Not sure if you can find joy in anything if you do it 8 hours+ every single working day of your life, if you still get excited enough to ask for new work without having to I’m jealous of how much you like what you do

As others have mentioned, it was engineered to be worse for the capitalists to make profits from ads and the statistics to look better to shareholders. This in turn has made people to create a shit ton of garbage articles and blogs that say a ton while saying nothing, so even if you used a new search engine with the funding of Google but the algorithm of back then it would still be shit probably, because the volume of shit on the internet has now reached a level where finding anything in it is impossible.

The explosion of AI has come right at this moment where search engines have been lobotomized and gives people an option to be able to find things again, which is also another factor contributing to the profits of the AI companies, but even that is limited to what an LLM can average out from the totality of information that it has been fed and has the obvious danger of making stuff up and treating its biased training data as truth.

Generally, I think we’re fucked. I really don’t know if we’re ever going to get back the internet experience that once existed and what it’s going to take to get there, but it would probably involve a massive societal change to come before it.

Maybe this is you generalizing people judging only from controlled social networks, like Instagram that censors out absolutely everything except hate speech.

As far as I see where I live kids nowadays are very much the opposite of prudish, maybe too much at that. 13 year olds barely knowing anything about life and trying their best to brag about how many people they’re fucking while swearing like they’re characters from a GTA script.

I wish I could give you a magic trick but the reality is that under capitalism, if you’re not lucky enough to be born into riches or have powerful connections, then you’re pretty much stuck being a wage slave. There is no real alternative to selling someone your labor either for a 9-5 work or multiple part times etc. The only real way out of this is systemic change.

Deadlock, it’s become a proper addiction at this point

It feels like Pandora’s box has been opened. I don’t think it’s all smoke & mirrors. It will not impact all industries equally. It won’t fix humans being poorly intended or malicious actors seeking power & wealth. In many ways, they benefit the most (giving capital more access to creativity). It’s built on the largest scale theft of public good for profit. To me, that’s wrong, and the people/masses should be getting financial returns, collectively & universally, in exchange for what was stolen.

I completely agree and this I believe is the most important conclusion that can come out of these AI debates. You can not stop AI from existing now that it has been implemented so widely and there are open source/weight models out etc, this technology is going to survive even if the big companies that started it die off.

The big contradiction of our times is yet again, the private ownership of the means of production. Within capitalism, AI can never be a positive thing since at best it’s going to eradicate so many working positions and at worst it can further destroy our planet etc. At the same time, there is nothing you can do to stop it from existing. The only thing that can truly solve the contradiction is socialism, restructuring society in a way that people don’t have to struggle against each other for a job position just because capitalists want to pay the minimum amount on wages, and production will not be done for profit but simply for making life better for everyone. And if there truly is nothing useful left to be done from humans, then they can freely be artists, scientists, athletes or whatever without the system letting them starve for not being a machine cog.

The most consistent ones for me are cat trees, cardboard box scratching pad, an elastic ball that they both love to chase around (one of the two cats also fetches and brings it back like a dog), cat tunnels, and an elastic carrot thing with catnip in it that they love to attack

Also hiding some of the old toys they don’t care about and then bringing them back once they have kinda forgotten about their existence can spark up their excitement sometimes

Yeah can confirm they love that shit

Just generally having to do all of the office culture stuff when my type of work (programming) is much better done remotely. Having to wake up much earlier than needed to commute all the way to the office dressed up according to their policy, showing up on time and having to be stuck there the whole day even at the times of the day where there’s not much work to be done, having to deal with certain coworkers that I’d rather avoid, having managers spending more time trying to pressure you than doing any actual work etc.

Work would be so much better if I could just deal with the problems being solved rather than the corporate rituals we all have to take part in.

If you mean for Reddit, you’re on one lol

If you mean for Pinterest, it depends on what you need out of Pinterest. If you want a federated social media for images then Pixelfed might be what you want. Karakeep and Pinry are much closer from a user experience perspective, but they seem to me for personal usage rather than a social one, though I can’t say for sure because I’ve never used either.

no dog in the “conflict”

very poorly informed on the matter

I somehow struggle to believe that you can possibly be poorly informed on the most livestreamed genocide in the history of humanity

You can stop giving Evil Inc your hard earned money

How does this compare to Graphene? You can also be Google free using it

We won’t bomb a parade full of civilians celebrating the defeat of fascism and you should thank us for it