being a hater is fun! not for everyone (clearly, haha) but griping, kvetching, complaining, etc is often just an enjoyable hobby for lots of people. i watched glee every week to complain about it with my buddy for a couple years!
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Heh I totally get that! Iām totally fine with people poking fun at stuff, I def bitch from time to time, even tear into some bad movies once in a while. Hell I watched āMunchieā recently cause of how bad it looked.
I probably shouldāve clarified that I meant the kind of hate where itās clearly not healthy (or enjoyable) for the person complaining & comes off as borderline obsessive & overall miserable. 
My bad! 
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I havenāt, but I have been on the Reddit for a particular series I like, and itās usually fine but sometimes I feel the need for an Elitist-B-Gon spray.
Cherryh is SO GOOD! Sheās one of my comfort authors too. I enjoy Becky Chambers - her books havenāt changed my life or anything - but apparently some people are profoundly and personally offended by how inoffensive she is. I would like to suggest those people take up woodworking or something and stop pooping in the pool.
Right?! Hating stuff is exhausting; I barely have the energy to hate things that are actually demonstrably bad, instead of ātoo sweetā or whatever.
It took me a good part of the month and one nap earlier today, but I finally submitted my entry for this monthās IndieWeb Carnival.
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I totally get this, although Iām not a fan of Chambers myself. For some reason, her books just donāt have enough conflict for me. But I understand the appeal for those who do really like her.
I couldnāt tell you why I enjoy hating things, and seek out things I know are intentionally bad. But I do, and I get a whole lot of enjoyment from it somehow. Itās the same reason I love MST3K and Rifftrax, and love reading blog posts that take adversarial takes on TV Shows and books. I guess part of it is that I love tearing apart what makes them bad, since it can help understand how to make something good. Iām also low-key fascinated by people who create bad things passionately, and it helps remind me that I shouldnāt be so hard on myself when it comes to my own creations.
So that Iām not too off-topic, Iāll go ahead and share a couple of blog posts that I forgot to share here. I often put them on my fediverse feed, but then forget to add them here.
Paper bead crafting + cat pics
Very short review of a game Iāve been playing lately
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See, I get that. I get that itās fun to mock and nitpick ā I do a fair bit of that kind of āhatingā myself. Itās the venomous anger thatās bizarre to me.
Paper beads!!! I should give that another go. (God knows I have enough paper scrapsā¦)
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Yeah, that makes total sense. Sometimes I veer into the venomous territory with Disney and Marvel movies, but usually catch myself and steer away from it, because I do not enjoy feeling that way!
Paper beads are so much fun! And so versatile. Itās a great activity for when youāre binging podcasts or videos. At some point I should put up instructions for how I made my bead-making tools for those who arenāt able to buy any, since theyāve made it a lot easier for me.
I read a piece in the New Yorker about the Meta antitrust trial today that made me want to Say Things, so I said them:
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Iāve been in kind of a fatalistic spiral this morning over AI and the future prospects of a career in tech, or anything really. Assuming the world isnāt completely on fire within the next couple of yearsāI recognize how bloody naive/optimistic that isāit seems likely that the whole world is going down the āAI or Dieā rabbit hole. I feel like Iām working a trolley by hand over here, while the rest of the world is busy hitching their ride onto a train.
All of this is to say that Iām increasingly pessimistic about the AI bubble bursting. From a technology standpoint, itās incredibly impressive, but the dangers are vast and just as likely to consume all the benefits. Weāre hanging out in Jurassic Park, gawking at all the cool dinosaurs. Surely nothing will go wrong.
Mind you, Iām looking at this through the very selfish lens of not knowing what another X years of trying to work to pay my bills is going to look like.
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āall the apps look the same now so weāre not a monopolyā is a wild argument to make when you own multiple of said apps that look the same.
I definitely understand this. Iām kind of on the fence myself. One thing I find as a silver lining is that AI is so computationally expensive that none of the AI companies can make it profitable currently. Itās basically following the same strategy that Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, Twitter, etc. did a decade ago: operate at a loss in hopes of making a profit later once users are dependent on your service. I donāt think this is sustainable. Maybe the computer needed to power AI becomes cheap enough that it doesnāt matter in the end, but Iām not convinced that will be the case.
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Honestly, so have I. Iām usually pretty good at predicting work trends, but right now? Iām lost. The least bad answer Iāve come up with is āget backyard chickens.ā
Right?! They tried not to compare Metaās apps to each other, apparently, but also Iām not sure how anyone could fail to notice the similarities.
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Yup. The goodreads reviews complaining that Becky Chambers (whose work I adore, but thatās beside the point) is too nice always bug me. Same with adults who complain that a teenage character āacts too youngā.
In a present that looks more and more dystopian, depictions of a hopeful future and how we might get there are important. And if theyāre not youāre cup of tea, there are other books out there that will be.
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i honestly dont even get what people see in instagram or facebookā¦ i lowkey hope they get forced to sell at least whatsapp to a 3rd party by FCC. i use W/A to text my mother. (Iāve convinced my dad to use RCS like a normal human. the builtin text app on androis is phenomenal)
So like how do you actually join that??
You just write a post on the topic/theme, post it, and then submit the link to that monthsā host! (Sometimes via a form, sometimes via email.)
iād be lying if i said all the blog posts iād written before werenāt therapeutic in some way. so here we are again. feelings all over the keyboard
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Saw Kraftwerk last night.
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My old man was into them. How were they?
Really cool. As you can imagine, it isnāt a show where the band is super active. Never has been. They stand at their stations and perform the music, which was beautiful. The imagery is very distinctive and retro. One person is mostly controlling the video stuff. Hard to tell what is programmed and what isnāt, but you can hear them manipulating things. If it was any other band Iād say āthey are just playing an iPodā, but knowing the bandās history and insistence on all members being musically adept I found it cool. Also, knowing the insane influence of Kraftwerk on nearly everyone means a lot.
Next week we are going to see Gang of Four, so that will be a totally different thing.
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