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Not to toot our own horns but I feel like we packed so much in this one hour panel with Karen Hao and John Palfrey.
You can find the recording at https://www.youtube.com/live/I1tJnM81NCM
It's really refreshing and reassuring to know that, during these chaotic and depressing times, our economy is being run by serious people who believe in things that are definitely real and who take rational actions on the basis of those beliefs.
It'd really suck if capital was concentrated in the hands of a rogue's gallery of capricious sycophants, sleazy conmen, and number-crunchers who suck at math, all of whom had their brains melted by AI.
Just this week I’ve heard people on two different podcasts talking about how in macOS Tahoe, AutoFill of verification codes received in Messages or Mail work in more Mac apps than before, including popular web browsers. The people seemed very happy about it.
I just wanna say that people talking about this brings me joy, because I worked hard and did unspeakable things to get that to work.
In related news: yesterday, Block announced it was firing half its engineers to make a "big bet on AI."
Block used to be called "Square" and it had a very successful business as a payment processor. It changed its name to Block when it went all in on crypto.
Block's mass "AI" layoffs coincide with a *50%* drop in Bitcoin, with concomitant collapses in other cryptos. Crypto market watchers warn that the industry is so overleveraged that this could lead to total collapse.
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RE: https://mastodon.art/@JenJen/115828562342380531
This entire thread, 100%.
The point of building abstractions is that people can use them without having to understand all of the layers below.
The point of Free Software should be to empower users. When a user tells you that they are more empowered by a platform that is designed to exploit them than the one that you have built, that should be a wake-up call, not a reason to belittle them.
A good Free Software OS and user environment won’t look like Windows, because Windows is a platform designed to enable an ecosystem of no-user-serviceable-parts-inside siloed programs. Copying it will keep giving systems that fail to convince people of the real benefits that they should expect.
Google did not inform us. Especially did they not inform us WHICH pages/apps at IzzyOnDroid they consider "dangerous", or WHY. Nor did they give us any means to respond to that threat. It is sad that they are obviously unable to do so. It seems to be asking too much, expecting at least a mail to "webmaster@"…
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Adrianna Tan
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
Cassandra is only carbon now
Ricky Mondello
Cory Doctorow
Patrick C Miller 
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
Jerry 🦙💝🦙
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