Video Dispatch #8: The Product Makes the Pattern Dark The assumption that empathy isn't used to manipulate

"Poisoning for propaganda: rising authoritarianism makes LLMs more dangerous" by @Baldur Bjarnason

Poisoning for propaganda: rising authoritarianism makes LLMs more dangerous

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

the tech industry is in an age of anti-design where critical thinking, a basis of design, is actively avoided

Design conference deal-breaker

Video Dispatch: A Use Case is a Trojan Horse A use case is a solution to a problem they wish you had

Video Dispatch: Here, See What You Can Do With This Software-as-an-Amorphous-Blob

the absolute vacuum of *elaborating on why llms are valuable* in the reporting on llm drama is mind numbing. It's like someone made a cheaper fidget spinner and everyone's too busy talking about that to talk about the importance of fidget spinners

It didn't become shit, it came from a shit place. Even if along the way it managed to be good at *something* it still started from an opportunity of the means to a self-serving ends. "Enshittification" is the polish fading from the turd. It's a reveal, not a transformation.