Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

“Creative Good: AI isn’t meant for us”

https://creativegood.com/blog/24/ai-isnt-meant-for-us.html

> How did we enter into an economy drenched in AI investments with (so far) little or no appreciable payoff for us, the citizens and students and customers? Because the AIs weren’t developed for us. They were never meant for us.

Unions raise wages for ALL workers, by the way.

In the 10 states with the strongest union density in 2020, the average median weekly wages were $1,121.70 — that’s almost $180 more a week than workers in the states with the lowest union densities.

One of the most exciting possibilities of distributed protocols are networks where all participating devices are powered down most of the time.

e.g. distant friends syncing data over a solar powered server which is only on when the sun is up.

"Electronics isn't magic"

"Also, here is the protective sigil to cast when working with DRAM"

"The 'middle-class' is a faux class. It never really existed. If you have a boss, and earn wages or salary, you are a worker, and should be proud to be in the working class. The term 'middle class' isolates more privileged workers for the benefit of the powerful so that anyone outside of elite circles will be divided and fighting against each other instead of fighting institutions and the power structure."
—David Graeber