joshgrant.online
I love big ideas and math and stuff. Mostly harmless.
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the shade
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When most of the tube shut down last month due to power failure, TfL got criticised for not announcing on social media. And they said they no long do updates as they don’t reach people in time! We had a simple pure info resource for most brands/services for ten years and we’ve basically lost it!
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There's a real chance that software products that lots and lots of people around the world use all the time will simply disappear in the next few years. It's already happened in the past. It'll happen again in the future.
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Whenever I see stuff about "AGI" or "the dangers of AI" or something, I also think that *you can turn off computers* if you need to. It's an extreme example but software is something that can be removed from life.
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More seriously, I think there's going to be a weirdly important reckoning when everyone realizes that using software frequently is actually not something everyone needs to do, or even a lot of people need to do.
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Top 10 social media platform, easily
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Also guys finishing a drink, then crushing the glass they drank from in their hands
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also, yes, i hate when people don’t post images with alt text. it’s 2025. it’s even good for your post discovery - the alt text is indexed here for search. if you can screenshot an article, you can select the text and copy and paste it into the box. it goes a long way
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Well good for them (or I'm sorry for them, whichever works)
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I was bracing for Discourse on the album cover but I haven’t seen much of it yet
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Exactly! It's the internet, log off if you aren't having a good time
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"Our goal is eliminate the need for human software engineers. BTW, we're hiring human software engineers!"
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"We will succeed when we can replace all workers with a single, probably overworked worker"
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"Market: literally everyone who has a job"
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Second, the sheer lack of irony in the writing. Examples:
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First of all: the barebones HTML of it all. It's an aesthetic. Personally, I love this aesthetic, but in this case it says "We move FAST, and are SERIOUS ENGINEERS!"
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I was just thinking about this. It almost never comes up as a topic.
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Right there: problem one
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Do we even have a good shared understanding of what AGI is? At least with Santa Claus we could all say "Oh yeah, that guy is Santa"