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Curator, writer, freelancer, uncle. I write about the world wide web, and the Internet, and cyberspace, too. I curate the web as well, also. I ❤️ personal websites, blogs, wikis, and internet oddities. Emphatically on the left, but Democrats don't get a pass from me. It's no longer enough to be anti-*. We need systemic change. Scone aficionado. George Costanza is a fashion icon. Communities, Not Markets. 🇵🇷

Posts

Post #3418018
Should Mastodon embrace video as a medium? (More than now, obviously). I'm afraid to ask this lol. Is it a can of worms?
Post #3416640
I hope this marks the beginning of the end for corporate Democrats. However that looks like.
Post #1896509
Sam Altman falls into a vat of nuclear sludge, turning him into a superhero called Alt Man. What are his superpowers?
Post #1481455
If localized, on-device AI models gain a foothold in the market, it could destroy the American AI industry—an industry propped up by the increasingly thinning notion that AI must be an off-device service. Journalists aren&#39;t being curious enough about how companies like Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI might be responding to that threat. Is there not anyone thinking about this? @404mediaco do I just tag you and trust you got it? That&#39;s how that works, right?
Post #1444346
You know that feeling you get when you’re on a microblogging platform for too long? You kind of feel horrible and vaguely angry and anxious. I’ve never once felt like that on Mastodon. That’s gotta be worth something.
Post #1179503
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116174381733551327 Yup, so looks like Rutger Bregman is an advocate-turned-corporate shill: &gt; Years ago, Bregman gained popularity for criticizing philanthropy as as a self-serving loophole the rich use to avoid paying taxes, but today his non-profit appears to be openly enticing wealthy philanthropists with promises of tax benefits. I don&#39;t know who&#39;s heading up Anthropic&#39;s marketing/public relations department, but whoev...
Post #1010729
Bluesky is microblogging for people who don&#39;t microblog, mixed with career capital-p Posters, and it&#39;s glued all together with liberalism&#39;s worst impulses. And honestly, god bless you if this is not your experience. But I&#39;ve never had fun scrolling BS. It&#39;s like a parody of liberal late-stage Twitter and Shrimp-Jesus Facebook. If they don&#39;t figure a way to make some homegrown celebrity posters soon, it&#39;s a wrap, I think. And I sincerely d...
Post #885127
I guessed whether a face was real or AI generated and got it right 19/20 times. And I know exactly why lol. When that &quot;this person doesn&#39;t exist&quot; website came out, I was having trouble sleeping so some nights I&#39;d just lay in bed and refreshed the page until I fell asleep. 😭 Is this a marketable skill? Can I work for the FBI?
Post #885126
Leaving work early. Going to watch Project Hail Mary on IMAX letttssssss gooooo
Post #885124
Project Hail Mary was fantastic. Just a dope sci-fi with cool science and interesting characters. I loved it.
Post #885122
Youtube ad with AI woman just straight up talking about fucking. Using the word “fucking.”
Post #885120
The Sign of The Times cover in Project Hail Mary is so beautiful.
Post #885118
#3GoodThings 1. The Publix brand Jamaican beef patties are delicious. I mean, for a frozen food. The pastry is so flakey and it&#39;s all very flavorful. 2. The cover of The Sign of The Times by Sandra Hüller on Project Hail Mary is beautiful. I would totally listen to her cover if they release it. 3. Thunderstorm season is here. I love falling asleep to the rain.
Post #885117
RIP Mac Pro.
Post #885116
So Trump&#39;s ballroom is actually a military bunker underneath. Why. Are. Rich. People. Building. Bunkers.
Post #885115
His name is Ben Baker. What a soggy-looking piece of shit.
Post #829648
RE: https://dair-community.social/@milamiceli/115689973077901876 When the “god father of AI” Geoffrey Hinton, or the leader of the #Rationalist movement Eliezer Yudkowsky, or the CEO of #OpenAI Sam Altman, or even Hank Green tell you that corporations have invented an AI God and you should be worried about the AI Apocalypse, it&#39;s to distract us from stories like this:
Post #785480
Do y&#39;all like Succession? Have I shared my Succession Theory of Everything? How every character is an allegory for a specific American power structure or concept? Okay, first. I just want to say that I love this show so damn much. I&#39;ve never watched a show that begs for analysis as much as Succession. It&#39;s so well written it makes me not want to be a writer because who could ever top this show? Okay, okay. Let me take a stab at this 😬 I can&#39;t promise it&#3...
Post #767974
The problem with the corporate world is everyone&#39;s reading the 48 Laws of Power before learning basic communication concepts. Like, stop trying to amass an empire from your cubicle, Travis, and go read Bird by Bird so people can understand your emails.
Post #767973
Ed Zitron says the true inference cost of replacing a developer with AI is about the same as that developer&#39;s salary. https://youtu.be/oAbpVCn-Ox0?t=11m40s
Post #767971
Grammarly using AI-versions of tech journalists is like when Jack released SeinfeldVision while Jerry was on vacation at the rich white guy country.
Post #767970
Someone commented on my post on LinkedIn using the term &quot;enterprise-grade AI&quot; and I had such a visceral reaction like sucking a lemon.
Post #767969
I&#39;m so hopeful that they can pull off a good Sinners sequel. Either a brand new story with all new actors. Or maybe they pick up in the 90s where they left off. The former seems the most interesting.
Post #767968
Godzilla Minus 1 was great and I might do a legitimate review later
Post #735374
The MacBook Neo is held together by 68 screws, no glue, no adhesives. Sounds like the right-to-repair lobby is making a huge impact(?) That, and maybe projects like Framework. https://youtube.com/shorts/KVshPEmTNj8
Post #734057
NVIDIA: Our new AI enhances game graphics! The enhancements:
Post #728991
AI Is African Intelligence: “It [Sex bot work] required a lot of creativity and fast thinking. Because if I’m talking to a man, I’m supposed to act like a woman. If I’m talking to a woman, I need to act like a man. If I’m talking to a gay person, I need to act like a gay person,” he told me at a coworking space I met him at in Nairobi. After doing this for months, he, like other data labelers, developed insomnia, PTSD, and had trouble having sex.&quot; This is abuse. https://www.404medi...
Post #699414
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fabienmarry/116245185706238450 My new favorite thing.
Post #690567
Fostering an environment where the only tech we&#39;re allowed to criticize is the tech we immediately stop using makes us weird and territorial and guarantees we stop making objective observations. Because then it just becomes trying not to be a hypocrite. Using Proton is still better than ad-tech email. That doesn&#39;t mean we don&#39;t call them out. It&#39;s not our job to protect them. It&#39;s their job to earn goodwill. And their rationalization was dog shit. That&a...
Post #688667
Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts: &quot;Moltbook is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, a Meta spokesperson told us. Moltbook creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr will join the team as part of the acquisition. Deal terms were not disclosed.&quot; Didn’t one of the founders already go to OpenAI? https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/meta-acquired-moltbook-the-ai-agent-social-network-that-went-viral-because-of-fake-posts/