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This is a commonly held belief and one that I had for most of my life. I don’t know what finally did it for me, but the book Trekonomics definitely gave me a push.

Great I really wanted that.

I wonder how this will affect the right to be forgotten. It’s not like theyre going to un-train any models or remove any derivative content

I think we have very different ways of enjoying art. I don’t really understand how it’s possible for at to have nothing with the artist’s views, unless it were totally random. Actually, even that would be saying something.

But I get the feeling that we look at art pretty differently.

Can’t say personally, but for many it’s the first time they’re even looking at what other engines have to offer.

Why I would separate the artist from what they made? I’m interested in what they have to say about the world. That’s the point of art.

It’s not just content to make me happy until the next hit. Like, it has meaning.

On the flip side, they are immune to any other “cringe attacks” that come up. Who knows it might be strangely liberating

It’s funny because it’s so obvious that no one would ever need to say it, but these two are whispering like it’s office gossip

I know a few nurses in the neighbourhood and this is basically their survival strategy.

My point is it’s learned behaviour. Most people just forget the learning of it

The Best of World SF is undeniably an excellent sampler of voices from around the world, both of authors and of translators.

The editor comes off as maybe a bit self-centred? But I can’t deny they have excellent taste and connections.

Fedi seems to be really great for accessibility from what I’ve seen. At least I’ve never never interacted with so many visually impaired people before joining mastodon. So I’d say that culture is working.

I believe there’s a nice way to go about (honey v vinegar, etc), but generally yeah, it feels really good to be in a virtual space that is so welcoming.

I can’t really think of a case where a post’s image isn’t relevant to the associated discussion. Even if it’s just a nonsense post with an unrelated image, knowing what the irrelevant image is about would help make sense of the discussion.

Not enough info is better than nothing. Because if it’s nothing, you can’t tell if the person who shared the image is lazy or decided the alt text wasn’t necessary for this particular picture

I didn’t really even think about it at all, since I fit in pretty well. I just ignored it. But I’m cis af, and not everyone is. So I can see the benefit to those people.

Also I don’t think you remember how arbitrary all the gender norms sound when you first learn them. It all sounds totally unnatural at first.

Not a lot of things more basic than your gender.

It’s easy for us cis folks to hand wave it away as pointless frippery, since everyone already acknowledges our gender identity.

We have the privilege of not even having to think about it or question how we feel.

Not so easy for some other people.

I’m not seeing any downvotes on the kbin web app

They’re neat (I’ve only tried Uni’s), though imho I prefer the manual control of a regular mech/pencil when writing in cursive, because then I can choose when to rotate the lead (ie by rotating the entire pencils).

If you’re used to writing with pencils you don’t even think about it anymore. It’s as natural as dotting an i.

I think this and the stuff happening at Twitter are a nice kickstart to get lemmy and other ferdiverse stuff going.

Long live the ferdervers!

But seriously, I’m with you in sentiment. I’m never going back to the centralised/for-profit soc med services.

All their value comes from the free interactions between people chatting, and they think they deserve to get rich for renting the hall. Fuck that, we can just rent the infrastructure ourselves if that’s what it takes to talk in peace.

Welcome!

Usually play some Doom 1 or 2, a level or an episode, or Minecraft if I have more time, but I’m in a boring replay/comfort phase because work is kicking my ass atm

My face when I’m trying to use tar and realise I don’t have my shell history on this machine