Just wait until you see Amazon Frown.

airpods gave us a world where i text my wife when we're in the same room.

"[H]egemony is active: it is 'structural' only to the extent that the hegemon hegemons. And if domestic institutions complicate that performance, then the hegemon can’t." @profmusgrave https://musgrave.substack.com/p/friction-matters

So often user interfaces are made less informative in the name of "simplifying" them. I dislike this trend.

For Section 230 purposes, is AI generated text third party or first party content? If a site sets up basically unsupervised or algorithmically supervised routine publication of #ChatGPT content, is it under current US law liable for what the robot says? Would OpenAI be? Would anyone at all be? (inspired by @emilymbender https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/109716249225156006, though she presents a more traditionally publication-like, so arguably more likely liable, case.) #Section230

"When it comes to control, at the end of the day, building for everyone but not by and with everyone, irrespective of intentions, is just totalitarianism: morally despicable and bound to eventually fail." @robin, excellent on "The Internet Transition" https://berjon.com/internet-transition/ ht @blaine

Nobody knows who George Santos really is, but can it be a coincidence, that George Santos and George Soros are practically the same?! They're hiding it in plain sight, sheeple! Don't be blinded by the space lasers!

why are people who already have their fuck you money so often still so craven?

Good on Ardern, who was and is a good one.

most #MintTheCoin punditry fails to take into account the effect on the economy of an unprecedented boom in heist films.

the path to peace is our decisive victory is the one thing both belligerents could agree on.

"what came first, the concrete or the abstract?" is like "what came first, the chicken on the egg?"

Richard Hanania is a guy who (to his credit or discredit) is willing to acknowledge that much of his ("antiwoke") project is motivated by an aesthetic many of us might describe as fashy. Problematic would be an understatement. But he distinguishes himself by offering takes you'd not predict from his political identity, and these can be interesting. Though still plenty, um, problematic.

"Why the Media is Honest and Good" is one of these https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/why-the-media-is-honest-and-good

lots of recession predictions but i have a hard time wrapping my head around why. inflation seems to be a past problem, supply distortions due to war and pandemic are on the upswing (barring some awful escalation), Europe’s energy crunch has been milder than expected. so what’s the case for a recession or even unusually slow-growth 2023?

Deliver an optimized User Experience.

eventually the bad consequences you continue to cause overwhelm your pretensions to good intentions.

does FAIT mean the Fed wants a prolonged period of subtarget inflation to bring down the average?

what if the government got hold of all of our tax information. can you imagine?

i’ll pass on the dystopian fiction i prefer writing that takes some imagination.

at the shitsite they’re having a thread on what movie traumatized you as a child. for me, oddly, it was disney’s “the black hole”.