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trans rights are human rights. black lives matter.
| wobsite | https://ian.mccowan.space |
| cat amount | 2 |
| music | https://walruspromenade.bandcamp.com/ |
āWhatever our environments afford, we tend to do more of. Whatever they resist, we tend to do less of. So in a world where we were all writing all of our code and emails and blog posts and texts to each other with LLMs, what do they afford that existing tools do not? ā¦LLMs are an affordance for producing more text, faster. How is that going to shape us?ā
This was fantastic and extremely resonant of my experience in this space, ty for writing @glyph https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html
Watched the first episode of Murderbot tonight. It was interesting to see how they cast the Preservation team and I actually think they did a decent job with it, but I had a bad case of I-already-read-the-books-itis. Worse yet, I ALSO listened to the audiobooks so it was doubly jarring. I think what I liked least was how expressive Murderbot's v/o was, but it was also just very tv-ified in general. All the emotions intensely amped up.
Oh, here's an analogy. Reading the books, I feel like Murderbot looking at a conversation it's having from a camera in the corner of the room. Watching the show feels like having to take the helmet off and make eye contact. It's too much
Words are not what you think they are
We could be building a society where we don't focus on the rules, but on caring and respect for each other's wants and needs.
Today's Post:
https://www.revoluciana.net/words-are-not-what-you-think-they-are/
Get in, loser, weāre doing an old-fashioned conversation-by-blog-post. Dan Sinker wrote recently about the Who Cares Era: The writer didnāt care. The supplementās editors didnāt care. The biz people on both sides of the sale of the supplement didnāt care. The production people didnāt care. And, the fact that it took two days for anyone to discover this epic fuckup in print means that, ultimately, the reader didnāt care either. Itās so emblematic of the moment weāre in, the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore. Then Les Orchard wrote in response that Only the Metrics Care: The user isnāt the customer. And theyāre not the product either. The real product is behavioral optimizationāmetrics on a dashboard. The paying customer is somewhere else entirely, and the ācontentā is just a means to nudge behavior and juice KPIs. ā¦ The point isnāt to communicate. Itās to simulate relevance in order to optimize growth. Itās all goal-tracking, A/B tests, fake doors, and dark patterns. Both of those posts are great and you should read them, but reading them is not a prerequisite to reading this one. I just wanted to place this post in context of the conversation Iām dropping into.
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