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First lecture in a course that I have taken over and teach for the first time. A very large class, second-year students who are eager to learn and who are also anxious, as the course was taught very rigidly before.
I have discarded slides altogether and develop the material on the whiteboard, as I used to do. So liberating. 10-20 minutes for setting the scene, then I give them a mini case to work through with their neighbours. The students are wonderful. The room buzzes in eager discussions between them; they compare notes, check each others calculations, argue earnestly with each other. Live discovery of fundamental truths, in a shared space. The subject is alive and speaks to us. After the session I release my notes, which put all the micro insights together.
Real teaching, I and Thou, is possible. I am lucky to be a teacher and to have these students. Life is good.
#teaching #lectures #HigherEducation #IAndThou #AcademicChatter #StopTheAICorruption
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First lecture in a course that I have taken over and teach for the first time. A very large class, second-year students who are eager to learn and who are also anxious, as the course was taught very rigidly before.
I have discarded slides altogether and develop the material on the whiteboard, as I used to do. So liberating. 10-20 minutes for setting the scene, then I give them a mini case to work through with their neighbours. The students are wonderful. The room buzzes in eager discussions between them; they compare notes, check each others calculations, argue earnestly with each other. Live discovery of fundamental truths, in a shared space. The subject is alive and speaks to us. After the session I release my notes, which put all the micro insights together.
Real teaching, I and Thou, is possible. I am lucky to be a teacher and to have these students. Life is good.
#teaching #lectures #HigherEducation #IAndThou #AcademicChatter #StopTheAICorruption
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First lecture in a course that I have taken over and teach for the first time. A very large class, second-year students who are eager to learn and who are also anxious, as the course was taught very rigidly before.
I have discarded slides altogether and develop the material on the whiteboard, as I used to do. So liberating. 10-20 minutes for setting the scene, then I give them a mini case to work through with their neighbours. The students are wonderful. The room buzzes in eager discussions between them; they compare notes, check each others calculations, argue earnestly with each other. Live discovery of fundamental truths, in a shared space. The subject is alive and speaks to us. After the session I release my notes, which put all the micro insights together.
Real teaching, I and Thou, is possible. I am lucky to be a teacher and to have these students. Life is good.
#teaching #lectures #HigherEducation #IAndThou #AcademicChatter #StopTheAICorruption
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First lecture in a course that I have taken over and teach for the first time. A very large class, second-year students who are eager to learn and who are also anxious, as the course was taught very rigidly before.
I have discarded slides altogether and develop the material on the whiteboard, as I used to do. So liberating. 10-20 minutes for setting the scene, then I give them a mini case to work through with their neighbours. The students are wonderful. The room buzzes in eager discussions between them; they compare notes, check each others calculations, argue earnestly with each other. Live discovery of fundamental truths, in a shared space. The subject is alive and speaks to us. After the session I release my notes, which put all the micro insights together.
Real teaching, I and Thou, is possible. I am lucky to be a teacher and to have these students. Life is good.
#teaching #lectures #HigherEducation #IAndThou #AcademicChatter #StopTheAICorruption
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First lecture in a course that I have taken over and teach for the first time. A very large class, second-year students who are eager to learn and who are also anxious, as the course was taught very rigidly before.
I have discarded slides altogether and develop the material on the whiteboard, as I used to do. So liberating. 10-20 minutes for setting the scene, then I give them a mini case to work through with their neighbours. The students are wonderful. The room buzzes in eager discussions between them; they compare notes, check each others calculations, argue earnestly with each other. Live discovery of fundamental truths, in a shared space. The subject is alive and speaks to us. After the session I release my notes, which put all the micro insights together.
Real teaching, I and Thou, is possible. I am lucky to be a teacher and to have these students. Life is good.
#teaching #lectures #HigherEducation #IAndThou #AcademicChatter #StopTheAICorruption
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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A fine essay. Speaking as a university teacher, and as a writer in a research and teaching context: I experience the same pain when people don't see the uniqueness of the human source of true writing and true teaching. And like you I believe that true creative human work (in writing, in teaching) will survive. If need be in new formats and new channels.
