Get ready. Angry Sightless Scribbles post incoming.

[weirdwriter@caneandable.social]

@cassana Bingo!

[jaypeach53@calckeymusic.social]

@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social I feel the same way with audiobooks. My library carries a disturbing amount of audiobook only titles. Since when is reading an optional feature? I can read 2-4 times as fast as the narrator speaks. And cranking up the speed of the narration is obnoxious. My aural comprehension sucks since I get so little chance to practice it.

[weirdwriter@caneandable.social]

@jaypeach53 @cassana I’m just letting you know now, literacy elitism hwill not be tolerated. If you personally don’t like audiobooks, that’s totally fine, but I’m just letting you know, I will not accept attack on anybody that listens to an audiobook. If you participate in reading elitism, you are no better than the Tech Bro. You haven’t done that in your above comment, but I’m not at all interested in engaging in literary snobbery.

[rooktallon@caneandable.social]

@WeirdWriter Definitely anti-AI then?

[growfediverse@dillyofapickle.com]

@WeirdWriter @FediThing Only a tech bro would barge into another person's business to do soliciting. Instead of getting marketing impressions the normal ways, they leech off someone else's customers for audience. As per usual, they only know how to steal other people's stuff.

[weirdwriter@caneandable.social]

@growfediverse @FediThing I’m almost done editing the post but you nailed it! There was something vividly hostile about encountering one offline. I have to deal with these people every single day online, so when they just invaded my offline sanctuary, that was it! I couldn’t take it

[weirdwriter@caneandable.social]

@Rooktallon Damn fucking straight! I think LLMs are just a way to get big tech more money.

[rooktallon@caneandable.social]

@WeirdWriter Better hope spellcheck isn't run by AI then cause otherwise you'll be paying into it.

[growfediverse@dillyofapickle.com]

@WeirdWriter @Rooktallon Our generation's "Schachtürke", wow-ing gullible people until it goes up in flames. 🫧💥

Ever notice how they always goal post move when you point out the latest failings? "Oh well y'know that was LAST week's model, the new one doesn't have those issues". The refrain for the last 3 solid years 🤣

[rooktallon@caneandable.social]

@growfediverse @WeirdWriter I wouldn't call myself anti-AI but I do recognize the issues with it. Still, things like being able to get pic descriptions and actually interact with people based on the pictures I get from people which, let's be honest, most sighted folks don't communicate using words because pictures often say more, is pretty neat. In that sense, I'd say AI has its uses for different people though I wholeheartedly refuse out of principle to use AI to write my stuff for me. Just figured I'd put that out there.

[clickhere@mastodon.ie]

@WeirdWriter You're very welcome indeed. And you absolutely did the right thing (not that you need me or anyone to tell you).

Nobody that utterly obnoxious should be allowed get away with what he was doing.

Bravo! 👏🏼

[growfediverse@dillyofapickle.com]

@WeirdWriter @Rooktallon I would love for tech to get used to increase accessibility, but sighted people tend to publish tech and hang a mission accomplished banner. So so so many of the image summary tools are wildly inaccurate. You almost need a human recorrection service. In fact, as I run across them on fedi, I'm gonna start correcting the shitty ones, tyvm for the nudge!

There will be a pic of a warrior leaping through the air, wreathed in undulating magic, the dragon poised with intimidating fangs around a gaping drooling maw, and the AI summary will be like "Woman standing on a blue platform"

[rooktallon@caneandable.social]

@growfediverse @WeirdWriter Yeah well, given the fact that bionic eyes are decades away and I'm not waiting, I'll take inaccurate discriptions rather than no interaction with anyone online at all who isn't blind.

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@WeirdWriter I congratulate you for your brilliant service 🩷
Thank you for standing up to this moronity , we have brains so we can use them. If, say, you have a fun little “device” that would make a cute “parlor trick” that is all & fine, because that’s temporary. This stuff they have they want to take over your life with and not use your brain at all! (It’s bad enough with phones and young people these days 🫩)
Being able to use my imagination has helped me through many tough times in my life.💕

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@WeirdWriter I definitely want more libraries and bookstores that do what you describe having 💕 That sounds like a perfect day to me💕😻❣️

[cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com]

@jaypeach53 @WeirdWriter Audiobooks are a great option to engage with stories, and still have that same imagination aspect. For me, I became blind when I was 14 and had to go learn braille (alongside relearning everything). Learning at a later age like that, I'm a comparatively slow reader. Personal preferences aside, the main point is engaging with stories; print, ebook, braille, audio, whatever works for you.