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I Can’t be Bothered to Learn a Skill 🤨
Tammy Rogers: This AI iPhone Game Is Interesting, but Does Nothing to Assuage My AI Fears
The trouble is that whenever I see AI, it's from a person who has always wanted to be able to create things but can’t be bothered to learn how. AI is seen as a way, in
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Everyone Else is Screwed, but I’ll be Fine (or: The Answer to Every Vibe Check Question Ever)
Lee Rainie: AI in Hiring and Evaluating Workers: What Americans Think
Some 62% think the use of AI in the workplace will have a major impact on workers generally over the next 20 years. On the other hand, just 28% believe the use of AI will have a major impact on them personally, while roughly
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The Windows 11 Trash Party
Thomas Bandt was setting up a new computer for his kid, and it gave him the opportunity to really look at what Windows has become over the years. Here's what was showing by default in the Start menu:
First, there was news about a mass shooting that had occurred only recently. In the
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The Max Show I Have the Max Hype For
Jay Peters: Harry Potter Is Getting a 10-Year-Long TV Series on Max
Discovery promises that “each season will be authentic to the original books.” The original movies will still be “available to watch globally,” even with this new show in development.
Two things:
1. Committing to 10 years of a show is pretty
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Loving a Good Satanic Panic
Jennifer Lee writing for the New York Times:
Like hundreds of thousands of other high school students, Greg Myers, 16, began using an A.I. bot in freshman English. A.I. bots, which bear little resemblance to their 2010's ancestors.
And:
“I use A.I. bots all the time, and am a big
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My 2¢ on the RESTRICT Act
Joeseph Cox: The 'Insanely Broad' RESTRICT Act Could Ban Much More Than Just TikTok
The RESTRICT Act, a proposed piece of legislation which provides one way the government might ban TikTok, contains “insanely broad” language and could lead to other apps or communications services with connections to foreign countries being banned in the
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Twitter Flexes Its Power Again, Crushing Free Speech
Michael Kan: Twitter Disables Retweets, Likes on Posts With Substack Links
Twitter is now blocking users from retweeting, replying and liking tweets that contain a link to news publishing platform Substack, which is preparing its own microblogging service.
Your resident free speech absolutist strikes again!
The Verge has a piece on this as well.
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Yas, Code!
Glitch Blog: “Yes Code” Is How Coding Evolves With AI
we also think that the widespread accessibility of these tools will make more people into coders. Or put another way, it will make more people who are coders realize that they are coders. We’ve long said that anyone who ever made a really complex
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They Don’t Teach That in School! Oh, They Do? It’s in the Standard Curriculum?
Rebecca Jennings: The Influencers Getting Rich by Teaching You How to Get Rich
Consider, for instance, the kind of person most closely associated with influencer courses. YouTuber Jake Paul advertised his “Financial Freedom Movement” course in 2020 with a fiery screed against traditional schooling: “I’m sick of our education system and how it’s
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Your Moodboard Might be Making Your Work Average
Alex Murrell: The Age of Average
“This kind of visual homogeneity is a common occurrence in the art direction world, where ubiquitous styles operate less like trends and more like memes; remixed and diluted until they become a single visual mass. In today’s extremely-online world, the vast availability of reference imagery has, perhaps
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The Mastodon Vibe
Here's Andy Bell on why Mastodon is giving him weird vibes. It's worth reading, so check it out, but I've got a few comments to add.
The tone policing makes me want to scratch my eyes out
When I started using Mastodon in earnest last November, this bugged me
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The Sony Handheld I Hope to Love
Tom Henderson: EXCLUSIVE – Sony’s Next PlayStation Handheld
Codenamed the Q Lite, the next PlayStation handheld is the next piece of Sony hardware that aims to be yet another piece of hardware that requires the PlayStation 5. Insider Gaming understands that the Q Lite is not a cloud-streaming device, but instead uses Remote Play
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Amazon's TV Troubles and Netflix's Continued Dominance
Zack Zwiezen: Report: Only 37% Of Viewers Finished Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings TV Show, The Most Expensive In History
A new report reveals that only 37 percent of viewers who watched one episode of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power—the most expensive series ever—stuck around to
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Chatbot Hype Like it's 2016 All Over Again
Simon Willison.net: Think of Language Models Like ChatGPT as a “Calculator for Words”
I like to think of language models like ChatGPT as a calculator for words.
The more I use these tools, the more I think the narrative around "Microsoft makes Google dance by adding GPT to Bing," narrative is more
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That "Let's Pause AI" Letter is a Mess
Chloe Xiang: The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess
“It's essentially misdirection: bringing everyone's attention to hypothetical powers and harms of LLMs and proposing a (very vague and ineffective) way of addressing them, instead of looking at the harms here and now and addressing
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ChatGPT Will Hype Up Trump, Please Stop Reporting that it Won't
Pranav Dixit: This Uncensored Chatbot Shows What Happens When AI Is Programmed to Disregard Human Decency
Still, AI chatbots have recently become targets of political culture wars. At least one study of ChatGPT bias found that its responses skewed “progressive” and “Democratic.” Even today, asking ChatGPT to write an ode to Donald Trump results in
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eSIM Has Some Major Benefits
Brian X. Chen: Attention, Travelers: Now Is the Best Time to Switch to eSIM
As vacation season looms, now is as good a time as ever to bite the bullet and become familiar with a smartphone feature that many of us have ignored for years: the eSIM, the digital version of the SIM card that
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It’s More Than Just Elon Who Gets Artificially Boosted Into Your Timeline
Zoë Schiffer: The Secret List of Twitter VIPs Getting Boosted Over Everyone Else
But Twitter does have a different standard
