The mistake is confusing detail vs fidelity. Vibe prototypes let you add a lot of detail quickly, just like how component libraries do.
But all of that detail is essentially distraction and waste. Showing off your tasteful drop shadow on the card view is not stress-testing the merit of the solution
I hereby declare Kirschenbaum’s law:
Thinking that every discussion of writing is a discussion of student writing is a category error only academics make.
Assuming a 30-min commute to/from train station, 45-min to/from airport, 30-min early arrival for train and 90-min for plane, 500 mph plane (LAX-JFK is ~450), a 280 mph train is faster than flying any distance less than 950 miles.
Here is a 950-mile radius circle centered on Kansas City.
Remembering @jomc.bsky.social's line about how social media pushes users to issue a press release every time anything happens, ChatGPT3 allows everyone to have their own personal PR rep massaging everything they say into formless cud
I'm so tired of the "punchy" clusters of two- and three-word sentences that have become so popular in thinkpiece type writing thanks to AI slop.
Never thought I'd miss run-on sentences.
The concept of a “virtual power plant” described in this article seems spatially interesting. ie. decentralized resources replacing something that used to be thought of as taking the form of a single building.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir...
Maybe younger generations haven’t heard it as much, but I think I first came across the term when I was 12 or 13. Eventually you’ll stumble into it if you read things or follow discourses, which I know not everyone does.
when i hear "luddite" discourse i am once again of the opinion that the term is irrevocably polluted and can't be rehabilitated; if you use it you're always going to be trying to beat allegations of being anti- (even frightened of) technology
like, stop making the debate be about "technology"
exciting new fuckery from data centres:
* high-tension line has problem
* lots of data centres switch from that line *simultaneously*
* this fucks the grid
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
archive: archive.is/Ed9zD
I also think there is a lot of shaming of folks here when we talk about culture. You get some version of “must be nice to not be consumed with the dystopia!” Lol
Like culture posts on this app simply don’t get the engagement and I think it’s because people feel it’s frivolous and actually it’s the thing we are fighting for, the freedom to make culture and cultural works
It’s odd to encounter a strange new technology and see it change our society during a time when our overall cultural mindset does not feel futuristic at all.
My world was just rocked by @cathaysmith.bsky.social presenting on the copyrightability of living organisms. I had no idea so many people were doing so many weird things to fish. #wipip26
So anyway I guess this is what it feels like to be one of the tiny humans running through the streets while the giant supervillain monsters are fighting by throwing passengers trains and apartment buildings at each other
Unfortunately you’d have to go through a few unpaid internships first, except without the supervision, mentoring or resume credit that you’d get with an actual internship.
Is it just me, or does social media interaction not lead to as many outcomes where you go out into the world and meet new people as it used to in the past? Larger organized events still get shared online, but I think something has changed about the capacity to build one-on-one connections.
when i keep saying that language technologies enable the expansion of surveillance and monitoring that simply would not have been feasible previously making shitty jobs even shittier — this is what i mean
This is a genuinely terrible idea which would damage the night sky & thus our ability to explore space (& also to just have, y'know, darkness & uncluttered skies), & would drastically increase the likelihood of catastrophic cascading collisions of various human-made space objects (Kessler Syndrome).
I remember how much the issue of housing limited my options during the 2010s which people now talk about as a time period of opportunities, so that obstacle isn’t new, but I feel the lowered ceiling on what someone with a certain ordinary amount of resources can accomplish *is* a new thing.
Today there’s top-down factors reducing the reach any particular individual can have - how far can you potentially rise with a tiny tech startup today compared to 2007? - in addition to bottom-up factors preventing people from trying things (or from trying riskier things), like the housing crisis.
I’d imagine there’s various factors & causes. Like it’s weird how the tech industry ossified into a pantheon of a few larger-than-life figures who don’t get challenged or replaced. I suspect that condition may be more temporary than it looks now, but I’m also unsure exactly how it will change.
It’s like people know on some level now that what they create won’t make an impact or break through into larger society. A kind of resignation, even if they don’t admit it. It’s weird to compare with the more earnest sense of possibility/optimism that accompanied say the arrival of 3D printers.
In some ways there’s now new kinds of resources to use in creating stuff - AI tools make it easier to quickly launch a web app for instance - but even though people are using them there’s no expanded sense of cultural possibility appearing alongside their use like followed other tools in the past.
With phenomena like 2000s tech startups, indie films/music, makerspaces & even fairly recently the NFT boom there was a sense it was possible to just create stuff that might have an impact. Now creators become influencers instead, and domains like tech & culture feel irreversibly centralized.
It feels like we’re no longer in the “scrappy” cultural era like we were in for a while in the 90s-2010s, and I wonder what it means to have lost that. There’s less of a sense of possibility that individuals with limited resources can create things, and less interest.
Another day, another commentary circulating around about how people with one kind of elite status in our society are now in increasing conflict with a different kind of elite.
The age of this site’s users seems to go up by several years every few months.
I'm SO tired of people looking for "the neuroscience of X" (meaning uninformative neuroimaging pictures) when *the psychology of X* is right there, doing a perfectly good job...
The humanities cannot simultaneously be useless and moribund and also so dangerous that they are worth legally restricting.
