Steve @ fasterandworse @awful.systems

I write things on my blog sometimes https://fasterandworse.com/

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Here's my audio/video dispatch about framing tech through conservation of energy to kill the magical thinking of generative ai and the like podcast ep: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/968a91dd/kill-magic-thinking video ep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLHmtYWzHz8

aw thanks

ICYI here's me getting a bit ranty about generative ai products https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5MQb-uNf2U

how much is templated now? reckon it'll be 3hrs every time?

I hate how much firefox has been growing to this point of being the best, by a smaller and smaller margin, of a fucking shit bunch

It's probably more sensible for me to try writing short bits too, instead of faffing around with videos

really, thanks for listening! It's fun making them and nice to know they are being listened to

holy shit, I really don't know if this is real or a joke

thanks! It might be uncommon because it's a real pain in the ass to keep it short. Every time I make one I stress about how easily my point can be misunderstood because there are so few details. Good way to practice the art of moving on

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the woman who is quote tweeting in the twitter screenshot above. I don't want to write her name for search indexing

LB creeps me the f out (sorry, not much else to add)

imagine if actual roadmaps just said "we want to tell you how to get there" "we hate giving you bad directions" "we will make sure you get there at some time in the future"

hay guys, sorry for spam - I just want to shill my videos/audios i'm trying to put out twice a week (I've already done 9!). They are 3-5 mins long and all around one particular theme of tech crit

video versions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwvAAoSdsXWxHwFbULgbpVGiLmJZv4X1g audio versions:

• apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faster-and-worse/id1792154689
• spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/62Q7vclARxKjMAOtwXfOIu
• they are also in all the other major podcast platforms. Let me know if you're interested but can't find it.

Let me know if you like it/hate it

funny how we went from the "trust machine" blockchain grift to the "could be an acceptable level of trustable machine" ai grift

so the new feature in the next macos release 15.3 is "fuck you, apple intelligence is on by default now"

For users new or upgrading to macOS 18.3, Apple Intelligence will be enabled automatically during Mac onboarding. Users will have access to Apple Intelligence features after setting up their devices. To disable Apple Intelligence, users will need to navigate to the Apple Intelligence & Siri Settings pane and turn off the Apple Intelligence toggle. This will disable Apple Intelligence features on their device.

https://archive.ph/4pSIw

I love the word, the definition, but I agree with so few of his examples.

I latched on to it because it fit so well with my regular criticisms of tech products, particularly saas shit

yeah that is an interesting example. I immediately applied the term to commercial products. Like Notion for example - funny because I always say Notion takes wikis which are well established in their usefulness and just slaps them into saas product with other things like docs and spreadsheets (also well established in their usefulness) - but he calls wikis themselves a hyperkludge but what superior thing did wikis kill by network effects?

Just want to share this great term & definition "hyperkludge" coined by Jonathan Korman (@miniver on bsky and masto)

https://miniver.blogspot.com/2023/01/hyperkludge-n.html

this is cool. Considering their first album was all songs about accepting death I assume they're not fans of anything tescreal adjacent

I love that album, and i'll never forget when I was dating someone who was a classical pianist, the type that closes their eyes and sways their head when listening to classical, and when I put that album on it was a few notes into the first song and she made this tortured face and said "no, no, no! those chord progressions are so depressing!" It was so strange to me to hear that, but you know how you just know when someone knows what they are talking about and she was sure it had hit some kind of melancholy brown note.

Still... that era of interpol and white lies was great. That shit made me happy