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fraying

@fraying@xoxo.zone

I used to make websites. I wrote “Design for Community.” I designed the original Blogger. I created JPG Magazine, Fray, Kvetch, Cute-Fight, and more.

Now I grow flowers and turn them into CBD products for https://milkbarn.farm. I take care of 30-something chickens, 13 goats, 3 dogs, 2 cats, and my wife and myself in Boring, Oregon.

Nazis, TERFs, and Republicans can fuck off. Do not explain capitalism to me.

He/him.

#fedi22 #community #goats #communitydesign #farmlife #design

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fraying, to random
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I was part of the first generation to take to the web and fill it with my hopes and dreams, my stories and music, seeking connection and building community.

Watching assholes like Sam Altman treat all that collected humanity as a strip mine makes me indescribably sad.

It also makes me want to punch him in his smug fucking face.

fraying,
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@phoutz it’s a quieter life, but a more healthy one.

Lonely tho.

fraying, to random
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FEDERAL BILLIONAIRE TAX NOW
https://archive.is/feepm

cfiesler, to random
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I couldn't stop thinking about the Meta AI chatbot that made up a human experience in a parenting Facebook group - so I wrote about why online communities are for people, not chatbots. Decades of social computing research tells us that information seeking in online communities is as much about shared experiences and human connection as it is about getting an answer. Maybe generative AI shouldn't be everywhere doing everything. https://theconversation.com/ai-chatbots-are-intruding-into-online-communities-where-people-are-trying-to-connect-with-other-humans-229473

fraying,
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@cfiesler THANK YOU.

fraying, to random
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Everything about OpenAI is a scam.

EVERYTHING.

fraying,
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@gavinisdie OpenAI is one specific company.

fraying,
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@gavinisdie yes, I agree

fraying, to random
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Today was a good day.

fraying,
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I don’t own a tractor, but once a year I get to rent one to do the tilling, and it’s always a fucking blast.

fraying, to random
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Planted seeds, hugged dogs, fed goats, pet cats, ate great food with my favorite person. Pretty good birthday.

fraying,
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Also I got this great present.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/reschedule-marijuana-drug-joe-biden-justice-department-rcna152603

StillIRise1963, to random
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The U.S. fascists will follow the Russian fascists and outlaw being gay if they get power. Is this not clear?

fraying,
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@CStamp @StillIRise1963 You realize that's still bad, right? Take it from someone who's family was forced to wear yellow stars: it's still bad.

fraying, to random
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Some people fight for what they believe in, others just believe in fighting, and on the internet they can be hard to tell apart.

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Nate Silver needs to fuck off.

fraying,
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@Hey_Beth pin toot

fraying, to random
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Why do all these rich assholes sound the same? "I see here a thing on the internet that is kind of working. I WILL REMAKE THE ENTIRE INTERNET IN IT! AND IT WILL WORK BECAUSE I AM RICH!"
https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-ban-frank-mccourt-bytedance-liberty-china-app-1851478825

fraying,
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TikTok is cool. I like it. But it's not the entire internet and no amount of money and delusion will make it that, just like Twitter can't call itself "X" and become "THE EVERYTHING APP" because that's not how the internet fucking works.

fraying, (edited )
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The internet is absolutely lousy with delusional assholes talking about how they're making the next internet.

Meanwhile, we have the internet.

fraying,
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The closest thing we've had to single-entity corporate-controlled internet was AOL and it's DEAD and you know what killed it? THE FUCKING INTERNET.

fraying,
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@mivox send them all to Mars

fraying,
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@jadugar63 they’re not even techbros anymore. They’re just rich guys who think they can make anything true by saying it out loud.

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billionairehood is a kind of diseducation. it slowly turns grown, intelligent, capable people into toddlers. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-story-elon-musk-mass-100216178.html ht @fraying @Nerdfest

fraying,
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@interfluidity @Nerdfest he’s not a founder. He’s just a rich asshole who occasionally hired good people who tolerated him long enough to launch something.

fraying, to random
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He fired 500 people because a woman told him “no.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-story-elon-musk-mass-100216178.html

fraying,
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Real Zorg energy here.

fraying,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0mO6UY6uTg

fraying,
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@dan613 Ew.

fraying,
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Elon wanted to be Tony Stark but he's really Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg. A vain, silly, useful idiot to cosmic evil, destined to die in an explosion from a bomb he set to hurt someone else.

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