Here’s my audio/video dispatch about framing tech through conservation of energy to kill the magical thinking of generative ai and the like podcast ep: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/968a91dd/kill-magic-thinking video ep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLHmtYWzHz8

aw thanks

ICYI here’s me getting a bit ranty about generative ai products https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5MQb-uNf2U

how much is templated now? reckon it’ll be 3hrs every time?

I get where you’re coming from but we’re talking about two completely separate layers of abstraction.

If you define data as a material, which you can, then software is going to be a very good means for working with data. It’ll be the best!

But for that to happen you have to have decided that data is the key to whatever purpose you are aiming to satisfy. You’re saying that all purposes are a matter of data manipulation.

I don’t actually say that software cannot be a product, I say that it can’t be categorised as a product in itself. As in, it doesn’t make sense to have “furniture products, exercise products, data products, surveillance products, and SOFTWARE products” - that doesn’t mean something made out of software can’t be a product.

BTW I’m not claiming this is novel, in fact I know it’s not. I’m also not taking it personal, feedback is why I post this shit.

I don’t know what part of my post you are responding to

thanks! I’m glad it sparked this response

and every step of the way, I can customize what I’m doing to fit my own needs.

Is a key thing here, hey. It’s also important to be able to pull things in as you need them and be aware of how those things put a load on your computer. So then it’s important to be able to take them out 100% as well.

I know this is kind of how stuff works but it’s the kinda that is the thing for me. One of the design goals of my project is that 100% of what is running is 100% of what is needed at that time

Just to add, this video doesn’t say much about the actual idea in detail. I have plenty more to say about that. It is more philosophical groundwork to lead into an upcoming video about the thing itself

I hate how much firefox has been growing to this point of being the best, by a smaller and smaller margin, of a fucking shit bunch

This is great, thanks for sharing

It’s probably more sensible for me to try writing short bits too, instead of faffing around with videos

really, thanks for listening! It’s fun making them and nice to know they are being listened to

holy shit, I really don’t know if this is real or a joke

thanks! It might be uncommon because it’s a real pain in the ass to keep it short. Every time I make one I stress about how easily my point can be misunderstood because there are so few details. Good way to practice the art of moving on

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the woman who is quote tweeting in the twitter screenshot above. I don’t want to write her name for search indexing

LB creeps me the f out (sorry, not much else to add)

imagine if actual roadmaps just said “we want to tell you how to get there” “we hate giving you bad directions” “we will make sure you get there at some time in the future”

hay guys, sorry for spam - I just want to shill my videos/audios i’m trying to put out twice a week (I’ve already done 9!). They are 3-5 mins long and all around one particular theme of tech crit

video versions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwvAAoSdsXWxHwFbULgbpVGiLmJZv4X1g audio versions:

• apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faster-and-worse/id1792154689
• spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/62Q7vclARxKjMAOtwXfOIu
• they are also in all the other major podcast platforms. Let me know if you’re interested but can’t find it.

Let me know if you like it/hate it

oh yeah! That spiral-bound monster was great. I was too young and dumb at the time to actually learn basic but I used to copy the programs from that book into the command line and run them to see what they did. Great memories, thanks!