🦊 “Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. It’s the future.” I hear that line a lot. The thing is, futures are tricky.
This interview feels like a tremendous missed opportunity: it reads like an airing of talking points, rather than properly interrogating a billionaire donor who’s comfortable slapping some nice fonts on openly fascist policies: https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/18/america-first-chief-design-officer-joe-gebbia-interview/ #uspol
that’s a nice decentralized network you’ve got there, be a real shame if capitalism happened to it
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🦊 IN WHICH ONE AUTHOR tried to file a claim in the Anthropic copyright case, failed, got frustrated, then blogged about it while still pretty hot under the collar. (it’s me; i’m author)
CWA just shared their research into the lives of the US-based data workers responsible for training and maintaining modern “AI” platforms. The findings are, in a word, grim:
🦊 I’ve decided it’s past time I start describing “artificial intelligence” as a failed technology, and I’d like you to join me.
me: hey Video Call Software, could you please remember the audio settings i use literally every time i use you? software: no :) me: why not software: do u like my ai button :))))))) me: what software: :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Oh my goodness: my old friend Rob Weychert’s just redesigned his website, and turned it into a *tremendous* personal archive for (nearly) everything he’s ever written. It is also: PRETTY AS HELL. The layout! The typography! The colors! The site architecture! Rob’s been working on this redesign for literal years, and it really, really shows. yay websites yay friends just: yay
“…National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, today called for […] the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to be fired […] or to resign.” good afternoon ONLY to organized labor