Andy BaioWaiting for someone to make an artisanal search engine that only indexes manually verified websites written by humans. Farm-to-table organic search results, handmade with 100% certified human creativity, like your grandparents told you about.
James Flanagan
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Climate tech and US-Asia relations
Erin KissaneGoogle naming its new ML thing after a profession whose primary purpose is exaggerating the heroic deeds of its patron is extremely funny
Google used to take pride in minimizing time we spent there, guiding us to relevant pages as quickly as possible. Over time, they tried to answer everything themselves: longer snippets, inline FAQs, search results full of knowledge panels.
Today's Bard announcement feels like their natural evolution: extracting all value out of the internet for themselves, burying pages at the bottom of each GPT-generated essay like footnotes. https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/
Foreign Policy (unofficial)After a decadeslong push, Beijing wields considerable control over supply chains for lithium-ion batteries, which are critical to everything from electric cars to smartphones.
https://buff.ly/3XRESxJ
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/ForeignPolicy/status/1621992116422336514
Some sobering thoughts on tech decoupling with China: https://www.ft.com/content/74f7e284-c047-4cc4-9b7a-408d40611bfa
Mike Masnick ✅As someone who travels with an extra portable screen (or two) and a laptop stand, I have to admit... this may be the coolest project I've seen in a while... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUKpY0o5tMo
Triple-Screen Laptop DONE RIGHT!
JoelleIf I have to prove I'm not a computer by identifying traffic lights and busses, perhaps we're not quite ready for self-driving cars.
maz hamilton“The main issue here is that, at least when it comes to online platforms, journalists both believe that they are an identity and act like they’re a community, but also refuse to see themselves as an online subculture with its own specific and subjective point of view. Which they absolutely are. For instance, journalists need just as much custom moderation as furries, if not more. The difference is furries know they’re furries.”
https://www.garbageday.email/p/dumb-and-shameful-until-its-not
https://www.garbageday.email/p/dumb-and-shameful-until-its-not
Julia Evansquick summary of the mastodon digest tools people listed in the replies:
- mastodon digest https://github.com/hodgesmr/mastodon_digest
- a fork of mastodon_digest that runs on github access (https://github.com/mauforonda/mastodon_digest) to make a page like this https://mauforonda.github.io/mastodon_digest/
- and an email version https://github.com/mauforonda/mastodon_email_digest .
- fediview https://fediview.com/
- quintessence (top links) https://quintsns.pianeta.uno
Scott ShapiroElon Musk, August: Let’s colonize Mars
Elon Musk, November: Let’s colonize Mastodon
Elon Musk, November: Let’s colonize Mastodon