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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 6 days ago

The Verge

The Live Nation settlement has industry insiders baffled

Live Nation-Ticketmaster critics are still pushing for a breakup.

The American Prospect

Why Your Lamp Sucks

Don't search the web for mid-century lighting until you listen to this week's episode.

The Public Domain Review

Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)

"Tall-tale" or "exaggeration" postcards illustrating the bounties of California.

Enshittification

Ars Technica

Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public?

Your phone still functions when held to your ear, people!

ByronCinNZ

@ByronCinNZ@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 3 days ago

@pluralistic I enjoyed this article very much, as usual from your post. However, (the dreaded shift) i believe your critique of the AI critic psychoses to fall a bit short. Some sophistry with words that i see is the lack of distinction between AI and LLM. LLMs rely on huge companies doing all sorts of real world damage. Our use of LLMs does support this damage. I think of LLMs as like CFCs. There is good reason to ban them or seek safer substitutes

steelman

@steelman@mstdn.io replied · 5 days ago

@pluralistic if “psychosis” is a medical term and “delusion” is not so much and you seem (to me as a non-native English speaker) to be using them somewhat interchangeably, why not just stick to the latter?

@miss_rodent@girlcock.club replied · 5 days ago

Scientific American

AI autocomplete doesn’t just change how you write. It changes how you think

AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs

Levi Kornelsen

@LeviKornelsen@dice.camp replied · 6 days ago

@pluralistic - Reminds me of Clay Shirky and his talk about support groups being value neutral; we just didn't know it until we got the internet.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 6 days ago

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 6 days ago

The Verge

The Live Nation settlement has industry insiders baffled

Live Nation-Ticketmaster critics are still pushing for a breakup.

The American Prospect

Why Your Lamp Sucks

Don't search the web for mid-century lighting until you listen to this week's episode.

The Public Domain Review

Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)

"Tall-tale" or "exaggeration" postcards illustrating the bounties of California.

Enshittification

Ars Technica

Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public?

Your phone still functions when held to your ear, people!

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 6 days ago

Ars Technica

After an easy breach, hackers leave “TIPS WHEN RUNNING A SECURITY COMPANY”

DDoS protection firm Staminus apparently stored customers' credit card data in the clear.

The New Republic

The Mass-Market Edition of “To Kill a Mockingbird” is Dead

Harper Lee’s estate will no longer allow publication of the inexpensive paperback edition that was popular with schools.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 6 days ago

Sink Hacks

Making 3D Printed Cat Armor - Sink Hacks

A full suit of battle ready cat armor that can be made on a 3D Printer! Thingiverse user and YouTuber PRINTTHATTHING designed this awesome set of Cat Armor and uploaded the design to Thingiverse, and I knew I had to make it!

Blue Ridge Labs @ Robin Hood

Fellowship

Our 5 mo. paid fellowship invites tech, design, and community innovators to build products that matter. This year’s focus: Ensuring equal access to justice.

WIRED

Trash Is Ugly, But Recycling Is Downright Beautiful

See the plants where Europe's circuit boards, car tires, and refrigerators are given new life.

InfoWorld

Admins beware: Domain-attached PCs are sprouting Get Windows 10 ads

Microsoft is telling users that their admins are somehow guilty of blocking upgrades to their PCs

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 6 days ago

Blue Ridge Labs @ Robin Hood

Fellowship

Our 5 mo. paid fellowship invites tech, design, and community innovators to build products that matter. This year’s focus: Ensuring equal access to justice.

WIRED

Trash Is Ugly, But Recycling Is Downright Beautiful

See the plants where Europe's circuit boards, car tires, and refrigerators are given new life.

InfoWorld

Admins beware: Domain-attached PCs are sprouting Get Windows 10 ads

Microsoft is telling users that their admins are somehow guilty of blocking upgrades to their PCs

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