“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.
Sure sounds like Mozilla is planning on pushing ahead with “AI” garbage in MDN once the furore dies down.
“Can We Query the Root: The complexities of containment, overflow, and”
What I’ve been doing is use main as the primary container.
“Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift”
This. Absolutely this.
“Language-Level Toll Roads - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
I really disagree with this framing. The KV implementation in the Deno CLI is fully open source, backed by a sqlite db file that you can hook up to litestream and similar solutions. It’s a great feature in its own right.
“Deno 1.35: A fast and convenient way to build web servers”
I really enjoy working with Deno. Support for the official puppeteer package makes a big difference to at least a couple of my projects.
“Talking about a ‘schism’ is ahistorical | by Emily M. Bender | Jul, 2023 | Medium”