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This is great and awesome 🌸💕

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I really love this and I have watched THREE episodes of Andor with my phone out of reach please clap

Thank you. Yeah, this is why I've been making bespoke 1940s style radio shows and doing live performances. Caring about what I make and what I share, making people laugh, maybe sneaking a message in as well. No hallucinations and better for the environment, too.

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I love your words, but I did care, and I do care, and because of it I lost my career and my job and my managers didn’t care and I literally have nothing left. So now I can’t afford to care.

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That was great. My job involves true stories from people and the inbox is completely clogged with fake AI stories. I can so relate!

You care enough to hate, and that is far better than sinking into apathy & nihilism.

In the first Trump term this bit from Grand Budapest Hotel stuck in my brain. I still think about it a lot. It’s this exact message: youtu.be/TBXgRcd_jz0

Thank you, I love this. I am Someone Who Cares Too Much and I feel like I am drowning in all of [waves arms] everything. It’s good to see someone is noticing people who care.

Thanks Dan. Just what I needed.

Also college is Uber-competitive and financially out of reach for many — plus A.I. could conceivably wipe out huge swaths of career paths. How can young people be optimistic?

Also when you work your ass off and do NOT get richer or more successful or treated better it is easy to say 'fuck it' and not care too.

it 100% is

This is spot-on, really great work

Disposability was a feature of the sixties as well. I don't think that's the problem here. The problem is a criminal at the wheel waging a war against America, it's people, it's resources and it's institutions. These things are not disposable.

This put into words and quite succinctly summarised why all the current AI hype makes me so depressed. Thanks for writing this ❤️‍🩹

This is an incredibly well-written and thoughtful essay. Thank you for writing it ❤️

I have been staying with an elderly relative this past week who loves very old movies and shows. Key Largo, Cheers, Barney Miller etc. The difference from today's content is astounding. They were real. Imperfect and real.

Fuck yes.

Give em hell

I just finished this piece. It was one of those works that draws out your own long-standing subconscious thoughts. I’ve literally been asked “who cares?” by colleagues, while others push back. My grandfather was a woodworker and steel engineer. I think about him a lot in our current context.

I just came from a thread about the people still posting on X. Several commenters there basically defending the hellsite because it’s not sanctimonious like Bluesky. In other words, people here care. They hate that. What to do about people who not only don’t care but are allergic to those who do?

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That was very good. Insightful. You certainly care, as do I. I hate people using AI to write essays and other academic work. I would argue it’s plagiarism and in my education that was a big deal if it happened. It’s cheap and hack. Like stand up comics who steal jokes. I’ll keep caring my friend.

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Thank you. This is fucking perfect.

I still miss hambone

It's the difference between making cookies or buying cookies. The process of making the cookies means your investment in them is higher; the reward of eating them is more valuable. Sometimes you don't care but you feel exercised and energized when you do.

Thanks for this. Needed it.

They not like us.