Sorry but if your "we're here to make it easy to build small web things" is just another JS mess I can't take you seriously. If it's about allowing more people to build something on the Web it needs to start with HTML and CSS. Not weird App routing and NPM dependencies. (Yes I am old.)
A few thoughts on why I don't use writing or coding assistants. "[AI Assistants] create distance between me and my thinking and my writing, they alienate the visible output of my work from my work. They alienate me from my writing."
Smashing Frames
I'm HelPInG!!11
I am not an active user of so-called “AI-Assistants”, neither for coding nor writing nor research. I constantly test and evaluate those...
Mozilla's blog post about new leadership perfectly illustrates a core issue (
Updates on Mozilla's Leadership and Growth Planning | The Mozilla Blog
Since 2022, Mozilla has been in an active process evolving what we do – and renewing our leadership. Today we announced several updates on th...
): The new members/roles of the board are all introduced with the big tech companies they come from (Twitter, Google, Walmart, Uber etc.) And sure that comes with a lot of experience running a company and organization, I am not saying that those people don't have skills. But given their resume they also have immense paychecks. And there is very little information about why they should steer one of the most influential organizations in the free software space. That's the issue. Further corporate logic instead of thinking fresh about what role an organization such as Mozilla could and should play.
Die Tatsache, dass konservative Steuersenkungspläne nicht gegenfinanziert sind ist nicht aus Versehen: Den Staat explizit unterzufinanzieren um dann aus scheinbarer "Notwendigkeit" heraus Sozialleistungen und Investitionen ins Gemeinwohl zu kürzen, ist der Kern neoliberaler Strategie.
Meine Wahlempfehlung für die Bundestagswahl am Sonntag: "Wir können mehr als langsam zerriebene Infrastrukturen zu verwalten. Wir können mehr. Wählt die Linke."
Smashing Frames
Wahlempfehlung Bundestagswahl 2025: Die Linke
Am Sonntag findet die Wahl zum Deutschen Bundestag statt. Ich werde die Partei die Linke wählen und hoffe, dass sich mir viele anschließen. Wahrs...
The belief that digital technologies and the Internet are leaning towards democratic values is as naive and as much semi-religious as economists' belief in the free market. TBH both beliefs share a lot more properties.
Exactly. And one has to realize that given current buildout plans even if this would lead to all data centers using only renewables that other actually important infrastructures would probably have to run of fossil fuel (because there currently isn't enough renewable capacity). Your "green AI" exists on the back of your hospital being run on fossil fuels.
Mastodon.green
Gerry McGovern (@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)
“AI infrastructure like data centres must be powered by new and additional renewable energy that supports the wider energy transition.” https:...
You don't compromise on people's fucking humanity. (Original title: If Not Now, Then Never)
Lefty Cartoons
If Not Now, Then Never
Check out the timelapse video of this cartoon being drawn! TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. They mostly focus on two members of ...
BBC tested AI assistants for summarization and concluded: "91% of AI responses had at least some issues. 51% had “significant” issues." (Original title: AI chatbots are still hopelessly terrible at summarizing news)
Pivot to AI
AI chatbots are still hopelessly terrible at summarizing news
BBC News has run as much content-free AI puffery as any other media outlet. But they had their noses rubbed hard in what trash LLMs were when Apple...
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism "In other words, the AI industry now finds that it needs all the allies it can get. And it can’t afford to be picky. If the only places that people are seeing AI imagery is (at)BasedEphebophile1488’s verified X account – well, at least it’s being used at all."
New Socialist
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.