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Watching tech cannibalize itself is about as entertaining as watching Hollywood do it in the mid-2000s.

My take on the problems including cost sickness: 1) Supply/demand. There's actually a shortage of quality movies relative to what the market will bear, one need only look at the oc…

Winning what, exactly? The race to the bottom?

If you don't want to work in a Pinterest board: https://theselby.com/ https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/ https://www.worldofinteriors.com/ https://www.instagram.com/apartamentomag…

One of my favorite family photos is us standing in front of a big banner we made with dot matrix printer celebrating my grandparents 50th (this must have been in the mid-late 90s).…

The focus on children needing their phones controlled is the correct instinct, incorrectly applied to a too-narrow group. Smartphones are fomes peccati .

The man is an icon. Reminds me of old internet, when activists we doing it for The User.

You'll get hammered for this on HN, but the web was magical and weird with Flash around, and now it feels quite vanilla and boring. I long for the days of weird experimental art an…

Ignorance is too generous a word. This is epistemic collapse.

Creativity = variation + evaluation + selection. It's not bad, though every example he gives has a built-in scoring function haha. Best thing about nerds is watching them try and b…

You're right to be tired of it, and of course I haven't tired these specific features yet, but Davinci was already lowering the barrier to entry for filmmakers, and if 21 works as …

If you have baseline epistemic hygiene there's nothing wrong with using an LLM for advice. If you have baseline epistemic hygeine you'd also recognized this as a B2B sales pitch: A…

There is a handover premium that you pay when you churn which often exceeds whatever savings you think you might find. Inertia and institutional knowledge are two of the biggest dr…

People stopped actually reading when we dropped classical liberal education, right after WWII. This is merely the end-state of industrialization, which is efficient and soulless.

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You have a voice. Don't give up.

You can't prompt-inject the intangibles. Now, Cannes specifically – and entertainment generally – is rife with hucksters and people who started off as hucksters only to later becom…

The 'simple fix' to attacks on culture and institutions is obviously not "just stop reading the news" Apathy is for cowards.

If we separate the hype incentives from the actual product itself, I completely understand how seductive the tech is and how it can lead to a sort of mania. I myself have been up l…

Sturgeon's Law measures ratio, not volume :\

The Federal-Aid Highway Act was built with local consent in most places, and modified by local control where consent failed. Also there's no evidence that more data centers = "prog…

I love this. Yeah there's some FUD out there about water usage and whatnot, but using the internet to spread actual awareness about local concerns is a fine demonstration of free s…

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