officerripley / is on Nostr

Old, married, childless, dog lady; recovering boomer (thk u for your patience); environmentalist whose fave outdoor activity is going bk inside; hobby: consuming information; Pronouns: she, her, her AGAIN?!

Last Notes

2025-05-22 12:11:21

#tech #technology #techbros #techlords
Stupid Quote of the Day:
"I don't even know why we study history...[W]hat already happened doesn't really matter...In technology, all that matters is tomorrow."
~~Anthony Levandowski, Waymo cofounder

2025-05-21 15:44:42

#read #reading #books #bookstodon
#technology #tech #techbros #techlords #SiliconValley
Just finished the fantastic book More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity by Adam Becker. An amazing book; you must read it!

2025-05-20 23:56:48

#atheism #tech #technology #techlords #techbros
Lol, the techlords & techbros are always saying they're atheist but have elevated that Singularity & Transhuman crap to cult levels.

2025-05-01 14:39:59

#resist #maga
Old MacDonald had a farm E I E I O. Then he decided the Nazis his grandpa fought were the good guys, voted accordingly, and lost the farm. The end.

2025-04-26 01:24:24

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@nprofile…fv4z @nprofile…vuu7
I just checked their site and unfortunately, no, it's not possible to gift ebooks at this time. Maybe they'll add that later.

2025-04-26 01:24:24

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@nprofile…fv4z @nprofile…vuu7
I just checked their site and unfortunately, no, it's not possible to gift ebooks at this time. Maybe they'll add that later.

2025-04-26 00:15:21

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@nprofile…vuu7
Yes, Bookshop.org sells e-books now too!

2025-04-26 00:15:21

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@nprofile…vuu7
Yes, Bookshop.org sells e-books now too!

2025-04-16 13:30:05

#resist #trans #TransRights #transition #transrightsarehumanrights #lgbtqia
Dear Earthlings: Please stop policing peoples' genitals and start policing the goddam sociopaths/dictators/billionaires! FFS.

2025-03-04 19:30:41

#tech #technology #cable
The channel my cable company (#xfinity #comcast) is most likely to have trouble with: whichever one I'm watching.

2025-02-26 01:19:58

#resist #tech #techlords #techbros #technology
We have repeatedly demonstrated our species’ bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good...While it’s to be expected that the human perspective will be changed by encounters with profound new technologies, the exercise of treating machine intelligence as real requires people to reduce their mooring to reality.
~~from You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier

2025-02-16 22:21:48

#resist #techlords #technology #tech
"The cult of the entrepreneur [has] produced a group of buyout artists and savings and loan owners who [are] little better than criminals."
~~from Listen, Liberal by Thomas Frank

2025-02-16 19:44:18

#resist #technology #techlords
"Somehow there is always room for people to dismiss concerns as 'overblown and unfounded' past the first attempted coup, and well into an authoritarian power grab."
~~Miriam Eric Suzanne @nprofile…43g2

2025-02-16 19:19:26

#resist #techlords #technology
Today's quote:
"AI tends to sand away the unusual."
Janelle Shane