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Alex Groves:
🎵 Hold Me Close
#AlexGroves
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Sandhouse:
🎵 Make Me Small
#Sandhouse
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@ErikUden@mastodon.dethank you, satan
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open mike eagle:
🎵 Contraband
#openmikeeagle
https://openmikeeagle.bandcamp.com/track/contraband-the-plug-has-bags-of-me
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@andycarolan@social.lolIf anyone I have a connection with has any thoughts on part or full time design/illustration roles, I would LOVE to hear from you.
18 years experience and am open to new challenges!
#lookingforwork #getfedihired
My most recently uploaded work can be found in my portfolio at https://www.andycarolan.com
If you wish to find out more about me as a person, my strengths, skills and what I'm like to work with, please take a look at my personal user manual at https://www.andycarolan.com/myusermanual
CV/Resume on request
@davej@dice.camp
@aral@mastodon.ar.alPlease understand that I say this with the utmost sincerity: Go fuck yourself you genocidal piece of shit. People are being starved to death and being murdered with bullets while lining up for food while being starved to death and this is what you have to say, you utter piece of human trash? Assholes like you without a thread of human decency are the reason human suffering is allowed to exist. You make me sick.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialWhy AI can't possibly make you more productive; long
#AI and "productivity", some thoughts:
Edit: fixed some typos.
Productivity is a concept that isn't entirely meaningless outside the context of capitalism, but it's a concept that is heavily inflected in a capitalist context. In many uses today it effectively means "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations." This is not really what it should mean: even in an anarchist utopia, people would care about things like how many shirts they can produce in a week, although in an "I'd like to voluntarily help more people" way rather than an "I need to meet this quota to earn my survival" way. But let's roll with this definition for a second, because it's almost certainly what your boss means when they say "productivity", and understanding that word in a different (even if truer) sense is therefore inherently dangerous.
Accepting "productivity" to mean "satisfying your boss' expectations," I will now claim: the use of generative AI cannot increase your productivity.
Before I dive in, it's imperative to note that the big generative models which most people think of as constituting "AI" today are evil. They are 1: pouring fuel on our burning planet, 2: psychologically strip-mining a class of data laborers who are exploited for their precarity, 3: enclosing, exploiting, and polluting the digital commons, and 4: stealing labor from broad classes of people many of whom are otherwise glad to give that labor away for free provided they get a simple acknowledgement in return. Any of these four "ethical issues" should be enough *alone* to cause everyone to simply not use the technology. These ethical issues are the reason that I do not use generative AI right now, except for in extremely extenuating circumstances. These issues are also convincing for a wide range of people I talk to, from experts to those with no computer science background. So before I launch into a critique of the effectiveness of generative AI, I want to emphasize that such a critique should be entirely unnecessary.
But back to my thesis: generative AI cannot increase your productivity, where "productivity" has been defined as "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations."
Why? In fact, what the fuck? Every AI booster I've met has claimed the opposite. They've given me personal examples of time saved by using generative AI. Some of them even truly believe this. Sometimes I even believe they saved time without horribly compromising on quality (and often, your boss doesn't care about quality anyways if the lack of quality is hard to measure of doesn't seem likely to impact short-term sales/feedback/revenue). So if generative AI genuinely lets you write more emails in a shorter period of time, or close more tickets, or something else along these lines, how can I say it isn't increasing your ability to meet your boss' expectations?
The problem is simple: your boss' expectations are not a fixed target. Never have been. In virtue of being someone who oversees and pays wages to others under capitalism, your boss' game has always been: pay you less than the worth of your labor, so that they can accumulate profit and thus more capital to remain in charge instead of being forced into working for a wage themselves. Sure, there are layers of management caught in between who aren't fully in this mode, but they are irrelevant to this analysis. It matters not how much you please your manager if your CEO thinks your work is not worth the wages you are being paid. And using AI actively lowers the value of your work relative to your wages.
Why do I say that? It's actually true in several ways. The most obvious: using generative AI lowers the quality of your work, because the work it produces is shot through with errors, and when your job is reduced to proofreading slop, you are bound to tire a bit, relax your diligence, and let some mistakes through. More than you would have if you are actually doing and taking pride in the work. Examples are innumerable and frequent, from journalists to lawyers to programmers, and we laugh at them "haha how stupid to not check whether the books the AI reviewed for you actually existed!" but on a deeper level if we're honest we know we'd eventually make the same mistake ourselves (bonus game: spot the swipe-typing typos I missed in this post; I'm sure there will be some).
