it feels so much like he’s reaching for… something? from nerd culture and missing the mark so much it’s unrecognizable.
so much this when he said the "future should look like the future" and this art deco style roach rolls out
It's like the behind-the-scenes of the making of a product has become the product and there isn't anything else after it
here's the statement from ACF
https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-plugin-no-longer-available-on-wordpress-org/
He's now forking the ACF plugin https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/secure-custom-fields/
I'm convinced he pronounced robovan the way he did because he was advised on the social media engagement technique of dropping deliberate mistakes in your videos
In France it was standard for the 7 month trial period and that was just horrible. Just horrible. So many firings would happen within days of the period ending, the barrier between no warning required and a shit ton of notice and compensation. Political nightmare and 7 months of anxiety in the backstabbiest of tech workplaces I’ve seen
Plus they create brands that cultivate a following that is not compatible with corporate growth interests. Proton are like Mozilla, they wanna play with the bad kids but they promised their parents they’d come straight home
I really think that Naomi Klein pointing out the brand being the product created a wave of tech entrepreneurs who reacted by making the user experience the product and now we’re seeing how bad they are at the most basic brand maintenance.
Sounds great! Looking forward to reading it
Some others that might work for you, mixture of informative and entertaining hosts
- Some More News
- This Machine Kills
- Never Post
- Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
- Maintenance Phase
- You're Wrong About
Thanks! I thought it shows up on here too. Anyway, you can find me on all the places with that username
It seems they undid it. Maybe Ecosia are on to me
I got a downvote for some reason…
I have sent an email to their press enquiries contact asking for more information, but I don’t know if I have the “press” clout to warrant a response (I know I don’t)
My current hyperfixation is Ecosia, maker of “the greenest search engine” (already problematic) implementing a wrapped-chatgpt chat bot and saying it has a “green mode” which is not some kind of solar-powered, ethically-sound, generative AI, but rather an instructive prompt to only give answers relating to sustainable business models etc etc.
See my thread here https://xcancel.com/fasterandworse/status/1837831731577000320
I’m starting to reach out to them wherever I can because for some reason this one is keeping me up at night.
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Yeah, it doesn’t look good. Both artists are shilling NFTs on their personal profile but only one of them, Ciro Negroni, is openly pro AI. The studio site, weirdcore.tv does have some folio projects credited as being with AI visuals and they also have studio NFT projects. They do seem to specialise in lots of different styles of digital glitch art.
It doesn’t look good. Especially the lack of questions about AI in the official The Smile tweet thread announcing the video
Did I say it doesn’t look good?
Edit: I’d like to know https://x.com/fasterandworse/status/1841878497662283978
For real, I can’t find info about this. Can you share a source?