The take over of the Internet by billionaires just might have passed its peak w the acquisition of Twitter and the growth since of federated instead of centralised, algorithm-driven social media.
Too many still use billionaire-controlled email when Internet mail uses open standards. If you care to take back control you may like to consider
Have read about 14 different large language models today, some of which have special purposes.
How long before we see one for route planning for long journeys by EV?* Many complain, rightly, about the need to have multiple apps. I found even the best, "A Better Route Planner" #abrp, irritating and a struggle to use on an 8" Android tablet.
*Teslas w large screen and charger network may not need it but even efficient batteries and built-in navigation are insufficient for rivals.
"For anyone with vision loss do not eat another egg before you see this..."
clicks on Skip
(Every time)
See what? 🤔🤷♂️
I'll never know. (Don't tell me)
Google logic
He's got chickens, let's frighten him?
He keeps hitting skip, let's annoy him?
He wears glasses and probably eats this one weird thing, let's make it scary?
Feck, he isn't yet blind, there is still time for a scam?
Chris Grey's weekly Brexit analysis appears every Friday and is undoubtedly read in every foreign affairs ministry in Europe, in Washington, and many more
I don't think Bruce Schneier can write a bad essay. This repost on his blog of an article for The Atlantic on large language models and the degradation of the Internet is no exception. His books are good too.
Note: Many Americans who worked in the City of London did so on Irish passports. Quite a few have gone to Frankfurt, Paris & Dublin, cities in which employers can recruit from the entire EU (and in Ireland's case the UK as well).
@MichaelLondonSF It's stark alright. I can recall some impregnable smugness and sneering condescension from some in the City on Twitter some time ago (of the "they need us more" variety). All attrition dismissed as a mere flesh wound. And euro clearing will move from London, no question about it. EU will suit itself.
👇Good explainer on "enshittification", the phenomenon of products and services becoming downgraded, often in ways that most would agree should be illegal.
Really is a dismal "science" now. I studied how to do it in Business school. Problem is you have to do it if your competitors are doing it. The cure: regulation (what Brexiters call red tape).
I just canceled WIRED magazine for requiring an international phone call to cancel (would have renewed otherwise).
Phil Moorhouse's oddly named YouTube channel "A Different Bias" (as a preference for objective fact is arguably not a bias) is a bit of Gallilean truth telling in a nation of slow learning believers in nonsense.
On one hand it's tragic, and I feel for those trapped in the gulag of stupidity that is the UK today, on the other the straight-faced schadenfreude of many Irish as the Imperium invades & occupies itself is relatable.