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Thought of the day: writing with AI is not writing, it’s something else. Eventually, there will be a word for it, but meanwhile, let’s not call this writing. Looking at you, Tiago Forte.
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I’m spending a lot of time online and on my computer each week for my blogs, probably around 10 to 25 hours. I wonder how skilled I could become if I dedicated those hours to learning a new field like psychology or music.
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If you have digital assets on GitHub, if your software dev workflows depend on GitHub, you might want to read this. Should we trust Microsoft, now?
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Om Malik’s analysis on recent corporate memo from Zuckerberg at Meta:
There is about 25 percent genuine strategic content, the rest is aspirational marketing and corporate positioning. For instance, infrastructure commitments and device strategy show the seriousness of the effort. However, claims about superintelligence being āin sightā are inflated for competitive reasons.
Me: This is how a tech bubble is inflated, until it blows up. Wait for it.
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It’s been a while but recent news and trends about AI-based bots trying to ruin the life of psychologically vulnerable people triggered an update to my /nope page.
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How depressing this is. These are filtered Google News results with the keyword “ChatGPT”. Look at some headlines… Now, consider this quote.
āAI will not replace humans, but those who use AI will replace those who donāt.ā ā Ginni Rometty
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Here’s an interesting idea from Parker Ortolani: portable memory format so that we can move our ChatGPT memory across generative AI service providers. THAT would be innovative. I think generative AI is so profound that preventing lock in would be seen as a positive sign of good will from the tech world, something we are missing these days.
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Thinking Outside
Thinking right now: people love to consume content the closest to their platform of choice. People on Substack wants to consume content over there, people on Medium, the same, on Medium. Thatās why the idea of manually cross-posting my newsletter to Substack often comes back haunting me. This newsletter is currently only available from Ghost (and RSS + email, of course).
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I don’t know when the trend started, but companies like IBM are starting to use gen AI to automatically offer translated technical documentation from English to… whatever language. I encountered quite a few funny errors today. Thankfully, we can ask for the original at the click of a button. Still work to be gone for this to be on-par with human-made texts.
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Connection isnāt just personal. Itās political.
A healthy democracy requires relationships, trust, physical presence, and shared stakes. If we donāt have anyone in our lives who voted differently than we did, if the only time we talk to our neighbors is when we have something to complain about (if we even bother), if we havenāt been in a room with strangers in months trying to solve a real problem without a mute button or a string of emojisāthen we are actively making it easier to divide. Easier to manipulate. Easier to radicalize. Easier to rule.
We collectively dropped the ball. I honestly don’t know what to do and where to start to undo things. I feel alone on my island crying and shouting how wrong and off everything is right now.
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When are we going to stop referring to Musk as the richest man in the world. First, we don’t care as much as it sounds. Second, he’s probably the poorest man in the world if anything.
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From time to time, while scrolling through my Micro.blog timeline, Iāll pause, read a particular post, peak at someoneās profile and previous posts, remember that this guy exists and wonder why in the first place I was following him or her. Then I sometimes hit the unfollow. Why do I think this is some sort of failure ?
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More than ever I think that social networks are the worst place to have a sound conversation about politics especially in today’s heated world. I felt in the trap yesterday, had to unfollow someone so that I can stay sane. Will I ever learn?
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Musing About Journaling Goals
I maintain a daily journal at work where I jot down the dayās highlights. I write about what went well, the current challenges Iām facing, and any opportunities to do something different. I also note the clients I spoke to and the reasons behind it. Iāve been doing this for a while now, but I never refer to the journal once itās written. Itās just a dump of my thoughts.
I wonder why Iām doing this. I think the act of writing it down is the ultimate goal, not the end results. Itās the same with my personal journal. I rarely write in it, but I do occasionally. I rarely, if ever, refer to it. Why is that?
Now, letās talk about blogging. Why is all that? Is there a pattern here?
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As reported by Engadget and many others:
According to researchers, anyone who knows where to look can spray digital graffiti on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) website. Two web development experts said the site doesnāt seem to be hosted on government servers and that the database it pulls from can be modified by those who locate it. At the time of writing, a message reading āthese āexpertsā left their database open - roroā is still visible on the DOGE site.
Thanks, I feel much more confident now.
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In these troubled times, the worst is to depend on social networks for anything.
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Artists, stop marketing on social media. Just be yourself. Show your work. Share your ideas. Meet new people. Think in public. Have fun. The rest will follow.
I hate the idea of depending on social media for everything.
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I understand those out there who didn’t vote for Trump decided not to pay attention to what is coming in the next four years, because it will be a pain to watch, but I think this is a mistake, a real big one. People not only should care, but they should continue voicing their outrage and concerns to send a clear message of “resistance”. All people’s voices are important. All the time.
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No one will ever control our own identities on third-party platforms. You relinquish control over your identity when you choose to present yourself on one of these platforms. You can be rate-limited for posting too much. You can be suspended by a bot that determines your behavior is bot-like. The platform can pivot at any time from one thing to another. The entire platform could shut down. You have no control, and jumping from one to another will only mean that you have to do it all again later.
Or, instead of all this, you could learn how to make a damn website.
But, asking for my wife here1, once you’ve got your little HTML island right in the middle of the digital ocean, how do you get noticed? How do you build a business, even the smallest one, from this island?
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For real, i had a serious debate about all this today with her. ↩︎
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