@noysh

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Freelance Web Developer and Armchair Scholar. Creator of the Wild Hunt Comic. He/him.
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I maintain that if we’re going to make women gymnasts do sensuous movements to music during floor routines, we should be making men do it as well. #olympics2024
Some days I look at the internet and think: “This is all too much! I can never keep on top of all of this!”
As I was saying, customer-facing LLMs are a mistake.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/111694697230675852

Everything wrong with the state of modern business in a nutshell. "Essentially flat sales" = $1 billion+ in profit. But because the ludicrous stock market insists on growth, growth, growth, this is not good enough and requires massive layoffs. Insanity.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67712101

Etsy: Online marketplace lays off 11% of staff to cut costs

CEO Josh Silverman tells staff the cuts are needed as sales have been "essentially flat" for two years.

BBC News
Have the Millenials just stopped killing beloved industries? Because I haven't heard about a latest victim in a while and I think it's high time they got off their asses and destroyed another market indicator.
I was today years old when I discovered that Ian MacKaye (of Fugazi) and Al Jourgensen (of Ministry) made an album together back in the olden times. And I had never heard of it before now. https://ministryband.bandcamp.com/album/trait
Trait, by Pailhead ( Al Jourgensen & Ian MacKaye )

8 track album

Ministry
The detail I found out recently about The Hulk that I can't stop thinking about is that animals aren't afraid of him. I feel like there's a really important story in that somewhere.
traffic light #PixelArt
I love the irony that "Gothic" in fonts means sans-serif. Which is pretty-much the least gothic a font can be.
I'm not worried about the technologies behind AI tools. I'm worried about the intellectual property theft that it seems to need to commit just to function.