SofawolfOne 🔜 Eurofurence

@sofawolfone.bsky.social

CEO and Co-Founder of Sofawolf Press • Business Border Collie • Market Socialist • Furry • Notion Ambassador • Siberian Huskyologist • LGBTQIA+ • Stuff about me: https://jeffery-eddy.super.site/ • 🚫AI

I love technology. I started with an IBM8088 that had a 20MB hard drive (cutting edge at the time). I've spent much of my life working with or for technology. The Internet introduced me to my husband and many adult friends all over the globe. I'm beginning to wonder if the cost was worth it.

NOT EVERYTHING IS AI SOME THINGS ARE JUST BAD LET THINGS JUST BE BAD I legit would like more poorly written, poorly drawn, poorly whatever pierce of art and less AI. At least they tried.

Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”

The thing about BlueSky is that, without an algorithm to abuse, there is very little the parent corporation CAN do to change things / push content. They can introduce new things, but it's up to users if they want to engage with it or not. There's not much they can do to change that now.

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

anecdotally, everyone I know who has managed to get an ADHD diagnosis - all of whom have had to scrape the money together to go privately because the waiting list is 18 years or some shit - have found the diagnosis and the meds generally life-changing. huge improvements in quality of life

SMD@anothersmd.bsky.social · 3d ago

can't stress enough this assault on neurodivergent people is fucking grim because of how difficult it is to get any kind of support if you're an adult. and that's not even including the hoops you have to jump through and frankly how western-centric it all is.

we are talking about covid because their base is pissed and telling pollsters they won’t show up and the racism dial is already turned as far as it can go but they think maybe there’s a little blood to be squeezed still from the fauci stone. that’s it. that’s the only reason we are doing this.

I think the pandemic broke us as a society. The selfishness and hostility from the deniers and anti mask/vaxxers laid bare, like nothing before, just how shitty some people truly are. I’m not sure it can be forgiven or forgotten.

During COVID, medical workers filled latex gloves with warm water so the dying could feel like their hands were being held by another person as they died alone in hospitals pushed to the brink of collapse. People who downplay the horrors of the pandemic to focus on its inconveniences are fools.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d ago

There are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?

It's simple. When you take a shallow, narcissistic, spoiled rich white boy and tell them they can't do something, they become fascists. The answer for why Republicans and why TechBros is the same answer, stemming from the same personality flaw. These are very simple animals with simple motivations.

Andrew Mueller@andrewmueller.bsky.social · 4d ago

Latest Foreign Desk for Monocle Radio. Contemplating the rightward lurch of Silicon Valley, with @gilduran.com, @politicsprof.bsky.social, @adriennemassanari.bsky.social and Claire Stapleton. monocle.com/radio/shows/...