This article is laced w/ "of course AI is probably inevitable," but it's not: this is a technology we didn't have a decade ago; it's NOT the only possible way to advance technologically. Let the good news of AI rejectivism stand as a story w/out undercutting it.
Asakiyume/Morinotsuma
Commentary: A growing number of young consumers are turning to analog and single-purpose devices like cyberdecks and e-readers as a form of resistance to AI-first platforms and increasingly automated digital systems.
Many of the models now being hunted online were released before their new owners were born.