Cory Birdsong

@cbirdsong
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I make-a the web sites.

Currently working with:
- thecurrentla.com
- whenwemesh.com

Websitehttps://birdsong.dev
Githubhttps://github.com/cbirdsong
Blueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/cbi.rds.ong
Cory Birdsong5h ago
Show threadmhoye8h ago

To put this differently: without robust privacy safeguards there is _no such thing as a free market_.

None.

If everyone can be specifically, individually targeted then everyone can be maximally extracted and competition that materially drives prices downwards for end-of-chain humans doesn't exist. The only competition that exists is in the profile-and-extract arms race. Everyone else gets bled out.

Show threadCory Birdsong5h ago

@baldur “The Apple engineers explained that a massive part of the initial Liquid Glass rollout was simply ensuring the foundation was solid. It had to be functional, it had to meet incredibly strict styling guidelines across every single Apple platform, and most importantly, it just had to work.”

so do they really think this is a solid foundation? Even setting aside the aesthetics, there’s so much shit that just doesn’t work

Show threadCory BirdsongMar 16
@siracusa this looks like a machine learning version of those “clean faces” mods that replace any semblance of interesting art or character design in favor of generic trash.
Cory BirdsongMar 11
@lapcatsoftware on the flip side, I think “LLMs as cars” is a great metaphor. If you’re the only person using one you don’t see many of the downsides, but once everyone is using one all the time the whole world gets clogged with slop/traffic and it sucks for everyone.
Show threadCory BirdsongMar 6
@louie continuity seems like a good guess. if you have access to Nebula, Patrick Willems has a making-of video about his short film The Dinner Plan, which itself is a real fun watch. It’s centered around a meal with 7-8 participants, and he talked about the lengths the crew had to go to in order to maintain continuity on that many plates since the amount of food that each character had eaten was central to the plot.
Show threadCory BirdsongMar 6

@mjtsai The Studio Displays are the basically the complete opposite – absolutely nothing on a non-updated or non-Apple device.

At the very least they should work as a generic monitor with any device, with the webcam/speakers/whatever requiring specific support on the other end.

Realistically, though, there shouldn't need to be any proprietary stuff layered on top. Plenty of other monitors have speakers and webcams and USB-C/TB ports and work with any device that supports USB-C displays.

Show threadCory BirdsongMar 6
@mjtsai Contrast the Studio Displays with Airpods. If you pair a new Airpods model with an older Apple OS or non-Apple device they will work as generic Bluetooth headphones, and all you miss out on is the fancy nonstandard features that are layered on top. To borrow a web dev term, it's a great example of progressive enhancement.
Cory BirdsongMar 4
Show threadmhoyeMar 4

I will say this again: if the actual people who build these systems, those comfortable, very well paid engineers, managers, directors responsible for their design and operation, if they all had to spend one week every quarter and maybe one day a month doing the work they foist off on people paid pennies an hour in underdeveloped, overexploited countries on the far side of the planet, Facebook would not exist in a year.

And they all fucking know it.

Show threadCory BirdsongMar 3
@jplebreton I have to wonder how much broader economic stress plays into this. If you’re just trying to make rent and you hardly have time to play anyway, then it’s easy to imagine how people could end up just playing Fortnite instead of buying stuff.
Show threadCory BirdsongMar 3
@monokeros got a link handy? That thread is 47 pages long