Notices by elle mundy (exchgr@mastodon.world)

damn it’s good

RE: https://me.dm/@anildash/116122721309803473

“We are in an outrageous place, where the actions of some of the biggest and most influential technology companies in the world are so beyond the pale that we can’t even discuss the things that they are doing in polite company. The actions that take place on these platforms used to mean that simply *accessing* these kinds of sites during one’s workday would be a firing offense. Now we have employers and schools trying to *require* people to use these things.”

the greatest trick the devil ever played is making good people believe “power corrupts” so they’d shy away from holding office and make room for corrupt people

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/116465828688517084

they call it “pulling a thatcher”

RE: https://mastodon.world/@exchgr/116273645908755634

this saturday!

i have a deep and abiding need for “the pitt: night shift”

that’s so vibe coded bro

ah cool, latest iPadOS beta has a bug where if you have any other window open alongside apple music, and you try to minimize apple music (yellow traffic light), it crashes the entire window manager (FB22108687)

every week i tell myself “surely this is the worst apple music could possibly become” and every week i’m proven wrong again

yes because it’s clearly not @index https://torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-it-bad-that-anthropic-doesnt-know-if-claude-is-conscious/

them: as a senior engineer, i expect you to discuss tradeoffs in your technical solutions

me: cool, let’s talk about the externalities of LLMs

them: wait not like that

wanna feel old? it’s been two whole weeks since trump kidnapped maduro

please don’t make me learn python out of spite. they’re gonna make me learn python out of spite aren’t they

airpods vision pro max

anyone who says photography is dead because you can just generate any image you want doesn’t understand the purpose of photography

i don’t quite buy the argument that people who criticize ai are doing so from a position of privilege just because they may possess certain skills and even feel threatened by it.

if you would like something done for you, and it turns out you rely on stolen/underpaid labor, environmental destruction, and scam economics to do so, that’s not exactly the kind of magical liberatory politics you might think it is. it’s just not particularly well hidden arbitrage

little known fact: bedford ave in brooklyn is named after the late great actor bobert bedford

i finally understand michael burry’s gpu depreciation hypothesis and i agree

basically: if you buy an asset that lasts >1 year, you can spread the cost over those years. that’s depreciation. if you extend the asset’s useful lifetime, you get to spread out the costs over a greater number of years, so your expenses per year seem lower, and your profits seem greater.

data center corporations claim to have extended the useful life of GPUs by one or two years. but burry contends that the GPUs’ useful lifetime is shrinking, not growing, which makes that financial fraud

we need to get twist ties on the righty tighty lefty loosey standard