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parismarx, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨

After losing to Peter Thiel in last year’s contest, Elon Musk takes the title of WORST PERSON IN TECH 2023!

We only wish we could reward him with a one-way ticket to the sun 🚀☀️

#WorstPersonInTech #tech

parismarx, 5 months ago to random

The end of low interest rates is showing us what the tech companies really built over the past 15 years and it’s nothing like what their PR hacks once promised.

Everything is more expensive, more invasive, and far less innovative or improved than they led us to believe.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/26/24015595/amazon-prime-video-ads-coming-january-29

parismarx, 1 year ago to tech

The media is obsessed with the story of Geoffrey Hinton, the “godfather of AI” who left Google to warn us about his life’s work.

Hinton isn’t worried about the immediate harms of AI and even dismisses those concerns as not “existentially serious.” But his warnings are nothing but sci-fi fantasies that distract us from real problems. For Disconnect, I argue we should ignore him.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/dont-listen-to-the-godfather-of-ai

#tech #ai #chatgpt #agi

parismarx, 4 months ago to random

does mastodon still not have quote tweets or am i just using the wrong interface?

parismarx, 4 months ago to apple

Apple’s Vision Pro is a visionless product that only exists to placate investors and try to show the company can still innovate under Tim Cook.

The headset demonstrates just how much Apple lost its way after a decade of putting the share price above everything else.

https://disconnect.blog/apples-vision-pro-lacks-any-real-vision/

#apple #tech #visionpro #vr

parismarx, 3 months ago to tech

Italy’s far-right party proposed using AI to assign youth mandatory jobs.

“The young person will no longer be able to choose whether to work or not, but [will be] bound to accept the job offer for himself (sic), for his family and for the country, under penalty of loss of all benefits.”

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/italian-neofascists-artificial-intelligence/

#tech #ai #italy #government

parismarx, 4 months ago to ai

ChatGPT does not have “a memory.” It does not “remember” anything. OpenAI is just storing data about you and your engagement with its product.

I’m begging the media to stop repeating tech companies’ misleading framings of their products.

#ai #tech #chatgpt #openai

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parismarx, 6 months ago to tech

🚨 ROUND 2 STARTS NOW 🚨

16 gone, but 16 remain. Who will progress to the next round and get one step closer to becoming the WORST PERSON IN TECH? You decide.

🗳️ VOTE NOW: https://forms.gle/CXvr9VEHcEiRwCzh7

#WorstPersonInTech #tech

parismarx, 1 month ago to tech

Meta lost $3.85 billion on the metaverse in the first quarter of 2024 alone. You know, that thing we all laughed about a couple years ago and next to no one actually uses.

It’s burned $45 billion on the metaverse since the end of 2020.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/metas-reality-labs-posts-3point85-billion-loss-in-first-quarter.html

#tech #meta #metaverse #vr

parismarx, 10 months ago to tech

Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast hosted by one of the cult that Elon took from his replies.

The font is Monotype’s Special Alphabets 4. Who wants to bet Musk didn’t pay for the rights before slapping it all over the place?

#tech #twitter #x #socialmedia #design

The characters of Monotype’s Special Alphabets 4 font

parismarx, 9 months ago to tech

For years, the media built up Elon Musk and got the public to buy into the myth of his genius. Now the truth of who he is can’t be hidden and changing how they cover Musk isn’t enough.

The media failed us. They not only need to inform the public about the harms of Musk’s empire, but change how they cover the entire tech industry so another grifter can’t replicate his rise. They owe us nothing less.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-medias-failure-on-elon-musk

#tech #media #elonmusk #tesla #spacex #twitter #x

parismarx, 8 months ago to random

all my apes gone to zero

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/nfts-worthless-researchers-find-1234828767/

parismarx, 2 months ago to random

i can’t wait for the ai bubble to burst

parismarx, 5 months ago to random

I want to believe @anildash, but I don’t see the nostalgic comparison between now and the early web.

Things are may be getting a little weirder, but the web is far more commercialized than it was then. Power shifts don’t mean redistribution, but new monopolists displacing the old.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/

parismarx, 7 months ago to tech

Elon Musk started trying to build his empire somewhat legitimately, but quickly realized that hype and exaggeration were far more effective at getting investors, the media, and the wider public interested.

In part 3 of ELON MUSK UNMASKED, I dig into how he built Tesla and then used that power to start messing with other industries.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/191_elon_musk_unmasked_building_an_empire_part_3

#elonmusk #tech #podcast #tesla

parismarx, 8 months ago to random

hear me out: what if we made useful electronics that didn’t have to be constantly connected to the internet and collecting data on us? 🤯

parismarx, 5 months ago to random

I’m far from a pro at this stuff, but I just put together my first mechanical keyboard and I love it!

parismarx, 10 months ago to tech

lmao, the US military keeps accidentally sending highly sensitive information to email addresses in Mali because they write .ml instead of .mil. The Dutch company managing Mali’s domain has collected 117,000 emails this year alone.

Control of Mali’s domain is about to revert to the Mali government, at which point it can collect all those emails. It’s a close ally of Russia, and could theoretically pass on information.

https://www.ft.com/content/ab62af67-ed2a-42d0-87eb-c762ac163cf0

#tech #military #pentagon

parismarx, 5 months ago to random

Nobody should be presenting Substack choosing to remove 5 Nazi publications from its platform as a win. Platformer alone says it’s reviewed dozens spreading those ideas, and really the Nazi stuff is just the tip of the iceberg.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24030756/substack-nazi-newsletter-content-moderation

parismarx, 4 months ago to tech

I used to look at these kinds of statements as deceptive PR, but increasingly I see them more through the lens of faith.

The tech billionaires are true believers and don’t accept they’re misunderstanding things like intelligence because they believe themselves to be geniuses.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/deepmind

#tech #ai #agi #deepmind

parismarx, 6 months ago to random

BREAKING: Trump University about to get a run for its money

parismarx, 2 months ago to tech

Grimes thinks she’s Lady Jessica, I guess because she spins bullshit tales about her kid becoming the Chosen One. She thinks he’ll be like Paul Atreides, who launched a Holy War that kills billions. Great. 🫠

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/grimes-cover-story-on-music-and-mars

#tech #elonmusk #grimes #dune #duneparttwo

parismarx, 4 months ago to tech

The AI boom requires massive data centers that consume enormous amounts of water and energy.

Tech CEOs have plans for hundreds more hyperscale facilities in the coming years, but activists around the world are fighting back to protect their communities and force us to ask who really benefits from the future Silicon Valley is building.

https://disconnect.blog/ai-is-fueling-a-data-center-boom/

#tech #ai #chatgpt #openai #google

parismarx, 3 months ago to random

i might be in europe in may if anyone wants to talk about having me speak anywhere. get in touch if so!

parismarx, 2 months ago to tech

Kara Swisher in “Burn Book”: Travis Kalanick was so evil because he wanted to replace drivers with AI in 2014 — and I didn’t say anything about my objection at the time.

Kara Swisher, March 2024: “People are the problem with driving” and they should all be replaced. 🫠

#tech #journalism #transport

Kara Swisher tells GM CEO Mary Barra she prefers AVs to human drivers GM CEO Mary Barra interviewed Kara Swisher about the tech journalist's new book, "Burn Book: A Tech Love Story."