Modern Capitalism:
The local shoe store does not sell shoe laces. Not the first time I've asked either.
Also, apparently the local shoe store does employee trainings with upsell consultants, which also nauseates me...
I'm looking forward to the #Fediforum "Growing the Open Social Web" workshop on Monday.
I'm extremely dubious about a lot of the submissions. There are a lot of untested hypotheses in this list:
fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-…
I hope that people's expectations are geared towards experimentation, data collection, and iteration, rather than confirming some of these assumptions.
For the record, no, I don't use 'AI' in any aspect or component of the trainings I give, whether for Nikau, festivals and confs or any of the uni teaching. It is all entirely human made, from documentation, to image and video generation and comms. Always will be, even if supposedly less 'productive' one day, by some empty metric.
I personally don't use it at all.
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Devine Lu Linvega
in reply to I am Jack's Found 404 • • •I was at the pharmacy the other day, I asked for an instaxmini film.
This is what I got.
them: "Yes! Of course, let me order that for you."
*opens amazon*
me: "So, you don't."
them: "I do, I do, it will be here later today."