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the_interloperon AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons

take other people's work and sell it back to them

the future is now

the_interloperon Vibe Coding is the new Internet Dating?

this feels like it was written by someone who has been out of the dating scene for a while now

dating apps suck, your UI/UX can groundbreaking but that doesn't make them any less awful to use

This "AI is inevitable" mood that people are in always seem to come from people who don't have to use the things AI is supposedly going to replace, and never consider what the actual consequences of that might be

I live in a city and I still feel like my best bet to meet someone is on the apps because they have taken out a lot of the old ways that people used to meet. How do you even approach a potential date? IDK and it sucks.

the_interloperon Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master

1st link is broken

the_interloperon We've followed their lives for six decades; now the stars of 7 Up are bowing out

Nick Hitchon was a professor of mine in college. He seemed like a genuinely very nice guy and took the time to learn everyone's name, despite how large the classes were.

the_interloperon XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp

that is what bsky and other twitter-like platforms purport to be

how well they hold up under stress of bad actors/govts remains to be seen

the_interloperon Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

Some context for what was happening in the US at the time:

Anatomy of a Scare: Yellow Peril Politics in America, 1980–1993

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40464347

the_interloperon As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value

> Nearby Grand Chute canceled its Flock deal in early June, switching to a competing product from Axon. Grand Chute Police Chief David Maas told Fox 11 News that the Axon system “benefits the community in multiple ways and also respects resident privacy in a way that feels more comfortable, quite honestly.”

They're just trading one problem for another

the_interloperon AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

> Look, I get it. It’s Q3 2026, and we should expect that everyone is utilizing AI at SOME point in their process (sourcing ideas, creating outlines, refining prose, etc.)

How do people not realize how up their own @$$ they sound when they say things like this