jwherrman.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Meta AI leakage is a massive scandal, a careless company exposing deeply private stuff. It's also a window into what the AI companies see in their data — what they know about how people actually use chatbots nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Interesting that Google and Meta are (at least effectively) engineering supply shocks in their own marketplaces

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

a national moral sucking chest wound nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

(today is a good reminder that nothing is harder to ignore or bury than millions of actual people in the actual streets)

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

how protest movements finally lost social media nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

the audio ones are most poignant and/or violating. heard a woman writing a eulogy for her husband, a man contemplating divorce over an affair, a distressed guy who said he missed his stepson. on a lighter note, also lots of telling misunderstandings like this:

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

this piece on AGI — or more specifically the labor, power, and political economy of technology — from @jwherrman.bsky.social is fantastic nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

fairly striking gulf in tone between guys like altman and one of their more notable and open-minded interlocutors

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

well put here by John: in theory social media is about users interacting with other people and that’s the excuse for being there but social media companies optimize themselves so users interact with the app itself, agnostic of connections between users

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

how protest movements finally lost social media nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

There is a reckoning due for the sector of non profit funding that nurtured + promoted "organizations" designed around social media platforms, ultimately distorting assessments of success for everyone doing organizing work.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

I don't think there's much use in asking users of a social network to behave differently — platforms are too big for norms like that, people mostly aren't posting to debate — but similar charges of meanness/insularity accompanied Twitter's rise, and arguably described a reason people liked it!

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Congratulations to all the very serious yet illiterate people who insisted the 2020 version was something other than what it obviously was www.wsj.com/opinion/send...

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

again: these are two men on the same team in a sense 100x more important than a twitter feud nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

TRUMP VS MUSK will be a disappointment. Deep down we know this! nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

TRUMP VS MUSK will be a disappointment. Deep down we know this! nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Meta AI leakage is a massive scandal, a careless company exposing deeply private stuff. It's also a window into what the AI companies see in their data — what they know about how people actually use chatbots nymag.com/intelligence...

Interesting that Google and Meta are (at least effectively) engineering supply shocks in their own marketplaces

a national moral sucking chest wound nymag.com/intelligence...

(today is a good reminder that nothing is harder to ignore or bury than millions of actual people in the actual streets)

how protest movements finally lost social media nymag.com/intelligence...

the audio ones are most poignant and/or violating. heard a woman writing a eulogy for her husband, a man contemplating divorce over an affair, a distressed guy who said he missed his stepson. on a lighter note, also lots of telling misunderstandings like this:

this piece on AGI — or more specifically the labor, power, and political economy of technology — from @jwherrman.bsky.social is fantastic nymag.com/intelligence...

fairly striking gulf in tone between guys like altman and one of their more notable and open-minded interlocutors

well put here by John: in theory social media is about users interacting with other people and that’s the excuse for being there but social media companies optimize themselves so users interact with the app itself, agnostic of connections between users

how protest movements finally lost social media nymag.com/intelligence...

There is a reckoning due for the sector of non profit funding that nurtured + promoted "organizations" designed around social media platforms, ultimately distorting assessments of success for everyone doing organizing work.

I don't think there's much use in asking users of a social network to behave differently — platforms are too big for norms like that, people mostly aren't posting to debate — but similar charges of meanness/insularity accompanied Twitter's rise, and arguably described a reason people liked it!

Congratulations to all the very serious yet illiterate people who insisted the 2020 version was something other than what it obviously was www.wsj.com/opinion/send...

again: these are two men on the same team in a sense 100x more important than a twitter feud nymag.com/intelligence...

TRUMP VS MUSK will be a disappointment. Deep down we know this! nymag.com/intelligence...

TRUMP VS MUSK will be a disappointment. Deep down we know this! nymag.com/intelligence...

this is great and useful because the responses are split between “this is very scary” and “this is very funny”

Google is burying the web alive nymag.com/intelligence...

moving the long-coming "freedom of speech" polarity reversal up a year or so

Google is burying the web alive nymag.com/intelligence...