You cannot convince me that this wasn't authored by chatGPT. Prompt: Inspiring note from a new CEO to their employees with some stuff about being the "new town square." https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/12/23758258/twitter-ceo-linda-yaccarino-first-employee-memo
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He/him. Making coffee.
More tech writing like this! It's one thing to fawn over the tech itself, but there are potentially interesting implications. We should be asking the questions and someone should be asking Apple about their thinking on these issues.
https://www.theverge.com/23751675/apple-vision-pro-vr-headset-ios-17-mental-health-mood-journal
Depressingly feels like one of the main drivers of tech today is simply "find ways to help wealthy people avoid engaging in the world they've created."
All of the delivery and gig apps. Cybertruck with its asinine bulletproof glass. And now google.
Parents are the worst part of youth sports.
They're eight years old. This isn't going to determine if they become a professional. I'm sorry YOU didn't, but lighten up and let THEM have fun.
And stop trying to start fights with other parents. Fucking ridiculous.
The NYTimes does a real service with pieces like this, really adding to the feverish calls for revolution.
Also, despite the line about this being about celebrating children, let's be clear this is all about the parents competing and showing off.
@harish That's our ultimate goal -- to try to open source all it. We're using the beta to help us refine specifica around application, but yes, expect we'll share details that can hopefully be applied elsewhere.
Mozilla is bringing a different perspective to moderation in the Fediverse. After years of working on these issues elsewhere and feeling handcuffed by pre-existing incentives, I'm incredibly proud of this.
https://www.theverge.com/23710406/mozilla-social-mastodon-fediverse-moderation
A couple friends and I wrote what amounts to an eerily similar review in a Whatsapp chat. These last three albums have been so boring.
And I'm squarely in their target audience!
https://www.vulture.com/2023/05/the-national-first-two-pages-of-frankenstein-critics.html
Good brief piece on what's at stake in the writers' strike (as our Oakland teachers are about to strike.) What happens when all art and entertainment is made by AI?
We're basically heading in the opposite direction of what Banks outlined in the Culture novels. AI is taking over all our outlets for expression, leaving us with the drudgery.
This level of self-reflection should be the norm, not the exception in society. How much more is in this one interview that all the congressional circus sessions?
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-content-moderation-twitter-files-1850384315
Yes, if you fire all the people who 1) have principles that lead them to push back on government requests and 2) have the actual technical and legal know-how to do so, you're left with a company that's completely happy to roll over for any and every request.
We all saw this coming.
My dad wasn't Logan Roy, but there was plenty I couldn't forgive him for. The Succession writers truly nailed the conflicted emotions in the kids. Utterly excellent episode.
At some point we're going to have to recognize that the only solution to our climate disaster is a fundamental reset of the priorities that underpin "modern" society.
There's simply no 1-for-1 replacement for our way of life that also ensures humanity's survival. The sooner we recognize this and start working on what that means, the better.
Yet another example of why seeking ways to continue our lifestyles is wasting precious time: https://jalopnik.com/new-hydrogen-research-reminds-us-humanity-just-cant-win-1850303466
Every social platform has gotten measurably worse in the last 12 months -- aside from this one and Reddit, I'd argue.
The main effect I've experienced is being happier. Spending less time on the hellscapes really is beneficial to your mindset.
So, I guess, thanks Elon?
Super excited to have been able to do the photos for this piece.
Cyrus is trying to do something really special and break the exploitative model the dominates the world of restaurants. Worth a read.
https://sf.eater.com/2023/3/15/23641741/cyrus-restaurant-geyserville-douglas-keane
It is kind of delightful to see the playbook of the absolute worst people on the Valley so fully exposed.
Average Americans having a truly shitty half-decade -- It's a lack of individual hustle, the government will make it worse, workers can all go die, we'll save you all with apps and crypto.
SVB collapses -- Won't someone think of the farmers? This will destroy Main Street. If the Fed doesn't make us whole the world is doomed and the government is a fraud.
Mozilla leads Mammoth's pre-seed round. A great iOS Mastodon app.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/28/mozilla-leads-mastodon-app-mammoths-pre-seed-funding/
Work from home has been massively disruptive, no question. But the right response is not "get everyone back in the office because that's the only place we forge social connections."
The right response is to figure out how we go back to helping people build the social and community relationships that we destroyed in the interest of replacing everything with the workplace.
He gets so close to realizing that and then of course retreats to "work first."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/21/business/howard-schultz-unions/index.html
This is pure uncut, vintage Howard.
1. "Things suck for young people in the US right now, but I'm still going to fight against their unionizing to make things better."
2. Maybe if you have to ride to the rescue every few years there's a more fundamental issue at the company you built than who the CEO happens to be.
3. This guy ran for president in 2020 and is expressing, two years later, that he's shocked at how shitty it is for so many Americans right now.
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