Met office here is saying that an eruption is probably about to start, based on the seismic activity they’re seeing.
Love to see people discover Server-Sent-Events/EventSource 🙂
“AI worms can spread through generative AI-powered emails. - The Verge”
- If only somebody could have kno—hang on…
::puts finger in ear::
I’m being told that we actually did fucking know and told you so, repeatedly
“Automattic Is Doing Some Weird Stuff With Users’ Public Data – Pixel Envy”
‘“AI” and accessible front-end components: is the nuance generatable? | hidde.blog’
Already really tired of all of the shoddy thinking on “AI” that’s popping up everywhere.
And we’re not even remotely close to the bubble peaking yet.
“Generative. — Ethan Marcotte”
Everything in the reading list up to Ursula Franklin is for context, the rest look like genuinely interesting reads.
“ongoing by Tim Bray · Money Bubble”
Things have been too good for too long in InvestorWorld: low interest, high profits, the unending rocket rise of the Big-Tech sector, now with AI afterburners.
We’re in a massive bubble, now largely driven by ‘AI’. The pop is going to be unpleasant
Always surprised at how many intelligent people in tech genuinely believe any problem becomes tractable if you throw enough techbros at it
“I’m sure AGI can be solved with enough resources”
No. “Resources” in tech are 90% shiploads of compute and 10% arrogant dweebs with no respect for science
‘Notes from “Why Can’t We Make Simple Software?” By Peter van Hardenberg - Jim Nielsen’s Blog’
This idea is pretty simple, in principle: sometimes we miss a good-enough solution because a not-quite-good-enough solution is already out there and in use.
Not only that. Often good-enough is quickly turned into not-quite-good-enough in an effort to make more money
“Platforms are selling your work to AI vendors with impunity. They need to stop.”
Wached a recommended film youtuber after googling to make sure that they weren’t a rabid misogynistic nutcase and it turned out to be 45m of academic-sounding pseudo-intellectual twaddle seemingly cobbled together mostly to claim that Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick are great movies 🤨
You can argue against the EU’s efforts at regulation all you like, but when Apple time and time again tries to circumvent regulations, that gets noticed by anti-trust/competition authorities around the world, most of which are already preparing action on exactly these same issues
“On Being an Outlier - Gegenüber - Goethe-Institut”
For disabled people, it has been viscerally, fatally clear, that the purpose of algorithmic inference in medical care, benefits determination, and public health, is to accelerate disabled death
“More Files Please - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
This is the thing that’s missing from the web because apparently neither Mozilla nor Apple think the show*Picker family of APIs can be done safely
And I hate the fact that recent events make me sceptical of the accuracy of their pushback
“No big surprise, Matt does it again.”
Turns out free/open source software isn’t immune to the deleterious effects of having a tech bubble thinker in charge.
‘The Stubborn Myth of “Learning Styles” - Education Next’
It seems harmless enough, but when teachers work to accommodate learning styles, which have no empirical support, they divert attention and effort away from instructional strategies that are supported by a substantial body of research
But Automattic has shown their true colors and this goes beyond implementing a new editor you don’t super like or not adding some feature you’d like to see
“AI Videos: Creepy, Boring, Remixed”
There are so many AI-generated images out there and they all look more or less the same. The same aesthetic devaluation will hit AI videos. Until it becomes a negative asset.
I tried to make this point a year ago but nobody cared. Maybe now people will listen
“What the heck is going on with the UX job market?”
This doesn’t look particularly good.