| Blog | https://findthethread.blog |
| Languages | EN,IT,FR,DE,ES — more or less in that order |
| Pronouns | he/him/his, but also fine with they/them/theirs |
| Location | Northern Italy — but I also travel a fair amount |
Renewable energy is sovereign and resilient energy: “conflicts like the Iranian mess are a perfect reason to push for more renewable adoption.” We’re halfway there, and accelerating!
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/renewables_generated_nearly_half_global_power/
For the 50th anniversary of the founding of #Apple, I thought I would re-share my appreciation for the operating system that was almost the foundation for OS X, but ended up losing out to Steve Jobs’ NeXt. #BeOS was a magnificent failure, but it was magnificent.
https://findthethread.blog/Nice-Tech,-Pity-About-The-Product/
Why are people so convinced that the big #AI labs are monetising their data?
Partly because otherwise it's not obvious on what basis they compete, and partly because social media has got us all used to the idea that every business model on the Internet has a network effect at its heart.
But it's not at all clear that the AI market works this way.
Everyone just assumes that developers of the big public “AI” models are taking user data and using it to train the next generation of their models. The AI labs in question deny this accusation vociferously, of course, but given the lengths they have been willing to go to in order to obtain data corpora to train their models on, those denials ring somewhat hollow to many. And of course it doesn’t help when it comes out that Meta actually is retaining video taken through its pervert glasses, leading the EFF to recommend that people should Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans.
Matt Blaze
Max Leibman
Nat Pryce