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How to survive being online
How to survive being online
Wee little union sign I painted in 2022, maybe? This week’s question comes to us anonymously: How do we survive being online? Erika and I bought a radio. For...
The first four years of Donald Trump was a continuous panic attack. I’m not going through that again. You don’t have to either. They’re on stage, but you don’t have to be their audience.
#blag#socialmedia#donaldtrump#via:marcoarment
·buttondown.com·
How to survive being online
The Worst Page on the Internet
The Worst Page on the Internet
Neal Agarwal distills digital life to its essence.
“I’m very much a believer that the web is a creative medium,” Agarwal told me. “We have amazing movies that get you to reflect on life, and I don’t see why a website can’t also be like that. But right now it feels like the web is very underutilized in that way.”
#videogames#atlanticmonthly#web
·theatlantic.com·
The Worst Page on the Internet
Technology is never a substitute for consent
Technology is never a substitute for consent
Very good distinction on what constitutes privacy and consent for data sharing.
The right to privacy can also mean the right to private ownership. According to this alternative interpretation of privacy, the data on my computers is mine, to do with as I please, not as anyone else pleases. My computers, and the data on my computers, should not leave my possession, the "privacy" of my own home, without my consent. If others want access to my data, I may grant permission, but only if they ask and I agree.
#apple#computersecurity#privacy#consent#photography
·lapcatsoftware.com·
Technology is never a substitute for consent
They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?
They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?
The incentives are all screwy
We dug ourselves into a deep, dangerous fuel imbalance due to one simple fact. We live in a Mediterranean climate that’s designed to burn, and we’ve prevented it from burning anywhere close to enough for well over a hundred years. Now climate change has made it hotter and drier than ever before, and the fire we’ve been forestalling is going to happen, fast, whether we plan for it or not.
The Halliburton model from the Middle East is kind of in effect for all the infrastructure that comes into fire camps
California burn bosses typically suffer no consequences for deciding not to light
#wildfires#california#climatechange#politics
·propublica.org·
They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?
Displaced Los Angeles-area residents face spiking rents as authorities warn of price gouging
Displaced Los Angeles-area residents face spiking rents as authorities warn of price gouging
The ongoing wildfires have set off a stampede to find housing, leading some homeowners and property managers to raise rents higher than the 10% allowed during emergencies.
In some cases, prospective short-term renters in Los Angeles County are finding themselves on waiting lists, in bidding wars or being asked to provide a year’s worth of rent up front.
#losangeles#wildfires#landlords
·nbcnews.com·
Displaced Los Angeles-area residents face spiking rents as authorities warn of price gouging
DeepSeek-R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost
DeepSeek-R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost
DeepSeek-R1’s Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. This story focuses on exactly how DeepSeek managed this feat, and what it means for the vast number of users of AI models. For enterprises developing AI-driven solutions, DeepSeek’s breakthrough challenges assumptions of OpenAI's dominance -- and offers a blueprint for cost-efficient innovation.
#venturebeat#china#via:zitron#generativeai
·venturebeat.com·
DeepSeek-R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost
DeepSeek FAQ
DeepSeek FAQ
I don't buy that any of this is a path to AGI but it's certainly disruptive.
OpenAI’s gambit for control — enforced by the U.S. government — has utterly failed.
#blag#generativeai#china#faq#stockmarket
·stratechery.com·
DeepSeek FAQ
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
I don't appreciate the last line conflating these guys with nerds! But I guess that's another thing they've taken.
I knew that one day we might have to watch as capitalism and greed and bigotry led to a world where powerful men, deserving or not, would burn it all down. What I didn’t expect, and don’t think I could have foreseen, is how incredibly cringe it would all be.
while you may be able to buy power, it’s impossible to buy a good personality
This combination of evil and embarrassment is a unique horror, one that science fiction has failed to prepare us for.
It’s time for us to start getting revenge on the nerds.
#theguardian#via:jwz#opinion#zuckerberg#elonmusk
·theguardian.com·
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw