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fasterandworse

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Design enthusiast. An Australian in Amsterdam

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tante, to random
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Another quick round of advertising: Saturday May, 25th, @parismarx and Sarah Grant are going to join me for a conversation on resistance: Is resistance against current tech even possible and how? The Berlin event is pay as much as you can and you can sign up here: https://ownw.de/event/otherwise-network-salon-v-resist-but-how/

fasterandworse,
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@tante @parismarx wish I could be there. Any future events in Amsterdam planned?

aral, to random
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No good ever comes out of VC.

fasterandworse,
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@aral AVCAB

fasterandworse, to random
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This is the most specific he can be.

"I use the hammer for the hitting. Thanks hammer factory"

baldur, to random
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The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why burnout happens: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-deskilling-of-web-dev-is-harming-us-all/

fasterandworse,
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@baldur "CSS isn’t just a complex language, it’s one of the most advanced graphics, layout, and typesetting languages available in computing."

I've been making web things professionally for over two decades and I'm so burnt out and professionally lost.

fasterandworse, to random
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just got this jetpack updates email which says you'll be able to ai-generate your featured image directly inside wordpress

this is getting surreal

kcarruthers, to random
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MrMaxi came to the office today. He had fun.

fasterandworse,
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@kcarruthers is MrMaxi a chi?

fasterandworse,
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@kcarruthers aww, meet Banane, she's always beside me

baldur, to random
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“Known Purpose and Trusted Potential. – Faster and Worse” https://fasterandworse.com/known-purpose-and-trusted-potential/

fasterandworse,
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@baldur thanks for the boost!

fasterandworse, to random
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In this one I talk about what openai really demonstrated in their spring update

https://fasterandworse.com/known-purpose-and-trusted-potential/

aral, (edited ) to design
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If you design a system such that you cannot differentiate people from corporations and bots and that’s your defense for calling all of them “users”, you’ve designed a system that conflates people – who are mortal, have feelings, can feel pain and be hurt and who have human rights that must be protected – with the very entities that oftentimes exist to exploit them.

Design for people. Call them people. All else is secondary.

#design #technology #ethics #peopleNotUsers

fasterandworse,
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@aral This is an oldie, but I still like it

"If someone needs to be told to think and work in a human centered way when they are designing something, it should be a clear indication of how separated the discipline of design has become from what it is the design is being applied to."

https://fasterandworse.com/the-undeliberatable-means/

fasterandworse, to random
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In this one I talk about the tech industry products that have more potential than purpose
https://fasterandworse.com/complicated-sticks/

fasterandworse, to random
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It’s great to see MKBHD give no slack to trash products but I feel like “they don’t deliver on their promise” is wrong because most of the time there isn’t even a promise. Just hints and insinuations carried along by the hype.

There really is no basis for assessing something like the rabbit R1’s ability to deliver, because what does delivering look like?

The promise, the purpose, is vaporous.

“Here, see what you can do with this” is the definition of novelty

fasterandworse, to random
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My response to AI customer service is to hit up the company’s senior employees on LinkedIn.

baldur, to random
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Generated images for non-generated text and video: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/generative-images-and-social-media-previews/

fasterandworse,
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@baldur it’s getting worse isn’t it https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/111373958476673914

tante, to random
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Today is one of those days where I realize how great it was that "everyone" (it's never everyone, sure) from all groups/tribes I was involved in or related to was on one platform (Twitter) and how it still hurts that that's gone.

fasterandworse,
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@tante sometimes I wonder if things like Twitter were accidentally good all along

axbom, to random Swedish
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In my 20s I knew very little but was confident I knew quite a lot. Today I know much more and am much more confident that I know very little.

fasterandworse,
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@axbom the more books I read the less I feel I know. Each book quashes things from the one before

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