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danilo

@danilo@hachyderm.io

Product design and engineering, freelance DX, and a thirst for a future worth living in.

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I don’t consume much YouTube but for years I’ve been making an exception for Jenny Nicholson’s deep dives on theme parks, which are a matter FORENSIC special interest for her

She offers us this FOUR HOUR post mortem of the Star Wars Hotel, and I’m going to watch every minute of the detailed analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZW4

danilo,
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40 minutes in (lol) the impression that’s forming is that the Star Wars Hotel had busted economics made more challenging by poor marketing

And they shipped it ANYWAY

A high profile business failure like this is truly interesting—Disney is a massive media conglomerate and Star Wars is an epic cultural property

and I’ll tell you: there’s no one on earth better positioned to explain it all from deep context than Jenny

danilo,
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@miguel and seemingly the market agreed!

danilo,
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@gruber the idea of spending as much as $12k to visit ORLANDO is hard enough for me to imagine, but clearly people do it

Nicholson reports you had to wait outside in the humidity for 40 minutes queuing to enter

Westworld this was not

danilo,
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There’s a recurring theme in this video where Disney fucks Jenny over on various upsells and doesn’t fix it until she tweets about them to her enormous base of followers

then they suddenly find a commitment to high-touch customer service

danilo,
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@masukomi yeah, three hours deep it’s WILD how much “Disney cheaped out for no good reason” just kneecaps subjective experience

surely making a thing that fails is more expensive than spending the money to make something people rave about

danilo,
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at 3:21:00 (lmao) Jenny comes for the necks of the influencers who carried water for Disney on this scam 🍿

danilo,
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@davidcelis FORENSIC

like the hour I spent on her Avatar theme park analysis, every minute is a reward

danilo, to random
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me: explaining Homeowners' Associations to the increasingly unsettled ghost of Robert Heinlein

Ghost of Robert Heinlein: and if, as a full consenting adult, someone wanted to bang their mom, do they take a position on that?

danilo, to random
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That’s what really gets me

you watch all these movies, read all these stories

it’s always an accident that the computer fucks us

it’s always “SHIT, despite the best of my intentions, there was an angle of this I did not consider, and it was from there that humanity was destroyed”

but the Silicon Valley guys are like “let’s make that one dystopia we saw, I call being the rich guy”

just a deep lack of imagination
https://mastodon.social/@alexcox/112459995825352581

danilo,
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@alexcox these are supposed to be “visionaries” but the vision is buying an HBO subscription

danilo,
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@alexcox @Sevoris lmao

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What RSS feed should I subscribe to?

danilo,
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@anildash someone should make a website that writes about tech, gadgets, science, and politics and then has an RSS feed you can subscribe to so you know about all the updates

you could call it

spring spring

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now THAT is some nasty work
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112458147889228622

danilo,
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@steveriggins I bet we're gonna see some BRAWLING in the courts

danilo, to random
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“Unless your people get off their encounter-suited butts and do something…”

danilo, to random
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In Deus Ex (2000), megaplutocrat Bob Page deploys a new internet routing protocol he names Aquinas.

The effect of the protocol is to centralize all internet traffic to pass through Page’s routing infrastructure, where it can be subjected to surveillance and manipulation.

At the time this seemed so shortsighted and inefficient to me as to be unrealistic.

Yet the emerging vision of AI-enabled products has the EXACT same shape. Your every activity routed and influenced through a third party

danilo,
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In the long arc of computing history, the pattern pursued by firms like Rabbit and Humane is common: they’re selling terminals or thin clients, because it’s cheaper to time share the upstream computing resources

Historically, as miniaturization and efficiency continue, time sharing and terminals would give way to dedicated, affordable, local resources

Except this chapter in human history presents serious disincentive to that pattern

You could even view web based SaaS as a quiet reversion

danilo,
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Thus the biggest danger of the AI computing paradigm shift is that it permanently wrests away our local control and data privacy, setting all new norms for a third party to interpose itself in every single interaction.

This is the model that consumer products will pursue without even considering the implications, because the simplest thing to do is wrap products around one of three commercial APIs and see if there’s a business there

Eventually there WILL be a business.

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It’s possible to argue this has already happened

In many workflows, a web application is so central, you are constantly occupying a third party’s computing substrate

Telemetry can be so complete, even client code running locally can leak endless amounts of information back.

But the AI product approach is far more complete: every single command relayed to the cloud, parsed by a third party, logged, and responded to.

Imagine the ability to profile that emerges. For advertisers, but… others too

danilo,
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@Sevoris oof, I didn't even think about the infrastructure-side implications of using this shit like pipe glue

that's a whole additional layer!

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The Synology ecosystem is such a weird and wonderful little parallel universe. You just buy a server computer for your home and then you run commercial software on it which links up with apps on your devices and web frontends. It is all really charming and kind of baffling that it manages to exist, given what must be a tremendous uphill battle that they face against free or close-to-it ad-supported cloud products

danilo,
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@fringe I really like mine! Do you have one?

danilo,
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@glyph I got mine speculatively because I thought having more shit to maintain would be neat

and like

I was right

but it's also very useful in my freelance context it turns out!

danilo,
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@fringe totally, and having them sort out all the linux maintenance shenanigans makes it far more sustainable

danilo, to random
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encouraging my cat as though she’s an impressive up-and-comer whose ambitions and career I want to support

danilo,
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@theblackbunny @grimalkina my cat and Dr. Hicks share a similar benevolent tenacity so this confusion is understandable

I do agree!

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