Jared White

A hearty hello from #Portland & the Pacific Northwest! 🌲 I'm a b/v+logger, podcaster, #Ruby & #WebDev-eloper, photographer, and musician.

I work on @bridgetown, a Ruby web framework. I also talk about ethics in content creation and activism against unregulated generative AI. Nice to meet you!

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2024-09-11 00:14:34

Here we go again…
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/113/116/031/873/449/408/original/96ca4da712bee701.jpeg

2024-08-30 20:23:07

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@npub1xed…yg9w I hope this toot finds you swell.

2024-08-14 01:50:50

Maybe I'm just a weirdo with zero nostalgia around old-school “car culture” …but I honestly can't explain why this would seem "cool" to anybody.
Do investors really get excited about this pablum? At this point, Tesla seems hell-bent on doing anything and everything *except* make good cars at affordable prices—y'know, the actual reason the company exists. 🙄
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/13/tesla-posts-job-listing-for-1950s-style-diner-elon-musk-has-proposed-building/

2024-08-07 18:27:00

People are marveling at how supremely well-executed the Harris-Walz campaign has been thus far.
It's almost like
* glances around conspiratorially and whispers *
She's extremely competent.
Who knew! 😜

2024-08-01 15:08:04

I'm a weird programmer.
I don't care that much about many of the things programmers "are supposed to" care about.
I think maybe that's why the paradigm of functional programming typically hasn't appealed to me.
The kind of programming I enjoy deals with the logic which emerges out of well-described disparate parts all sending messages back and forth to each other.
Sometimes it can feel like a digital "Rube Goldberg" machine. Press Go and watch the sequence of events unfold with glee! 🤩

2024-07-27 22:07:06

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@npub1g8e…qdqf womp womp

2024-07-22 18:21:50

To Boldly Go.
#Harris2024
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/112/831/529/317/613/016/original/d3544b7932363683.jpeg

2024-07-19 00:35:35

dafuq is this 😵‍💫
I think democracy just died in the darkness.
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/112/810/349/696/293/960/original/517f56068b04d38c.jpeg

2024-07-16 14:37:50

Celebrate Prime Day!
… by canceling Prime and boycotting Amazon! 😁
I did last year and couldn't be happier. Really don't need my cash going to that trash. ☺️

2024-07-14 03:09:55

I think it's OK if you just feel sick to your stomach and generally anxious.
I don't have anything snarky to say, nor do I have platitudes. I'm quite simply, aghast.
This is a hard, hard year for the American project. 🙁
#uspol

2024-07-12 23:37:03

This crowd's so fired up, President "Motown is Joetown" Biden can barely get through a single talking point. Detroit loves Biden!
https://mastodon.social/@Green_Footballs/112776075064829067

2024-07-07 21:09:48

The huge shift in UK politics, now positive momentum in France.
And here in the US, plenty of time over the next few months to work our tails off.
Don't give up on Democracy, peeps!

2024-06-29 23:02:10

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The thing that's a bit unnerving about this presidential election cycle is with the advanced age of *both* candidates, literally anything could happen between now and November. 😵‍💫
But assuming things don't change much healthwise between now and then, I think we're going to see much more clarity in the numbers based on policy and character alone.

2024-06-29 06:59:35

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@npub1wst…ez75 FWIW, my Mac mini base M1 is quite adept at video editing. Even as I go further down the Linux rabbit hole, I fully intend to keep my Mac running primarily for Final Cut and Logic.

2024-06-28 21:44:46

I remember when conservative Republicans would do nothing but complain about "activist" judges. It was to be condemned whenever the Supreme Court would take it upon themselves to dictate the law of the land instead of leaving it in the hands of the people and their elected officials.
Ah, those were the days… 🤡

2024-06-27 22:39:45

TFW I start to look over the description of a potential programming gig and I see phrases like "we're on a transformative and ambitious mission to redefine _____ with our AI-native platform" and "be a part of our journey to redefine the future with AI"
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/112/690/985/777/886/240/original/f0b198ac36866c54.mp4

