“Ghost in the Cloud | Issue 28 | n+1”
AGI and the singularity is such a fucking religious cult.
“Dashboard is reborn in macOS Sonoma. Apple: bring back these lost Mac features too”
Yeah. This.
“Is GitHub Copilot Any Good? — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho”
basically everything it suggested was wrong in some way
But, AI is the future of coding, right?
“As Smoke Fills the Sky, Google’s New AI Gives Wildly Inaccurate Info on Air Quality”
But if you ask the company’s experimental new AI-powered search tool, Search Generative Experience (SGE), it’s been providing wildly incorrect info
“Iceland passes historic conversion therapy ban and yes, it’s trans-inclusive”
Some good news for a change.
It’s disconcerting how many people assume current tech can be scaled exponentially over the next decade or two
Global climate crisis, resource depletion, the deterioration of globalisation, and conflicts are going to make that extremely unlikely, if not outright impossible
“Modern CSS For Dynamic Component-Based Architecture | Modern CSS Solutions”
“Today’s AI is unreasonable - Anil Dash”
Good post. Tactfully elides the fact that the infamous “Web3 is too big to fail” thread had a big role to play in frothing up the last bubble, but a good post nonetheless
“On Jackpot Technologies, or, what Apple’s new headset is actually for“
A grim take, but one that feels very plausible.
“Vertical rhythm using CSS lh and rlh units | pawelgrzybek.com”
TIL that this exists.
“AlphaDev uncovered new sorting algorithms that led to improvements in the LLVM”
As someone that knows a thing or two about sorting… bullshit. No new algorithms were uncovered, and the work here did not lead to the claimed improvements
“Deepfake Porn Victims Are Seeking Federal Protections Through Legislation | Teen Vogue”
I honestly think that this is a much more important issue than the fictional problem of a language model going all SkyNet on us.
“History revealed – Bigmouth Strikes Again: Carrie Marshall’s blog”
“Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta”
I know it’s popular to only acknowledge progress (esp. Safari progress) with a complaint, but this honestly just looks great.
“Introducing Jetpack AI Assistant in WordPress.com”
Do you think this will:
- Level up blogging, man! Every blog post will now be amazing!
- Fill the web with garbage, since Google doesn’t seem to mind AI-generated posts.
😬
“FBI warns of increasing use of AI-generated deepfakes in sextortion schemes | Ars Technica”
This was incredibly predictable.
Save search by flooding the web with crap, then use that same crap to filter the crap from the crap. Brilliant