The dude has a Nixon bowling photo on his wall+he repeats what Bush 'this will not stand'. dude doesn't like to be mislabeled despite lazily saying and not pushing back on racist terms.

the difference between the dude and Big Lebowski is the big one has remained *authentically* right wing

4/4

its also interesting to see how much the dude doesn't abide. and how coping with giving up on his leftist ideals has turned into a half hearted perhaps ironic or desperate acceptance of right wing icons and manners of speech in order to retain a sense of justice. 3/4

everyone in it is nihilistic yet the Dudes semi-repressed inability to abide injustice + Walters insanity suggest a human response American wars post-Vietnam - confusion and insanity.

Donny, then, is the true nihilist and Dude-like entity. He knows it's not a Pomerian, but he says nothing. 2/4

frm that review I learned that Wallace voted for Reagan. Also Dft's Fishy speech is really just sad, 'education means you get to choose, if you want, to have a vague notion of brotherhood and oneness but w/e' turns out deciding what you want to worship is empty actually I mean look at Vance 🫣

recommendation algorithms work better with more specific personal data. the kind of data OpenAI want to collect via always on microphones to form household psychology accountants

our personal infinite entertainment panopticons are being stalled by the need for extraction

its hell

what these platforms offer is basic - it's their hidden machine 'learning' system.. which I'm sure they think is the bees knees

the problem is the same for data and ML. for consumers it's better when tailored specifically for them which most likely means offline, unless we hit zero privacy

bringing us to communities which fixate on the best and most refined of these looping scenes (CCTV angle, meme time, YouTuber dialect) and perhaps even data scientists who create modifications to these loops

this leading to the death of trust in specific scenes rather than broadly (2/2)

much of the terminology is now tactical such as 'context window' or 'hallucination', this is meant to create a culture which accepts the idea that self-attention is context (rather than the capabilities i.e. the input) which divests the user of their will by not calling it an input

The drive for cheap maintenance plus a need for consistent growing retention rates is the problem. Software needs a lifespan.
I think enshittification occurs as a consequence of subscription to a software dependent on player social relationships + a demand for growth.

i think it's kind of funny that my programmer way of getting off the computer is to make a hobby out of merging myself into my computer more, at least it's gonna be more like arts and crafts what with all the little moving parts and learning how to make real physical stuff

Apart from being expensive. i think the personal feedback body suit for full body representation in data is a lifelong and individual goal

i can't seem to find much people interested in it outside of medicine and VR. Which makes sense. But I wanna control my machines with my body, maybe make music

people are less interested in the internals of their computers preferring the feeling of magic and obscurity (more normal consumers less nerds) + the machines are just less bulky? I think the bigger the machine relative to its screen size the more curiosity people might have about its insides

oh my God