Notices by Tim Carmody (tim@phire.place)

I'm back in the pages of Wired with an essay about the greatness and weirdness of HTML, especially when you dig into its programming guts. This was so fun to write and I'm delighted to have my byline in the magazine (and the web!) again: https://www.wired.com/story/html-is-actually-a-programming-language-fight-me/

@quinn Genocide with heads held high

How developer-induced real estate blight works in Detroit (and probably in your city’s downtown and neighborhoods too) https://outliermedia.org/dennis-kefallinos-detroit-speculator/

@eaton first, we need to derive Peano arithmetic

@eaton have you tried deepseek 2.5? I've found that to be quite capable, although I haven't tested your use case

@eaton there have always been dandies

@eaton also the cost! The iPhone took off in no small part because it became much more capable and also widely available on multiple carriers for about $200 new (w/a carrier subsidy). If the original iPhone had stayed static, it would have taken a lot longer to take over the smartphone market

@eaton @mattblaze @roland Part of my dissertation is on the relationship between Strand's photography, war photojournalism, Objectivist poetry, and Italian neorealism

@clive if you begged me to come up with an even broader and vaguer term than content, I could not have thought up anything less specific than “culture”

Culture is everything: not just media. It’s your practices, your beliefs, your food, your language, your rituals, your ways of interacting with each other. Culture is the air we breathe, the water we swim in, the ground we stand on. It does not only do what you want that word to do.

“The provisional three-year deal remains subject to the completion of contract language and recommendations from the union’s council and board, which could come as soon as Tuesday. Members would vote after that. The strike continues through that process.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-25/hollywood-screenwriters-reach-tentative-deal-to-end-strike

Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw writes that it appears the Writers’ Guild and Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers “have also reached an agreement on the use of artificial intelligence, which writers feared could destroy jobs”

I am EXTREMELY curious to see the final language in the agreement on AI!

According to the NYT's Brooks Barnes, “The last sticking point involved artificial intelligence, three people briefed on the talks told me. On Saturday, lawyers for the entertainment companies came up with language — a couple paragraphs inside a contract that runs hundreds of pages — that addressed a guild concern about A.I. and old scripts that studios own. The sides spent several hours on Sunday tweaking.”

@charliejane so many torn-off arms

I wrote a short post about Amazon, AI, and the writers’ strike https://amazonchronicles.ghost.io/alexa-will-not-replace-us/