Get ready. Angry Sightless Scribbles post incoming.

[weirdwriter@caneandable.social]

Get ready. Angry Sightless Scribbles post incoming. Yesterday a fucking Tech Bro just came into an independent bookstore, where everybody was happily reading, drinking hot chocolate or tea, and this dick hole just decided to come in to try to promote his stupid shitty AR but he called it an AI glasses where it would attempt to use AI to generate images of things you were reading, as if the imagination is a stupid thing that needs to be disrupted. I couldn’t take the shit. I have to deal with these morons everywhere in my online life, and I sure as shit did not want them in my offline life too but the fucker would not leave. I stood up, slammed my cane on the floor so that it made a very loud, crack! I began by saying, shut the fuck up. That’s when the technological and intellectual beat down happened. I can’t express how much I hate these people. He just saw a bookstore and decided to just invade our fucking sanctuary, and he really, really, hated it that a person he saw as a Luddite, his version of a Luddite anyway, knew the tech and new the operating system he was using better than he did. I can’t stand these fucking people. On the bright side, the bookstore owner said I could write in there for free anytime, any day, and I get free hot chocolate for life because that verbal beat down was golden. If I appear on TikTok, you know why.

[sitcom_nemesis@tech.lgbt]

@WeirdWriter

On the bright side, the bookstore owner said I could write in there for free anytime, any day, and I get free hot chocolate for life because that beatdown was golden.

Techbro gets rekt, you get free hot chocolate for life, that's quite a silver lining 😀

[weirdwriter@caneandable.social]

It just.... I have to deal with these fucking dicks online, and something about one invading my offline safe space just utterly made me snap! But I agree! He was using a shitty version of Linux too, the most mainstream one, yawn. I just... The fact he saw people reading in a fucking bookstore and was like hmm, let me sell them something! God I fucking hate these people so much. @sitcom_nemesis

[benjamincox@writing.exchange]

@WeirdWriter @alicemcalicepants 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[sinvega@mas.to]

@WeirdWriter @sitcom_nemesis clear case of self defence, and defence of others around you.

Also sounds like you weren't there when the later incident occurred, he was here the whole time your honour

[cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com]

@WeirdWriter Ugh, but good on you! I recently had a short message exchange with a guy who started getting into reading, though he’s in his 30s. Reading had been difficult for him before, more a chore than anything enjoyable. He’s encouraging others to start reading too, which I applaud. I mentioned to him that the best thing about reading is imagining the characters and scenes. Imagination is so important. We’re already outsourcing it to visual media, and apparently AR now too. No, just no!

[da_kink@defcon.social]

@WeirdWriter I thank you for standing up to that.

[clickhere@mastodon.ie]

@WeirdWriter Well done to you, and solidarity from here in Dublin.

That fool got exactly what he deserved.

[weirdwriter@caneandable.social]

@FediThing Thannk you! It reminded me so much of that essay I can’t locate now, but I remember the title of it very clearly. It was called, maybe the book doesn’t need to be disrupted in the first place? Also, what kind of person just marches into a bookstore, and thinks, hey! Here’s a group of people I can show my gadget too! Nobody asked him to come in, and nobody was interested in his tech toy he invented. It just made me so furious

[weirdwriter@caneandable.social]

@clickhere Thank you! Editing the blog narrative / post now so I am eager to share it, but I just never thought they would invade my offline safe space so I was like, I really need to make this jackass leave

[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.