Coming from Wired, I’d hope the article would have a more technology focused approach,
Wired is for people who want to talk about technology without actually taking about technology.
Coming from Wired, I’d hope the article would have a more technology focused approach,
Wired is for people who want to talk about technology without actually taking about technology.
But Hanlon’s razor says you shouldn’t.
All right, we got a razor fight!
Do you like commercials? And how much are you willing to pay for TV?
If the answers are “no” and “zero”, then that’s going to affect how much TV you/we watch, even if you/we like the TV shows.
According to the article, Musk is the ideas guy and it’s her job to implement them. So when Twitter fails, he’ll say the ideas were great, it was an execution problem.
She probably figures at her next job interview she’ll say it was a no win situation, but at least she accomplished (something).
Also, “research has indicated that women and other minorities view risky job offers as the only chance they are likely to get” -Wikipedia
She’s the one who will take the blame.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff
A fair-minded article. This sounded off though:
a big attraction of Reddit—that its main page is a kind of greatest hits of an enormous community.
No, r/all was the lowest common denominator, full of karmafarming, ragebait, and reposts. Every time I looked at r/all I regretted it, so I mostly stuck to subreddits.
There was an article in Foreign Policy a couple days ago talking about how China’s WeChat is the only real Everything App, but it was a product of a very specific time and place.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/31/elon-musk-wechat-twitter-x-united-states-everything-apps/
The conclusion is that there’s not likely to be another Everything App. I’m still thinking that over, but it sounds plausible.
OpenAI scraped the Internet, legally and illegally to power ChatGPT.
I’m not a huge OpenAI fan, but it’s not yet been determined that they acted illegally. I believe the matter is still being pursued in court.
It’s telling that most of their problems were regulatory/legal rather than technical. (they only have one bullet point about “a bunch of techy stuff”.)
But the whole article has a very strong “how do you do, fellow kids?” vibe. I think the fediverse will manage to survive without the Financial Times’ mastodon server.
Wired articles are generally about interesting topics but take a sensationalist click-bait approach. I usually just skim the headline and look up the info somewhere more reputable if it sounds important.
For example, here’s some info from the USDA:
Plastic storage containers such as margarine tubs, take-out containers, whipped topping bowls, and other one-time use containers should not be used in microwave ovens. These containers can warp or melt, possibly causing harmful chemicals to migrate into the food.
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/node/3355
The whole point of Oulipo is “the seeking of new structures and patterns”.
Constraints inspire creativity, so let’s come up with new constraints.
If you only allow one structure/constraint, that’s the opposite of what Oulipo is about.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
“Oulipo Compendium” is a fun book if you can find it.
Motte’s “Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature” is OK but a bit dry. Looks like there’ve been a couple new surveys recently too.
The mastodon community Oulipo.social only allows one structure/constraint, so it’s not that interesting. If you know of any good Oulipo communities in the fediverse, I’d be thrilled to hear about them.
“Lastly, I’ve intentionally done this work in a way that will, I hope, prove illegible and hostile to summary in media reports”
lel I like the way this person thinks. Did a quick read, is worth re-reading.
I was initially excited to hear about the Oulipo community, but they seem to have an very limited take on what Oulipo is/was. There is a lot more to Oulipo than lipograms (avoiding a character) as even the Wikipedia page says.
I’m pretty sure they were being sarcastic.
It’s “enswastification.”
Possibly relevant background: https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-start
Original rude boy ska. The best of all time:
BONUS TRACK is it ska or is it rocksteady? either way one of my favorite songs in any genre:
artificial general intelligence - the thing LLMs claim to be
The major GPT-based systems will deny being AGIs. Most companies will also deny this. Is anyone reputable saying LLMs are AGIs?
“this whole fediverse concept is so hard to get your head around”
Respectfully, I think this is because join-lemmy.org is confusing. Here are the simple instructions I give people:
Go to https://kbin.social/ and start reading.
If you want to join, click “Log In” at the top, and then “Register”
Everything else they can figure out as they go along.
THANK YOU! Those apps are so annoying, all I wanted was a shortcut to kbin and lemmy.
I had to wipe all my browser data for lemmy to finally let me install the shortcut instead of the (&$# app, but it finally worked.