“Stop treating all of your content as if it were news – Rachel Andrew”
This! x1000 this!
“The affordance loop - Erin Kissane’s small internet website”
If an app manages to look okay on every platform, but is actually so full of annoying UX bugs and mistakes as to make the entire experience a bit rubbish, you can count on it being written in React Native.
“Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced”
I remain skeptical of those claims—I think it’s more likely that people are seeing more of the flaws now that the novelty has worn off.
I’m with Simon. It’s more likely that these tools were always garbage and people were just gullible. Although I’m sure he’d phrase it differently
“Business Model Fueling Silicon Valley Tech Companies May Be Illegal”
This is what many of us in tech have been saying for years. Also another one for the “break up all the big tech cos” pile.
“Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles - The New York Times”
These companies are beyond saving. Break em up.
“siderea | How Professional Ethics Work”
If I didn’t have a profession with an ethical code behind me and a license board to enforce it, every time something came up, it would be me, alone, deciding whether to make a personal stand against a person who pays my rent.
“The Hereditarian Hypothesis and Scientific Racism - Kevin Bird”
However, the persistence of the debate is more understandable if we stop thinking about the genetic hypothesis as a good faith scientific venture, and rather as a concerted effort to inject and distribute fringe ideas into the mainstream.
“AddyOsmani.com - Software engineering: problem-solving and critical-thinking”
“The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training”
“Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: ‘These are the people who could actually pause AI if they wanted to’”
If you were to heed Timnit’s warnings you would have to significantly change the business and the structure of these companies. If you heed Geoff’s warnings, you sit around a table at Davos and feel scared.
“Adactio: Links—Pulling my site from Google over AI training – Tracy Durnell”
“Pulling my site from Google over AI training – Tracy Durnell”
Definitely going to have a closer look at this after my break.
We can rescind our invitation to Google.
Either it’s all of us or it’s none of us, because if we leave the answer up to the Reagans of the world and all the people who enabled him in the name of lower taxes and Democrats who wring their hands, weeping oh I don’t agree with it but we’ll lose the election if we fight it right now, the answer is none of us.
This.
“Nowhere to retvrn | Red Pepper”
The idea that women had no business outside the home not only erases working-class women but was also a short-lived one that peaked in the later Victorian and early Edwardian eras.
“How to report better on artificial intelligence - Columbia Journalism Review”
So NImona is a lot of fun. Different from the graphic novel in structure but in a way that works.