My Blogging This Seems An Expression Of Self-hatred

Soul (2020)

Jaron Lanier's advice for remaining a person on the internet

Don’t post anonymously unless you really might be in danger. 

If you put effort into Wikipedia articles, put even more effort into using your personal voice and expression outside of the wiki to attract people who don’t yet realize that they are interested in the topics you contributed to.

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won’t fit into the template available to you on a social networking site. 

Post a video once in a while that took you one hundred times more time to create than it takes to view. 

Write a blog post that took weeks of reflection before you heard the inner voice that needed to come out. 

If you are twittering, innovate in order to find a way to describe your internal state instead of trivial external events, to avoid the creeping danger of believing that objectively described events define you, as they would define a machine.

These are some of the things you can do to be a person instead of a source of fragments to be exploited by others.

(from his book You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto)

great googly moogly

Gizmodo

Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.

The Amazon grocery stores which touted an AI system that tracked what you put in your cart so you didn't have to go through checkout were actually powered by underpaid workers in India.

Just over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out. The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store. Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped. According to The Information, 700 out of 1,000 Just Walk Out sales required human reviewers as of 2022. This widely missed Amazon’s internal goals of reaching less than 50 reviews per 1,000 sales

A great many AI products are just schemes to shift labor costs to more exploitable workers. There may indeed be a neural net involved in the data processing pipeline, but most products need a vast and underpaid labor force to handle its nearly innumerable errors.

Here is some Charli XCX for you because I love Charli XCX. It's really that simple. This was probably spurred on by @kat-eleven and I talking about the Lorde Remix of Girl, So Confusing which is really an absolute triumph. Sort of a fascinating look at a lot of things including how you can just squash drama if you want to. It's a good song. Anyway, here are some pics of Charli out and about promoting her stuff, she's having a moment and thank god, it's overdue. Today I want to fuck Charli XCX.

Irrational Man.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bearing_False_Witness/wFcPDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=and%20privilege

she's a night-shift nurse 😜

Dinner for self before heading to the hospital for night shift ～ 🍜

Samyang noodle, seaweed and tamagoyaki

sounds true

Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.