“No, maybe that wasn’t it. Words precede and surpass me, they tempt and alter me, and if I am not careful it will be too late: things will be said without my having said them. Or, at the very least, that wasn’t the only thing. My entanglement comes from how a carpet is made of so many threads that I can’t resign myself to following just one; my ensnarement comes from how one story is made of many stories. And I can’t even tell them all— a more truthful word could from echo to echo cause my highest glaciers to crumble down the precipice.” - Clarice Lispector
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“You know what I do, if I can’t focus I put a little weight on the end of my pencil and that bit of resistance helps me focus!” - Somebody offering advice
looks over at pencil with 100 pounds of weight on it not even knowing where to start - “Thanks! Good idea I will try that!”
goes back to suffering
We can have empathy for others which makes us infinitely more valuable than you.
You could be the smartest person in the world and with that attitude you are worse than useless.
16·23 days agoBased on the whole vibe of Piefed loudly announcing itself by coming on the scene and saying “We are like Lemmy but without all those shitty TANKIES so you can feel safe” as if that was a primary issue makes me Zero percent surprised by this development.
I am not saying you have to agree with the politics of the Lemmy devs, rather it is the shallowness of the Piefed brand as “the fediverse but more centrist/rightwing and without those SUPER ANNOYING TANKIES” that should have given everyone more pause before they jumped on the bandwagon even if you have had bad experiences in authoritarian “left” spaces and were legitimately seeking that experience.
I haven’t found a way to directly add an outline frame to the text but you can go to tools->shapes and set it to outline no fill and manually do frame the text
The interface is a bit strange at first but it is a genuine multiple layer image editor it is great.
A tip, make sure to confirm/complete a tool’s action before you switch to a different one, it is easy to switch off a tool while it is still “previewing” something.
For Android I highly recommend Pocket Paint from FDroid.
looks over from still making shitty memes in GIMP
“Huh?”
591·1 month agoA preinstalled AI on the most popular web browser that most people wont even know is there sounds like a nearly perfect recipe for a cybersecurity and/or misinformation nightmare.
6I really wish people actually listened to the crazy architect Christopher Alexander when he shat on the entire programming industry in 1996 for not having a value system around the basis for beginning to build architecture and systems in software. He pointed out all the way back then how much power programmers had and now have lost culturally to relinquishing the narrative to AI so heavily around software and programming. He was trying to say “THINK about what your industry is doing, organize, use your power while you have it.”. Well, it is mostly too late now, still necessary to do but programming will never be seen as a highly skilled and respected profession again the same way it used to because of how thoroughly programmers did not organize to resist the fundamental capitalist narratives being imposed upon them that have now been set in stone culturally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_QzdKci6OY
The methods that you have at your fingertips and deal with every day in the normal course of events are perfectly designed to do this so that if you have the interest, you have the capacity and you have the means. I heard a rumor at breakfast that some of the people in this room begin to worry about their jobs. I have no idea if that’s true, but I was told there’s a sort of undercurrent of unease of where is all this going? There’s this huge expanding phenomenon, programming and so forth, and yet an uneasiness about well, where is it all headed? What is it going to do?
Please forgive me. I’m going to be very directly blunt for a horrible second. But it could be viewed that the technical way in which you look at programming at the moment is almost like guns for hire. In other words, you’re the technicians. You know how to make the programs work. Tell us what to do, Daddy, and we’ll do it. And what I’m proposing here is something a little bit different from that which is a view of programming as the natural genetic infrastructure of a living world which you are capable of creating, managing, making available and which could then have the result that a living structure ructure in our towns, houses, workplaces, cities is an attainable thing which it has not been for the last 50 to 100 years. That is an incredible vision of the future. I realize that you probably think I’m nuts because this is not what I’m supposed to be talking about to you and you may say, “Well, gosh, great idea, but we’re not interested.” But I do think you are capable of that and I don’t think anybody else is going to do this job. I’ve enjoyed uh talking to you very much. Thank you. Wow.
