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thedextriarchy.bsky.social

Senior Editor, Tech & Policy, The Verge

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This sucks. Digital sewing patterns are nice but a huge pain in the ass to print out, tape together, and cut, and I find that the quality of the instructions vary WIDELY (some are really not good). Resources like this that I wrote about previously are so important: www.theverge.com/23169321/com...

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

The extent to which LLM policy discourse is largely just ignoring the flashing red privacy lights just for the chatbots, nevermind the ambient computing surveillance machines, is galling

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

the past 10 years in center-left politics www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-0...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

I love all this digital art that this one guy made in 1999 and uploaded to wikimedia commons

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Claims of presciently predicting this breakup abound but credit @tinanguyen.bsky.social and @sarahjeong.bsky.social for scooping the beginning of the end

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Nice sign of web platform diversification when the most powerful men in the world are feuding in parallel on two different microblogging platforms while we're all posting the godzilla let them fight meme on a third.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Given that AI therapy/companion bots don't seem to need incredible amounts of sophistication, I'm kinda surprised I haven't seen anybody trying to mitigate the privacy risks with some kind of on-device non-big-tech LLM.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The inane in-game currencies in a high fantasy farmville clone and you always forget which one costs money

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

big if true

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I had a nightmare where all Google searches brought up a page that was solely an AI summary and you had to click one of like 5 other tiny tabs to find the link results, and few things have felt so much like a dark premonition.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

GOOD. That case was ridiculous. What's bad, though, is that the Batmobile case rested so heavily on it, and now IT has made garbage law when it comes to character copyright.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Basically every mainstream plan I've seen for "help men feel masculine" relies on defining masculinity as "not womanish" in a way that falls apart if large numbers of women ever trespass in its domain.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Inside the Meta monopoly trial

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submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

Announcing: Games in NY Steam Sale event! A selection of more than 100 games made, set, or published in New York, on sale for one weekend! Join us Thurs 5/29 at 1pm EDT with a showcase on Twitch (twitch.tv/nyugamecenter) coinciding with the Sale page launch! More info at linktr.ee/nyugamecenter

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I just realized there's a fan page with a PDF of the long-out-of-print Escape From New York novelization, which opens with this scene www.theefnylapage.com/pressefnymov...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

the big conceptual problem with AI right now is that its pitch is "we'll take care of busywork and give you time for your interests and passions" but the people most visibly directing its development have no perceptible interests or passions beyond an abstract desire for efficiency

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

I would love to look forward to an AI gadget but these are not very inspiring rumors so far

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment