Post by @urlyman@mastodon.social

Do read Ky Decker today:

“I don’t blame people for opting to use tools that promise quick, convenient solutions to problems. We all operate under capitalism. Many of us have bullshit jobs where the goal is not, in fact, to make something good, or even to learn, but to simply make money to pay rent and medical expenses. To hopefully find a little joy on the side. The whole system is broken; AI alone didn’t break it, but it is widening the cracks.”
https://mastodon.social/@rasterweb/116978614460472831

10 Replies

0 Boosts

cpsask

@cpsask@techhub.social 2 hours ago

@urlyman thanks for sharing this. I feel like Ky has looked into my soul and founds the words I could not.

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social 2 hours ago

@cpsask you’re welcome. My thanks to @rasterweb for bringing it to me.

And yes, it resonates so very strongly. What a tragedy

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social 3 hours ago

…Mastodon is full of people like Ky (who’s not here). Thanks for being here in this time of the Great Slide

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social 3 hours ago

…Who here has not experienced at least one of Ky’s litany of “The psychic toll of AI”?

A phrase that recalls for me @Remittancegirl’s use of “psychic death” some months ago.

We’re in a time of reckoning. A time of burning. There’s a lot that needs to burn down. And tragically, a huge amount that is good but is burning anyway. Let’s try to build something better from the ashes