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The only taboo left is copyright infringement
garbageday.email · Feb 18
Read to the end for a magical sounding supermarket freezer aisle
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tante
(@tante) ·
Feb 19
"You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg."
(Original title: The only taboo left is copyright infringement)
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-taboo-left-is-copyright-infringement
‘We’re no longer attracting top talent’: the brain drain killing American science
theguardian.com · Feb 19
As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world
Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy
deadsuperhero.com · Feb 19
Tackling the biggest problem of network effects: bringing people here.
The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited
aftermath.site · Feb 19
Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.
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HoldMyType
(@xameer) ·
Feb 19
🔁 @tante:
"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."
(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)
https://aftermath.site/anthropic-claude-ai-leftist-technology/
Mastodon is for the people
blog.joinmastodon.org · Feb 19
How we're thinking about supporting the communities that rely on Mastodon every day.
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Current is a new RSS reader that's more like a river than an inbox | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com · Feb 19
Current introduces a stress-free, totally reimagined RSS news reading app as a one-time paid download.
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Designed to be specialists
aworkinglibrary.com · Feb 19
What kind of people are we designing now?
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Ethan Marcotte
(@beep) ·
Feb 19
”There’s some use in distinguishing here between the worker who, having learned the skills of writing software over many years, now turns to so-called AI to assist her in that task; and the worker who will follow her some years hence and may never learn those skills, but will know only the work of supervision.” — @aworkinglibrary, https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/designed-to-be-specialists
We Have Learned Nothing About Amplifying Morons
404media.co · Feb 19
“Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.
I’m Tired Of These Useless Jackasses Making The Computer Expensive
aftermath.site · Feb 19
RAM, flash memory, and HDDs are unaffordable because of a bunch of greedy idiots that do not love the computer.
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vera grey :verifiedplural:
(@QuietMisdreavus) ·
Feb 20
i know it's petty and reductive to reduce the impact of AI to video games and electronic trinkets, but like, those are my hobbies and the ongoing hyper-accelerated ouroboros of OpenAI et al is making it impossible to be excited about the future (or even the present!) of computing. releasing a consumer electronic device in 2026, or even a standard computer part, is looking to be more and more impossible as the upstream manufacturers continue to squeeze every last drop out of the hype machine at the expense of everyone who isn't one of the five companies at the center of it all.
it will take years to dig ourselves out of the hole that these companies are creating. the loss of manufacturing capacity for consumer-grade products is killing affordable computing.
it's frustrating. it's infuriating. it's depressing, and i already have way too much depression to deal with on my own, thank you very much
https://aftermath.site/ram-prices-hdd-prices-ai-bubble-computer-expensive/
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