Willy

had a little cry about this today

So there was this established scene of personally crafted, artistic bots. This scene is being forcibly terminated by capital. (Or shuffled to Mastodon, at least, which is fine from my perspective but definitely reduces their reach.)

and at the exact same time, ChatGPT et al are bringing a new generation of corporate-sponsored, vaguely oppressive bot interactions into our lives (strictly-controlled by the model-"owning" corporation, often passed off as the work of actual humans, built on a mix of exploitation of low-paid labor & unpaid commercial expropriation of other people's copyrighted work).

So there was a human-scale version of the thing that brought joy, and an impersonal-scale version of the thing that brings misery, and the first is being shut down at the same time the second is being introduced into our lives borderline by force, and these two things aren't being done by the same wing of capital or for linked reasons but they're both being done by capital and somehow it lined up that they're happening simultaneously

Today I'm here to share the TWO BIG REASONS why your cat is always ON YOUR TAIL.

Furst off,

It's a little concerning really... but this just means they love you. Yes, love. And you entertain them as much as they entertain you. Hence: OBSESSION. SECONDLY,

That little thing is working OVERTIME! Cats naturally offload the task of PATHFINDING to a creature they trust. YOU cannot lead them astray!

Eventually you'll go where they wanted to be!

IshouldKnow . I

This is quite surreal seeing it come to fruition >w<.

I've been given the go-ahead by @jae to show not just the new but also the others that Cohost Plus! members will get to play with very soon!

Thanks very much to ASSC for the opportunity, it was a great pleasure of mine to do! I look forward to seeing how y'all like them ^w^