Martin Buber studied the true dialogue that happens between my "I" and your "Thou", and he contrasted it with the unlistening talking that happend when both sides treat the other as an "It". Today's genAI proponents are glad to abolish both I and Thou: a vision of a society where the "It" of one person's genAI talks to the "It" of another person's genAI.
#StopTheAICorruption #IAndThou #writing #teaching #creativity
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A fine essay. Speaking as a university teacher, and as a writer in a research and teaching context: I experience the same pain when people don't see the uniqueness of the human source of true writing and true teaching. And like you I believe that true creative human work (in writing, in teaching) will survive. If need be in new formats and new channels.
Martin Buber studied the true dialogue that happens between my "I" and your "Thou", and he contrasted it with the unlistening talking that happend when both sides treat the other as an "It". Today's genAI proponents are glad to abolish both I and Thou: a vision of a society where the "It" of one person's genAI talks to the "It" of another person's genAI.
#StopTheAICorruption #IAndThou #writing #teaching #creativity
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A fine essay. Speaking as a university teacher, and as a writer in a research and teaching context: I experience the same pain when people don't see the uniqueness of the human source of true writing and true teaching. And like you I believe that true creative human work (in writing, in teaching) will survive. If need be in new formats and new channels.
Martin Buber studied the true dialogue that happens between my "I" and your "Thou", and he contrasted it with the unlistening talking that happend when both sides treat the other as an "It". Today's genAI proponents are glad to abolish both I and Thou: a vision of a society where the "It" of one person's genAI talks to the "It" of another person's genAI.
#StopTheAICorruption #IAndThou #writing #teaching #creativity
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A fine essay. Speaking as a university teacher, and as a writer in a research and teaching context: I experience the same pain when people don't see the uniqueness of the human source of true writing and true teaching. And like you I believe that true creative human work (in writing, in teaching) will survive. If need be in new formats and new channels.
Martin Buber studied the true dialogue that happens between my "I" and your "Thou", and he contrasted it with the unlistening talking that happend when both sides treat the other as an "It". Today's genAI proponents are glad to abolish both I and Thou: a vision of a society where the "It" of one person's genAI talks to the "It" of another person's genAI.
#StopTheAICorruption #IAndThou #writing #teaching #creativity
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A fine essay. Speaking as a university teacher, and as a writer in a research and teaching context: I experience the same pain when people don't see the uniqueness of the human source of true writing and true teaching. And like you I believe that true creative human work (in writing, in teaching) will survive. If need be in new formats and new channels.
Martin Buber studied the true dialogue that happens between my "I" and your "Thou", and he contrasted it with the unlistening talking that happend when both sides treat the other as an "It". Today's genAI proponents are glad to abolish both I and Thou: a vision of a society where the "It" of one person's genAI talks to the "It" of another person's genAI.
#StopTheAICorruption #IAndThou #writing #teaching #creativity
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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CW: Thinking about genAI and the death of dialogue
Richard Dawkins's "Claudia" piece gives us a glum vision of the future of speaking. We see an entirely artificial exchange of well-constructed sentences, all following the laws of pattern recognition, but all without an ounce of expressive truth. The soulless automation is on both sides: Claudia the LLM speaks as it was programmed to speak; Richard the human speaks as his narcissistic pathology makes him speak. Neither invests their soul. Claudia because it has none, Richard because he hides it from himself.
Martin Buber tells us that true dialogue is between "I and Thou". There is no "I" and no "Thou" in Dawkins' conversation, only performance.
Leonard Cohen tells us that "There is a crack in everything, // That's how the light gets in." There is no crack in these automated texts, and no light. Only darkness.
#RichardDawkins #GenerativeNarcicissm #StopTheAICorruption #noLLM #MartinBuber #IAndThou #LookForTheCracks
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CW: Thinking about genAI and the death of dialogue
Richard Dawkins's "Claudia" piece gives us a glum vision of the future of speaking. We see an entirely artificial exchange of well-constructed sentences, all following the laws of pattern recognition, but all without an ounce of expressive truth. The soulless automation is on both sides: Claudia the LLM speaks as it was programmed to speak; Richard the human speaks as his narcissistic pathology makes him speak. Neither invests their soul. Claudia because it has none, Richard because he hides it from himself.
Martin Buber tells us that true dialogue is between "I and Thou". There is no "I" and no "Thou" in Dawkins' conversation, only performance.
