Is anyone using a desktop app that combines ATProto + fedi feeds? (Openvibe looks like the way on mobile, but I am trying not to look at the feeds on my phone.)
Anyway the reason I came here to talk about info overload x channel proliferation instead of yelling into a tree is that I suspect that widespread feelings of precarity + low trust + responsibility-without-control can push a populace toward simplistic solutions that are also very bad.
I think we got ourselves into this state as a society by believing in the tool-sellers’ promises and now they are pushing a way to make the chaos more unaccountable and less connected to our actual desires (AI) as a solution to the problem they made
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I’ve been feeling grim about my apparent inability to manage dozens and dozens of comms channels by ~building more and better toolchains~ or w/e and idk I woke up at 5am 100% certain that this is actually all a weird lie 🤷🏻
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I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.
I am going to keep from losing my mind by remembering that a.) they lose a lot of cases and b.) this is probably in large part a game of chicken over the budget, albeit one escalated by very powerful sociopaths.
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Notebook/tablet people, do I *really* want to switch from a reMarkable to a Supernote?
Imagine that I am somehow who hates change and also hates spending money, but also someone who writes and annotates an enormous number of words by hand and finds the reMarkable stuff difficult to keep organized.
This is what I do with a lot of my time right now. It's so wild that the "simple" things—like keeping the chronology, pointing to specific events—are so hard right now. But they need doing.
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true story, I tried to open photo booth to see if my camera was working before a call but what I typed into spotlight was "videodrome," which I have not consciously thought of in SOME TIME so uh
that's enough media studies insomnia reading for me I guess
