Read to the end for a magical sounding supermarket freezer aisle
"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
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
Tackling the biggest problem of network effects: bringing people here.
Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.
"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/
How we're thinking about supporting the communities that rely on Mastodon every day.
Current introduces a stress-free, totally reimagined RSS news reading app as a one-time paid download.
What kind of people are we designing now?
”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
“Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.
RAM, flash memory, and HDDs are unaffordable because of a bunch of greedy idiots that do not love the computer.
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/
No tracking. No profiling. No model training.
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