meristohm

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by meristohm 1y ago
"Surely, you have one job and that is to deliver tech that works—not to waste users' time by giving them irrelevant copy to read which has no functional value." Microsoft has been doing this for years, with its messages durin
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by meristohm 1y ago
Sure, a four-day, twelve-hour-per-day work week.
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by meristohm 1y ago
Huh. Us meatbags are not just artificial intelligences, we're organic intelligences and thus more important than robots (who are not alive; even if we make golems and infuse them with "life", they are not human animals), and
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by meristohm 1y ago
Perhaps part of the point is to stir action towards not accepting the status quo, harmful as it is? We can do better.
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by meristohm 1y ago
In keeping with the list preceding "climate change", consider changing it to: "...advance AI, change climate."
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by meristohm 1y ago
To what end, all that work? If ultimately to enrich Capitalists, that's not a train I want to ride or indoctrinate anyone else to ride (I'm a teacher). How much time does it take to meet our needs in a community living on healthy
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by meristohm 1y ago
I appreciated your question. I don't really know the answer, and I grew up in the USA. Maybe someone took it as a rhetorical question?
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by meristohm 1y ago
Capitalism (control of land, labor, and money) has been on the rise since the 1600s[0]; to what degree has this economic model shaped Democracy? [0] according to Invisible Doctrine, a history of capitalism by Monbiot and Hutchison (2024)
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by meristohm 1y ago
Having read Mutual Aid by Dean Spade I understand better what you're saying, namely that solidarity amongst people outside the dominant paradigm of capitalism (owning land, renting, working for scraps while the Capitalist's boats
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by meristohm 1y ago
Like others have said, it is healthy to grieve. In some cultures there is a specific amount of time where everyone understands the bereaved won't be doing much other than honoring the dead by paring away all distractions and just exist
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by meristohm 1y ago
Charities- yes, and: consider the concept of mutual aid as well. In-the-mix helping others, and being helped reciprocally (but not transactionally) is potentially more meaningful than helping through charitable giving, though given our domi
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by meristohm 1y ago
If you go this route, I've found it easier to walk around the house if I look at my upraised hand and navigate peripherally- hand is in focus, and the rest is expectedly not, rather than everything in front of me being blurry.
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by meristohm 1y ago
A decade on from my teacher certification, and not currently teaching classes (only parenting), and Vygotsky's ZPD is still a touchstone for me.
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by meristohm 1y ago
If only we had the collective right of recall, like the Haudenosaunee government that the US is in part based on, rather than having to wait years. Edit: "if only", ha. If only it were that simple.
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by meristohm 1y ago
For doing things that are uncomfortable, I've found a habit of cold showers first thing in the morning to be helpful. I've heard this also as "eat the frog (and the rest is easier)", but I'm not that desperate, and
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by meristohm 1y ago
How is it shocking that an elderly man decides to stop doing a thing that he's been doing for decades? Headline might as well be "Shareholders shocked at the prospect that someone is nearing the final chapter of their life and wil
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by meristohm 1y ago
Are you entitled to get what you want to make DreamCo operate? What are all the costs involved, and not just costs to you directly?
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by meristohm 1y ago
Word choice matters. I prefer "person" or "human" rather than "consumer". Sure, we consume to live, but consider other terms: eaters, drinkers, breathers, sleepers, ... okay, I see that context matters. When ta
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by meristohm 1y ago
There's a governor on my ebike that prevents the battery from pushing the bike faster than a set speed. I can pedal it faster than that sometimes, but that is a limiting factor. I'm not opposed to such governors in automobiles. If
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by meristohm 1y ago
Processing plant fibers for string/rope/etc. Nettle, yucca (so I've heard), hemp, ... it's a long list but regional. Humming to find the resonant frequencies of the space you're in. Observational drawing- paper, pen
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by meristohm 1y ago
Walking or bicycling (or whatever mobility mode one can do), on the low-effort end, without sound in ears or eyes on screen; this lets the mind wander and eventually, interesting ideas and syntheses bubble up.
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by meristohm 2y ago
Anything to help people move away from dependence on Microsoft Windows. I'm concerned about the glut of hardware incompatible with W11- now is a great time to switch to Linux Mint Debian Edition, for one great example. When I played ga
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by meristohm 2y ago
Anyone can do whatever they choose. I try not to "should". There is a potential distribution of consequences for acting in protest. The degrees to which each individual cares, knows enough to care, etc are diverse, and that divers
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by meristohm 2y ago
Sounds like generational wealth to me, to whom the "success sequence" sounds like what I would promote if I were a Capitalist. There are alternatives, or at least a messy, diverse mix of ways of existing.
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by meristohm 2y ago
Okay Tina. (In the words of Margaret Thatcher, there is no alternative.) What are some non-money ways to value what we do for each other?
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by meristohm 2y ago
"These people" who, uncared for, are "generally harmful to [our] libing spaces" are part of us; we are here alive together, and I help out my fellow humans because it feels part of being a good human, not to avoid discom
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by meristohm 2y ago
I wear a facemask when around a lot of people or around any vulnerable people (hospital, clinic) to help protect both myself and other people. I may be contagious and not know it. I wash my hands for the same reason. I am fully vaccinated (
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by meristohm 2y ago
Restructuring culture/society/government so that our basic needs are more-easily met, freeing us to do what we each feel is meaningful. That's way oversimplifying, and perhaps not a useful answer. I wouldn't get into OSS
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by meristohm 2y ago
Upboated because I've seen this message a few times and find it interesting, a sort-of meta-relevance. I've had enough of hn for now anyway, time to log off and go outside.
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by meristohm 2y ago
If you haven't already, consider quitting air travel altogether. This and quitting meat consumption (or significantly reducing either or both luxuries- I quit flying years ago, and I eat meat once a month or so as a delicous luxury) se

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