I realized this format actually works with the drawings I've been making this year so I tried making a minicomic!

#theWorkshop

Used to teach elementary algebra. Got very frustrated with a student who kept saying "x = infinity is a solution" for linear equations like "3x - 4 = x + 10". I couldn't show that infinity was not a solution either. Still cut up years later.

It simply can't be done.

I was trying to understand EA and the person I was interacting with got very offended that I called it religion.

So I stopped doing that and let it go because I was trying to understand how this all works, what is the appeal?

The "not a religion" thing was really really really important to him. He explained that he grew up with fundamentalists and was proud of breaking free of constraining ideologies.

. . .

I didn't mean "religion" to be an insult.

Humans gonna human.

We all have biases, the important thing is to know (some)what what they are, so that they sway us less than they otherwise would.

I have actually changed my positions based on friendly dialogue online. But not here - it’s far too toxic to discuss any matter of importance here. Here, even when I agree with someone I often nope out of a conversation bc it is simply too draining arguing alongside someone with the tact of a brick wall.

Tbf, it became somewhat like that on Reddit too, even before the APIcalypse, so it might be an inevitable consequence of being on social media. Here, the average quality of conversation is much lower, but it is still at least possible to have a good one (or was, a couple years ago, especially on Kbin when that existed). Also, the longer your blocklist becomes, the higher the average quality rises. (Edit: the “average quality” depends heavily on whether you visit the largest communities here, and whether your instance has defederated from hexbear.net and/or lemmygrad.ml - which these days most have but I was on multiple that had not in the past. After blocking the triad though, the average quality here is WAY higher than on Reddit. You can always visit those places if you want to read their views, but arguing with incels rarely brightens my day, and I love being able to remove that from my experience, even if it must be opt-out and sadly was not opt-in, which chases so many people away from here. Seriously, block early and often, for the sake of your sanity!!)

So now, I suppose my time of being open to new ideas is in the past? At least as far as being online in the Fediverse / Threadiverse is concerned - though I still hold out hope for such irl.

I’m just so tired of talking with someone who will only talk AT rather than with me, and who values (their own) “free speech” immensely but cares not one tiny bit about listening or even common courtesy or decency.

But again, corporate enshittified platforms are even worse these days, so online discourse free of “alternative facts” trolls seems a thing of the past everywhere. I think it’s just a consequence of what social media does to people’s brains: medium.com/…/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-8….

The existence of the skills doesn't necessarily mean the app is vibe coded or slop. We have to judge code quality and UX to make that determination.

Also, he removed those files 3 days later according to this commit. Maybe he only uses them locally and they got added to the repo by mistake? It would at least imply that he doesn't want everyone else to use AI, though why is anybody's guess.