2024-06-24 21:20:50

At some point, being an Apple fan turned into being an Apple apologist for certain folks, and those people have been coming after the EU since the DMA first dropped and no doubt will be even more upset about this.
Yet 2020s Apple is as egregious a monopolist as 1990s Microsoft, with arguably an even more alarming degree of control over key computing platforms (iOS/iPadOS).
I can't wag my finger at M$ in the 90s and pat Apple on the shoulder today. You shouldn't either.
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/112670868773681081

2024-06-23 02:43:21

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@npub1g8e…qdqf I didn't get very far building this out, but this is along the lines of what you're describing I think:
https://codeberg.org/jaredwhite/slow-software

2024-06-19 18:48:25

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@npub16u7…uend posted in another thread:
https://indieweb.social/@jaredwhite/112644769892867964

2024-06-18 17:21:10

Hello Fedi! 👋 I'm presently available for part-time contract web dev, with expertise in frontend architecture, performance, backing out of questionable dependencies aka Use the Platform™ (HTML & CSS FTW!), & accessibility. I'm also proficient in Ruby & Node-based full-stack monoliths, auditing legacy codebases, and open source strategies.
I'd love to have a conversation! (I'm also able to coach individuals & small teams to get you unstuck and making meaningful progress. Let's chat!)
#FediHire

2024-06-17 04:00:18

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@npub1g8e…qdqf Thank you! The absolute bare minimum of any ethical construct around AI is per-user opt-in, and unfortunately many of the systems out there don't honor that at all. I'm glad you're taking this stance.

2024-06-15 18:24:49

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@npub1y9z…3ykm *backs away slowly*
(great work you're doing BTW!)
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/112/622/035/636/697/390/original/225efe00f60f4287.mp4

2024-06-15 17:08:55

Read reading two articles on the same day—one from Seth Godin about using Perplexity instead of Google for searches, the other about how Perplexity is ignoring robots.txt and scraping everyone's data without consent—
is peak 2024 ethics shitfest wrapped in a clusterfuck.
Fun reading on a Saturday (after I was already spending time trying to figure out how to migrate off of Adobe Lightroom…the answer is, I have no clue!)… 🫠

2024-06-14 23:28:54

So…not only is Apple scraping the web for its “intelligence” and then letting you know after the fact in case you want to “opt out”…
…but it's backing up trucks full of cash to Google's doorstep for the privilege.
The more details I hear about all this, the more it stinks.
https://www.threads.net/@kalihays1/post/C8NgJXByrEg

2024-06-10 03:58:00

There seems to be a real renaissance of what I might call GNOME-assed GNOME apps, to riff off of the "Mac-assed Mac apps" refrain.
Feels like GTK 4 and the tooling around it appeals to a lot of developers building all sorts of amazing new apps and utilities. With each passing day, I start to wonder if I too would like to write a GNOME app.
It's so refreshing to see a "desktop" operating system in the modern era actually care about a cohesive app ecosystem which is welcoming to new entrants.

2024-06-05 21:31:00

My trigger finger to begin planning a serious migration towards Linux as my desktop/laptop OS of choice if WWDC24 doesn't seriously deliver:
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/112/566/144/560/139/608/original/61e6c6d7d3aff7bb.mp4

2024-06-05 14:59:18

This should become a meme:
“If you started with AI as the starting point for _________, what could you do differently? I think that was a real lightbulb moment for us”
😂
Run with it people!!
pulled from:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/hoop-frees-you-from-managing-your-to-do-list/

2024-06-02 05:17:56

Dear men, what is preventing you from looking like this?
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/112/545/331/441/446/750/original/e8242e8ad5cb28f8.jpeg

2024-06-02 04:32:51

Per my last LLM autogenerated electronic mail message…

2024-06-01 19:14:26

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@npub1g8e…qdqf Thank you Tim! 😊

2024-05-31 20:03:06

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@npub1qtf…yq3j I still respect and appreciate the Libertarian Party, I really do…
…but this isn't a year to roll the dice. We must do everything in our power to ensure convicted felon DJT will never be able to install himself as dictator in the Oval Office.

