You cannot convince me that this wasn't authored by chatGPT. Prompt: Inspiring note from a new CEO to their employees with some stuff about being the "new town square." https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/12/23758258/twitter-ceo-linda-yaccarino-first-employee-memo
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More tech writing like this! It's one thing to fawn over the tech itself, but there are potentially interesting implications. We should be asking the questions and someone should be asking Apple about their thinking on these issues.
https://www.theverge.com/23751675/apple-vision-pro-vr-headset-ios-17-mental-health-mood-journal
Depressingly feels like one of the main drivers of tech today is simply "find ways to help wealthy people avoid engaging in the world they've created."
All of the delivery and gig apps. Cybertruck with its asinine bulletproof glass. And now google.
You are not serious people.
Parents are the worst part of youth sports.
They're eight years old. This isn't going to determine if they become a professional. I'm sorry YOU didn't, but lighten up and let THEM have fun.
And stop trying to start fights with other parents. Fucking ridiculous.
The NYTimes does a real service with pieces like this, really adding to the feverish calls for revolution.
Also, despite the line about this being about celebrating children, let's be clear this is all about the parents competing and showing off.
@harish That's our ultimate goal -- to try to open source all it. We're using the beta to help us refine specifica around application, but yes, expect we'll share details that can hopefully be applied elsewhere.
Mozilla is bringing a different perspective to moderation in the Fediverse. After years of working on these issues elsewhere and feeling handcuffed by pre-existing incentives, I'm incredibly proud of this.
https://www.theverge.com/23710406/mozilla-social-mastodon-fediverse-moderation
Mozilla’s new Mozilla.Social Mastodon instance is an attempt to reinvent content moderation
Mozilla.Social, a new beta Mastodon server from the team at Mozilla, brings a new take on policy to the Twitter clone. It’s not worried about censorship or free speech — it’s just trying to make a better place to be online.
A couple friends and I wrote what amounts to an eerily similar review in a Whatsapp chat. These last three albums have been so boring.
And I'm squarely in their target audience!
https://www.vulture.com/2023/05/the-national-first-two-pages-of-frankenstein-critics.html
Good brief piece on what's at stake in the writers' strike (as our Oakland teachers are about to strike.) What happens when all art and entertainment is made by AI?
We're basically heading in the opposite direction of what Banks outlined in the Culture novels. AI is taking over all our outlets for expression, leaving us with the drudgery.
