Tag: skill-estate
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This is SMART.
I enjoy seeing people use what they have. Too often businesses will bet on billion-dollar expansions or billion-dollar subsidies to accomplish something that they shouldn’t be doing in the first place. Via Nieman, newspapers and magazines have been abandoning book reviews for 20 years, LONG before Trump or AI. Most complainers want to get rid…
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It’s not a balance
Saw a title: Why nobody’s listening to new music, part 2 Well, I can fill in both parts without reading it. Why nobody’s listening to new music, part 1: It’s Why nobody’s listening to new music, part 2: Shit. The same goes for new literature, new art, new movies, new philosophy…. anything in the field…
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Skill matters more than facts
Via Reuters. A hacking group has exposed a huge batch of “secret information” from Novo Nordisk, the Ozempic company, asking for $25 million ransom. Apparently they worked through a Github area where Novo stored some of its code. The usual sides are saying the usual things. Lawyers are setting up class action suits to “compensate”…
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Pride and skill
Unions are a NECESSARY feedback system in capitalism. A union is a bank for human skills, exerting bullypower against the Share Value banks. We lost unions 40 years ago along with all the other countervectors. UNLIKE the other losses, I can’t blame Wall Street. Industrial unions fouled their own nests by helping Wall Street to…
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Good law, still missing a big point
Both parts of the NY state legislature have passed a clear and well-written bill to constrain Altman. The human side was crafted by the writers and actors unions, who know what they’re talking about. The technical side also shows unusual clarity, which makes me curious about the source of the expertise. On the human side:…
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Goddamn slimy
I rarely take the same side as CNN. I always take the side of Equipoise, paying for value. In this case CNN is on the right side, and the AI monster is pulling a sneaky slimy trick. CNN is suing Perplexity for stealing its copyrights. CNN tried to set up a licensing deal, which is…
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Are they learning?
China and EU are trying to diminish touchscreens and bring back knobs and levers in cars. This fits the theme of previous item. We’re not built to move things by pushing or touching. Our limbs and senses are strictly radial, not linear. Kinesthetic sense relies on limb angles, not two-dimensional XY location. Even physical pushbuttons…
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Makes me wonder
May 13 is Root Canal Appreciation Day. Without mentioning the date, New Scientist published an article about amazing ancient dentistry. Neanderthals were drilling teeth to get rid of decay 59000 years ago. = = = = = START QUOTE: In the Altai mountains of southwestern Siberia – where Neanderthals migrated from Europe about 70,000 years…
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Hammers
Catholics have been pulling some really dumb tricks in recent centuries, worshipping billionaires and Share Value by favoring Gaia and immigration. I’m pretty sure old JC wouldn’t advise popes and priests to worship bankers and moneychangers. Here’s a worthy countercurrent. The college of St Joseph the Worker is a trade school with strong religious overtones.…
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Makeforce reprint
Partial reprint from April 2019, a year before the chaotizers committed the biggest crime in history. = = = = = START REPRINT: Resistance is futile, but self-defense is not futile. First and most directly, don’t merge with the Cloud. Don’t take that last step, don’t place your devices into Elon’s hands. More subtly, use…
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“Astonishingly prolific”
I’ve been watching the NON-war between human creators and the Altman demons. As an author who deals with a publisher, I have a literal vested interest in the matter. This article includes one dramatic illustration of the enemy’s overwhelming power. The article describes “astonishingly productive” fake historians generated by Amazon’s demonic machine. = = =…
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Luminous and numinous
Every now and then I notice a clear night and check to see if the aurora is likely to be visible. Nothing happening tonight, but SpaceWeather.com has a sight more beautiful and luminous than an aurora: = = = = = START LUMINOSITY: This is an AI Free Zone: Text created by Large Language Models…
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We’re not using what we have
The local paper has an article about a recent bus crash. A driver was following the computer instead of his eyes, and crashed one of the new double-decker buses into a railroad overpass. I’ve been riding STA buses for 35 years, so I know something about the setup. I’ve been programming for 45 years, so…
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π Day
Keeping up a tradition… π Day again! Since I’m talking typography lately, I’ll hash and rehash a couple items from 2019. = = = = = Thinking about Trump as Pied Piper. When the metaphor first appeared in those DNC emails I didn’t quite understand it. After learning that Trump is Roy Cohn’s protege, I…
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Show, don’t tell.
If you want to sell a product or a religion you have to SHOW the product, not just tell us to buy it. Churches quote the New Testament and then viciously reject lonely and poor people. In 2020 the Democrats talked “resistance” and then lethally assisted Trump’s torture chamber, continuing it for two years after…
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