RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/116311819757776279
"While it's true that the Trump regime in the USA is unusually bad, a lot of the personality traits that we see in Trump-appointed leaders come up in a lot of corporate leaders the world over: a disdain for expertise, deep incuriosity and an unwillingness to learn shit that might change their worldviews. A lot of CEOs are generally just... dullards."
Just the linkedin-relevant, uncritical content I came here for!
Apparently this requires restating:
We should not want a European Palantir.
We should not want an open-source Palantir.
We should not want a non-commercial Palantir.
If it is supposed to do what Palantir does, we should not want it.
And I don't care to what extent Palantir's products are shaped by political or profit motives. We know enough to reject its logic altogether.
Someone suggested not pulling any April Fool's pranks this year and I think we all need to get on board with that.
Because, you know, all this.
80% of soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge never fired their weapons. 80% of your Slack workspace has never shipped anything. Marshall called it diffusion of responsibility. We seem committed to calling it "culture."
"Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used"
https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/05/just-a-tool.html
> Believing that AI is “just a tool” is naive at best and dismissive at worst because nothing about tools is “just” anything.
I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly more mature in how we think about them.
For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024.
Compare that to:
Google: 71%
Nvidia: 88%
Meta: 96%
Microsoft: 119%
Where are all the multi-gigawatt, tens-of-megatonnes gas-fired data centres being proposed by Netflix? Are governments frantically rushing fast-tracking laws for video streaming?
RE: https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116086075775143166
Way back when 1MB of code in 3 years was considered a real feat. And when they also wanted all that code to actually work.
Just came across https://www.bookseriesinorder.com which seems like a useful resource for book-nerds with no relation to that bald guy.
Aline Blankertz
Stacey Cornelius 🇨🇦
JA Westenberg
Baldur Bjarnason
Ketan Joshi
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