This is the fifth post in my 'hitting the digital brakes'-series. These are the previous posts in this series: the joys of imperfection Do we really need the latest tech My e-reader made me a worse reader Not everything needs to be in the cloud The inspiration for this post came to me in three ways. Yesterday, I had a short talk with Rishi, he asked me what a better way of saying “anti big tech”, and I responded “pro human”. Soon after that interaction, I watched a video that depressed me and made me want to write ten angry blog posts. Then this morning I read this post by Wulfric on Mastodon. All this had me thinking: I’ve felt so much hatred of AI and how tech companies copy all human creativity to their servers and destroy so much (books, for example) in the process. That hatred costs me energy that I already have so little of. So it really doesn’t help me (nor anyone else for that matter). Instead of wasting energy raging against AI, vow to do something else. I vow to be Pro Human I don’t know exactly what that entails yet because I’ve just come up with the term, but this is what I’m thinking so far: I will ignore those promoting AI/bragging about their AI use and instead focus on the people I follow on Mastodon and the Indieweb. I will focus my energy on sharing what they write and on having real conversations. I will focus on human creativity, not the death of it. I will remove accounts from (and not sign up for) servers that call themselves something like: “AI forward” (which is such a stupid term, I could write a mocking limerick about it) I will share my own creativity. I will continue to hand-code my website and follow the advice of people on how to do things I want to add to my site. And because I’m extra, I made two badges, the first one is a grid which I then drop-filled pixel by pixel. The second is a font that I adapted a tad. I then, for nostalgia’s sake, generated a blinkie using a template from blinkies.cafe Feel free to steal these! This won’t be the last thing I say on this subject, I like it way too much and I will definitely noodle on it some more in the future.