Scrolling through LinkedIn is kind of silly.
Inevitable
It seems to me that if you’re touting as a company some sense of false inevitability that you will shed jobs due to technology, that tax incentives and subsidies should be revoked (of which they were established under the guise of bringing employment and economic growth). Since it is inevitable, perhaps the removal of said tax incentives should be accelerated under the guise of inevitability).
Well, the job market is…interesting.
Joan Westenberg (@Daojoan@mastodon.social)
People are shocked to discover they need to fact-check ChatGPT and I’m having the uncomfortable realization that they never fact-checked their uncle’s Facebook posts, their friend’s medical advice, or literally anything Google’s top result told them, and suddenly the last decade makes sense…
I’m such an introvert I can’t even talk to myself.
A delightful calendar app by @cassidoo.co: PocketCal
He should have died, but he had a whiskey instead.
“Hi John” I received the WhatsApp notification on Monday from my dad. He never calls me John, so something was off already. I thought maybe somebody stole his phone, so I called. My mom picked up. She had texted me from his phone, he was at the hospital, waiting for the surgeon to come to fix his stent that was placed in him 10 or more years ago. She said he was playing golf on Sunday, after the game he wasn’t feeling good.
Practicing for my last day of work.
What makes LLMs work isn’t deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.
What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.
Getting a layoff notice as World War III starts dipping its toes in the waters was not on my bingo card for 2025.
P.S.
Learnings makes you sound like a damn clown. Even if everybody says it — they all sound like clowns. nolearnings.com
Liquid Glass:
This all day. I bust out into a cold sweat every time this screen pops up.
Apple updated the Phone app. But the real question is: did they fix this?
Allowing myself some space to slow down.
Currently listening:
You can hear their friendship come through in their playing and trading of solos.
This clown car we’re all on definitely did not pass NHTSA safety requirements.
Years from now, someone will uncover that the selfie camera was the cause of society’s demise.
“Written without AI” is the new “Written on my phone, please excuse typos”