=== ANCHOR POEM === ◀─╔═════════════════════[BOOST]═══════════════════════───────────────────────────╗ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ║ │ Relatedly, when people are talking about "productivity" or "contributing to society," │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ 1. Your value as a human is not what you produce │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ 2. "Productivity" is something that can COME FROM being well cared-for, it is not a pre-requisite for "earning" care │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ 3. YOU are part of this society that is being contributed to. You are not outside it striving to "earn" your way in. You are already IT │ ║ ║ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ║ ╠─────────┐ ┌───────────╣ ║ similar │ chronological │ different ║ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────╝─▶ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/308 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── when tech people are hurt by technology they say "how can I fix this? what do I need to install? what configuration should I use? is this company ethical, or are they going to hurt me in the future? could I make something that fixes this myself?" when non-tech people are hurt by technology they say "okay" because they don't have the bandwidth to figure it out. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #2 notes/trials-of-an-angel --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── people seek to manifest their desired results in the principles of the people who they are engaged with. that is a reframing of the idea that people engage in conversation to sway their partner to their side of an argument. however, when one person is like... way WAY ahead of the other, it's not because they have more confidence, but rather because they have learned the most independent of their partner. ... wait what was I saying? oh yeah supreme commander is a GREAT game because it teaches you to handle and address multiple different situations or tasks all at once. because no true strategist could ever be ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/1368 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics │ └──────────────────────┘ giving workers more time to work on personal projects builds flexibility into the economy. empowering workers to possess the capabilities to undertake and complete their own projects builds flexibility into the economy. restrictions on which ethical rules you can break do not, in fact, reduce the flexibility of an economy. nor do they hamper it's throughput. they are simply designed to align our comporture to the most civil and decent of [collection of social norms that comprise a culture] why don't we make enough of a thing, then make a little bit more, then focus our attention elsewhere without reducing our capabilities in that dimension? specifically, if we have enough cars, we don't need to spend so much effort on the car dimension. similarly, if we have enough baked goods, (never enough teehee) then perhaps we'd build fewer bakeries. But frankly, there's never enough baked goods. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/1032 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── @user-753 the more people we have thinking about what to do next, the more perspectives we can have on the problem. Sometimes really difficult or important things (like how to get to the next stages of political liberation) can benefit from a multitude of voices, but once consistency is achieved they can apply themselves with a single voice. community is how we communicate. Communication is good, I think. Can't help but wonder if we're all here because we share an interest in open-source-so-actually-usable communication methods. community isn't everything, but it's something, and everything's useful. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/3099 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── people gravitate toward other people who are in different situations but who feel the same. it's not always a bad thing to "talk past each other" - sometimes you just want to say how you feel. then again, if nobody can understand wtf you're talking about, then surely you are lost. all good ideas come at the cost of the second-most-favorable-option. all good ideas come at the cost of the current destination. [current, flawed,] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/927 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── @user-638 kinda makes me wish we treated software design more like a science open source by default, working together to create understandings about how to best process information, incorporating the needs and desires of multiple different fields / types of person, creating useful conclusions or programs that people can use for their own enrichment or benefit, and oh wait funded and directed by people who don't care about the technology/science and instead just want results I feel like we'd learn a lot more in our CS degrees if we were tasked with making open source projects. Then maybe professors (or other people doing research) could show us and explain why we're doing things right / wrong. And if we were encouraged to use our peer's tools, then we could work together to design a team. Museums are great because you can meet other people who are also interested in history/biology/ecology/anthropology/science/art/any-other-type-of-civic-good-y ou-can-think-of/ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/3370 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── I know it's not like that but I'm intentionally framing it that way to make a point about societal exclusion. nobody should be excluded. nobody should have to harm their friends to come by making them sacrifice their [time/labor/paycheck] in order to bring them along. we live in a post scarcity society that insists on commodification of everything we don't have to. A better world is within reach. It sits there, twinkling like asbestos resting at the base of a snowglobe, while we search and ponder and endlessly analyze how society sucks. there is nothing left to analyze. all that we need is to put our hands to a task and our feet to grass. the rest will come, and it'll come easier with time and focused attention. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/4817 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── ┌────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────────┘ @user-1074 my family includes my friends. My family is smaller than my community, but it's still a useful category of people. Those you are close enough with to mutually seek to spend time together, compared to a community which is those who take care of each other, work together, and live through time with. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/813 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────── look all I'm saying is that society doesn't necessarily imply technology. We don't have to sacrifice one for the other. We can have the technological benefits to our human (essential) existence without sacrificing [all of the things that capitalism demands]. here, in the present, we define the line that our time defines, the line that reaches forth from the present. Into the realm of ourwhenever you close your eyes they push backspace an indeterminate amount of times ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/471 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── you, the viewer, exists in a context. and you, the other viewer, who exists in a contexts such as that which is comprised as the context of someone who lives in an apartment complex, exists in close proximity with other humans. Humans who might hear you if you spoke aloud, who might hear you if you exclaimed your words quite loud(ly), who might perceive you as another (like you and me) and could (perhaps) share something heartfelt between our own shared contexts ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/3235 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: conservatives-and-liberals-mentioned-gender │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ conservatives think gender is assigning yourself to a particular social role liberals think gender is sort of an aesthetic and way of presenting yourself queer people tend to think of gender as how you feel and what sparks joy in your heart the truth is much more complicated and involves all three, and many more things besides. