Severák @severak@tiny.tilde.website

I'm trying to get my friends off facebook, but we've got this large group conversation with 20 people.

Here are the constraints:
- Most of them are on mobile, I'm not
- Some of them actually use facebook for what it is (for groups and pages)
- They're not particularly tech-savvy
- They're not particularly cooperative either (but that -- well -- can't exactly be solved with technology)

How would you go about it? What alternatives would pick? What compromises would you make?

Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' illustrations, 1959 by Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson #womensart https://t.co/vcugJh0l7e

~severak has updated their #SOTD: J.A.R. - Nuly [bass cover] < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMIwOEGN4Mw >

I want to see a tv drama where the tech person is like "ok I'm on it" and then proceeds to google "linux how untar file"

A tentative hypothesis:

Conspiracy theory is so popular in the early 21st century because the major institutions of life in the 21st century - business, media, military, politics and academia - are structured indistinguishably from conspiracies (ie: as opaque, secretive, networked yet hierarchical systems, whose inner and outer motives are different) to those not already part of their inner circle.

And increasing numbers of people find themselves outside of those inner circles of power.

An aspiring photographer, you answer a job posting for corporate head shots. It becomes abundantly clear, however, that you've entered the realm of corporate assassination.
#writingprompts #writing

You're an alien spy disguised as a human. During your mission, you have gone through their novels and movies, and feel offended by the portrayal of aliens, the dumb invasion plans and inaccurate technology, and decide to write a novel yourself to correct the mistakes. It became a bestseller.
#writingprompts #writing

Behind every successful man, there is a woman. Behind every dead man, there is Chuck Norris.

"Your virtual AI wife's owner is called 'master' and will always try to best serve her master."

Reading about the leading creators of and thinkers about humanoid robots horrifies me.

Instead of dealing with the widespread economic devastation, isolation and alienation that capitalism amplified by tech is visiting on people, the solution is to further commodify relationships, sell them back to you in a wife who is 'your personal servant'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6072229/1300-holographic-AI-wife-chat-paying-14-month-living-expenses.html

https://medium.com/@orge/the-future-of-love-robot-sex-and-ai-relationships-3b7c7913bb07

this is all building to us announcing a live sex stream and when people tune in its just kate high on mushrooms playing donkey kong country 2

tfw you met a girl and made a date in constantinople but she was waiting in Istanbul

Image from page 244 of "Andrew Garrett's Fische der Südsee" (1873)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/17574997263/

going to the unnatural history museum, looking at the ancient aliens exhibit, wowed by the taxidermied chupacabra

We know capitalism doesn't work because nobody, literally nobody, asked for foldable smartphones. All we want are better batteries, no bloatware, and a headphone jack (your mileage may vary on the last one).