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Spevacus Mod
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Indifference

This is not meant as some hyperbole based on recent events. Well, there is a bit of pouting perhaps, but that is really just the icing on the cake. When you ask me to think about the future of the network, years from now...

[radio static]

Now, hold on rolling your eyes for a second while we stroll down memory lane...

You see, SE (actually, SO initially for me) was an idea to invest in. Building a library of knowledge and all that. Using a library of knowledge, just to get that point its often-missing spotlight. Yeah, that good feeling when you are finally given a broom because you are trusted to help keep the place tidy behind the scenes.
That warm feeling of familiarity when you open SO at 10 PM, find an answer to your problem and realise you already upvoted it a year ago. Because SO got your back no matter how forgetful you are. Because on SO, DenverCoder9 DenverCoder9 does share their wisdom.

This spark is gone.

I could (and did) come up with things that worry me, that make me anxious, that I might look forward to, or that might even make me hopeful. But those are, to be completely honest, all technical thoughts. Whether AI makes SE obsolete, how the community might change, licenses and acknowledgements and what it means to be a library and how that could evolve and yada yada yada.
But none of that is "on my mind". It is in the spreadsheet-land of my head, the tinkering-with-a-challenge section, the trying-to-crack-a-puzzle domain. A metaphorical piece of paper that you know had some interesting scribbles on it but if you lost it, well...

What is "on my mind" is... meh.

SE loosinglosing the space AI race? Well, too bad, what else is on? The community duking out an epic battle of curationists versus helpdeskians? Welcome to the internet. The ultimate solution to acknowledgment of intellectual impact in an age of evolving rationality of information provenance given coevolving diffusion of knowledge dominion? Sounds like fun (NOT). An irreplaceable vault of knowledge jeopardised by the whims of modern techno-society? Welcome to the internet, again.

What is on my mind? On my mind is "I don't care".

And this is worrying me about the future of the network. Because the network does not run on "I don't care". Because I am decently sure I am not the only one who has to admit to themselves "Actually... I don't care".
But at the same time, it makes me hopeful. Because, you know, for every other swing of the axe to the network by SE inc or vocal members of the community or the public opinion or people silently quitting... I don't care anymore.

🤷‍♂️

Indifference

This is not meant as some hyperbole based on recent events. Well, there is a bit of pouting perhaps, but that is really just the icing on the cake. When you ask me to think about the future of the network, years from now...

[radio static]

Now, hold on rolling your eyes for a second while we stroll down memory lane...

You see, SE (actually, SO initially for me) was an idea to invest in. Building a library of knowledge and all that. Using a library of knowledge, just to get that point its often-missing spotlight. Yeah, that good feeling when you are finally given a broom because you are trusted to help keep the place tidy behind the scenes.
That warm feeling of familiarity when you open SO at 10 PM, find an answer to your problem and realise you already upvoted it a year ago. Because SO got your back no matter how forgetful you are. Because on SO, DenverCoder9 does share their wisdom.

This spark is gone.

I could (and did) come up with things that worry me, that make me anxious, that I might look forward to, or that might even make me hopeful. But those are, to be completely honest, all technical thoughts. Whether AI makes SE obsolete, how the community might change, licenses and acknowledgements and what it means to be a library and how that could evolve and yada yada yada.
But none of that is "on my mind". It is in the spreadsheet-land of my head, the tinkering-with-a-challenge section, the trying-to-crack-a-puzzle domain. A metaphorical piece of paper that you know had some interesting scribbles on it but if you lost it, well...

What is "on my mind" is... meh.

SE loosing the space AI race? Well, too bad, what else is on? The community duking out an epic battle of curationists versus helpdeskians? Welcome to the internet. The ultimate solution to acknowledgment of intellectual impact in an age of evolving rationality of information provenance given coevolving diffusion of knowledge dominion? Sounds like fun (NOT). An irreplaceable vault of knowledge jeopardised by the whims of modern techno-society? Welcome to the internet, again.

What is on my mind? On my mind is "I don't care".

And this is worrying me about the future of the network. Because the network does not run on "I don't care". Because I am decently sure I am not the only one who has to admit to themselves "Actually... I don't care".
But at the same time, it makes me hopeful. Because, you know, for every other swing of the axe to the network by SE inc or vocal members of the community or the public opinion or people silently quitting... I don't care anymore.