Leonard Cohen tells us that "There is a crack in everything, // That's how the light gets in." There is no crack in these automated texts, and no light. Only darkness.
#RichardDawkins #GenerativeNarcicissm #StopTheAICorruption #noLLM #MartinBuber #IAndThou #LookForTheCracks
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CW: Thinking about genAI and the death of dialogue
Richard Dawkins's "Claudia" piece gives us a glum vision of the future of speaking. We see an entirely artificial exchange of well-constructed sentences, all following the laws of pattern recognition, but all without an ounce of expressive truth. The soulless automation is on both sides: Claudia the LLM speaks as it was programmed to speak; Richard the human speaks as his narcissistic pathology makes him speak. Neither invests their soul. Claudia because it has none, Richard because he hides it from himself.
Martin Buber tells us that true dialogue is between "I and Thou". There is no "I" and no "Thou" in Dawkins' conversation, only performance.
Leonard Cohen tells us that "There is a crack in everything, // That's how the light gets in." There is no crack in these automated texts, and no light. Only darkness.
#RichardDawkins #GenerativeNarcicissm #StopTheAICorruption #noLLM #MartinBuber #IAndThou #LookForTheCracks
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CW: Thinking about genAI and the death of dialogue
Richard Dawkins's "Claudia" piece gives us a glum vision of the future of speaking. We see an entirely artificial exchange of well-constructed sentences, all following the laws of pattern recognition, but all without an ounce of expressive truth. The soulless automation is on both sides: Claudia the LLM speaks as it was programmed to speak; Richard the human speaks as his narcissistic pathology makes him speak. Neither invests their soul. Claudia because it has none, Richard because he hides it from himself.
Martin Buber tells us that true dialogue is between "I and Thou". There is no "I" and no "Thou" in Dawkins' conversation, only performance.
Leonard Cohen tells us that "There is a crack in everything, // That's how the light gets in." There is no crack in these automated texts, and no light. Only darkness.
#RichardDawkins #GenerativeNarcicissm #StopTheAICorruption #noLLM #MartinBuber #IAndThou #LookForTheCracks
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CW: Thinking about genAI and the death of dialogue
Richard Dawkins's "Claudia" piece gives us a glum vision of the future of speaking. We see an entirely artificial exchange of well-constructed sentences, all following the laws of pattern recognition, but all without an ounce of expressive truth. The soulless automation is on both sides: Claudia the LLM speaks as it was programmed to speak; Richard the human speaks as his narcissistic pathology makes him speak. Neither invests their soul. Claudia because it has none, Richard because he hides it from himself.
Martin Buber tells us that true dialogue is between "I and Thou". There is no "I" and no "Thou" in Dawkins' conversation, only performance.
Leonard Cohen tells us that "There is a crack in everything, // That's how the light gets in." There is no crack in these automated texts, and no light. Only darkness.
#RichardDawkins #GenerativeNarcicissm #StopTheAICorruption #noLLM #MartinBuber #IAndThou #LookForTheCracks
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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Yes, good article, it highlights a key element of the #genAI catastrophy. Thanks for the post and the link!
Interacting with other humans opens us up, whereas interacting with human-like machines cages us in.
P.S. Love your "carnival funhouse mirror" analogy!
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Yes, good article, it highlights a key element of the #genAI catastrophy. Thanks for the post and the link!
Interacting with other humans opens us up, whereas interacting with human-like machines cages us in.
P.S. Love your "carnival funhouse mirror" analogy!
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Yes, good article, it highlights a key element of the #genAI catastrophy. Thanks for the post and the link!
Interacting with other humans opens us up, whereas interacting with human-like machines cages us in.
P.S. Love your "carnival funhouse mirror" analogy!
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Yes, good article, it highlights a key element of the #genAI catastrophy. Thanks for the post and the link!
Interacting with other humans opens us up, whereas interacting with human-like machines cages us in.
P.S. Love your "carnival funhouse mirror" analogy!
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Yes, good article, it highlights a key element of the #genAI catastrophy. Thanks for the post and the link!
Interacting with other humans opens us up, whereas interacting with human-like machines cages us in.
P.S. Love your "carnival funhouse mirror" analogy!
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.
