are you not infotained

@alopex-ii.bsky.social

chicago common brick lying in a tallgrass prairie | he/they

Was just thinking about the way lower stakes version of this where I (Cubs fan) watched a sungle highlight from a Cubs-Blue Jays game on Twitter and the algo decided that for weeks after that all I wanted to see was Blue Jays content

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4h ago

“X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” www.404media.co/xs-algorithm...

I get the impression that everyone’s mad about Flock cameras (unaccountable private actor, lies about capabilities, networked platform already rife with abuses) but somehow everyone’s talking past each other to include municipally operated and regulated traffic enforcement in that scorn

Doing this again from scratch again on a Friday night (very sexy I know) and I hate how it says shit like “I’m second-guessing myself…” while it processes. No you fucking aren’t. There’s no you. There’s no thinking involved here. Don’t patronize me

are you not infotained@alopex-ii.bsky.social · 4d ago

Well I might have stayed up late just to learn Figma Make is dumb as bricks but at least I also burned through a significant chunk of the company’s token allowance in the process

God I love being told a project I started is getting people’s attention and has tons of potential and it’s already starting conversations and I need to drop that shit immediately because we have to figure out if Claude is smarter than the stupidest junior designer on earth