But using generative AI also lowers the value of your work in another much more frightening way: in this era of hype, it demonstrates to your boss that you could be replaced by AI. The more you use it, and no matter how much you can see that your human skills are really necessary to correct its mistakes, the more it appears to your boss that they should hire the AI instead of you. Or perhaps retain 10% of the people in roles like yours to manage the AI doing the other 90% of the work. Paradoxically, the *more* you get done in terms of raw output using generative AI, the more it looks to your boss as if there's an opportunity to get enough work done with even fewer expensive humans. Of course, the decision to fire you and lean more heavily into AI isn't really a good one for long-term profits and success, but the modern boss did not get where they are by considering long-term profits. By using AI, you are merely demonstrating your redundancy, and the more you get done with it, the more redundant you seem.
In fact, there's even a third dimension to this: by using generative AI, you're also providing its purveyors with invaluable training data that allows them to make it better at replacing you. It's generally quite shitty right now, but the more use it gets by competent & clever people, the better it can become at the tasks those specific people use it for. Using the currently-popular algorithm family, there are limits to this; I'm not saying it will eventually transcend the mediocrity it's entwined with. But it can absolutely go from underwhelmingly mediocre to almost-reasonably mediocre with the right training data, and data from prompting sessions is both rarer and more useful than the base datasets it's built on.
For all of these reasons, using generative AI in your job is a mistake that will likely lead to your future unemployment. To reiterate, you should already not be using it because it is evil and causes specific and inexcusable harms, but in case like so many you just don't care about those harms, I've just explained to you why for entirely selfish reasons you should not use it.
If you're in a position where your boss is forcing you to use it, my condolences. I suggest leaning into its failures instead of trying to get the most out of it, and as much as possible, showing your boss very clearly how it wastes your time and makes things slower. Also, point out the dangers of legal liability for its mistakes, and make sure your boss is aware of the degree to which any of your AI-eager coworkers are producing low-quality work that harms organizational goals.
Also, if you've read this far and aren't yet of an anarchist mindset, I encourage you to think about the implications of firing 75% of (at least the white-collar) workforce in order to make more profit while fueling the climate crisis and in most cases also propping up dictatorial figureheads in government. When *either* the AI bubble bursts *or* if the techbros get to live out the beginnings of their worker-replacement fantasies, there are going to be an unimaginable number of economically desperate people living in increasingly expensive times. I'm the kind of optimist who thinks that the resulting social crucible, though perhaps through terrible violence, will lead to deep social changes that effectively unseat from power the ultra-rich that continue to drag us all down this destructive path, and I think its worth some thinking now about what you might want the succeeding stable social configuration to look like so you can advocate towards that during points of malleability.
As others have said more eloquently, generative AI *should* be a technology that makes human lives on average easier, and it would be were it developed & controlled by humanists. The only reason that it's not, is that it's developed and controlled by terrible greedy people who use their unfairly hoarded wealth to immiserate the rest of us in order to maintain their dominance. In the long run, for our very survival, we need to depose them, and I look forward to what the term "generative AI" will mean after that finally happens.
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Amyl and the Sniffers:
🎵 Doing In Me Head
#AmylandtheSniffers
https://amylandthesniffers.bandcamp.com/track/doing-in-me-head
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@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 03 - Traitor
FORBUS: Oh no, please, don't do that. Look. This is the test sample ... [He starts to reach for his detonator control on the desk.]
SERVALAN: I told you, [knocks away his hand - Forbus yelps in pain.] I'm not interested. I'll teach you to obey me if I have to destroy all your skinny little body. [She points a gun at him and fires. He falls from his wheelchair to the floor. Leitz enters]
@jensilber@mastodon.socialThis one is around the corner from my office. I never suspected what it might look like on the inside.
https://www.instagram.com/zillowgonewild/p/DMMMikYumtR/
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Ini Kamoze:
🎵 Listen Me Tic
#IniKamoze
https://open.spotify.com/track/16utuQTGgstocQFKQoE51t
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Judi Jackson:
🎵 Peel Me A Grape
#JudiJackson
https://open.spotify.com/track/2M9M7iOki5mRT0ZdVKT7PK
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@davidshq@hachyderm.ioI've been using ClickUp for a few months now...and like every other productivity tool I've used over the last number of years it has its pros and cons.
