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We cannot meaningfully separate everyday usage of “AI” from the machine of death and war. If you’re upset by the military-industrial complex? These tools feed it; they *are* it.

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propellant/

Propellant. — ethanmarcotte.com

We cannot separate the everyday use of “AI” platforms from their use in death and war.

Titus Nemeth Feb 27

RE: https://mastodon.online/@ia/116138796464613609

I thought this was oddly long for what it says and not as interesting as it appeared at first, only at the end I realised that was because this is just a glorified ad by a competitor

Titus Nemeth Feb 27

Seems like a mirror of our times that Taliban forces now look like US soldiers

Titus Nemeth Feb 26

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Jonathan Hogg Feb 18

I will say one thing for generative AI: since these tools function by remixing/translating existing information, that vibe programming is so popular demonstrates a colossal failure on the part of our industry in not making this stuff easier. If a giant ball of statistics can mostly knock up a working app in minutes, this shows not that gen-AI is insanely clever, but that most of the work in making an app has always been stupid. We have gatekeeped programming behind vast walls of nonsense.

Titus Nemeth Feb 26

typographic historians of the fediverse, is it correct to say that in foundry type the mould defined the body of the type? @typeoff

Titus Nemeth Feb 25

r12a Feb 25

Do you want a simple way to view a piece of text in multiple fonts, and see the effect on them of CSS properties?

Try the new Font Previewer.

For example, text-underline-position:from-font for system, Noto, and SIL fonts (+Amiri and a few others) https://r12a.github.io/scripts/apps/showfonts/index.html?text=%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%BA%20%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85%20%D9%81%D9%8A%20%D9%83%D9%84%20%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%8A%20%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86&fonts=Al%20Bayan%2CAl%20Nile%2CAl%20Tarikh%2CArial%2CBaghdad%2CDamascus%2CDecotype%20Naskh%2CGeeza%20Pro%2CMishafi%2CMishafi%20Gold%2CMuna%2CNadeem%2CArial%20Unicode%20MS%2CMyriad%20Arabic%2CTahoma%2CDiwan%20Thuluth%2CWaseem%2CDiwan%20Kufi%2CKufiStandardGK%2CSana%2CBeirut%2CFarah%2CArabic%20Typesetting%2CArial%2CCalibri%2CSakkal%20Majalla%2CSimplified%20Arabic%2CTraditional%20Arabic%2CSegoe%20UI%2CTahoma%2CAndalus%2CAldhabi%2CCourier%20New%2CSimplified%20Arabic%20Fixed%2CMicrosoft%20Uighur%2CNoto%20Naskh%20Arabic%2CScheherazade%20New%2CNoto%20Sans%20Arabic%2CNoto%20Kufi%20Arabic%2CAmiri%2CAref%20Ruqaa%2CBeirut%2CLateef%2CTahoma%2CWaseem&css=text-decoration%3A%20underline%202px%20tan%3Btext-underline-position%3Afrom-font%3B&lang=ar

You can take a snap of the settings to share with others by URL.

Titus Nemeth Feb 19

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Titus Nemeth Feb 11

Daniel Gerber Feb 11

Überweisung des Bundes an Microsoft: Was macht das mit euch?

2023: 274.091.361,75 Euro
2024: 347.665.579,71 Euro
2025: 481.369.660,77 Euro

Man stelle sich vor, was mit 1.103.126.602,23 € alles an Open Source Software in Deutschland hätte beschafft und entwickelt werden können. Vermutlich wird sich der Trend hier auch noch weiter fortsetzen :(

Titus Nemeth Jan 29

Markus Müller-Simhofer Jan 28

Imagine how hard it would be to find fitting icons for "Shapes" 🤔 #Pages

Titus Nemeth Jan 16

Ross of Ottawa Jan 16

You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at https://noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.

I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.

(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).

#InternetSearch #degoogle #websearch

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Arabic Type-Making in the Machine Age	https://brill.com/display/title/32317?rskey=9vJl5N&result=1
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