Do you have family in Iran? Cousins? Uncles? Anything?

Absolutely nothing happened in Iran. The morality police was given some practice in beating up teenagers and young adults for a couple of months, but the protests went exactly nowhere.

But we don’t have the technology yet where a humanoid robot can do humanoid things better than a human.

What you see isn’t an end product. It’s a research prototype, one of many in a long line of future models that are on the path to making a humanoid robot possible.

Twitter is trash, on the basis that it tries to create “engagement” as much as possible. Any engagement. So it’ll force a bunch of hot topics and rage fuel down your throat.

However, as an artist, I kind of need a platform like Twitter. Thankfully there are alternatives. I stopped using twitter quite a while ago now.

Yeah, exactly. Not everything needs to be experienced. Not experiencing something doesn’t mean being ignorant of its consequences.

I’ll take it. Thank you.

It’s absolutely the format. The old rich people just have the incentive to drag everyone into it, to make it something to get “hooked” on. But the format itself is already cancerous.

Cultural osmosis.

Just because I never installed TikTok or Snapchat, doesn’t mean I’ve never seen or heard anything from it. Snapchat used to be big, TikTok is even bigger right now, it’s completely impossible to actually avoid seeing anything from it. And then there’s YouTube with their shorts.

Yes, and it will still be brainrot.

My attention span is just fine. I don’t need to see it ruined by short format nonsense with about as much intellectual value as the nutritional value of a McDonald’s cheeseburger.

I never installed TikTok or Snapchat on my phone, not because I had privacy concerns, but because I hate everything about the format.

What sets it apart is that on Bluesky you can create your own algorithm. You can also share this algorithm, if you want, so others can subscribe to it. This means you see only what you want to see, and not what some corporate algorithm wants to see to maximise some kind of engagement.

Moreover, Bluesky is also its own federation. There aren’t many who choose to do so, but you can connect to Bluesky using your own domain, which you have complet control over.

I dunno. I’d say it’s more important to see what exactly he’s doing and what Bluesky is.

Right now Bluesky is really good. So until it turns bad I’m sticking to it.

Collecting information, on the context of third parties. Obviously they have information, otherwise the whole system wouldn’t work.

Makes sense. I’ve been getting “quests” and adverts about games I don’t even own. If Discord was selling data for targeted advertising, the adverts would’ve been far more… Targeted.

Still annoying as hell, though, but at least it’s limited to my mobile app. I use Vesktop on my computer.

Hmm… This looks like something that could just work as software on a PC, or as an app on a phone. I’d be surprised if it doesn’t already exist.

Penetration tester, huh? Sounds like a fun and reproductive job.

I want a foldable phone.

Phones have become larger abd flatter over the years, and they’re just uncomfortable to have in my pocket. A foldable phone will solve this issue.

I didn’t buy one yet due to not believing the tech is there yet. Screens are very scratchable and the battery life is poor.

Finding the right mastodon instance was incredibly annoying. I use it, but barely. Most of the artists I follow are on Bluesky, anyway, which is a lot easier to use.

Wasn’t Firefox starting to implement some bullshit too?

This whole “dead game” rhetoric seems to stem from the sane idea present in capitalism that something must be constantly growing.

People have bought Palworld, and they’ve made their money back and then some. And despite this not being a “live service” type game, it’s still receiving updates and still has active players.

It’s easier on my eyes. Which is anecdotal, but a large enough portion of the population use dark modes for the same reason. That is not coincidence, and it’s not something I’d write off as merely being hype.

There’s nothing new about dark mode either. Wikipedia is just slow in the uptake. Besides Wikipedia, dark modes have existed for more than a decade.