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Hi, I am a design executive in Europe who started as a backend developer in Missouri.
My life has taken many turns, but I’ve always benefited from the advantage of being a white cishet male who is stereotyped as credible. Hopefully, I leave this planet more equitable than I found it.
I strive to apply critical analysis to everything yet also find solidarity with everyone.
While I value “strong opinions, weakly held”, I do indulge in strongly-held opinions on a few issues. I’ll thread them here so you can make an informed decision on whether to follow or block me:
@zachleat feels like Astro is getting a bit bloated. How long before someone re-implements it on an “Eleventy core”?
@rysiek not really an “AI” phenomenon, eh? Application of models is situated where there is already a system for decision making in the first place.
I like this observation as a sort of “indicator dye”. We can see the power structures of society clearly reflected in model deployment. (And it’s an ugly sight, not that it will bother us, collectively.)
@kottke@botsin.space I found your attribution for https://kottke.org/12/10/girl-with-a-pearl-earring-and-point-and-shoot-camera at https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3099947989963&set=a.3099915429149.2137763.1602075459&type=3&theater
I still think about this post contrasting Apple's “paean to a bygone era of suburban sprawl” to Amazon's integrated urban campus every time I watch a Tim Cook keynote. https://seattletransitblog.com/2012/03/20/apple-amazon-and-the-wicked-problem/
GOP states are forcing women to give birth and now outlawing lab-grown meat.
Clearly their endgame is breeding humans for meat.
“Few such measures have been adopted.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/09/florida-highway-shooting-eclipse-god?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
American Express just let me cancel a card, efficiently and politely, via a text chat session. For two decades they've been surprising me with the sort of customer service we should expect from every company.
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Back in 2011 when Microsoft demoed them, I didn’t see that communication avatars (sorry, “Personas”) would be useful for AR; strapping an iPad to my face was a distant dream. I think I still believe the real value will be in facing emotional states, though. https://twitter.com/gerwitz/status/84311406148718593
The US has been threatening to leave NATO on its own for some time: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/8569647/America-will-no-longer-prop-up-Nato-says-US-defence-secretary-Robert-Gates.html
Rutte has some work ahead of him.
The last good April 1 press release was when Ryanair announced child-free flights: https://web.archive.org/web/20110401175103/http://www.ryanair.com/en/news/child-free-flights-from-october-2011
13 years later, I have a media player that could detect what parts of a film I'm paying attention to, and “AI" software that could automate changes in response is on the horizon.
@xgebi I'm very happy paying for Kagi. With DDG I found myself reverting to Google often; with Kagi I don’t.
(I disable the "AI" by default but sometimes use it explicitly.)
Can we please stop with all the wars and genocides and environmental destruction so 2024 can be the year of “digital sovereignty”? https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/ministerien-behoerden/I/Presse/PI/2024/CdS/240403_cds_it-arbeitsplatz.html
Many of the kindest, most compassionate human beings I have met in my life have been punks and goths.
Dictators doing land grabs always go for the justification that they used to live there. Bitch, I used to live in an apartment on Broadway, but I don't break in whenever I have to piss, so shut the fuck up, and call it what it is.
@angiebaby is there was a no-regrets way to experience being that cocksure or unaware, I'd love to know what it's like.
@nf3xn I hope you do but am not confident.
Government, almost by definition, engages in "social engineering”. I am at least heartened to see public discussions about both the means and the goals. And for the goals to be more nuanced than increased consumer spending.
@calisti thanks for reading all that. As you can probably tell, I'm still working through my own perspective and it's helpful to write-think.
@nf3xn I am likely guilty of benchmarking against the US, having come from there.
My maybe-too-generous read was the NPLV wants to see the most needful distributed more evenly, and has to frame this as “stop them from clustering" to be palatable to the neoliberal national government.