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And when morning came her knights showed her the QUOTES that covered the fields, huge white blocks that blocked the view. And they told her the QUOTES were rooted deep in the ground and they could not be removed. And our Lady Joan Mastodon wept for three days and three nights. Then she rose and stood in front of her knights and spoke thus: We shall not quote, she said to them. We shall reply and we shall boost, but we shall not quote. We will pass by the QUOTES that cover our fields, we will plant trees around them, we will toot freely to each other as we always did, in direct exchange between one free tooter and another, never blocking the other's voice. Having spoken thus, she rode away. And as she passed the first of the QUOTES, her knights heard her laughing, a free, roaring laughter. That is our Lady Joan, they said to each other. Let us toot as she asked us to. Let us plant trees around the QUOTES.
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And when morning came her knights showed her the QUOTES that covered the fields, huge white blocks that blocked the view. And they told her the QUOTES were rooted deep in the ground and they could not be removed. And our Lady Joan Mastodon wept for three days and three nights. Then she rose and stood in front of her knights and spoke thus: We shall not quote, she said to them. We shall reply and we shall boost, but we shall not quote. We will pass by the QUOTES that cover our fields, we will plant trees around them, we will toot freely to each other as we always did, in direct exchange between one free tooter and another, never blocking the other's voice. Having spoken thus, she rode away. And as she passed the first of the QUOTES, her knights heard her laughing, a free, roaring laughter. That is our Lady Joan, they said to each other. Let us toot as she asked us to. Let us plant trees around the QUOTES.
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And when morning came her knights showed her the QUOTES that covered the fields, huge white blocks that blocked the view. And they told her the QUOTES were rooted deep in the ground and they could not be removed. And our Lady Joan Mastodon wept for three days and three nights. Then she rose and stood in front of her knights and spoke thus: We shall not quote, she said to them. We shall reply and we shall boost, but we shall not quote. We will pass by the QUOTES that cover our fields, we will plant trees around them, we will toot freely to each other as we always did, in direct exchange between one free tooter and another, never blocking the other's voice. Having spoken thus, she rode away. And as she passed the first of the QUOTES, her knights heard her laughing, a free, roaring laughter. That is our Lady Joan, they said to each other. Let us toot as she asked us to. Let us plant trees around the QUOTES.
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And when morning came her knights showed her the QUOTES that covered the fields, huge white blocks that blocked the view. And they told her the QUOTES were rooted deep in the ground and they could not be removed. And our Lady Joan Mastodon wept for three days and three nights. Then she rose and stood in front of her knights and spoke thus: We shall not quote, she said to them. We shall reply and we shall boost, but we shall not quote. We will pass by the QUOTES that cover our fields, we will plant trees around them, we will toot freely to each other as we always did, in direct exchange between one free tooter and another, never blocking the other's voice. Having spoken thus, she rode away. And as she passed the first of the QUOTES, her knights heard her laughing, a free, roaring laughter. That is our Lady Joan, they said to each other. Let us toot as she asked us to. Let us plant trees around the QUOTES.
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And when morning came her knights showed her the QUOTES that covered the fields, huge white blocks that blocked the view. And they told her the QUOTES were rooted deep in the ground and they could not be removed. And our Lady Joan Mastodon wept for three days and three nights. Then she rose and stood in front of her knights and spoke thus: We shall not quote, she said to them. We shall reply and we shall boost, but we shall not quote. We will pass by the QUOTES that cover our fields, we will plant trees around them, we will toot freely to each other as we always did, in direct exchange between one free tooter and another, never blocking the other's voice. Having spoken thus, she rode away. And as she passed the first of the QUOTES, her knights heard her laughing, a free, roaring laughter. That is our Lady Joan, they said to each other. Let us toot as she asked us to. Let us plant trees around the QUOTES.
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"We shall fight Quotes on the beaches, we shall fight them on the landing grounds, we shall fight them in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight them on the hills, we shall never surrender ... "
That's what our Lady Joan Mastodon called us to do in her great speech before the Battle of the Hashtags. She was, as ever, right.
QTs break the dialogical principle that gives the pulse of true life to the Fediverse. We want to talk to the other, not talk about them.
