So when Twitter shuts down its API access in a week, migration tools like the great https://movetodon.org from @Tibor will stop working. If you want to migrate your followers do it now!
The power of AI is its ability to *enhance* humans to make decisions, process information, and automate time/mentally consuming but generally pretty low-stakes tasks (like drafting an email).
But when you step past that into delegating life-changing decisions to an AI, either explicitly (loan company says no) or implicitly (magic box says 12% yes and human operator develops rule of thumb to press "go" if number > 10), you're going to run into a world of Kafkaesque garbage really quickly.
The problem is that the tool fails the fundamental rule of "should I use AI to solve this problem".
AI is safe to use *only* if you meet the following criteria:
1) The output doesn't matter (e.g. writing a story for your kids is safe)
2) Someone qualified assesses the veracity of the output prior to using its decision in a way that could cause harm.
I'm not saying this will happen for sure, but if Big Tech laid off a couple hundred thousand people while the economy manages to end up being mostly just fine for the next 12-18 months, this may well be looked back upon as the era when Big Tech killed itself by freeing folks to become the competition.
So I've been secretly in a cold war with some weird crypto bros for like 6 months now, and worryingly in the last couple days it's looking like they've won. They wanted my Instagram handle, and somehow they've now got it. Without my consent. And it's kinda scary. Strap in for a toot storm (is that what we call it?) [1/16]
Upon extensive review, the only good #podcast topics are:
- In depth history.
- Golf
- Prestige TV series
- Theme Parks
- Apple Computers
I know I'm an atypical Google user (or user of search engines), but I just can't fathom going to a search engine to get a singular answer to a question (side-eye, #ChatGPT/microsoft). I'm very curious to see what this UX will be like. I don't want one source's answer to most anything I've ever googled.
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The one thing I find remarkable about this current tech economy situation is how the previous generation of great disruptors have clearly just become stock price motivated sheep.
And that's fine for running a business. Lots of very successful, older companies do that quite well for a long time.
But it's pretty boring.
An absolute kick in the teeth to all the indie devs who worked so hard to make Twitter a better experience for so many. Twitterrific was officially discontinued today and pulled off the App Store after 16 years of development. Among other firsts, they first used "tweet" to describe an update, first used a bird icon, and were the first native client on iPhone and Mac. https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitterrific-end-of-an-era/
Probably the most important news of the day. #phineasandferb
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/disney-channel-revives-phineas-and-ferb-1235298954/
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@LenTesta does it strike you as odd that they'd pick Easter Week to open Tron at WDW? Already felt like half my kids' school was heading down there that week on Spring Break.