I really do see your point, but I don’t think you’re giving younger generations enough credit. There’s a growing movement of young people opting out of big tech. They’re dusting off their parents’ old iPods, going back to retro games, reading physical books, and so on.

Honestly, I’ve always considered myself a technologist, but with the direction tech is heading, I’ve decided to mostly opt out too.

So much of our technology has been compromised. The oligarchs who control it can use AI to fake whatever they want and push any agenda they like. The disruption you’re describing is nothing compared to the all-out psychological assault we’ve been under for years. Anything you try will get filtered out or buried by their countermeasures.

Open source is the best thing we have going for us. Even so, I think the best thing we can collectively do is… disconnect.

And reconnect IRL.

What a lovely glimpse into the retro map making community! Got huge nostalgia hit remembering trying to learn to make maps for Quake 3.

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…in the work day

I largely agree with you, but they do make a fair point: all knowledge has some value. Football trivia won’t help you in your research, but general knowledge of football might help you break the ice in a social setting where you’d otherwise feel awkward or out of place.

Lol for those who missed it, the Digg reboot actually failed and shut down, and now they’re planning to reboot it again, this time repositioning it as “Digg for AI agents.”

This one really made me think, thanks. It really depends on how far you zoom out though. The mind could have been under assault due to acute or chronic physical pain from the body.

What a vibe. Going to listen to this with headphones when I get home.

I loved the art style of the original but something about the gameplay bored me so I bounced off and never finished it.

I know you’ve got the most downvoted comment here, but I actually agree with you completely.

Using AI to replace genuine creative work is depressing.

In my experience, the latest AI tools (and agents) are more than capable of cutting corporate corners and generating the kind of bullshit busywork that defines so many “bullshit jobs.”

It feels like the perfect use case for AI given the system so many of us are stuck in. Be smart and use AI to get some of your time back at the expense of your employers.

You sound like a really wise dude. When you put it that way, it’s sooo true, I can’t believe that the simple act of buying a random book in cash is the antithesis of how consumerism works these days (we go online, read reviews, get tracked, get recommended books based on our search query and our “profile”, etc)

Also, may I ask what kind of games you’re into? That was a huge dilemma for me in the past. Like, should I run Linux or Windows. In the end, I gave up PC gaming after a lifetime of being a hardcore PC gamer and moved to console for simplicity sake.

Thank you for such a thoughtful response. You and I are pretty much on the same page on everything. I’m relieved to see that I’m not the only one who feels this way.

It’s unavoidable, isn’t it?

I checked my RSS feeds once today and read that SpaceX is developing their own particle accelerator.

1. No need for you to jump in, pretty sure the incoming black hole will take care of it.
2. No RSS for me tomorrow.

It would be different if you saw something regarding a change towards improvement but that’s never seen, you just get another endless scroll of shit that is destroying society with no way to change it.

Yes, that’s exactly how I feel. It’s almost as if it’s being deliberately rubbed in our faces about our true collective powerlessness in this moment.

The fediverse is just as bad as any other social network out there. Although the leaning is opposite, it’s still full of extremism, hyperbolic hatred, ridicule, mockery, division and sufferporn. Without filters, it would be as unusable to me as, say, facebook or trump’s social network.

Yes! I have so many filters enabled in my Lemmy client, but this morning, I stumbled upon a screenshot (since filters aren’t smart enough to extract content from screenshots) of an Epstein email that was so incredibly disturbing in its implication. These aren’t my vile thoughts, yet they’ve been bouncing around my mind all day.

I can’t take it anymore.

Please stay strong out there.

Why no mask?

Word choice is important here. Labeling woke ideology a “virus” implies accusers are deploying their own counter-ideology “virus”. We know that billionaire owned algorithms and social media echo chambers are already doing this to vulnerable people, but this confession hints at something even darker and not yet public.

This actually reminds me of the theory of quantum immortality (the idea that you’re immortal because your consciousness will always continue on in branches of reality where you survive). It kind of fits with your description of awareness “moving forward” only along certain coordinates of time or possibility.

I think he means that he actually enjoys the version that he’s getting 😊

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I understand your point hence my upvote. I don’t know about you, but I mainly use Lemmy on a phone made by Apple. Many of my friends use Google phones and Microsoft computers.