2024-05-31 18:52:46

I'm sorry I didn't vote for Hillary in 2016.
I didn't vote for Trump either. I voted for Gary Johnson. 😂
I obviously voted for Biden in 2020 though, and I'll *gladly* vote for him again this year. Broadly speaking, I sincerely believe he's been one of the best presidents America has seen in the modern age.
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/112/537/210/852/798/941/original/8d41e96e45c5ab61.png

2024-05-30 17:34:47

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@npub13q3…hr6l This is a cool project which I've enjoyed using:
https://github.com/muxinc/media-chrome
It's used for Mux's core product I believe.

2024-05-29 22:45:27

Oof. This is so low-energy and cringe. Has your local used-car salesman vibes, and not even very exciting at that. 😴
https://www.threads.net/@makenakellyx/post/C7kY4e5OtdX

2024-05-25 17:30:49

Kabosu, the Mona Lisa of dogs you might say, passed away yesterday. She will be greatly missed.
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/viral-dog-kabosu-inspired-doge-meme-dogecoin-dies/story?id=110535042
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/112/502/914/735/617/796/original/5cdd6ac503c51435.jpeg

2024-05-24 21:55:47

There's a whole lot of colorful language coming out of my mouth after reading this, which I won't subject you to. 🤦🏻‍♂️
“Google CEO Sundar Pichai Tells Employees They Don’t Need Money to Have Fun Amid Cost Cuts”
https://gizmodo.com/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-dont-equate-fun-with-money-1849577625

2024-05-18 15:28:13

My eldest daughter has recently become obsessed with fandom character-based chatbots.
They know how skeptical I am of this technology, but for them it's entertainment and it lets them experiment with social skills. (Their home life when they're not with me…well, let's just say it's been rather bleak.)
Anyway, I would never use this, but I told them I could see the appeal as a sort of interactive game.
For additional context:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/4/24144763/ai-chatbot-friends-character-teens

2024-05-16 16:30:50

I don't wish to sound negative or cast aspersions on OSS desktop contributors, but I was reading the discourse around a proposal to switch Fedora's default desktop to KDE Plasma instead of GNOME. I'm sorry, but nothing about this appeals to me:
https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/
I'm sure KDE is supremely capable…yet I have zero inclication to use it. Maybe it appeals to old-school Windows users? (Which I'm most certainly not.)
GNOME's UI is the *only* reason I now take a keen interest in desktop Linux!

2024-05-09 23:19:55

It's actually impressive that Apple flat-out apologized for the very cringey (though well-produced) Crush ad.
I can conjur up a myriad of ways they could have conveyed much the same idea and it would have been a fun and whimsical ad…instead this became the poster child for *everything wrong with the modern internet* (big tech hoovering up all human creativity only to turn around and sell us a poor approximation of it). I doubt that was Apple's intention.
Anyway…lesson learned? ??

2024-05-08 19:25:21

It's not fair! Biden and the Democrats give all these different people and businesses the stuff they need and so they like him! It's not fair!
…uh, so…that's the whole point. Y'all want to elect politicians who *don't* make people's lives better??!!

2024-05-07 19:30:30

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@npub1xed…yg9w What's the chicken mole of release notes? 🧑🏽‍🍳💋

2024-05-02 19:59:39

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@npub1kzk…k9tq Hi!
(I do a lot of design systems work in CSS)

2024-04-28 01:18:56

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@npub1nn8…8sed
Howard Jones - Conditioning
https://youtu.be/wo8m4sTrmb4?feature=shared
Depeche Mode - The Policy of Truth
https://youtu.be/7smG_3QdYtw?feature=shared

2024-04-24 21:18:16

"Ex-Microsoft software developer Igor Ostrovsky believes that soon, there won’t be a developer who doesn’t use AI in their workflows."
Read my lips: **I'll never use AI in my workflows.**
This is profoundly dangerous and unethical technology being promoted to the masses under false pretenses. Shame to see TechCrunch just parroting some startup CEO's propaganda without adequate context as to the nature of "stochastic parrots". Reporters, do your damn job!
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/112327893812943987

2024-04-24 16:57:05

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@npub16u7…uend A very good review, and as someone who saw the movie I can definitely remcommend it. It's terrifying and very bleak, which is sort of the point.

