If the first Trump term normalized blatant racism I think the defining normalization this time around will be misogyny.
Sadly, trying to protest Gaetz based on the current prostitution and underage trafficking, is just going to be met with “bros” cheering him on.
MAGA men are now empowered to say “he deserves to do that”. It’s the continuation of “when you’re rich they just let you”.
Ok. So don’t have kids and be poor or become a veteran. They are going to make some brutal cuts to services their new set of voters depend on.
Bootstraps will now also cost extra.
“Vivek Ramaswamy wants to start DOGE cuts by eliminating funding for unauthorized programs - including veteran healthcare”
Yeah. This will get all the best people on the case.
I wanted to check out the rocks, but didn’t have cash on me.
Do kids lemonade stands need a square terminal now?
Snowing in Seattle.
Conversation at work: “I think custom GTPs are useless” vs “there are some valid scenarios”
Come home and ask middle school son (and friend) what they are laughing about.
Son: “We built a custom GPT that turns every 3rd adjective into a swear word and gives you rude answers”.
I’ve proven my point.
Carrot seems to have hit the nail on the head.
It’s not a good sign when the weather app disses your device launch.
What company and product, today, do you believe has the most modern, intuitive, UI?
This isn’t the flex you think it is.
A good UX rule is always that things should behave the way they users expect them to.
Another question this article raised for me is “Are most productivity tools to rigid in their specific programs? “
It’s that time again.
Live every day like it’s your opening day with hope that doesn’t fade.
https://youtu.be/uH2_dUboyBA?si=HYEayqk9oIWXq_8Z
A fun perk of running your own online business is that I get to put some of my own photos as “stock” for customers.
It’s fun seeing promotions with my dogs in them. However - I cringe at this landing page that was setup with @kickofflabs@mastodon.social for several reasons.
I’ll let you guess why.
The saddest use of AI…
“I swear. I’ve got black friends. Just look at these pictures!”
Sign you are old #989….
You learn about new music, from bands you liked, from Peloton classes instead of TikTok.
I love when VS Code Copilot suggests reasonable things and I have to tell it… “Well - yes. That naming would make total sense my CoPilot friend. But. You see. We suck at naming here.”
They should have just said
“We’re going to be offering a happy hour menu”.
Then it would have been phrased as giving customers something as opposed to demanding more.
Enshitification comes for… fast food?
Wow.
Of course non-fast food places have been doing this with different lunch, happy hour, dinner prices for a long time.
My guess is that they realized self driving AI is still a long ways off and don’t want to be early to the market.
But they don’t want to be totally late to replacing Siri with something less derpy.
The key line in all of these judgements…
“Mr. Trump will appeal, and the case could take months if not years to resolve.”
Please wake me up the day he actually pays a single dollar.
My AI predictions for AI in 2024: Cheaper + Faster + Marginally Better = Real opportunities.
We’re getting close to core capabilities limits. Most good research right now is speeding things up and reducing GPU costs.
That shift is going to lead to more innovation in the space from smaller players.
Been thinking about how to prepare my kids for the AI world.
Soft skills. Understanding people better than machines do.
Be great at asking questions. You need to know what to ask the machines to do.
Understand how computers work. programming is fundamental in order to build better systems.
Played Ransom Note with the kids tonight.
The liberal education got them good. :)
I detect no lies.
Pick your winner.
Really enjoyed Astra Lumina in Seattle last week.
Just childish.
Shareholders need to get Elon fired from Tesla. His shitty Twitter beefs are now taking features away from customers.
Will 2024 be the year tech companies say “I guess some of those people were doing things.”