"Let's Stop Calling It 'Content''

I first starting noticing the word "content" in the late 90s

Companies looking to put writing, animation, video or art on their web sites would call it "content"

It flattened innumerable forms of culture into a sort of *goo*, extruded from a tube

25 years on, the term "content" has metastasized, eating whole the way many people talk about -- *think* about -- culture.

Let's stop now

My essay: https://clivethompson.medium.com/lets-stop-calling-it-content-8410bf5f94a9

A free link: https://clivethompson.medium.com/lets-stop-calling-it-content-8410bf5f94a9?sk=7a2668c44c31a4359876cfcd25a5f2d0

We keep underestimating learning curves for clean energy.

Costs for wind and solar have plummeted from 2010 to 2022.

📉Solar PV: -89%
📉Onshore wind: -69%
📉Offshore wind: -59%

New data from IRENA.

"Calling a machine 'alive' is risky business. The rectangle of glass and metal in your hand is not your friend. Neither is the chatbot that types its answers on the screen. Misunderstanding what’s alive, and what’s just a machine, leaves us open to exploitation by the companies that built these platforms in the first place."

From "Sassy AIs are not the problem," my new column:

https://creativegood.com/blog/23/sassy-ais-are-not-the-problem.html

With quotes from @lmsacasas + @pluralistic + @jwherrman

#chatgpt #bing #google

My wife’s FineWoven case has a pretty bad, er, case of the misaligned port cutout problem. She’s already had to return some USB-C cables to buy new ones with smaller connectors that will fit within the cutout.

(“Just buy a new case!” I know, and it will probably happen eventually…)