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Nameless Feeling — Real Life
Nameless Feeling — Real Life
Nothing else needs to be said or thought when you can appeal to vibes
While seemingly open-ended and allowing for an infinite recombination of elements, the idea of “vibes” is reductive. It discourages the more difficult work of interpretation and the search for meaning that defines human experience.
As an analytic, vibes don’t connect feelings and consequence; as such, it is symbiotic with passive modes of media consumption.
neural networks behave in ways similar to vibes in capturing patterns in media and culture, online or otherwise. Both serve as perspectives that focus on associations across vast amounts of data or impressions.
These systems can only instrumentalize taste; they turn any expression of self into a reductive data point meant to generate more data at the same level. They presuppose that “liking” just means more “liking” and that is as deep as our desire can be. As with vibes, these metrics carry no context or narrative; they can tell you nothing about how or why something might be desirable, only that they vaguely seem like they might be desirable because they seem similar to other things that are desirable.
cultureculture#artificial.intelligence#vibes
·reallifemag.com·
Nameless Feeling — Real Life
Lessons Learned in Ukraine: A Year of Combat, the Legion, and How You Too Can Serve
Lessons Learned in Ukraine: A Year of Combat, the Legion, and How You Too Can Serve
From Aid to Ops On my first night on contract with the Legion a year ago, we drove 6 hours to the Kharkiv oblast for a 0200hrs rendezvous to participate in a multi-team ambush.    I was instructed to pick up an ex-British Royal Marine named Kruger, then get a couple anti-tank and anti-personnel mine
bleakbleak#ukraine
·linkedin.com·
Lessons Learned in Ukraine: A Year of Combat, the Legion, and How You Too Can Serve
DoorDash Banned Discussing Work Issues, Illegally Fired Activist, NLRB Alleges
DoorDash Banned Discussing Work Issues, Illegally Fired Activist, NLRB Alleges
DoorDash Inc. illegally prohibited office employees from discussing working conditions and fired one because of their organizing efforts, US labor board prosecutors alleged.
DoorDash also engaged in illegal interrogations and surveillance of employees’ workplace activism, according to the complaint, and terminated an employee because they formed an organization, the Service Desk Analysts group, to address working conditions there.
tech-worker-organizingtech-worker-organizing#doordash#nlrb
·bloomberg.com·
DoorDash Banned Discussing Work Issues, Illegally Fired Activist, NLRB Alleges
Using Nix on macOS
Using Nix on macOS
I recently started using the Nix Package Manager on macOS and the process has been painful. In this post, I’m going to write down how I’m currently using Nix...
technicaltechnical#nix
·checkoway.net·
Using Nix on macOS
PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model
PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model
In the fast-moving open-source world, programs can come and go quickly; a tool that has many users today can easily be eclipsed by something better next week. Even in this environment, though, some programs endure for a long time. As an example, consider the PostgreSQL database system, which traces its history back to 1986. Making fundamental changes to a large code base with that much history is never an easy task. As fundamental changes go, moving PostgreSQL away from its process-oriented model is not a small one, but it is one that the project is considering seriously.
technicaltechnical#postgres#refactoring#architecture
·lwn.net·
PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model
The Last Page Of The Internet | Defector
The Last Page Of The Internet | Defector
Gradually over the last decade, Reddit went from merely embarrassing but occasionally amusing, to actively harmful, to—mainly by accident—essential. As the platform that swallowed niche message boards, it became home to numerous small communities of surprisingly helpful enthusiasts, and grew into a repository of arcane knowledge about, and instantly available first-hand expertise on, a staggering […]
We are living through the end of the useful internet. The future is informed discussion behind locked doors, in Discords and private fora, with the public-facing web increasingly filled with detritus generated by LLMs, bearing only a stylistic resemblance to useful information.
tech-industrytech-industry#reddit#vc#death.of.the.internet
·defector.com·
The Last Page Of The Internet | Defector
From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You – The Markup
From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You – The Markup
A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences
The file, which was linked to from a public page on Xandr’s website, contains 650,000 rows of data, each containing the name of an audience segment, the name of the supplier of the data behind that segment, a supplier ID number, and a segment ID number.
They also sometimes contain a hierarchical taxonomy, such as “Lifestyle > Visitation > Recent Retail Visit by Shopper > Lululemon.”
tech-industrytech-industry#advertising#data
·themarkup.org·
From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You – The Markup
Salt Labs raises $10M to gamify frontline work
Salt Labs raises $10M to gamify frontline work
Salt Labs aims to improve contractor retention by letting gig workers earn rewards across jobs. Today they emerged from stealth with $10 million in pre-seed funding led by Fin Capital with participation from Anthem Venture Partners and others.
bleakbleak
·techcrunch.com·
Salt Labs raises $10M to gamify frontline work