Mike Taylor 🦕

"LLMs are cultural technologies of summarization, whose value depends on people continuing to actually produce culture that can usefully be summarized."

Nailed it.

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-political-economy-of-ai

My son sent me this, I have no idea where it's from but it's perfect.

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"We worked hard to get the language in shape for version 1.0, and then locked it down with a compatibility guarantee. Given what a dramatic, documented effect that made on Go's uptake, I find it puzzling that most other projects have resisted doing this. Yes, there's a cost in maintaining strong compatibility, but it blocks featureitis and, in a world in which almost nothing else is stable, it's delightful not to have to worry about new Go releases breaking your project."
— @robpike

AMEN!

Infuriating to find that #LibreOffice, on which I created the 13 Mb, 64 slide deck for my #SVPCA talk, cannot export it as a PDF: it crashes every time, even when I save my PPTX as an ODP, quit, open the ODP and try to export from that.

I am running LibreOffice v7.6.0.3 on Mac OS X 12.6.8.

Anyone have any ideas?

CC @libreoffice,

As Twitter self-immolates, I am seeing people I know setting up on Bluesky.

I find this perplexing. Can people really not learn the lesson that a social network owned by a capitalist is a social network they don't control?

You can argue about whether Bluesky or Mastodon has the better technology, but what's 100% clear is that Mastodon is run BY users FOR users. And that difference is the only one that matters in the end.