2024-04-23 04:10:00

Civil War.
Don't miss seeing this in a theater.
I would say this is a cinematic triumph, with filmmaker Alex Garland at the height of his powers, except that makes it sound like this is one hell of a ride.
Rather, it's hell. The movie is squarely in the genre of tragedy, with a metanarrative designed to make the viewer extremely uncomfortable by the end. I understand it and appreciate it and believe this is an Important Movie to watch.
Just don't expect good vibes afterwards. It's sorrowful.

2024-04-17 20:59:55

“Logitech’s latest wireless mouse features a dedicated ChatGPT button”
H E L P M E
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/112/288/569/066/569/295/original/b0940ecd6a19a703.mp4

2024-04-09 21:25:14

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@npub1xed…yg9w
41 commits to Bridgetown, and climbing! ☺️

2024-04-09 15:08:07

I know folks here have mixed feelings about Bluesky, and I definitely do as well, but if anyone is over there and likes it, I've started posting there again just a bit:
https://bsky.app/profile/jaredwhite.com
I want to try to understand the AT protocol better and what makes that platform unique, and how it relates to ActivityPub-based platforms.

2024-04-08 03:09:01

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@npub1nvp…agzg I keep thinking of this number: https://youtu.be/GsxqS03xrdI?feature=shared 😄

2024-04-05 04:35:51

Meanwhile on Threads…
…this dude mansplaining to Sir Paul McCartney what the meaning of a song should be that was written by Sir Paul McCartney.
Is there a “Razzies” for social media? Because this guy just won the award!
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/112/216/751/912/472/089/original/2d4c5f30e6623eec.png

2024-04-02 19:11:29

I've been making some noise lately about how much I still enjoy writing Ruby…
…but hypothetically-speaking, would I also enjoy writing GNOME desktop apps? And would I enjoy writing them in Swift?
Yes. Yes I think I would. ☺️
https://swift.org/blog/adwaita-swift/

2024-03-16 05:52:21

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@npub1ckm…gutz 1000%. I am faaaaarrr from being a fan of TikTok, but I also told my kids this ban idea was stupid. 😅 If only we could have safety and privacy protections put in place to regulate all large social media companies.…but no, let's rattle our sabers over the "commies". 🙄

2024-03-15 18:10:30

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@npub1agu…j0sk without delving deep into their latest material, I doubt they're in danger of going full QAnon/MAGA/etc. I think it's more of the “look at how enlightened I am!” vibe which seeks to rise above the political fray of the day and offer nice-sounding platitudes about things like freedom and individual liberty and free speech and we should all just listen to one another and get along better, blah blah blah. Reeks of white male privilege (yes I know Coleman is Black) which minimizes real harm.

2024-03-15 17:54:20

Finding out that "The Minimalists" who I was once into ~6 years ago have been red-pilled-lite, working with a new co-host who's associated with libertarians groups like FEE & Young America's Foundation, is just icing on the cake of a long string of disappointments.
Imaging living through the last several years and thinking: "y'know the biggest problem in America today? Not enough people can freely express themselves!" (and somehow I doubt they're referring to the BIPOC & LGBTQ+ communities…)
🤪

2024-03-13 14:38:39

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@npub1alq…mnj6 @npub1z6c…vh3e Thank you kindly…and allow me to go all fanboy here for a minute because ReadWriteWeb was a steady part of my media diet throughout the 2000s! 🙌

2024-03-11 19:45:23

> Having an office with barely working Wi-Fi sure is awkward for a company pushing a "return to office" plan that includes at least three days a week at Google's Wi-Fi desert.
😄
You think you're reading an article on The Onion, but you're not:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/googles-self-designed-office-swallows-wi-fi-like-the-bermuda-triangle/

2024-03-09 16:19:13

Ho ho! @npub1ll0…t7nf has done it again—outdone themselves really—and built the computer of my dreams: an M2-powered iMac G4. It's the perfect fusion of the 2000s and the 2020s and I want one so-o-o-o bad… 🤤😂
https://bitbang.social/@ActionRetro/112066498098801897

2024-03-08 21:26:03

Hello! It’s your friendly neighborhood Fedi-Man, here to remind you that you don't actually need to "use" YouTube.
You can subscribe to your favorite creators via @npub1q4h…7knw, alongside lots of other awesome blogs and RSS sources.
And you can watch individual YouTube links you come across via alternate frontends like @npub1p86…gj29.
I created a Shortcut to let me convert any YouTube video URL to an Invidious one and watch it there. Feel free to download and tweak as you like!
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/af5dfc144f2e476e9a3279ad69b1c2ad

