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Yeah, I really dislike this “Thing is has its Other Thing Moment.” For starters, I what the hell does this mean? But it’s also a style of reporting that treats the attention cycle …

This doesn’t surprise me. Set up whatever online portal or app you want. I’d prefer to just sign in and click a button. If I’m picking up the phone or sending an email it’s because…

Well there’s a lot of middle ground between “don’t use AI” and “generate everything, exclusively.” When the bill for the latter lands with a heavy thud, moderation and common sense…

Correct. If they were doing this with Gutenberg/Smithsonian/some library so there's both a public archive and training the language model, it wouldn't have the ick factor.

Thank you. Some days I feel like I’m going crazy. I use plenty of AI. As best I can tell just believing my own eyes, everything is stagnant except the prices. Which is fine… but th…

Cool! Which ones? (Replacing overpriced garbageware with something I scraped together in 3 days is my jam. But the specifics matter a lot.)

Oh 100%. On their own, browser tabs, notifications, and IM at work all make sense on their own and are not evil at all. Taken together, there are now 8 people trying to talk to me …

That's smart. It's also revealing. It was a choice to make technology that absolutely hammers you with information. It was not the right choice. I want to build and use stuff that …

If you think that’s bad casting, I’ve got some bad news: the guy who plays the cyclops has two eyes.

It’s fast but it has just enough rough edges that I always go back to Firefox.

Yeah on second read I realize my comment was unclear; I don’t think this is okay. Fixed.

In the 1960s Campbells Soup got in trouble with the FTC for using marbles to raise the ingredients and make the soup look fuller than it was. This was the real standard for decepti…

They serve different jobs. The tidy todo notebook or lab notebook is to offload working memory or keep records. The chaos notebook is for disorder.

Unless you were at a couple of obscure film festivals in the early 2010s, definitely not! We were hobbyists making features and shorts on a shoestring budget with no expectations o…

I’ve been doing this for a decade. I call it the anti project: it’s whatever I feel like writing on that day. It’s not intended to write a novel (I’ve done that) or make a movie (d…

When people wonder where the anti-AI movement comes from, I want you to look right here. They said they’d take your jobs, they forced families out of their homes, they gave you the…

Better yet, maybe a bulletin board and an email list is all you need? I have some extremely useful Discords and Signal group chats, but not everything ought to be an always on chat…

I got a Libro.fm sub when my son was born last year and am finding the same. I actually think this is about quality. Podcasts that take real effort (Hardcore History, Fall of Civil…

Unless it’s all just fanfic, to be relegated to the same junkyard of ideas where the flying cars, airships, and vast underwater cities are kept.

World, yes, as people around you including politicians and businessmen have had their brains pickled. But I doubt the influence. I’ve been free for years, and I can always spot who…

These campaigns have historically amplified conflict. They do not care what the conflict is about. But unlike some of the others, I’m hearing anti-AI sentiment from a wide range of…