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just think: an AI trained on depressed social justice queers

wonder what Hive is making of Bluesky

"you took a perfectly good pocket calculator and gave it anxiety"

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[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

tens of thousands worth of Leica gear

of course he’s one of those

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

Well his tag is "photomatt" and AFAIK he was pretty involved in digital photography when that was the cool thing to be doing.

I found the post, from 2008: https://ma.tt/2008/05/dont-check-your-valuables/

All very expensive at the time, especially the Noctilux!

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 9 months ago

oh come on, don't say you wouldn't