2024-03-06 16:04:39

This is brilliant. The Biden campaign should be and is courting Nikki Haley supporters. It's a reversal of the so-called Reagan Democrats of the 80s. Call it "Biden Republicans" of 2024. 🙌
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/112/049/591/110/731/866/original/c299c09aa74a4586.jpeg

2024-03-05 18:23:43

Well surprise, surprise.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4509256-trust-ai-companies-drops-new-study/

2024-03-03 16:14:35

Goooooood mornin' Mastodon! 🤓

2024-02-28 18:53:37

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* You don't always need to self-host literally…you can also use services "self-hosted" by operators you trust, as we regularly see in the fediverse with various instances.
But the point is to use services where it's easy to vet the the folks who run them, it's easy to migrate your data away at any time, and it's easy to switch to true self-hosting whenever you need to.
This is the new software freedom.
2/2

2024-02-28 18:51:55

The new battle over software freedoms has less to do with proprietary vs. open source and more to do with centralized cloud vs. decentralized self-hosting*.
Because as we repeatedly see, using centralized cloud services is a recipe for disaster. User data is treated like a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder, good UX is repeatedly set aside in the name of juicing numbers, and you can't even trust the software you use to remain in its lane rather than “pivot”.
Take control back! 1/2

2024-02-27 03:07:46

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@npub15l7…aang Really enjoyable vlog! Makes me even more excited to be coming up again to Seattle next month. Won't have time to see a hockey game, but that's definitely going on my bucket list.
I think I'm more skeptical than you even of the premise that generative AI tools are capable of replacing jobs (setting aside the ethics of it). I think we're being sold a bill of goods, with hype vastly outpacing the reality of how the technology actually works. Debatable of course, but that's my 2c.

2024-02-27 01:33:11

I'm so damn proud of these kids. It's true to say that the kids aren't alright, but also, the kids are most definitely alright. 🙌
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/nex-benedict-oklahoma-student-walkout-1234975991/

2024-02-19 17:53:07

February 2024 kicked me, and then kicked me again while I was down. 😡 I have not been a happy camper.
Yet hope springs eternal, and I want to acknowledge a few things I’m currently grateful for…Good Coffee, Bridgetown, The Tourist, Thoughts.
Today on the #blog:
https://jaredwhite.com/20240219/feb-2024-go-to-hell

2024-02-16 17:38:39

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. –Issac Asimov
Leadership requires killing people. –Tucker Carlson

2024-02-15 20:38:55

This makes me incredibly sad.
Nitter was the only way I could could access a small number of accounts there with reasonable frequency. I refuse to subject my computing devices to that hellscape directly. Oh well. I'm now 100% disconnected. RIP Nitter 😢
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/twitter-front-end-nitter-dies-as-musk-wins-war-against-third-party-services/

2024-02-14 03:44:19

Putting “AI” in Firefox will simply hasten its untimely demise.
I know I said I was optimistic about a corporate leadership change, but if all they manage to do in the end to bolster Firefox is pull moves like this…I think we're looking at the beginning of the end. 🙁

2024-02-14 00:06:38

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@npub1g8e…qdqf @npub1efu…6upq @npub1fz3…hwpj @npub1uda…sv6e Fantastic. ✌️

2024-02-13 04:11:34

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@npub1l8q…f4up That video was truly remarkable.
As a non-athlete, I have some (for me) crazy goals like summiting Mt. Hood, and being in my 40s already, I'm definitely feeling that "welp, you ain't gettin' any younger!" angst building. 😅 I need this kind of inspiration!

2024-02-07 18:03:42

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@npub1xed…yg9w @npub1z9m…rz2z @npub1ap8…e6pt I really appreciate all the details here. I'm getting ready to go default ESM for the esbuild / postcss / sass config in Bridgetown going forward…a dramatically simpler process since most code is in Ruby, but still it's helpful to see the road you've paved!

