A world where everything is on the web and nothing is on the machines that we own is a sad world where we’ve lost a core freedom. I want to preserve that freedom. I like making apps that show the value of that freedom.
So if David means “white Brits”, why doesn’t he just say that? Why bother with the innuendo? Because complaining that there aren’t enough white people sounds weird and racist! David bristles at that label, but there’s a reason he’s hiding behind euphemisms rather than just saying what he means.
If the only way to liberate Palestine is to end capitalism, or the only way to make progress against climate change is to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict, then we are truly screwed.
Even if you think voting blue is the obvious choice and anyone who doesn’t is either stupid or evil, you then have to accept that more than half the country is stupid or evil, and for better or worse we live in a democracy. So what are you gonna do about it?
It’s sometimes fashionable to declare that technology will not save us, but in fact, technological progress on decarbonization has been enormous, while progress on getting people to adopt degrowth solutions has been essentially zero.
A very brief conclusion asks, “Is Enshittification Just Capitalism?” The answer is yes, Doctorow argues, in that our current economic system allows the “enshittification lever” to be cranked toward extraction unchecked.
I guess “enshittification” is here to stay then. Real insightful work Cory
Want to read: As a Jew by Sarah Hurwitz 📚
As autonomous vehicles are now coming to the East Coast, there will be an opportunity to rethink our street curbs and the amount of space allotted to parking private vehicles in the coming decades.
“Expanded ADHD diagnosis will put Ritalin in medicine cabinets of millions of people—many of whom will find it helps them focus. It may also lock hundreds of thousands of people inside a medicalized identity that makes it harder for them to address the fundamental factors behind their restlessness.”
I feel like an under-discussed delineation between millennials and Gen Z is “did your grandma wear jeans”
Despair signaling is the performance of maximum hopelessness (especially regarding anything political, although any current event will do) as a way of signaling that you’re in on a massive (horrible) secret that the rest of the idiot populace has yet to figure out.
The problem of the next 18 months isn’t AI disemploying all workers. The problem is whether we will degrade our own capabilities in the presence of new machines. We are so fixated on how technology will outskill us that we miss the many ways that we can deskill ourselves.
The actual aesthetics of Liquid Glass itself aside, just seeing honest-to-God detail around the glyphs inside everyday app icons now and the care finally put back into it is bringing me back to 2012 Obama-era levels of hope.
Perhaps we need to say that it is rude — bordering on callous and self-centered — to take your phone out of your pocket or bag if you’re in a room with other people, that it suggests you think that those little icons on the internet you call mutuals are more interesting than the many real and respirating people around you.
One AI-powered developer tool I would definitely be interested in investing time in learning is something that doesn’t make people become Like That
You might be puzzled. That’s understandable. After all, during the election we were regaled with memes about how “millennial white women” were going to vote in Kamala as a “warmonger who drafted Gen Z me into WW3.”
“If these tools feel clunky, if they’re slowing you down, if you’re confused how other people can be so productive, you’re not broken. The data backs up what you’re experiencing. You’re not falling behind by sticking with what you know works.”
Is there a term for things British people make fun of Americans for doing that they themselves originated and brought to America but stopped doing back home while we held onto them, like calling it “soccer” or switching the hand you hold your fork in between cutting your food and eating it?
The renewed hype has sputtered; the most fervent enthusiasts have become disillusioned; critics reign triumphant: The backlash to the backlash has arrived.