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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://cosocial.ca/users/timbray/statuses/113115292653436167">Tim Bray (timbray@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 09:29:27 JST</a><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@timbray" title="timbray@cosocial.ca"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/111562-48-20230506032705.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Tim Bray" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Tim Bray</a><div><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p>From <a href="https://mastodon.social/@scalzi">@scalzi</a> : <a href="https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/09/10/first-impressions-of-the-pixel-9-pro/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/09/10/first-impressions-of-the-pixel-9-pro/</a></p><p>From which:</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3647142#notice-7147107">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-09-11T09:29:27+09:00" title="Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 09:29:27 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/113115292653436167" rel="external" title="Sent from cosocial.ca via ActivityPub">cosocial.ca</a></span></span><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/113115292653436167">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3151794">Screen capture from John Scalzi's "Whatever" blog: Now, we can argue what the substantive difference between “AI” and, say, “computational photography” actually is, because at the heart of both are a lot of the same processes and functionality, and that’s a reasonable argument to have. At this point, it really does seem like “AI” is “bullshit you don’t need or is done better in other ways, but we’ve just spent literally billions on this so we really need you to use it, even though it’s nowhere as good as what we were already doing,” and everything else is just unsexy functionality that makes what you do marginally easier or better. I’m sorry we live in a world where enshittification is being marketed as The Hot And Sexy Thing, but just because we’re in that world, doesn’t mean you have to accept it.</a></label><br><a href="https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/113/115/292/560/710/219/original/33e48543ee4da4e3.png" rel="external">https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/113/115/292/560/710/219/original/33e48543ee4da4e3.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: whatever.scalzi.com</div><h5><a href="https://whatever.scalzi.com/2022/12/22/from-1999-i-love-you-my-pet/">From 1999: “I Love You, My Pet”</a></h5><div> from <span>John Scalzi</span></div></header><div>Athena’s 24th birthday is tomorrow (don’t say “happy birthday” in the comments yet, she’s writing a piece tomorrow where the birthday wishes will be more appropriate),…</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Tim Bray (timbray@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 09:29:27 JSTTim Bray
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From @scalzi : https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/09/10/first-impressions-of-the-pixel-9-pro/
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1. Screen capture from John Scalzi's "Whatever" blog: Now, we can argue what the substantive difference between “AI” and, say, “computational photography” actually is, because at the heart of both are a lot of the same processes and functionality, and that’s a reasonable argument to have. At this point, it really does seem like “AI” is “bullshit you don’t need or is done better in other ways, but we’ve just spent literally billions on this so we really need you to use it, even though it’s nowhere as good as what we were already doing,” and everything else is just unsexy functionality that makes what you do marginally easier or better. I’m sorry we live in a world where enshittification is being marketed as The Hot And Sexy Thing, but just because we’re in that world, doesn’t mean you have to accept it.
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  From 1999: “I Love You, My Pet”
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  Athena’s 24th birthday is tomorrow (don’t say “happy birthday” in the comments yet, she’s writing a piece tomorrow where the birthday wishes will be more appropriate),…

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