CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@carnage4life an alternate framing:

Getting good at using generative AI means using a tool that produces incorrect output 10% - 50% of the time. Such tools used to be rejected as not fit-for-purpose / not production-ready.

Many smart people struggle with this because they either

1 Get frustrated with being required to use a tool that’s not fit-for-purpose and having to expend time & energy fixing its incorrect outputs.

2 Decide to say “fuck it” and use it anyway because “management said so” and they have no genuine agency to stop or derail the train.

Both would have been considered reasonable positions only a few years ago and quite common.

@wendynather did she get your excellent riposte tho?

@Viss my general working assumption is that by the time it hits public awareness it’s an old^ spook technique
 
 
 
^ or at least “already known & probably already used”

@kauer @liamvhogan

@yaakov

@Albi OK, first of all 1) people have different use cases, accessibility needs, threat models, and just functional or aesthetic preferences – but also 2) Ivory is an iOs & macOS app and Tusky is an Android app so I’m gonna suggest that the most obvious answer is that “it literally isn’t available for the device(s) I use 🤪” might be fairly high up on Rebecca’s list of reasons for “what’s wrong with Tusky” (for her use case) ‍️

@yaakov can you pull it from Internet Archive?

@futurebird if you look at yourself in the mirror do you see a goatee…?

@krishean @xssfox

@xssfox

but also…

I just spent about an hour writing up detailed feedback comments for an #AusPost parcel delivery survey after (yet another) pretty terrible delivery “experience”, how’s your day going? ‍

#pakidge? ️️ ¯_(ツ)_/¯ :pakidge:
#SNAFU 🤪
#JustAussieThings ‍️

@futurebird they’re not lies, they’re ANTi-truths ‍️

@annaghughes we’re gonna need bigger fish & chips

@firstyear ooh, thx for sharing

next up, watching Elizabeth Zharoff’s reaction vid

https://youtu.be/2VdFthHwlyU

Endgame for the Open Web
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“I don't say this lightly: it looks to me like 2026 is the year that decides whether the #OpenWeb as we know it will survive at all, and we have to fight like the threat is existential. Because it is.”

Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

(anildash.com)

@PhoenixSerenity ooh, this tickled my little grey cells…

@hacks4pancakes

@kcarruthers a very good piece, Kate 🧸

I wish I could believe that most others are as thoughtful but I fear that jingoism & the short-term political utility of fearmongering will make the next decade(s) even down here in Aus very challenging

@corbden

@paco no notes