#noQuotes #noQT #MartinBuber #IAndThou #JoanMastodon #MastodonCulture
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"We shall fight Quotes on the beaches, we shall fight them on the landing grounds, we shall fight them in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight them on the hills, we shall never surrender ... "
That's what our Lady Joan Mastodon called us to do in her great speech before the Battle of the Hashtags. She was, as ever, right.
QTs break the dialogical principle that gives the pulse of true life to the Fediverse. We want to talk to the other, not talk about them.
#noQuotes #noQT #MartinBuber #IAndThou #JoanMastodon #MastodonCulture
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"We shall fight Quotes on the beaches, we shall fight them on the landing grounds, we shall fight them in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight them on the hills, we shall never surrender ... "
That's what our Lady Joan Mastodon called us to do in her great speech before the Battle of the Hashtags. She was, as ever, right.
QTs break the dialogical principle that gives the pulse of true life to the Fediverse. We want to talk to the other, not talk about them.
#noQuotes #noQT #MartinBuber #IAndThou #JoanMastodon #MastodonCulture
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"We shall fight Quotes on the beaches, we shall fight them on the landing grounds, we shall fight them in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight them on the hills, we shall never surrender ... "
That's what our Lady Joan Mastodon called us to do in her great speech before the Battle of the Hashtags. She was, as ever, right.
QTs break the dialogical principle that gives the pulse of true life to the Fediverse. We want to talk to the other, not talk about them.
#noQuotes #noQT #MartinBuber #IAndThou #JoanMastodon #MastodonCulture
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"We shall fight Quotes on the beaches, we shall fight them on the landing grounds, we shall fight them in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight them on the hills, we shall never surrender ... "
That's what our Lady Joan Mastodon called us to do in her great speech before the Battle of the Hashtags. She was, as ever, right.
QTs break the dialogical principle that gives the pulse of true life to the Fediverse. We want to talk to the other, not talk about them.
#noQuotes #noQT #MartinBuber #IAndThou #JoanMastodon #MastodonCulture
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Yeah, it helps us making sense of many things, doesn't it. Certainly as regards the current genAI cultural tectonic shift.
I've also used the "I and Thou" idea to make sense of Mastodon! See, eg, here:
https://mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/114646867916663363
Or here:
https://mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/114439824273622643
Re-reading these old posts of mine I realise how much I love the Fedi, and I remember the absolute liberation I felt when I arrived at these shores in November 2022. It's a wonderful, wonderful thing. Good things can and do happen.
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Yeah, it helps us making sense of many things, doesn't it. Certainly as regards the current genAI cultural tectonic shift.
I've also used the "I and Thou" idea to make sense of Mastodon! See, eg, here:
https://mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/114646867916663363
Or here:
https://mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/114439824273622643
Re-reading these old posts of mine I realise how much I love the Fedi, and I remember the absolute liberation I felt when I arrived at these shores in November 2022. It's a wonderful, wonderful thing. Good things can and do happen.
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Yeah, it helps us making sense of many things, doesn't it. Certainly as regards the current genAI cultural tectonic shift.
I've also used the "I and Thou" idea to make sense of Mastodon! See, eg, here:
https://mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/114646867916663363
Or here:
https://mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/114439824273622643
Re-reading these old posts of mine I realise how much I love the Fedi, and I remember the absolute liberation I felt when I arrived at these shores in November 2022. It's a wonderful, wonderful thing. Good things can and do happen.
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Yeah, it helps us making sense of many things, doesn't it. Certainly as regards the current genAI cultural tectonic shift.
I've also used the "I and Thou" idea to make sense of Mastodon! See, eg, here:
https://mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/114646867916663363
Or here:
https://mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/114439824273622643
Re-reading these old posts of mine I realise how much I love the Fedi, and I remember the absolute liberation I felt when I arrived at these shores in November 2022. It's a wonderful, wonderful thing. Good things can and do happen.
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Yeah, it helps us making sense of many things, doesn't it. Certainly as regards the current genAI cultural tectonic shift.
I've also used the "I and Thou" idea to make sense of Mastodon! See, eg, here:
https://mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/114646867916663363
Or here:
https://mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/114439824273622643
Re-reading these old posts of mine I realise how much I love the Fedi, and I remember the absolute liberation I felt when I arrived at these shores in November 2022. It's a wonderful, wonderful thing. Good things can and do happen.