I’m beginning to feel like the people who love vibe coding resent software engineers, the people who love making music with AI resent musicians, the people who love AI art resent artists. It’s more than not understanding what good is. It’s active pushback.
Stephen Miller and at least a dozen other Trump appointees own stock in Palantir, the company that provides "mission critical" services to ICE. #Democracy
Ben Werdmuller
Stephen Miller’s Financial Stake in ICE Contractor Palantir
Stephen Miller and at least a dozen other Trump appointees own stock in Palantir, the company that provides "mission critical" services to ICE.
The fragmentation and purity tests on the fediverse are beginning to grate. Vulnerable communities need to ensure their own safety, but some of the politics feel like they're very far away from those needs and closer to high school infighting. Globally, nationalism is rising with corporate social media as one of its weapons, leading to real deaths and true fascism with all its harms. We're going to need to collaborate despite our differences. Let's pull it together.
Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it sent to a publisher. Today, Anthropic crawls 60,000. #AI
Ben Werdmuller
Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says
Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it sent to a publisher. Today, Anthropic crawls 60,000.
Congrats to everyone who voted for the guy because they thought he was anti-war. You complete fucking morons.
One of the things I find the most depressing is that some people will be genuinely cheering for war.
It's alive! #threads #fediverse image
PSA: "Dutch" means "from the Netherlands". It does not mean "from Germany". Except when "Dutch" is "Pennsylvania Dutch", who get their name because apparently nobody in America knew the difference between Dutch and Deutsch. Which, tbqh, they still don't.
News to me that one of the candidates for Mayor of NYC was a rapper who collaborated with Madhur Jaffrey, but I have no notes. This is excellent.
Sitting in a panel discussion about the effect of social media on news consumption and the open social web networks haven't been mentioned. It's all Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X. But any newsroom that *isn't* paying attention to Bluesky and Mastodon is missing a trick.