“On giant piles of cash, and their origins - by Dave Karpf”
The trouble with venture capital is that it has gotten too big.
“The Life and Death of Hollywood: Film and television writers face an existential threat”
They had been stripping value from the production system like copper pipes from a house—threatening the sustainability of the studios themselves.
“Struggling with a Moral Panic Once Again | by danah boyd | Apr, 2024 | Medium”
I keep seeing people talk about using generative models with very low accuracy and success rates. I have to resist the urge to point out that with rates that low, it’s possible they’re just seeing randomness in action and the feeling of productive utility is down to their own perception
Reading through recent discourse relating to both Google’s actions and other protests…
And, fuck me, some of you are so authoritarian
Of course I’m biased. If the current hostility towards protests had been in place 10 or 20 years ago in the UK, I’d have been arrested a dozen times over 😬
“I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting a $1.2 billion contract with Israel”
Yeah, this was retaliation, like completely indiscriminate—people who had just walked by just to say hello and maybe talk to us for a little bit. They were fired.
This seems to be the day for typos and grammatical errors in everything I do everywhere. 🙃
“Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract - The Verge”
Welp.
“AI isn’t useless. But is it worth it?”
they do a poor job of much of what people try to do with them, they can’t do the things their creators claim they one day might, and many of the things they are well suited to do may not be altogether that beneficial
Yup. Pretty much.
“Craft vs Industry: Separating Concerns”
I think it would be incredibly unwise and hubristic to assume that the broad majority of us who are employed at this time will remain employed in the next years.
“Claws for Debate – Part 3 – News From ME”
But since ‘42, creator credits and writing credits on TV shows have been determined via a strict credits manual and principles established by the Guild.
“We Need To Rewild The Internet”
When we simplify complex systems, we destroy them, and the devastating consequences sometimes aren’t obvious until it’s too late.
“Avoiding hero work pays off in the long run - Duck Alignment Academy”
Seeing tech people’s hyperbolic response to an incredibly kind and generous youtube review of a product that genuinely shouldn’t exist makes me glad I don’t review products for a living. I’d have been much harsher
“A Meta-Review of the Summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online Intrusion”
Microsoft isn’t alone in being targeted, but it does seem to get breached more often than any of its peers
“Why the US government’s overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem | Ars Technica”
It was another reminder of how insulated Microsoft has become from virtually any government accountability
I always feel a little bit guilty when me walking into the kitchen startles a bird at the balcony bird feeder and it flies away.
I didn’t mean to interrupt your lunch, little bird!
Gonna go over to Linkedin and repost some “AI” sceptics to see if that’ll stem the tide connection invitations from AI Dudes.
Trying to spot the peak of a bubble is an exercise in futility. Things can always stay irrational for longer than you can expect
And in the case of the AI Bubble, it’s much too early to gauge anything until we see the response to GPT-5, whenever that comes out