When logging into Wordpress.org (login.wordpress.org) you have to confirm that you are not affiliated with WPEngine. While this looks petty and childish it's another sign the Wordpress is in the hands of people who can't find less destructive ways to handle their fucking midlife crisis.

"My hunch in general is that the entertainment value of generative A.I.--by which I just mean the simple pleasure of using and talking to a computer that can reproduce human-like language--is as underrated as the productivity gains it offers are overrated, and that often uses that are presented as “productive” are not actually more efficient, just more fun" (Original title: Five qualities of A.I. apps)

Five qualities of A.I. apps

PLUS: Make a podcast about your groupchat!

If you want to know what widespread "AI" adoption will lead to look jo further than the Fast Fashion industry. A massively wasteful way of producing very low quality objects on the back of marginalized people for a few big corporations to profit off of.

The "AI is gonna make programmers more massively more efficient myth" is hitting reality. And not surviving.

Sorry, GenAI is NOT going to 10x computer programming

Here’s Why

Do I know anyone from Vancouver?

Do you use the "local" timeline on your Instance (if your Software has it)?

"Fedi distills losers: AI, covid, class war, climate, free software, on all of these issues, the sort of people that fedi attracts are those that lost. But, good news everyone: in fedi you don’t have to engage with the world, only with fellow losers! I know. I include myself in these sets. But beyond the fact that I don’t want to be a loser, it is imperative that we win: we can’t just give up on climate or class war. Thing is, we don’t have a plan to win, and the vibe I get from fedi is much more disengaged than strategic." (Original title: Andy Wingo: fedi is for losers)

fedi is for losers — wingolog

I put some money in and if you can, you should as well. Verso is essential infrastructure. https://kolektiva.social/@elbienmaspreciado/113193836939548975

"Taking a scaffolding built out of LLMs to regulate other LLMs’ and calling it “reason” is a surefire way to create a weird, incomprehensible system. Building infrastructure on top of this Frankenstein’s monster of automated statistics should be a terrifying proposition for anyone, not because it will decide to kill us — but because it’s an invisible bureaucracy incapable of deciding anything but potentially given authority to exercise power as if it does. " (Original title: A Critique of Pure LLM Reason)

A Critique of Pure LLM Reason

It's Parrots, All The Way Down

In a conversation on "AI" I had a radical idea I thought I should share: (Original title: A radical idea)

Smashing Frames

A radical idea

If you’ve read me for a while you know that – when it comes to tech reporting/talking about tech – I have been around the block a...