Shout out to Philo T Farnsworth!

He grew up in Idaho and the small town he hailed from had a sign calling themselves the ‘Birthplace of TV’. That sign was frequently vandalized to read ‘Birthplace of VD’.

Both statements have some validity.

Philo, Father of TV

This is not checks and balances. Get those words out yo mouth. This is a fascist takeover and it is clearly illegal.

Jokes on them. I’m heading to work!

The most distressing part of this is the way the NSF, the funder here, just gave into the administrations illegal takeover if their programs. The NSF was created by Congress and isn’t even within the regular agency structure of the executive branch. Buncha Quislings

People around lemmy think Marx (generators) are cool, but I am a Cockcroft-Walton man myself.

A rock in one shoe and a buttplug askew…

I added it because it is the subject we are discussing. Your comments are vaguely coherent but have no real point.

Unchecked corporate power is THE problem and corporations are a small club of people of a specific demographic with a history of protectionism and shady dealings to protect their power.

It is perfectly valid to point out the root cause of problems, in this case the corporate cabal that needs to be dismantled.

CEOs are factually and demonstrably overwhelmingly white males, far out of proportion to general demographics. Since when did pointing out a statistical fact become divisive?

I understand and have analogous experiences presenting nuanced details to support one position or another. That’s the crappy part about open forums, they are open and much of the audience won’t or can’t give any attention to the arguments you make.

Your experience also shows that part of the audience does pay attention, however.

The only thing that helps me keep trying to learn and teach things important to me is managing my own expectations about what I expect to happen when I expound online.

I am setting myself up for certain disappointment if I don’t admit most won’t even read the words, some will have an emotional reaction and go off on their own tangent, and a few, a very few, may engage in a way that helps me learn more, too.

Most of my professional experience is in ‘science’ and R&D. You have to learn (at least) two completely different communication styles in these fields.

In a closed community of specialists, you need easy access to all the details as well as clear presentation of the grander vision that motivates the work.

In a more general setting, soundbites and punchy anecdotes are more persuasive. Too much detail brings out the cranks, who then generate so much noise your message gets lost.

In summary, if you really want people to hear you and engage with your ideas, I have learned:

Be extremely clear with yourself about your intended audience.

Be clear with yourself what results you can reasonably expect from that audience.

Brace yourself to just ignore the distracting peanut gallery, not every reply needs a response. Only engage with substantive replies that appear to be good faith.

Be prepared to have your mind changed too.

Yeah, people get super jerky sometimes. It’s easy to get frustrated when contending in vain against stupidity.

However, if someone, say you maybe, were to make a post that presented a nuanced view of where these technologies are useful and how they are being misapplied, lemmy is one place where you could get a super productive discussion going.

When the community is called ‘fuckai’ or similar, the deck is stacked against a good discussion happening.

One can rail against reactionary behavior but that is reactionary behavior!

It is hard to ‘be the change one wants to see’ but it’s really the only thing one can do. I know I often try to be that change, but I get lazy too and it’s so easy to make fun of tech bros.

Not a great case if you really think about the implications, unless they legislatively make human drivers completely illegal. There’s an even better case for just investing in mass transit to get more personal cars off the roads, and encouraging other modes of personal transport auch as bicycles.

I am just not interested in helping to build a world with a panopticon in my personal car.

Lemmy is unusual in that it has a large portion of users who actually understand the underlying technologies in “AI” branded products. Most forums with a more typical audience do not have that.

We are a self-selected group of tech-savvy ideological refugees. That’s why I stay, I can learn things every day from lemmy. So i think the only thing different here is that many fuckai posts/comments have a factual and germane basis.

I love OpenSCAD and also realize it is a super backward way to make 3D models, according to most other people. I don’t bother even mentioning OpenScad as an option for most people, I know it is only for certain people.

I tried my hand at modeling and designing using more traditional CAD programs that work more visually. I have good spatial reasoning and visualization abilities but I could never get the breakthrough to a point where I felt literate in those tools.

Constructive Solid Geometry approaches just work for my brain. Now when I need a part designed, I can quickly sketch it out in rough code and I feel confident seeing myself as a ‘designer’ now. Other more ‘visual’ tools waste my time as I get sucked into finger painting instead of working out the fundamentals of the design.

With the code-first framework, I have to really think about what the part needs to do before I tweak the code.

Normal people get startled once maybe twice by a new thing, then adapt to it. Transphobes make their fear their entire personality.

That’s about all I have found it good for too. Larger projects need solid architecture that the coder understands well. If you leave architectural decisions to LLM, they build some real janky solutions that take more time to sus out and correct than it takes to just so do it yourself.

It is sad but true. I am USAian, and it is a constant battle with co-workers to get them to stand up even a little against dumb mandates. It’s especially frustrating because EVERY DAMN TIME we do push back, management backs down. You’d think they would see the pattern…

You have told us what you both watch, but what do either of you do that isn’t just consuming someone elses creative work?

Let’s put a little tormentors-helper right over here….

<edit: misspelled tormentor)

Yep, not pooping there!

Here’s the original publication for those wanting more implementation details.

The original publication