@johnzajac@dice.camp
Writer, opera singer, actor and director, arts advocate. Autodidact. Recovering brand designer and advertising creative director. Former drag queen, househead, club kid. Generally lost at all times.
I am verbose. 🤷♂️
Anti-fascist. Everything is politics. Team #NOVID: extremely COVID competent
Anarchy-curious.
Queer/Gay, He/They. I got Pre-Existing Conditions.
Calling our cultural rot caused by neofascist manipulations a "loneliness epidemic" is like calling COVID a "coughing epidemic"
Doesn't even come close to describing the disease or the symptoms or long term implications, but does help the ruling class hand wave for a few more years while they try to figure out how to escape with their wealth.
Again it is impossible to disambiguate the effect of *being infected with COVID twice a year since early high school* and "using AI in school"
But I'd guess most of this effect is a particularly gross combination of both
DCoder 🇱🇹❤🇺🇦@dcoderlt@ohai.social“Impossible to predict this”, says the CxO class that keeps ignoring all predictions of this exact outcome
> As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai
It is absolutely gobsmacking that so many supposedly smart people are so conned by "AI"
If nothing else tells you that we're living through a collapse not an ascent, let that convince you: all of our experts and authorities are fools, marks, grifters, or a very American combination of all three.
The Fediverse is a great size right now. It will be a great size at half its current size or twice its current size.
Growth obsession is a colonial mindset. Burn it out of your mind.