Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh
Cory Doctorow paints a bleak picture of the future world economy in the aftermath of the bursting of the AI bubble. I agree that we're in a bubble, but I'm slightly more-optimistic that we can survive it without a total economic catastrophe.
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Is it possible to allow sideloading *and* keep users safe?
Terence Eden's upset at Google's proposed changes to Android to further lock-down the ecosystem, and I'm concerned too.
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Railways won’t tell us how their train tickets work - shall we force them to?
Q Misell and CraftByte are speaking the weekend after next at MRMCD, on the subject of the UK's (and Slovenia's) railway ticket barcodes and how FOIA requests are so-far failing to reveal information (that shouldn't be secret!) about what information they encode. Wish I could be there...
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Developing an alt text button for images on my website
James has come up with a fun way to do Mastodon-like alt-text-bubbles. I'm intrigued, and am looking forward to expanding on the idea when I get the chance to try implementing it on my own blog.
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Acai plays "Musical Transients" by Psynwav on Clone Hero
Turns out I'm not quite done obsessing over Musical Transients, and I found a video of YouTuber Acai playing the album on Clone Hero, which was a fun and enjoyable watch-along.
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sophie reviews Psynwav - Musical Transients
After sharing the album yesterday, today I found a review of Musical Transients which 100% echoes my experience of this amazing concept album. Spoiler warning: there are themes in the album that I think are most-fun to discover as you listen to it, but if you already did, or if you're not going to anyway, then you might as well read my and sophie's thoughts about it now.
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Will Smith’s concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines
A recent video by Will Smith gained widespread condemnation for using AI to artificially-inflate his crowd's size. Except that's not what happened at all: a little creative editing by his media team, combined with a secret experiment by YouTube to make some videos look immeasurably more-shit by performing AI upscaling on them, seems to have kicked off this particular round of Internet craziness.
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Musical Transients
Musical Transients from Psynwav is absolutely excellent, and (unless you've already learned better than to pay attention to my music recommendations) you should give it a listen.
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Four perspectives on AI
Sean McPherson shared a "four quadrants" diagram for people's beliefs about AI, with a specific focus on LLMs used for coding assistance. Here's where I sit on it, and why.
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Just a Little More Context Bro, I Promise, and It’ll Fix Everything
Based on my experience of 'vibe coding', I think Jim Nielsen's analogies are absolutely spot on.
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Riding With Strangers: California Hitchhikers in the 1970s
From 1973 onwards Doug Biggert, driving around California, took an (analogue!) photograph of every hitch-hiker to whom he offered a lift. Now you can view a gallery and read his story.
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Hetero Awesome... Hijacked
I somehow missed the news from June about Daniel Hamrick, who courageously got on stage to play a anti-transphobia protest song at a 'heterosexual pride' event in one of the most deeply-conservative parts of the USA. Here's the video of his (short!) set.
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"I still get that powerful feeling that anything is possible when I open a web browser — it’s not as strong as it was 20 years ago, but it’s still there." - Geoff Graham
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The rise of Whatever
A freaking excellent longread by Eevee (Evelyn Woods), lamenting the direction of popular technological progress and general enshittification of creator culture. It's ultimately uplifting, I feel, but it's full of bitterness until it gets there.
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You MUST listen to RFC 2119
Have you ever wanted to hear a (sarcastic, passive aggressive) dramatic reading of RFC 2119? Eric Bailey - and the actor he found - have got you covered!