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Timothy Snyder: "On social media, we are drawn away from people of complexity and toward blunt stereotypes. We ourselves are categorized, and are then fed content that brings out, in Václav Havel's term, our “most probable states." The Internet does not just spread specific conspiracy theories; it primes our minds for them. This was already true before Elon Musk reshaped Twitter in Trump's image."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/dispatches/what-does-it-mean-that-donald-trump-is-a-fascist
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Multi-file editing now available in @github Copilot. With this and multi-model support including Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini, #Cursor is facing some serious competition.
This has been a hard post for me to write after participating in WordPress since before I even started a career in tech and, until 3 months ago, for my entire tech career. That said, it has been in the making for quite a while now and it is time that I make it official. I’ve officially left the WordPress project after 14+ years of contributing including: Meetup and WordCamp Speaker Meetup and WordCamp Organizer Core code contributor Plugin developer Photo contributor Over 11 years as mostly the sole moderator for the official WordPress jobs site Why leave now? It’s true that I had largely been moving away from the WordPress project since at least 2017. I think that is when I realized just how dishonest so much of the “community” around WordPress really is.
Big Tech likes to push the trope that things are moving and changing too quickly and there's no way that regulators could really keep up --- better (on their view) to just let the innovators innovate. This is false: many of the issues stay stable over quite some time. Case in point: Here's me **5 years ago** pointing out that large language models shouldn't be used as sources of information about the world, and that doing so poses risks to the information ecosystem:
As a counterpoint to the "tech moves so fast/can't keep up" trope, I'd like to point out that many of the issues actually don't change. Here's me in 2019 arguing against proposals to use LLMs as a source of info about the world -- and already worrying about the info ecosystem.
What if -- instead of seeing the process of creating clinical documentation as mere busywork -- the tech bros understood it as possibly part of the process of care?
What if -- instead of leading with the 'gee whiz AI' angle -- journalism in this space started with privacy harms, the fact that somehow tech companies get away with pretending healthcare regulation doesn't apply to them, and chatbots urging self-harm?
/fin
First, An Event Apart folded, now A Book Apart closes it's covers. This is truly the end of an era. The events and books published by this community made the good parts of the web we experience today. If you work on or with the web, you've benefitted from their work. To everyone involved in these monumental endeavors, we are forever grateful.
https://abookapart.com/blogs/press/a-new-chapter-for-a-book-apart
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