If programmers and computer culture had actually organized and treated leftist ideas without an air of superior condescension as if understanding computers and factorio made the need to unionize obsolete… we would be in an entirely different world right now. People believed in the power of computers and programming in a way that gave computer culture the possibility to positively transform the world, but that trust has been irrevocably broken and computers will never have that same transformative potential again because people will never trust the profession of programmers the same way again.
The public trusts engineers to build bridges because even though the public doesn’t understand how to build a huge bridge they know at some level engineers would throw a collective massive fit if people started demanding they build bridges in a dangerous way. On the other hand that trust is PERMANENTLY gone in how people look at software engineers and honestly the industry deserves it for being so obsessed about only focusing on the details and never thinking about the broader impact of the architecture being created.
Software engineering has culminated in optimizing software for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza and it is stain on the entire industry of programming and software engineering.
Im sorry but I do feel schadenfreude for all the conversations I had 2-3 years ago with programmers who smugly kept telling me that AI and enshittification wouldn’t come for them because you can’t bullshit their job. So many computer people weren’t interested in talking about politics because they “knew” their little corner of expertise was unassailable and so they put their fingers in their ears and acted smugly above needing to unionize and build community structures in the programming industry.
It turns out, as I had been desperately trying to get across to techbro very linear thinker types, that management doesn’t care if AI actually works or if their firing of you sabotages the company, they are still going to do it if they buy the narrative and they already bought the narrative a long time ago.
Organize and unionize or the programming industry will continue to enshittify and programmers will be treated worse and worse even though their skills aren’t any less vital and AI code sucks so bad it costs companies more money to fix the problems AI creates than to just hire human programmers to do it right… None of this has to do with rationality and the idea that capitalism has a tendency to point towards rationality is simply not backed up by evidence.
16·2 months agoI just want you to SHOW me you care in a way you are PHYSICALLY incapable of!
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I used to post a bunch of articles there, I love that community but I recently had a bad experience with the way the Lemmy World team treated my concerns (and many others’s concerns) about Jordan Lund and the selective, problematic moderation of the Lemmy World politics and gobal politics communities. See this post here.
https://sopuli.xyz/post/42630105
Also see the post I made on the Lemmy World Support community and it was locked for frivolous reasons.
https://sopuli.xyz/post/42631979
I know this is a strong reaction, but I stand by it, this is very important for the health of the Fediverse.
If I were part of the Fuck AI community on Lemmy World I would be concerned that once more and more news articles and journalism comes out about how some US tech companies were knowingly complicit in the Palestinian Genocide as a profit seeking venture I would be nervous that the Lemmy World team wouldn’t begin to become pretty uncomfortable with the Fuck AI community.
I would love love love if y’all migrated somewhere that was more willing to confront the ways in which AI has become a tool of obfuscation for complicity in a globalized system of violence that transcends the confines of any one single country.
We can force this world to cut us a break.
ADHD people should be loved for desiring to be a part of something more alien to them because they know it is the only way to move forward together and that one day we will find a way to make our chaos fit within.
The reality is that many ADHD people are far less negatively impeded by chaos, unexpected terrain and conflict that grinds you down to just raw reaction and action than neurotypical types are.
War for some ADHD people is a more “natural” state than the artificial stability and hyperpredictability of modern day life. So why don’t all of us ADHD folks wake up and choose War every day? The reason is because while it kills us to go grocery shopping that doesn’t mean we think grocery stores are a bad idea, we rather recognize we are wired oddly.
The abstractness with which ADHD people have to approach understanding society and what is good for most people and how successfully most ADHD people do that, imperfectly as they may, becomes invisible far too quick.
Same goes for all people with unusual minds of course!
For what purpose?
Well primarily because the moderation policy is inconsistent and illogical and lemmy.world’s politics communities are the largest on the fediverse currently.
Why don’t you unlock the thread on Lemmy.World? Instead you come here to try to get your last word in? You are 40 something years old? You act like you are 15.
Do you honestly believe you just “gotcha’d” me?
This is pathetic.
This is about authoritarian control not helping young people.