🤷‍♂️

Indifference

This is not meant as some hyperbole based on recent events. Well, there is a bit of pouting perhaps, but that is really just the icing on the cake. When you ask me to think about the future of the network, years from now...

[radio static]

Now, hold on rolling your eyes for a second while we stroll down memory lane...

You see, SE (actually, SO initially for me) was an idea to invest in. Building a library of knowledge and all that. Using a library of knowledge, just to get that point its often-missing spotlight. Yeah, that good feeling when you are finally given a broom because you are trusted to help keep the place tidy behind the scenes.
That warm feeling of familiarity when you open SO at 10 PM, find an answer to your problem and realise you already upvoted it a year ago. Because SO got your back no matter how forgetful you are. Because on SO, DenverCoder9 does share their wisdom.

This spark is gone.

I could (and did) come up with things that worry me, that make me anxious, that I might look forward to, or that might even make me hopeful. But those are, to be completely honest, all technical thoughts. Whether AI makes SE obsolete, how the community might change, licenses and acknowledgements and what it means to be a library and how that could evolve and yada yada yada.
But none of that is "on my mind". It is in the spreadsheet-land of my head, the tinkering-with-a-challenge section, the trying-to-crack-a-puzzle domain. A metaphorical piece of paper that you know had some interesting scribbles on it but if you lost it, well...

What is "on my mind" is... meh.

SE losing the space AI race? Well, too bad, what else is on? The community duking out an epic battle of curationists versus helpdeskians? Welcome to the internet. The ultimate solution to acknowledgment of intellectual impact in an age of evolving rationality of information provenance given coevolving diffusion of knowledge dominion? Sounds like fun (NOT). An irreplaceable vault of knowledge jeopardised by the whims of modern techno-society? Welcome to the internet, again.

What is on my mind? On my mind is "I don't care".

And this is worrying me about the future of the network. Because the network does not run on "I don't care". Because I am decently sure I am not the only one who has to admit to themselves "Actually... I don't care".
But at the same time, it makes me hopeful. Because, you know, for every other swing of the axe to the network by SE inc or vocal members of the community or the public opinion or people silently quitting... I don't care anymore.

🤷‍♂️

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MisterMiyagi
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Indifference

This is not meant as some hyperbole based on recent events. Well, there is a bit of pouting perhaps, but that is really just the icing on the cake. When you ask me to think about the future of the network, years from now...

[radio static]

Now, hold on rolling your eyes for a second while we stroll down memory lane...

You see, SE (actually, SO initially for me) was an idea to invest in. Building a library of knowledge and all that. Using a library of knowledge, just to get that point its often-missing spotlight. Yeah, that good feeling when you are finally given a broom because you are trusted to help keep the place tidy behind the scenes.
That warm feeling of familiarity when you open SO at 10 PM, find an answer to your problem and realise you already upvoted it a year ago. Because SO got your back no matter how forgetful you are. Because on SO, DenverCoder9 does share their wisdom.

This spark is gone.

I could (and did) come up with things that worry me, that make me anxious, that I might look forward to, or that might even make me hopeful. But those are, to be completely honest, all technical thoughts. Whether AI makes SE obsolete, how the community might change, licenses and acknowledgements and what it means to be a library and how that could evolve and yada yada yada.
But none of that is "on my mind". It is in the spreadsheet-land of my head, the tinkering-with-a-challenge section, the trying-to-crack-a-puzzle domain. A metaphorical piece of paper that you know had some interesting scribbles on it but if you lost it, well...

What is "on my mind" is... meh.

SE loosing the space AI race? Well, too bad, what else is on? The community duking out an epic battle of curationists versus helpdeskians? Welcome to the internet. The ultimate solution to acknowledgment of intellectual impact in an age of evolving rationality of information provenance given coevolving diffusion of knowledge dominion? Sounds like fun (NOT). An irreplaceable vault of knowledge jeopardised by the whims of modern techno-society? Welcome to the internet, again.

What is on my mind? On my mind is "I don't care".

And this is worrying me about the future of the network. Because the network does not run on "I don't care". Because I am decently sure I am not the only one who has to admit to themselves "Actually... I don't care".
But at the same time, it makes me hopeful. Because, you know, for every other swing of the axe to the network by SE inc or vocal members of the community or the public opinion or people silently quitting... I don't care anymore.

🤷‍♂️