John West @jsbw@internaut.club

@jeffjarvis And you can go back further, of course—to Plato, even—and find people concerned about the effect of communication technologies!

I wonder: Pointing to historical concerns about the effects of new communications technologies doesn't prove it's a mere "moral panic" now. Some historical concerns were probably borne out and others weren't. Similarly, some contemporary concerns are likely to prove well-founded, and others won't be.

Or: Lanier might be right even if Erasmus was wrong.

Here's a fun #ai #art #project for y'all. Using Stable Diffusion, a couple home-brewed Python scripts, and Svelte, I illustrated Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" from LEAVES OF GRASS.

It's not complete yet, but here's a proof of concept: http://beebe-west.com/viz/leaves-of-grass/index.html.

Each stanza looks like this, in the style of the artist John Singer Sargent.

What should I do with this?

@anfuller @elliot@microscopic.network yea, that was my temporary fix…

@robbarry @anfuller Not that I know of!

considering writing a play about web3 called waiting for crypdot — is that anything?

@Palazzolo sure sure. anyway, i can't really blame you, since what @adamdavidson & co. are building is really cool, and mine is on a cheapo server barely able to sustain this five-person instance, macgyvered together with duct tape and straws.

@Palazzolo I really like jounra.host as an instance, but I'm shocked you didn't assume that I was hosting my own. There would have been room for you over at internaut.club.

@virginiaheffernan @Gargron alas, i'll never give up on my american english spellings--these colours don't run

@elliot@microscopic.network No worries! Always worth a shot...

@elliot@microscopic.network Get "everything up to date" alas.

@elliot@microscopic.network Thanks for this! It's not in docker, and I did run that command. I'll re-run now.

Can any #admin folks help out on this one?

Hey #fediverse I upgraded my servers, and it seemed to break my public profile page... Any thoughts?

@robbarry there but for the grace of god go i

@robbarry love peter singer thrown in there, like

1. consequentialism
2. crypto
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3. save the world