Not sure many people outside of Iceland understand why it’s important for us to see even only a few sheep saved from the evacuation area
“The product manager role is a mistake - Software Product Development Pills”
The neighbourhood cats don’t seem concerned about a potentially impending natural disaster or world events.
Does the Guardian have a policy against correct spelling or is copy-paste broken on the writer’s computer? Not an Icelandic character in sight
Neyðarsöfnun Rauða Krossins vegna jarðhræringa við Grindavík
“CSS { In Real Life } | Stop Using AI-Generated Images”
By choosing AI-generated images over those made by a human, editors are taking away one of the only sources of income available to those entering the field. This means that fewer people will choose to train in the profession.
So, turns out the Swedish series Anxious People (Folk med ångest), that’s on Netflix, is a lot of fun.
It’s really the antithesis of Nordic Noir. Full of humanity, compassion, optimism, and kindness.
Just the earthquakes alone seem to have caused a lot of damage in Grindavík.
“Crisis point in AI? - by Gary Marcus - Marcus on AI”
If meaningful AI regulation gets scuttled here in Europe because those who keep talking up LLMs have instilled a FOMO in EU leaders…
Well, then I wish all of you who keep talking up the tech a heartfelt “fuck you”
“Your Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time | Stay SaaSy”
In all the years I’ve been making websites, I don’t think I’ve ever worked with a manager who was capable of learning this lesson.
So, at this point we just got to hope that either the magma just gives up at the last minute or that it decides to surface any place that isn’t Grindavík or the power plant.
Looks like we’re about to have another volcanic eruption. Boo.
‘Thoughts on “generative AI Art”’
Your reaction of “this is exactly what I imagined” says more about the long road ahead that that idea still needed to go than about how good these systems are.
“Is the Internet really broken? – Elizabeth Tai”
The Internet hasn’t been a pleasant place for people like me, a writer for a long time. The fact that we are the prime generator of content for the Internet is ironic. There won’t be the Internet without us.
This x1000.
“The Commit that Updated a Thousand Demos—zachleat.com”
This feels like an elegant way of solving a lot of problems without tying yourself to a proprietary API.
“The Anti-Workforce - Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At”
Those in control do not understand or participate in the process of what makes them rich, and the result is a deeply broken and inefficient workforce driven by top-level incompetence and greed.
“Google Should Fire Sundar Pichai”
Fire him today and replace him with someone else. If you make $280 million a year and you have to let high performers go because you were so bad at business, you should be fired because you are bad at your job
An old post, but still relevant.
“Businesses don’t hire designers for their good work | Koos Looijesteijn”
The good thing about bad companies releasing interesting stuff with an open license, like fonts, is you can use it without directly supporting them.
And this is a really interesting idea.
Matt tries to explain to us how “we’re running Tumblr on a bare-bones team and cancelling every effort at improvement” is actually good news for a service in terminal decline.
“‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Shelved by Warner Bros, Taking $30M Tax Writeoff – Deadline”
Sure looks like the studios are just plain bad at their jobs. I mean, if you can’t sell a well-rated mid budget Looney Toons movie maybe you shouldn’t be running a studio
This male blackbird is the main customer of my bird feeder. The starlings come and go, but this guy comes regularly.
But every time, he first perches on the balcony chair and surveils the surroundings for a good five minutes before moving over to the feeder to eat.
