“Once a model is available on your device, per the specification, any website you visit will be able to send prompts to that model without requesting permission to do so, then do whatever it wants with the responses. ” oh this is gonna be fun to watch wil.to/posts/google...

I love you all but there is no part of me that believes any of you (let alone most of the rest of the internet) will just suck it up and keep using Google instead of switching to another search engine. Google shooting themselves in the dick with AI will not end the world wide web

YUPP

At some point, the mechanisms of capital and power are held by people who are so thoroughly divorced from normal human experience that their made up, bizarre, fake problems are the *only* problems even considered.

one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

The college grads in open revolt against pro-AI speakers is a reminder that this isn’t about a failure to adopt technology. These students are the first generation to have had language models throughout their college experience. No one wants it. They want an education, not a four year sales pitch.

FUCKING SAME!

I am so unconcerned about my shit being obsolete because I just see people making the same mistakes in the same way over and over. And you know, if a minuscule percentage of people want some help not doing that, I'm fine.

I can’t wait to see the next way-too-divorced guy ask this dude to hold his beer

There are many 50+ people in power who seem desperate to jump on "the future" because they don't want to miss the next big wave and get left behind and without evidence assume it's what "the kids" want without asking the kids. It's just being bad at business.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

1) When the hell did mail send services (Mailgun-like services) get so expensive?!? The cheapest plan is like $20/mo now 2) How is this not cutting down on the amount of garbage emails I get all the damn time?!?

There is a good reason the original Jobs vision of the iPhone only ran web apps

I've spent pretty much my whole career working on the web, and every time I sit down to start a new project and have to navigate the shitshow that is tooling (and tools as SaaS now!) I wish I had spent more time making literally any other type of software.

y'all there are many reasons Google's search changes are bad AND dumb, but y'all are kidding yourselves if you think ""not showing up on google search results" is going to lead to fewer websites getting made (assuming something doesn't just come in and fill the space Google is leaving open)

Super hot take I guess: The city could just pay enough people to regularly clean and maintain public bathrooms that already exist and are currently closed all over the place. If we can blow half a million on FOUR toilets, why not also that?

Canada too?! I dunno, I’m just a software guy, it I feel like maybe we should be more investing hundreds of billions of dollars a year in the “make sure North American air space has sufficient air traffic controllers” problem before the “I don’t want to write that email” problem.

DON'T MAKE ME TAP THE SIGN

The most interesting part of LinkedIn as a writing medium is how people will just say whatever they were gonna say anyway as a comment to your post, even if it’s the exact opposite of what you said, and pretend like they’re heartily agreeing with you 🤪

Here is where it really starts to show that this journalist is just lightly paraphrasing a press release. "Links will become an afterthought," will they? What is your evidence for that confident statement about the future? >>

Things that happened to me immediately after I said Marc Andreessen needs to be removed from power in an interview with the MIT Tech Review, the most prestigious tech publication in our industry:

I’ve been working on an old school web directory project for the last month, so thanks Google!

this is a masterpiece

"Negative Creep" #DOOMLOOP #Seattle @soseaemerald.bsky.social

I’m trying to imagine these same clueless Business Idiots giving this type of commencement speech about the inevitability of blockchains and it’s not that hard, actually.

every headline about someone who used AI in a professional capacity is like, "And then [jerk] used AI to do [the job] and AI massively fucked it up and now everyone is laughing and booing"

What is called AI today is, in some ways, the combination of big data, machine learning and the ideology of scaling. In this respect, AI is not merely a technology (that would be machine learning), but an assemblage of cultural, economical, infrastructural and ideological dimensions 3/

And unless you're also trolling 4chan or Gab or Telegram or Truth Social or wherever the Nazis are hanging out these days, you're not on X to razz Nazis. You're there to scramble for engagement in the hollowed out shell of Twitter. At least be honest with yourself.

The socialist mayor of Seattle is scaring big business into signing new office leases in downtown Seattle

Do you ever wonder what this era’s tale of “Failson who has everything, here is how you keep the masses who have less than you from murdering you for it” will be? written for the technofacist oligarchs of the early 21st century, probably like “Bro, wagmi but for real”

Somehow convincing a computer program to be mother is more palatable and realistic than convincing the dudes leading technology companies or government bodies that they have a duty of care.

10. The most toxic trend in our industry over the past 10-15 years has been that companies can get huge without ever making contact with reality. And we often assume that "huge" must somehow mean "good" so vibes PMs end up managing teams in reality-based companies and making messes everywhere.

There are no good billionaires.

Please, replace all the employees in every industry with this technology immediately m.youtube.com/shorts/MAt9Q...

“Students boo AI at graduation“ is gonna be the song of the summer, mark my words.

When Omar El Akkad talked about this kind of position in “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” the examples of people saying “you can only speak out about an atrocity when it’s too late to stop it” were a lot less explicit

How the fuck did this get IRB approval?!? as a UW grad student I had to jump through so many hoops to record adult’s smartphones with their actual informed consent, these people were gonna do covert recordings of fucking children to train an LLM and it got approved?!?! what?!?!

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

[clears throat] ai is going to have the exact same economic impact as the steam engine

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

Wired: Riding light rail to Ballard. Retired: Living long enough to one day ride light rail to Ballard. Expired: Instructing your heirs to spread your ashes on the light rail to Ballard.

"Millionaire Tax Refugee" #DOOMLOOP #seattle #WA

If people wonder why we don’t trust Sound Transit when they insist rail to Ballard isn’t being canceled, just delayed, this is a big reason why. They can’t give a date for completion. Will it be done in time to ride it from Ballard to the Space Needle for its 100th birthday in 2062? One wonders.

I think a lot of debates about “markets” vs “planning” in the abstract would benefit from thinking a bit more about how investment decisions are made in the economies in which we currently live. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This pretty much mirrors my experiences working at a company at that soft mandated LLM use and then laid me and my entire team off 6 months later becuase they thought the “agents” could replace us. www.404media.co/software-dev...

Thrilling news!

Imagine being the guy who sold the Sonics to Oklahoma and then wondering why people in Seattle don’t like you.

I have never used a buggier Textarea + button combo than the Blusky post form. How the actual fuck do you make a textarea bug out in so many different ways?!?

fascinated by this collision between half-cooked automation and america's longstanding obsession with performative efficiency artifice

What if we’ve mistaken being watched for being safe? In my latest piece, I explore how grief becomes policy, why surveillance gets sold to neglected communities, and what's lost when we confuse documentation with prevention.