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Cake day: September 15th, 2024

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  • That entirely depends on specifics.

    Corporate America already is a soul-crushing land of terrible art, bad writing, and shoddy code. The artists, writers, and programmers there will have a mix of reduced job satisfaction and more competition for creative roles but a reduced portion of their workload doing the most creatively boring parts of the job. So, to the extent that “in-house creative” remains, it will more or less be the same blah it is today.

    The big risk is the destructive cycle of LLMs and “GenAI” in specifically creative enterprises. If Disney replaced all their creatives with AI slop, and the AI continues its trend of unimpressive mediocrity, Disney as a creative corporation might shut down or even go out of business.

    What’s worse about the above is that if it’s replicated on a large enough scale for a long enough time, we might wind up having no creatives at all and the whole skill set may atrophy away from our civilization.

    On the other hand, if GenAI winds up substantially increasing the proportion of unemployed citizens, a UBI might be implemented and all those creatives who chased soul-crushing work just so they wouldn’t starve would do it for the pure joy of creation.

    (All of which, of course, assumes that the runaway power demands of GenAI don’t destroy the biosphere…)




  • Virtually no software program internally cares about calendar specifics. Most computers are happy just counting seconds since the start of 1970 (Unix epoch) with some weirdos counting days since 1900 (excel) or some other arbitrary date (SQL server goes down to 1753, when the current Gregorian calendar was adopted.)

    the big issue isn’t so much the software cost as the fight over finance. Does your $1000 a month rent go “down” to only $923 a month (same $12,000 per year) or does it “stay” at $1000 and your landlord enjoys the increased revenue?

    (Agreed on dates. Either ISO dates or use some damn names for your months! Mar 19 2026 and 19 Mar 2026 are both obvious at a glance if for some reason 2026 3 19 doesn’t work.)


  • BlueSky is a top-down approach to do the same thing that the Lemmy/Mastodon fediverse is trying to do bottom-up. They are approximately as untrustworthy as the devs and admins of your local fediverse server.

    You absolutely should not trust any third party with private data that would destroy your life if revealed. Lemmy and BlueSky are both way better than Meta or Google, but they’ll all comply with government subpoenas and by design most of the data entered on these apps is public anyway.

    As to funding, BlueSky says that they’re a “public benefit company” with some VC and cryoto-bro funding, a small registrar business, and some aspirational ideas about selling add-ons to support BSky as an ongoing concern.

    I recall hearing about a merchandise sale they had for a bit that dwarfed their registrar revenue, but I think that was time-limited.

    https://bsky.social/about

    The largest “alt-sky”, blacksky, asks for donations if you use their services and (Iirc) aren’t a person of color.