u/OneRare3376

It's official.

After my three-in-a-row successfully Kickstarter funded and backer fulfilled campaigns for Ultimate Cybersecurity Careers Guide, Digital Safety in a Dangerous World, and Technofascism Survival Guide (100% fulfilled on July 1st)...

Kickstarter approved my campaign for my fourth self published book...

Recovering After Gen AI.

Campaign will launch on ▶️ Monday, July 6th.

⭐ Visit my campaign page to sign up for notifications. No obligation to pledge.

Gen AI will END because:

- Datacenters cannot be sustained due to laws of physics (Harvard Science Review linked on campaign page)

- Financial bubble will burst, Pivot to AI's David Gerard estimates 2027. Economists I cite say "soon."

What do we do about:

- Population wide psychosis and cognitive atrophy?

- Environmental nightmare: droughts and heatwaves?

- Damaged power grid?

- Most popular software inoperable or buggy as hell through massive AI slop tech debt?

- An entire generation of youth without jobs?

- Seniors retiring without juniors to promote?

- Immense skills loss in the workforce?

I will interview psychologists, economists, engineers, psychiatrists, technicians, and environmentalists for their insights.

🗓️ Campaign launch, Monday July 6th.

🗓️ Estimated October 2026 publication.

Share! 🎉🎉

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai

At the risk of overstaying my welcome here, I have a book Kickstarter that's taking late pledges until I publish in a week or two from now.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide/

I could use the late pledge money to pay my rent and buy groceries. I need the money, because my corporate overlords decided to replace me with Gen AI.

Thanks for sharing.

It’s understandable if you feel helpless in the wake of our evil billionaire overlords trying to bombard you with the Gen AI torment nexus everywhere you turn.

You probably feel like you can’t get rid of Google Gemini or Apple Intelligence on your phone, Copilot tries to take the mouse and keyboard away from you at every turn even though your sticking with Windows 10 long after support ended, and your employer is judging whether or not you get to keep your job based on how many tokens you use.

We can’t directly do much about the last problem, but we can show you how to avoid Gen AI everywhere else!

Workshops are free of charge this Friday and Saturday, using the Jitsi Meet web app on our website. No need to register, no need to install new software because our video conference is all through the website.

For more information, check out our webpage: https://stopgenai.com/free-events-learn-how-to-avoid-gen-ai-workshops-june-2026/

My partner has a Windows 11 PC, and mine is running Kubuntu Linux 26.04.

Both of us are able to play a wide variety of Windows Steam games solo.

We are on each other's Steam friends lists.

But when we tried to play THREE different co-op games yesterday, we had no success at all.

1. Deep Rock Galactic: Pressing Y or Triangle (depending on Xbox or PS style controller) to join a party does nothing, and nowhere in the interface can I see my partner's username, nor vice versa.

2. Children of Morta: Hitting "invite" in the top left corner online multiplayer control on the screen with the characters' home hub does nothing. It's selected, we press it, we're both in the game with online enabled... nothing.

3. A Way Out: We were both in the game at the same time, complete with obnoxious mandatory EA accounts. We couldn't see each other in the interface where you create an online party. In fact, the interface said to both of us that we had no friends online.

Both of us have IT backgrounds. And we were both talking to each other as we experienced this bullshit, through apps on our phones completely separate from our PCs.

My partner has a lot of crap on his PC, in addition to the sloppy nature of Microslop, out of employer mandated necessity, certainly not by choice. But he has not had any problems with any other online services. A hypothesis is that Microsoft Teams could be configuring the Windows firewall to block certain necessary TCP/IP ports, but there are no clues that that's the cause other than everything I've explained here. I have full control and ownership of my Linux PC, and I configure my firewalls to open any TCP/IP ports that I request through applications to use. I have had no problems with any online services before, even BitTorrent on my PC works great.

While you're at it, check out https://stopgenai.com