@jamesjgill.bsky.social
This from @bcmerchant.bsky.social is the counterpoint to the Matt Shumer piece you posted the other week.
It's long but well worth it, bring a cuppa. Lots of further reading from it too!
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/actually-t...
He's been talked about on 3 quite different podcasts in the last few weeks.
Algorithmically powered engagement is internet rot.
Iain Banks used to do this well. Inversions and Matter both have fantasy type settings mixed with beyond high tech interventions from the Culture.
"Take search as an example. Using #Google search in a certain way can sometimes yield more useful results than #DuckDuckGo or #Ecosia, but that doesn’t mean it should be the default choice."
FULL INTERVIEW >
"That said, we can and should exercise agency and choice in how and where we spend our time online. Just because something is tricky or time-consuming doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing. Companies like #Google rely on us choosing ease over friction to maintain their position..."
🧵 Snippet from our latest interview with Andy
"We might have chosen default platforms for email, search & browsing without much thought, & the ethos of the companies running them has probably changed over time. Moving away from them can be time-consuming and tricky..."
C'mon c'mon
Gallettes stick together
We use Becky Excells bread recipes for our son and they work really well.
glutenfreecuppatea.co.uk
KPMG have already negotiated down their audit fees from Grant Thornton after the latter used AI to produce some of the report.
If work becomes less valuable then it becomes less profitable as AI subs increase.
I also highly doubt that the price remains $20 per seat. To become profitable and give an ROI there's no way the price doesn't go up.
I'm also not convinced that worked augmented or carried out by AI has the same economic value as that done by humans.
2/n
I disagree that the world gets to be a better place and people become more successful by giving more money to ChatGPT and Anthropic. I don't trust them to act in anyone's interest but themselves.
1/n
Yeah, the Shumer piece is begging you to pay for the latest model which has strong pyramiddy vibes.
Variations of this talking point are suddenly everywhere. The Matt Shumer piece says the same but longer.
The models are better, y'all better get ready.
Hide your women, hide your children.
Can I read it and fundamentally disagree with some of the conclusions?
It's not colonisation when you buy up real estate in Courchevel though.
Hmm. If I can't use this to throw AI crawlers into the digital sea then it'll get uninstalled.
I read Juice last summer and enjoyed it. It barrels along at a good pace.
Sounds like a story fort @404media.co or @bcmerchant.bsky.social
I'm in France but the local tabac and bookshop didn't stock it. I'll have a look at the site and see what I can do.
Thanks.
"I don't think you understand how many puppies might die if someone doesn't do a something."
Chucky Hagan - CEO of Decapa-leash
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Shame he's not in control of one of the largest GenAI companies really. If he was he might be able to take some action rather than penning a 19000 word essay while others do harm.
If only.
If only.
Urgh. It was -11 here in our village in the Alps earlier in January. It's not unthinkable that we'll record temperatures in the high 30s come the summer which would mean a 50 degree swing from summer to winter.
Madness.
Stocks Futu&r rather.
The Kintsugi Earth image is amazing. Congratulations on the feature and your article on The Ministry for the Future which I'm reading now and love.
Wonder if our local shop stocks Le Futur?
We drove to Norway from France in our EV last summer. Got chatting to a Colombian marine scientist on the harbour in Stavanger who told us he'd been meeting dozens of Spanish tourists who were taking coolcations to get away from the extreme heat of the summer.
Another vote for @krystal.io here, I've been very happy with the service I get from them.
Hugely impressed with my first @ifixit.com experience. Just replaces the battery on my son's second hand Pixel 6a.
Great quality tool kit and clear instructions.
10/10 would fix it again.
Hire Dave for beautiful, performant sites built with the planet in mind.
Two films spring to mind.
The warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark is an intriguing end.
The length of blank recording at the end of Contact equally so.
I came to say this. One of my favourite Culture books