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/581 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── @user-428 sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or... something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an image that could be edited. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #13 notes/our-minds --- ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── an animal can only act on instinct. it optimizes for what is "best" -> usually what is easiest or most valuable. humans can optimize for what is wanted of them -> social pressures. other animals can do that too but humans have a third thing -> optimizing for desire. like, what do you want? think of it as greed. accumulation of wealth and power. it's just greed. capitalism rewards greed rationality is taking your random thoughts and proving them using beliefs (hopefully based on knowledge) knowledge is a record of conclusions, like "when attempting X with these parameters the result is Y" it's really not that complicated just a series of interconnected systems sorta like a computer or a society is it rational to believe that sociology is simply psychology of a greater being? understanding trancending dimensions, of patterns and also of thought. what beauty is there in symphony? A harmonious and frivolous thought? and what better song could we write, than the operations and structure of humanity, from society all the way down to our bones. our families, our homes our coveted river stones the tools at our disposal, that came from our own will, is cherished beyond all of renown. keep up or we'll [lose you] [and have to meet you on the way coming down] [arresting our motion, of centripetal commotion, keep not with our secrets to yourselves] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #14 messages/99 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── I feel like the longer you live in a zip code the higher a discount you should get on rent? You're becoming part of the social fabric by being there, and so in order to preserve that tapestry that others choose to be around, your presence should be encouraged. but this must also be paired with the increased ability to move, should you desire something else. If these two factors are kept in balance, it will empower people to stay where they belong (good) while also encouraging them to get out and explore the world (also good) - it'd also give them the ability to escape dangerous situations. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #15 messages/395 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── minds are not algorithms, they're soup community is made by introducing people to one another. like stitching together a weave pattern in the tapestry of life. (3 dimensional though, because it exists in our hearts and minds - this thing called society) kind of guy who says he's going on work trips but actually goes on vacation (because work is his life, it's where he derives vigor - the family is the difficult part.) yeah those kind of guys shouldn't be married tbh. They're just gonna take vigor from her heart. engineers need guidance sometimes, which is why they shouldn't be given no oversight. they can design whatever they want, but like here's what people need, so they should consider working on those. but, y'know, checks and balances, so what would the engineers be most open to sacrificing for that trust? perhaps... funding? the quartermasters are in charge of the "stuff", so they get to decide how it's produced. and used. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┘ --- #16 notes/frequency --- ════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────── frequency to iterate is equal to distance from center - meaning, the further away you are the less often you communicate. But during those exchanges as much as possible needs to be said, said said so don't cut us off next time >:( okay... what? this was supposed to be an idea for my school project. What the heck. okay so social media people post with geographic location you as a person will get updates depending on your location - people who live on your street would be most common, while people who lived across town slightly less. Then it's city level, then county, then state, and finally as a nation we collectively are commiserate. But tales of distant conveyals are rare, proportionate to the distance. This way each person gets a truly unique feed, based on the values of people who live around them. 9 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/6116 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┐ ║ "see, the part that you're missing is if you abolish capitalism but also │ ║ ensure technological abundance then all you've done is removed humanity's │ ║ capability to organize in essentially any meaningful capacity without │ ║ providing an alternative heuristic that guides people toward assembling into │ ║ greater and greater forms to accomplish greater and greater tasks." │ ║ │ ║ oh, um. that's quite a take, can you tell me more about that? │ ║ │ ║ "no. But I will anyway. if everyone can do whatever they want, nobody will │ ║ want to do your dishes for you. they might if they care about you, but if they │ ║ don't know you, then they won't. Care is not organization or assembly, it is │ ║ personal and cannot scale. If technology has made all resources abundant, then │ ║ why would someone care about the art that you made? if they want to be │ ║ sedated, they can just inject drugs and listen to music all day. If they want │ ║ to be entertained, AI will generate them whatever they want to see. Art loses │ ║ meaning as a messaging medium, and humanity loses it's voice" │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧══────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/3824 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────────┐ │ CW: capitalism-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────┘ @user-246 after all, according to their own capitalist theory, money is just an abstraction of data on the desires of their market. and surely, as capitalism "trends towards efficiency" (yeah right) the data corresponding to "what is most efficient" is just as useful as the money that actually describes the "flow" of goods and services through the made-up economy so surely we could abolish currency and simply utilize an interest based economy based on what we're naturally drawn to as humans, right? Oh wait WALL-E has a society like that, and it wasn't great for us. Apparently there must be a structural coercion toward productivity, right? ... I'm afraid of people sitting around watching tiktok brainrot and youtube poops all day, sue me -.- ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/207 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── @user-179 @user-180 still means it will kill "unimportant" jobs, where "unimportant" is defined by people in power. so what we need is a way to align the incentives of "people in power" to the will of the people. something structural and immutable (by them). maybe like, an extra check or balance that wouldn't have made sense in a bygone age but now in our digital era is increasingly more and more relevant? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/5067 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────── some people think "being honest" is the same thing as "accurately displaying what you think and believe" is the same thing as the not same thing as "being deceitful or otherwise hiding your intentions" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┘ |