who’s the basilisk now?

god damn it. i guess the name of the founder might have been a hint, only one letter away from our favorite roman saluter.

i use immich, one of the projects they seem to have actually funded in a big way. it’s a very good selfhosted replacement for google photos. at least the license is actually open source, as opposed to grayjay, so here’s hoping it has a future in case the fascists try to fuck with it.

i guess the problem though isn’t with the funding and/or control of individual projects, it’s with the long-term influence in the foss community they seem to be after.

not joyless at all. i suspect they’re creatively worn out. if you make a job out of your hobby, etc etc. combine that with habitual chatbot use and there you go. it’s overall just grim honestly. i’ll change vocation though if i’m ever forced to partake in the slop at work, thankfully so far that hasn’t happened yet.

was sind tüften, meine person?

personal vent: at my job yesterday i had to come up with a few fake book titles/author combinations for a project. a fun little task and opportunity to hide some cheeky easter eggs. so, i came up with a few and then asked my coworkers to share in the fun. one of them though just couldn’t come up with anything at all, and eventually just resorted to “asking chat gpt”.

mind you, i work a creative job, and so do my coworkers. this is a minor thing i guess, but it just made me very sad. how could you just outsource your creative joy to some mindless word salad machine?

as a bonus here he does a “i’m not usually political, but the left is evil” https://nitter.net/awesomekling/status/1967493595545682220 great, just great

fucking hell. but in hindsight, the vibes were always just a little bit off in his videos. guess servo is the only hope for a decent browser free from corporate/technofascist garbage.

has there been more indication of him being a bit fashy since that one github issue? haven’t been following it that much.

any of these except the last one wouldn’t be an implausible guest of this podcast, honestly. (i was talking about andreessen)

i recently stumbled upon his “tetragrammaton” podcast on youtube, listening to the episode with soad’s daron malakian, which was actually very interesting.

then i had a look at what other interviews were on offer. among popular actors and musicians there are such luminaries as: palmer luckey, peter thiel, mark mcafee (apparrently some raw milk tycoon), jay bhattacharya (covid-19 hoaxer type guy i guess), mr eggman himself, etc etc

on the podcast rubin comes off as this cool, open-minded hippie person, “just asking questions” and “having a conversation” with interesting people. so i guess he’s just sort of following the rogan formula. except i think rubin has a bit more brain matter left than the mma/dmt guy. so i can’t help but wonder if this podcast is a bit more of a targeted effort at influencing new age people just coming across it like i did.

i was actually quite surprised at this, so i also did a bit of searching, and apart from the post you linked i also came across nothing else. but his work speaks for itself i guess.