Der Jodlklub.
- Treffen sich drei Österreicherinnen in Frankfurt am Main \
- Jodeln \
- … \
- Profit.
There. Is. No. Alternative.
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage.
The AI can’t do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can’t do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble.
Distracted from distraction by distraction.
The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack.
It might look like a society that can generate infinite commentary but rarely produces wisdom. It might look like millions of people who can instantly articulate a position on any topic but who struggle to change their minds when confronted with new evidence. It might look like a discourse that has strong opinions about everything and deep understanding of almost nothing. It might look like a world where the most engaged and informed citizens are, paradoxically, the least capable of careful reasoning, because they've spent so much cognitive energy responding to controversies that they have none left for contemplation.
I think that's more or less where we've wound up.
Viewing. The. Source.
Vouch – A community trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate.
The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls.
The OECD—the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development—tracks outcomes across thirty-one wealthy democracies. These are our peers. On metric after metric, the United States stands apart from them. American exceptionalism is real, but not in ways worth celebrating. (…) America’s problems are solved problems. Universal healthcare is not some utopian fantasy. It is Tuesday in Toronto. Affordable higher education is not an impossible dream. It is Wednesday in Berlin. Sensible gun regulation is not a violation of natural law. It is Thursday in London. Paid parental leave is not radical. It is Friday in Tallinn, and Monday in Tokyo, and every day in between.
Danke für den Tipp, H.!
Fahrrad und Hummer: Funkelnder Baumschmuck aus Gablonz.
Eine beeindruckende Auswahl von Hunderten Objekten aus der Sammlung Waltraud Neuwirth aus der Blütezeit des Gablonzer Christbaumschmucks zwischen den 1920er und 1980er Jahren verwandelt den Kunstblättersaal in einer Gestaltung der Designerin Johanna Pichlbauer in einen glitzernden Kosmos.
Relevant: Jablonec nad Nisou.
TIL: Docker log rotation.
It turns out, Docker doesn't automatically rotate log files! As long as a container exists, the logs will keep growing for it. This means even if you stop a container and start it again, the logs are still there and getting bigger.
(…) making the brain available: that is to say, to entertain it, to relax it, to prepare it between two messages.
The Numbness Economy.
Here’s what dies in that exchange. Boredom. The condition that used to force you to pick up a book, call a friend, make something. Now it’s an error state. A problem to fix. Scroll until it stops.
The Rise of Sanityware.
A cursory look at the past and it becomes clear that the original architectural promise was that the software acted on your behalf. It was an "I ask, you give" relationship which has turned into a "I ask, you interpret the meaning, you nudge, you optimize retention, you sprinkle adverts and you incentivize me to interact before giving me something back." (…) Sanityware strips away the hostile architecture of the modern software to reveal the utility buried underneath.
Relevant: Alternative front-ends.