2024-02-06 15:36:15

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@npub1xed…yg9w this is niiiiice

2024-02-05 17:34:03

Sucks, but I just had to unsub from a comic creator who engaged in kid-shaming. 🙁
Children are the absolute best thing on this green earth. I get so upset whenever I see people making fun of children as if they're nothing more than the sum of ther tantrums and mistakes. I would rather spend time with my two kids than virtually anyone else alive. You can have your celebrities, your moguls, your intellectuals and your titans. I just want my kids.
Being a dad is fucking great. 🙌

2024-02-03 19:12:50

Best review of Apple Vision Pro, bar none.
And OF COURSE it's Casey Neistat doing this. OF COURSE. 😂 😎
(P. S. To touch on a past Apple moment…he's wearing it wrong. 😜 Apple very obviously did not build a headset you can use out in public. But let's face it…if you're like Casey—or you're like me—that's exactly how you *do* want to be using it. Out in the real world. Real honest-to-goodness AR. Not stuck at a desk or in your easy chair at home.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvkgmyfMPks

2023-06-21 16:32:32

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@npub1g8e…qdqf Incredible work. We're seeing the early days of a wholesale transformation of online discourse. Very exciting.

2023-06-16 23:11:29

"Reddit represents one of the largest data sets of just human beings talking about interesting things," Huffman said. "We are not in the business of giving that away for free."
You and me, we're just data sets. Years of interaction with fellow human beings, building community, sharing insight and creativity…it’s all just data. Data to be mined and monetized.
Huffman's not mad Reddit was scraped for a chatbot. He's mad he wasn't paid for the privilege. It's his data, you see. His. Not yours.

2023-06-16 22:39:23

Good grief, now I'm getting chided by a software company for calling out their B.S. marketing on ChatGPT integration with stuff like “it's natural for humans to get a bit defensive when it comes to alleged uniqueness of our cognition” (that's a real quote, I'm not making this up)
Y'all, I want a tech company representative attempting to lecture me on the philosophy of human cognition like I want an anesthetic-free root canal. WTF is going on??!

2023-06-15 03:55:09

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@npub1c5c…644a @npub1eee…e209 Right. Now one can argue if that's a good thing or a bad thing. But if it's already a facet of life today, there's no reason to expect a product which comes along like Vision Pro is suddenly going to usher in this massive societal change. Seems very handwavy.

2023-06-15 03:27:08

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@npub1eee…e209 Where’s this mythical land where large families are constantly gathering around a ginormous TV and watching the same show together? 😂 I can barely get my kids to want to watch anything together. They're off with their (separate) iPads/iPhones for most of their leisure time.
I think this meme of “omg Vision Pro is so isolating" is ignoring the reality of how a lot of people are *already* spending their time right now…

2023-06-13 04:54:34

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@npub19xy…gky4 That's truly awful and I'm sorry you've experienced such harassment. ☹️

2023-06-12 22:09:24

Out at the #OregonCoast on an absolutely breathtaking day and getting pretty decent internet to boot. Remind why again I'm supposed to go into the office? 😂
#RemoteWork #Oregon #NoFilter
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2023-06-08 04:41:30

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@npub1k08…6xvn @npub1xtm…3hcj @npub1qu2…uj0d Whoa, having Discourse be a participant in the fediverse feels huge. Suddenly instead of each Discourse instance feeling like a mini walled garden…multiple ones can form a mesh which can be followed by folks at large on Mastodon and elsewhere. I am super excited about this!!

2023-06-07 21:18:05

So apparently I'm going to need to spend the next six+ months explaining to my children why I'm _not_ buying an individual $3,500 headset for each of them, because when it finally dawned on them it'll run all their iPhone/iPad apps & games & streaming services from day one, their heads literally exploded.

2023-06-06 15:39:11

I am unapologetically humanist.
What I mean by that is:
* I believe technology should exist to enrich the lives of humans, not enslave them.
* I believe cities and transportation should be built around human-sized interaction and community.
* I believe environmental resources should be protected and nourished for the benefit of all current and future humans.
* I believe government should strive to foster a *humane* and *fair* society for all humans.