It's got a lot of features but sometimes pretty basic features don't "just work" - and that makes me unhappy. 🙁
For example, right now I have some recurring tasks that will not allow an update to their due date manually. If I set a new date it resets back to the original date. Even more concerning is that this isn't clear from the UI.
The UI acts as if the change was successful but a page refresh reveals the change didn't save.
But the real reason I wanted to post wasn't about ClickUp particularly but about chatbots in general. They verified that my issue was an actual bug and created a ticket for it but the way I've been instructed to view the ticket status is by opening the chatbot, telling it I want information on my ticket (pasting in the ticket ID) and after doing all that I get this
5/6: Umm, no. I want to see an actual ticket please. I don't want to have to talk to a chatbot to see it. Chatbots really are great for a lot of things (during the free trial of ClickUp I found the chatbot quite helpful in learning how to do things without searching through docs) but this sort of "there is a direct record", please no. Or let me paste it in and do the lookup immediately - and provide a permalink so I don't need to chat every time!
I'm sticking with ClickUp at the moment, but one of these days when I magically get a large amount of free time, I'm going to write my own solution...I've only been saying that for a few years now. ;-)
#clickup #productivity #chatbots #projectmanagement #tasks
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialI'd like to say something to you all.
If you are so "private" that you won't even appear on my "follows" list in my notifications I'm going to remove you from my followers.
If you have information that Mastodon removed the feature where we can see "follows" please let me know
#Mastodon
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TV on the Radio:
🎵 Wolf Like Me (Greg B Remix)
#TVontheRadio
https://filastox.bandcamp.com/track/tv-on-the-radio-wolf-like-me
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Caribou:
🎵 Come Find Me
#Caribou
https://caribouband.bandcamp.com/track/come-find-me
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@luana@wetdry.worldHonestly I’m really disappointed. Why releasing a new model if it’s worse than the previous one?
Fairphone 5 always seemed like a miracle, a phone that actually cared about being fair and that had good postmarketOS support while still having good modern specs compared to other companies phones out there. Fairphone 6 had me excited since the obvious assumption would be even better hardware, but then that’s what we got? Damn, is the dream of a fair phone with good specs over?
As it is today, I’d probably buy a Fairphone 5 over a Fairphone 6. But then once that became outdated, which will happen eventually, it seems that I’d just be orphaned without a phone to upgrade to…
I hope they revert this when they make the Fairphone 7.
Please tell me that the dream of a postmarketOS phone with great specs isn’t over… 
#Fairphone #Fairphone5 #Fairphone6 #postmarketOS
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Nik Rawlings:
🎵 I was in the tide, the tide was in me
#NikRawlings
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Amyl and the Sniffers:
🎵 Doing In Me Head (Glastonbury 2025)
#AmylandtheSniffers
https://amylandthesniffers.bandcamp.com/track/doing-in-me-head
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Friar Juan Diaz, Garcilaso de la Vega & Qvinta Essençia:
🎵 ¡Quién me dixera, Elisa, vida mía!
#FriarJuanDiaz #GarcilasodelaVega #QvintaEssençia
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Connie Francis:
🎵 You're Gonna Miss Me
#ConnieFrancis
https://juelsbland.bandcamp.com/track/youre-gonna-miss-me-connie-francis
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The Headhunters:
🎵 God Made Me Funky
#TheHeadhunters
https://belohnungszentrum.bandcamp.com/track/the-headhunters-god-made-me-funky-belohnungszentrum-remix
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Factory Floor:
🎵 Tell Me
#FactoryFloor
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://factoryfloor.bandcamp.com/album/tell-me
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Paul Weller:
🎵 You Do Something To Me
#PaulWeller
https://djpantelis.bandcamp.com/track/paul-weller-you-do-something-to-me-dj-pantelis-remix
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Brittany Davis:
🎵 Change Me
#BrittanyDavis
https://brittany-davis.bandcamp.com/track/change-me
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Diles que no me maten:
🎵 Tan Grande Nada
#Dilesquenomematen
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://mexicansummer.bandcamp.com/track/tan-grande-nada
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![She said it wasn't a friend group, she was aware we'd called it a "hoe union" and had "rules"
I said that it literally is made up of friends. And there aren't any enforced "rules" it's all voluntary.
I then got frustrated and asked why she thought it was appropriate to involve herself in private conversation that happened outside of school and campus, and left.
AITA for making that group chat?
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