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  • Replying to: mastodon.social

    @rasterweb At one point many years ago I took a consulting job that I knew was doomed to fail, and the hiring manager knew was doomed to fail as well. They just wanted someone expendable to blame. I was just as happy to get paid for that as for anything else.

  • Replying to: my.advocrazy.com

    @rom I remember old Digg. I wonder whether new Digg will turn out to be something other than “Reddit clone with different set of powerful mods.” Grabbed my username just in case.

  • Replying to: timapple.com

    @timapple Translation: money is showing up in dumptrucks from stupid AI-backing VCs, so we don’t need your business any more.

  • Replying to: www.manton.org

    @manton Perhaps I’m too cynical, but ChatGPT Health immediately struck me as (mostly? partly?) a play to get their hands on a big chunk of potential training data that is otherwise off-limits.

  • Replying to: hachyderm.io

    @mitch Oh man, those were the days (though I was using a Heathkit H-89 rather than a Zorba). I’m not 100% convinced that we’ve made any meaningful progress in computers in the ensuing decades.

  • Replying to: ablerism.micro.blog

    @ablerism Try The Nocturnists. It’s a medical podcast but they focus specifically on the storytelling & helping the caregivers develop their stories.

  • Replying to: @mlm361

    @mlm361 Thanks! There’s a fair bit of color and contrast editing there, but no AI :)

  • Replying to: xn--eckza.jp

    @xn_eckza That’s really a gorgeous photo.