2023-06-04 21:21:32

IMHO a list of actually awesome “disruptive technologies” folks should focus on:
1. Micromobility (truly life-changing!)
2. New Urbanism (car-light/car-free zones, high-speed rail, etc.)
3. Apple-quality AR/VR (maybe…we'll see tomorrow!)
4. The Fediverse
5. Innovative organic farming to combat climate change
6. Ubiquitous (aka global) and cheap wireless internet
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759283412: Generative AI
759283413: Cryptocurrency

2023-06-01 22:47:42

Anyone interested in doing the digital nomad thang on the left coast of the U.S. should come to #Portland #Oregon! It's gorgeous weather now in the #PNW, we don't have any sales tax unlike our neighbors to the north or south, and everything is lush and green. You get whiffs of perfume just walking by flower beds. World-class coffee houses galore. $5 all-day public transit. Bike or scooter rentals everywhere. What's not to like?!

2023-05-22 13:55:05

Monday already?! Good grief. 🤦🏻‍♂️
Thankfully, I got my bike fixed after far too long procrastinating, so now I can pedal around to coffee shops and other fun destinations. 🚲☕️

2023-05-17 01:10:19

I wish I could post nothing but positive things all day. But there's just so much attention on a tiny handful of individuals who really don't deserve any attention.
Following on the heels of a disastrous CNN townhall featuring Trump, we get a CNBC interview featuring Musk. I honestly don't know what to make of it. He acts like a 12-year-old boy being called out for some obvious nonsense and he's like Ppfff, whatcha gonna do about it? I'll say anything I want, neener.
What an ubsurd little man.

2023-05-16 02:20:14

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@npub1ldk…5msg @npub12qk…8srs Super weird way to describe Bluesky. I've been using it some, and I spend nearly every day *in Portland coffee houses* and I don't see any resemblance between the two. If anything, Bluesky feels more like L.A. Lots of people trying to act cooler than they are. Very performative. Craving attention.

2023-05-10 23:40:38

Boy does this rub me the wrong way:
https://qz.com/it-s-not-just-conversation-gen-z-is-missing-some-essent-1850422464
Translation: past communication styles which only ever appealed to a certain subsegment of the population are no longer in vogue, so we must "train" youngsters how to reclaim those styles.
🤮
Feels regressive, ableist, patronizing, and in certain contexts downright dangerous.
I'm particularly mad about the “chat with the boss after the meeting to advance your career" bullshit. That is the antithesis of a healthy remote work culture!

2023-05-09 21:40:31

White supremacist dirtbag Elon Musk decides to officially platform and sponsor white supremacist dirtbag Tucker Carlson.
What could possibly go wrong? 🤔

2023-05-01 19:05:35

I know this is likely controversial, but I'm just not worried about "centralization" of Mastodon.social at all (wake me up when it's 10x-50x larger than it is now), and I honestly believe every major #Fediverse app should default to its own instance for signups.
The whole point of the Fediverse isn't "yo, now personally choose from 9,000 different Mastodon instances that superficially look interchangable" — it's that a variety of different social web services and organizations can all interop.

2023-04-30 14:27:16

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@npub120z…33r2 I'm having difficulty opting into the directory, keeps saying server error

2023-04-26 14:46:49

I was traveling through Washington State earlier this week, and I must say the setting of Gig Harbor on the Kitsap Peninsula simply blew me away. What a sublimely beautiful location. #PNW #PacificNorthwest
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2023-04-21 22:30:37

I'm can't say I'm terribly upset at the whole “blue checkmark people losing their blue checkmarks” scenario because the system *always* sucked and was *always* rigged.
Verification should verify that a person is who they claim they are online. Not that they're a celebrity or "important" in some totally arbitrary and often bullshit way as a literal status symbol.
You, me, and everyone you know should all be verifiable. It's as simple as that. And that's how Mastodon works. Good!

2023-01-26 03:05:19

Read my lips:
An audio show that can only be played in an Apple player on an Apple device is not a podcast.
An audio show that can only be played in Spotify is not a podcast.
Repeat ad nauseam for any other proprietary audio show platforms.
A #podcast is an #RSS feed with enclosures of audio files which are playable across the whole ecosystem of podcast players.
Any reporter who reports on exclusive audio shows and calls them “podcasts” are doing a grave disservice to their audience.