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via Electronic Gaming Monthly – Issue 125 (December 1999) I fell down a PlayStation rabbit hole, starting with Standard Issue Computing’s recent posts on the PS2 and how the media reported on it in the late 90s, which lead me to the...
How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization These are words that cast systems as doing the same work as people in various roles, and serve to hide all of the ways in which such automation falls short of what is...
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly “Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.” I assume the...
Mamdani: Democratic socialist candidates ‘can get elected anywhere across this country for any position’ "I think we are seeing a hunger that is not just felt by New Yorkers, but frankly by Americans from coast to coast, for a new kind...
Look, I'm not a terribly patriotic person or anything, but I do like color, and I do like honesty. If you're going to come into Formula 1 and style yourself as THE US-based team, THIS is the livery you should be running. Again: I don't...
Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It's time to wrest our power back If you’re a multibillionaire, you might view democracy as a potential threat to your net worth. Control over a significant share of the...
Elon Musk Knows That He is Going to Go Down as One of History's Villains Elon Musk's destruction of USAID is his single worst act, and I think it is beginning to dawn on him that he will be held responsible for his role in killing...
The Four Fallacies at the Heart of SCOTUS’ Decision on Trans Athletes Trans sports bans are built on the assumption that transgender students — particularly transgender girls — are misrepresenting their gender identity in order to...
I am currently circulating a draft for WordPress project AI strategy vision. This post is a snapshot of that document. It has been born from mine & Grzegorz’s Knowledge merge proposal and it explains reasoning behind it. The idea is to...
The beginning of this month marks the official end of my own company. After just two years of establishing and owning Brain Baking BV, the notary ended it. There have been no professional activities related to the company since I...
A quick thought on this whole "control of AI models" debate.Handguns and Fentanyl are available all over the world, but we still don't put them in the convenience isle at grocery stores.The reason we don't is because we want friction...
Hello and happy Friday! Today is National Complement Your Mirror Day (actually complimenting yourself via the mirror) and National Fried Clam Day (which I can take or leave.) It’s also Update Your Website Theme Day, and after three years...
I spent today in London, wandering about and visiting various locations I haven’t seen for a while, including the Science Museum (near where I’m staying) and Tate Modern (not near where I’m staying). The Science Museum has changed quite...
No matter where you might roam across the United States (this one’s for you World Cup visitors who might have toted along a fly rod in addition to your football kit), you’re going to be within reach of an excellent fly rod target. Carp...