say that a machine that can do this for you is in itself an evil is manifestly absurd,” Booth continued. “Under proper conditions it would be to you an almost unmixed blessing, but unfortunately the favorable conditions do not exist.” (…)
Affirmations
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Jo (CC BY-NC)
Reply to this months IndieWeb carnival hosted by Joe on Affirmations
I don't really do affirmations, in the way I've seen them online or hanging on people's walls. A calendar or a bot telling me to repeat that "I'm strong and capable" or whatever — that just feels insincere to me; and not helpful at all. It feels empty. Affirmations have to come from me. If I do "affirmations" then they come in the form of arguing with myself.
I made an IndieWeb postcard
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Jo (CC BY-NC)
Two facts contributed to me making this. Firstly, I realised that I can do whatever I want with the IndieWeb logo, colors and "branding" as a whole. Secondly, I remembered that we talked about post cards and sending HTML in the mail last week at homebrew website club. I think James was the one who mentioned it.
I recently got more into designing for fun (rather than profit) and so I thought I'd combine these two facts and my love for illustrating in Adobe Illustrator to make a post card (that ended up being very specific to me).
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my '70s bedsheet, my lot in the earth is glowing unusually strong in the moon it's beckoning me to lie down and observe the burning, cold light from within my cocoon up there hangs the culprit, a reliable mass with a colourful halo from the dirt on the glass like the rings of a planet, out by that star or what ive come to expect from a nebula is it telling me "Oh how can you sleep?" "There never was such a lovely night before"? It's past one o'clock, a time when the deep despair has scheduled a knock on my door but how can I fall in a hole here and now? when all the while I float in infinity? to think that one day it will be gone — how can that be anything but asininity should I look upon this, think "Tomorrow, tomorrow"? can I look upon this, yet find a point to my sorrow? through the old child of earth I am linked to the past joined by cavemen who I've never met "And how happy I am to have found it at last!" "There is nothing, nothing, but that."
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