As if I was sad enough already about her death. From six years ago.
“Sinead O’Connor is donating ‘30 years’ of clothes to Irish transgender youth”
“The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor”
Really hoping that this research on superconductors gets replicated. If genuinely feasible, then it could very well be the news of the century, a turning point in our history
Fucking Taylorism. Still the tech industry’s default mode of management.
Anyway, this is excellent.
Amy Hoy is right, as usual.
“Eleventy and CloudCannon: New Best Friends—zachleat.com”
Feels like a good fit for both Eleventy and CloudCannon.
“Does writing really have to be so solitary? — Chocolate and Vodka”
I’ve struggled with hyperindependence in the past so I made deliberate effort to break with that and find people to help me out on my ebooks. It’s hard but rewarding.
“AI Does Not Help Programmers”
What use do I have for a sloppy assistant? I can be sloppy just by myself, thanks
Our vision is for a World Wide Web that is more inclusive, and more respectful of its users: a Web that supports truth over falsehood, people over profits, humanity over hate.
That thing where you find an interesting blog that doesn’t have an RSS feed…
“Too bad. I guess I’ll never read this again!”
“Formative posts – Eric Bailey”
Seriously good reading list.
“The Power of Being New: A Proven Recipe for High Impact | Hazel Weakly”
Fucking hell is this shit tedious.
One of my favourite books on writing.
“Oppenheimer and AI — Emily F. Gorcenski”
Rather, it’s the wholesale death of culture, the mass displacement of jobs, the pollution of the internet, and the impending techno-hegemony I fear
“Antitrust Guidelines and Overthrowing a Corrupt Priesthood”
The tourist urge towards self-destruction continues. A group of 60 tried to disregard warnings and were narrowly prevented from walking into certain death at the eruption site
“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.