Politics
It doesn’t contain the stench
Wrapping it in parentheses is like wrapping a dead fish in newspaper — it doesn’t contain the stench. John Gruber in a long, thoughtful piece on the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, or Golfo del Gringo Loco
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A billionaire pulling a heist
Musk has taken over the civilian government. This is a billionaire pulling a heist on the entire nation. Elizabeth Lopatto on The Verge, taking notes on another week of “King” Elon’s coup c.q. rapid unscheduled disassembly of the US government. If you’re not convinced that there’s
User experience
A captivating interface
In a world overfilled with stuff, a captivating interface is the perfect consumer good. It packages the very act of consumption as a product. Nicholas Carr, on how we become obsessed with the interface when we're bored by the content. ☝️Guilty
Politics
The power-mad president and the CEO-dictator
A power-mad president possessed of radical theories of executive authority and convinced of his own royal prerogative has given de facto control of most of the federal government to one of the richest men on the planet Objective observation, or a nutty exaggeration? What do you think? Unfortunately, the
Social Media
You do have time
Boredom is when you do the things that make you feel like you have life under control. Not being bored is why you always feel busy, why you keep “not having time” to take a package to the post office or work on your novel. You do have time—you
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Artificial intelligence
This is a user interface choice
DeepSeek showed that users find this interesting. To be clear this is a user interface choice and is not related to the model itself. Antrophic CEO Dario Amodei, On DeepSeek actually showing the user the chain-of-thought reasoning. In this "short post" Amodei discusses: * Three Dynamics of
Psychology
Believers, Liars, and Bullshitters
Believers, liars, and bullshitters interact seamlessly in a single marketing ecosystem. Skeptical Inquirer on the Three Wellness Mindsets
Artificial intelligence
Are better models better?
Of course, these models don’t do ‘right’. They are probabilistic, statistical systems that tell you what a good answer would probably look like. They are not deterministic systems that tell you what the answer is. Benedict Evans, asking Are better models better? (Can we expect GenAI models to become
Technology
Because of internet distribution
core technologies become free / commodities and because of internet distribution and de facto market standardization at many layers Steve Sinofski on why DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable
Artificial intelligence
The Mother of Invention and all
It might have just turned out that the relative GPU processing poverty of DeepSeek was the critical ingredient to make them more creative and clever, necessity being the mother of invention and all. Jeffrey Emanuel, in the long and very thoughtful Short Case for Nvidia Stock
Media
The View from Nowhere
No matter how far it pulls back the camera is still occupying a position. We can’t actually take the “view from nowhere,” but this doesn’t mean that objectivity is a lie or an illusion. Jay Rosen in his Questions and Answers, on objective v/s good journalism