Did AI kill your job? If so, I want to hear about it.
The response to my story on the AI jobs crisis has been overwhelming. I heard from so many people impacted by AI that it made me want to collect and organize these stories to better understand the phenomenon.
Share yours at: AIKilledMyJob@pm.me
Per usual, traditional media sucks at reporting on science. No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction after 10,000 years. Here's a good explainer on what actually happened.
www.newscientist.com/article/2475...
just imagine working at microsofft and thinking “let’s spend billions, steal a load of intellectual property, and destroy the planet to make an interface to write bad essays” rather than “let’s update MS Word so users can comment on footnotes”
A gray slab of stone resembling a giant Ouija board, complete with numbers, letters, and symbols.
#GraveGoals
Elijah Bond, the man who first patented the Ouija board, rests beneath a headstone that resembles a giant Ouija board. You can visit his grave in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland.
More info: www.atlasobscura.com/places/elija...
The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.
The will of Louis XVI is not printed, but woven.
The result is incredible. This is in a way, the first typeface designed on a grid before the invention of the pixel?
👀 Musée du Louvre.
Even with a typeface that seems got all necessary qualities: contraste, type size is what makes the difference between legibility and readability. It is your designer's choice to know when to switch from one to the other.
➽ typofonderie.com/fonts/auster...
We “must move beyond doomscrolling, panic, and online denunciation, and figure out how to take action where we are, when we can. We will all have roles to play as this coup continues. One thing is clear: This society cannot be allowed to function on Musk’s terms.”
I wandered idly through the streets, coming at last to the most bizarre shop window I have ever seen. It was full of rattles, hand-bells, whistles, electric torches and gas-masks. The shop called itself the A.R.P. Information Bureau... The central feature of the window was a chart setting forth the various signals to be used in air raids. Upon the signal “action warning,” people were to take cover; upon the signal “raiders past,” they were to emerge. The gas alarm would be signalled by rattles and the “all clear” by hand-bells... No one seemed interested in this window, and I was its only student.
A window display signalling the coming war, which everyone in Canterbury is ignoring as “newspaper talk”, believing that it will “come out all right”.
Happy Valentine's Day to the couple who, in 1844, were caught having sex in the Bridgend Workhouse kitchens.
When discovered, they pretended that it didn't happen and that they were looking at something on the wall.
#Wales #History
"A self-own was embedded within the ad too; Google seemed to boast that its ideal customers are people unable to write or think for themselves."
#NihilismAndTechnology
Reminded today that Women in Type (Fiona Ross, Alice Savoie) is such a wonderful and important project. 🙏 www.women-in-type.com
Pillar box face on to camera, being absorbed by a tree which was obviously planted next to it. Tree looks like it's flowing around the pillar box's base.
Pillar box three quarters profile to camera, being absorbed by a tree which was obviously planted next to it. Tree seems particularly keen on removing the pillar box's hat.
New favourite thing - trees absorbing pillar boxes.
Yes, this! D. Durbin’s hq is a good place to reach out to in IL
Some things never change. Like the 60 secs of LinkedIn I can tolerate before my skin starts crawling.
That K … 😍
"Don't be negative. Go out and enjoy life." Me: Pictures of the Grim Reaper on a beach.
Good morning.
I have no idea how I got an invite. But here we are.
