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Any Technology Indistinguishable From Magic is Hiding Somethingļæ¼
Pretty good post on centralized control of internet infrastructure
Heās selling us printers at cost so that later he can fuck us on the price of ink.
Lies, Damn Lies and Chatbots
Really entering the post-fact era
The Kamala and Tim Show
Does the Democratic ticketās buddy-comedy act feel familiar? Hereās where you might have seen it before.
Here's who The Seattle Times editorial board recommends for U.S. president | Editorial
Short and to the point.
4 Bavarian tourists visited Leavenworth. Hereās what they thought
This is pretty hilarious.
Star trek predicted sf 2024 crisis 19722416
In 1995, āStar Trek: Deep Space Nineā released an episode set onĀ Aug. 30, 2024, that...
the Bell Riots happen in a few days
Great take on the Bell Riots and the optimistic view
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
Clever. The one time I checked in on it my checks were getting overwritten pretty quickly.
Forbidden Fruit
30% for what?
The Fuck It Guide to Content
Embrace chaos!
Slop is Good ā¢ furbo.org
An interesting take that the failure of the corporate web will reemphasize the open web.
Falling Backwards Into History | Nina Illingworth Dot Com
Never sure how to feel about these because they're both correct about the situation but also I think not prioritizing correctly. Then again that could just be my big liberal brain talking.
Tickle Me Kaczynski: How the Inventor of the Ultimate Elmo Toy Became a Unabomber Suspect
Wild
The Democrats Nominate Role Models
They're among the best leaders and they barely won
As Go the Beach Readers, So Goes the Country
An interesting pair that for a more conservative audience hiding the reality of climate change in favorite romance series can be more effective than science messaging
Has NASA's culture changed since the Columbia tragedy?
Let's talk about risk evaluation for Boeing Starliner
Why We Need Fiction
A lot more of my inspiration is from fiction, and it triggers the asking of questions
Appleās Just Fines
It's a really bad look.
Political Thoughts, 8/23/24
I think this is a very good summary of the energy and possibility coming out of the convention.
The Bro Science Delusion
I get so many of these YouTube ads when I don't have premium
The AI summer ā Benedict Evans
I'm pretty sure it's still a bubble. Really like his framing around technology, not product
an LLM by itself is not a product - itās a technology that can enable a tool or a feature, and it needs to be unbundled or rebundled into new framings, UX and tools to be become useful
LLMs look like they work, and they look generalised, and they look like a product - the science of them delivers a chatbot and a chatbot looks like a product. You type something in and you get magic back! But the magic might not be useful, in that form, and it might be wrong. It looks like product, but it isnāt.
LLMs look like better databases, and they look like search, but, as weāve seen since, theyāre āwrongā enough, and the āwrongā is hard enough to manage, that you canāt just give the user a raw prompt and a raw output
2024 Winners | The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Some great terrible ones this year
That sweltering Friday evening she not so much walked but slithered into my shabby strip mall P.I. office, showing off all her curves, and I knew then I was in for a weekend of trouble because Daveās Reptile Emporium next door, from which the ball python had escaped, was closed until Monday.
Is this the slow decline of the Apple ācultā?
It is a bit sad as a long time MacAddict
Part of this is that Apple is no longer the underdog, theyāre the biggest fish in the sea. Itās simply not as fun to root for the most successful consumer company of all time than to root for the upstart thatās trying to disrupt the big guys.
Tech has no answers for you
Everything I read about Silicon Valleyās support of Trump comes down to this: These are people who believe in spending massive amounts of public money to enrich themselves while they make shitty tunnels under Las Vegas or drop off scooters on city sidewalks or chase self-driving cars, so firmly believing that these are total solutions ready to solve all problems right now, in complete ignorance of any existing systems or mechanism or solutions that exist.
Biden, Harris, Trump and 2024
Slow news weekend, am I right? Some thoughts on the current state of things, in no particular order. 1. I was not a fan of the idea of Joe Biden leaving the race, and I still have my suspicions thaā¦
Ancient History Shows How We Can Create a More Equal World
Cities may not have always required a ruling caste
Would LLMs democratizing coding be a pyrrhic victory?
Capital wants to be able to generate profit without labor forever.
Trotter: IOC shows little courage in handling of Jordan Chiles ruling
Just give them all bronze, this isn't hard
The author of the viral joke post about JD Vance having sex with a couch breaks his silence
The man behind a viral joke post about Vance making love to a couch has stayed quiet ā until now.