@solane Best wishes to you in that endeavor! Yes, the fediverse does have some issues to address. Problems are being solved, over time, but we do need to be more effective.

@impermanen_

@impermanen_

I'm inclined to put a large part of the blame on the (too few) mods at masto social, though the software design also has a lot to answer for.

Here at TootCat, for example, we fediblock assholes* and defederate from instances that won't moderate them. There are many other well-moderated instances available, too (many of them substantially larger than ours).

I'm very sorry @solane got harassed off -- and this is hardly the first instance of this I've heard about; it happens a lot, which is too much.

* the idiomatic kind, I mean; no offense internded to donkeybutts

@JackMexa4 @bich @susiemagoo @blogdiva

That may be what I saw.

@Cassandra Hmm, yes -- definitely a possibility, there.

It does seem to bring out their nurturing mama-bear instincts... but also unfortunately their "my child is perfect, how dare you criticize them!" feels.

@bich @susiemagoo @blogdiva

Oh, I missed that! I thought I saw elsewhere that they were still voting red (by a small margin) in this election -- but maybe I had the context wrong or something.

(Can't access the full article, unfortch.)

Later thought: could it be that the AI Bro hype is basically just creativity-envy? Like "now I can be as creative and fluent as all you artsy dweebs out there -- worship my tech or get smoked in my silicon dust and datacenter heat-waste!!"

@saramg

Now my head is trying to rewrite Ernie's "Letter L" song so he's singing about how lyrical and lovely coding can be, while Bert keeps coming up with things like "linking", "linter", and "line number".

RE: https://isdream.ing/@mookie/117574042863960572

I think this parallels what I was saying earlier about #LLMs encouraging people's worst, most conformist tendencies.

The battle is hardly new, but "AI" makes it worse.

@denebeim I always find myself falling back on curiosity and creativity* -- but I guess that's more of a "how (to want to live)" than a "why (to live)".

(*in alignment with a certain Arthur C. Clarke quote)

@saramg Is this why coders are always "rubber-ducking"? :blobcatthinking:

@EugestShirley @ai6yr @Dougfir

Ahh, yeah, CA does have that to worry about too.

Hmm, maybe coastal communities in CA need to be, like, on wheels or something.

@tuban_muzuru @paninid

(I remember "Jerbs" from Homestar Runner :D)

Unfortunately, "conservatives" are notoriously bad at any math or other reasoning which conflicts with their group-beliefs.

(Also, I think it was FDR, not Teddy, who did the New Deal... and Biden enacted legislation on a similar scale, which would have been really tremendous if it had lived, but then most of it was undone by TFG. We need to make sure we don't lose momentum by 2028...)

@kookie oooh...

(I'd feel obligated to read it myself first, though, and... I have pretty much zero time for serious reading these days. le sad)

@scanlime Also the bags have to be the same brand as the groceries, or the bag will inexplicably fail on the way to your car.

@tuban_muzuru @paninid

I was thinking of global warming, but the "employment" economy also needs to go.

The whole point of automation is that we can have the same (or better) quality of life while working less -- and yet jobs are harder to find, worse than ever, and many people have to have three of them in order to achieve even a minimal standard of existence.

AI is the argument for UBI*.

[/rant]

(*...and breaking up every business into neighborhood-sized co-ops, but that's a different rant.)

@mwt Make the driver insurance rates proportional to how dangerous the vehicle is.

@ai6yr @EugestShirley @Dougfir

They should do what a lot of homes on the NC coast do: put the house high up on stilts, with only the carport or maybe a small guest-room at ground-level.

Of course, that won't do much if there's heavy debris in a storm, but it does give you a lot more margin when the flooding is gentle.

(I'm also imagining coastal towns of the future with elevated roadways and gondola-lift transit...)

@tuban_muzuru @paninid

I'd start with giving them some kind of future to look forward to -- and maybe we can start back into that work now? Maybe? Here's hoping.

@farah [offended] Hey! I have lots of hinges! ...somewhere. Not sure where I put them. Probably in the basement... maybe...

@tuban_muzuru @paninid

Unironically seems like a good exercise, though.