"I think the central risk to Palantir, America and the world is a regressive way of thinking that is corrupting and corroding our institutions that calls itself progressive, but actually — and is called woke — but is actually a form of a thin pagan religion,"
"That is a real danger to our society. And it is a real danger to Palantir if we allow -- if we don't discuss these things. The reason we have by far the best product offering in the world is because we have by far the best alignment around how to build software, what it means to build software, full alignment with our customers, a view that some -- the Western way of living is superior and, therefore, it should be supported by the best products."
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I've recently joined @robin@mnot and @chadkoh in a small discussion group where we’ve done that privately. But why not make it a broader resource! You can browse the links without an account. If you sign up, you can up/down-vote articles and leave comments as well!
@pluralistic with great luck, botshit will kill both “AI” And search engines - two birds, one stone. That will force us to build more authentic, decentralized tools and networks.
I had a good full working day today, but by far the most productive and long-lasting task I’ve done today is move emails from 2020 to mid 2023 into their own archive folders so my work inbox now has only the ~20 emails from the last ~quarter that I actually wanna deal with. That’s down from ~2000 excluding any transactional mails or other in-progress stuff that I have archived on the fly. Took 2 minutes tops and feeling a lot better now. #InboxNero 🔥
This great news out of Australia (via @owa) makes worldwide browser choice more likely. Every jurisdiction that rejects Apple and Google's underhanded browser nonsense bring us a step closer to ending App Store rent extraction and proprietary lock-in.
@slightlyoff@owa@pluralistic there is a long road between “in-principle agreement” and action. See eg the reform of privacy law in Australian, which has been agreed to in principle by two successive governments.
The great irony of the net's platformization is that platforms are intermediaries, and the promise of the internet that got so many of us excited was disintermediation - getting rid of the middlemen that act as gatekeepers between community members, creators and audiences, buyers and sellers, etc.
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For a couple of years now, I have been working with Alain Durand at ICANN to collect statistics in DNS usage, patterns, etc. Data is updated monthly. Latest addition is a table of the concentration of DNS name servers, measured by looking at where the IP addresses of the servers are hosted. The big "winner" is of course Cloudflare, but there is also a significant correlation between being hosted by AWS or served by Akamai and have the DNS on the same network. https://ithi.research.icann.org/graph-m9.html
@huitema so, what does this mean? Is it bad, and if so, why - considering that people can move dns hosts easily (because it is reasonably interoperable) and the dns system is resilient to failures? I’m concerned about concentration and centralization, but in markets where there are multiple providers, low barriers to switching and efficiencies of scale, it’s hard for me to be as concerned as much as I am about other ones that don’t have these features.
Several threads in my mentions suggesting or implying that my posting about photography means I must be autistic.
There's nothing wrong with or derogatory about autism, but using it as a casual label for people who are interested in things you aren't is both incredibly lazy and offensive in equal measure to autistics and everyone else.
Having knowledge and interests isn't a diagnosable condition. If you want to insult me, do better.
“Say you search for ‘children’s clothing.’ Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for ‘NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,’ making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company.”