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Experienced user https://fasterandworse.com I have been making these videos about tech & design: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwvAAoSdsXWxHwFbULgbpVGiLmJZv4X1g and in audio: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse Australian based in Amsterdam
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THINGS YOU CAN BUY WITH ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

Google Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in it pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/22/g...

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

pretty cool!

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

The sad irony here is that if any institution should understand why this is bad, you’d think it would be the people in charge of educating humans.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If he gets a mistrial because Adams and the NYPD couldn't say no to a camera

submitted 22 hours ago • 14 comments

the cringality of evil

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

inaccuracy should be the ultimate embarrassment in computing

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

In 2015, a study showed that 1.6 million students attended schools that had a cop, but not a counselor. Schools are overly surveilled + overly policed. AI is an extension of this surveillance + policing. On that note, kids: do not ever say anything about your mental health to AI.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“But can a human life be reduced to a dataset? Can a body be tuned up like a machine? Or is this explosion of self‑tracking simply narcissism redesigned for the age of big data, by a society that has internalised the tech industry maxim that more data is always better?”

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

“Sonny is part human, part AI: a new kind of chatbot that school districts are adopting to provide support when there aren’t enough counselors to go around.”

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

those that evangelize genAI as a "powerful tool" for their little tasks without consideration of its disastrous impact on the information/knowledge ecology are shortsighted, to say the least

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Video Dispatch #12: Assumed Inconvenience Automation assumes peripheral effort is inconvenient. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMCG...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

any kind of "everything app" should be seen as captivity

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I remember seeing a comment somewhere once that the president in idiocracy wasn't that bad because he actually listened to the advice of people smarter than himself

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

🚨🚨If you use kindle, Download your books before Amazon removes the ability next week. That is your money you spent and those are your books. 🚨🚨

submitted 2 days ago • 188 comments

inaccuracy should be the ultimate embarrassment in computing

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

any kind of "everything app" should be seen as captivity

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I'm working on a concept in my head about operating systems crossing a line for what an operating system is supposed to be and how that makes a kind of captive user situation that is harder to recognise

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

it's the "very similar" that pisses me off

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

WHEN BUYING TECH: * don't try too hard to futureproof * by the time the future is now, the hipness has changed and you'll need something new anyway * just get whatever works now

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

I managed to achieve about 10% of the things I wanted to achieve in my week off work - which isn't bad for me

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Here's a great example of how bad generative AI is at search. Why is Perplexity telling me about Google making revenue on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

tech is in the post-purpose stage

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

might go on twitch in about 30 mins for a coding sesh www.twitch.tv/fasterandworse

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"depends on how you define urgency and threat" sounds like SBF defending himself in court

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If you're watching Apple Cider Vinegar on Netflix, it's worth learning about the role of commercial media in Aus in failing to vet or investigate Gibson's story www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Just a reminder the Oz media were doing it all again last year with their breathless reporting on Elle Macpherson refusing chemo for breast cancer, instead choosing a ‘holistic’ treatment approach - while spruiking her own line of vitamins. Australia loves a health grift.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

"this writer knows of dozens who have changed their minds about a Tesla purchase, or are even putting their Tesla EVs up for sale. This includes some prominent members of the Tesla Motor Club communities, echoing a similar shift in Europe and the US" @reneweconomy.com.au

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

i often talk about how the difference between engineering and design isn't methods but objectives an engineer's job is to figure out how to do something at all, or how to do it quantitatively "better" when they start work, the question of whether they should even be doing it is assumed settled

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments