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Or are the children wrong?</a></h2> <div class="copy post">In the time of ChatGPT, "<a href="https://www.searchengine.show/listen/search-engine-1/playboi-farti-and-his-ai-homework-machine">is there some way for adults to force teens to still do homework? Or to convince them they should want to?</a>" The search for an answer, or at least some clarity, touches on the history of the five-paragraph essay, past letter writing culture, whether it's OK to use AI to write your wife a birthday card, and talks with John Warner, an author and long-time writing teacher who recently published <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1541605500/metafilter04-20/ref=nosim/">More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI</a></em>. Also featured are researchers at Harvard's <a href="https://digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu">Center for Digital Thriving</a>, on what they're learning from talking with Gen Z about tech and LLMs. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207676/Is-homework-out-of-touch-Or-are-the-children-wrong" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/309422">coffeecat</a> on Feb 15, 2025 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207676/Is-homework-out-of-touch-Or-are-the-children-wrong" target="_self">83 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207601/The-Casio-G-Shock-Watch" target="_self">The Casio G-Shock Watch</a></h2> <div class="copy post">You remember the scene in <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/207042/David-Cronenbergs-Crash">David Cronenberg's <i>Crash</i></a> when the people are sitting on a couch watching slow-motion car crash test videos in a soma-like daze? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzXt_dFFWgY">G-Shock Tests of Toughness</a> is like that, except with watches. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207601/The-Casio-G-Shock-Watch" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/342988">Lemkin</a> on Feb 10, 2025 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207601/The-Casio-G-Shock-Watch" target="_self">3 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207515/Pirate-Libraries-and-AI" target="_self">Pirate Libraries and AI</a></h2> <div class="copy post">“The future of AI innovation may hinge on the outcome of a global copyright debate. In the U.S., rightsholders are taking a hard line, pursuing legal action against AI companies that utilize copyrighted works without permission. However, other countries are adopting more lenient approaches, <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-libraries-are-forbidden-fruit-for-ai-companies-but-at-what-cost-250131/">allowing AI models to learn from the vast troves of data found in 'pirate' libraries</a>. This 'copyright schism' could have far-reaching consequences." <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207515/Pirate-Libraries-and-AI" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/342988">Lemkin</a> on Feb 5, 2025 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207515/Pirate-Libraries-and-AI" target="_self">44 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207500/We-need-to-uncouple-the-concept-of-technology-from-the-ideas-of-progress" target="_self">We need to uncouple the concept of technology from the ideas of progress</a></h2> <div class="copy post">The parts of the world that register the most patents are also, coincidentally, the parts of the world that have benefitted the most from patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism. In contrast, the places whose lands and peoples have historically been exploited by the metropolis are accused, today, of lagging behind in technological progress and not producing enough patents. Those who benefitted from slavery, from exploiting colonized territories, and from relegating their care work to women had the resources and time to dedicate to technological innovation, patenting it and reaping its economic profits. In these cases, the technological advances attributed to competition within the capitalist system are actually built on the systemic exploitation and oppression of other people’s bodies and territories—the same people who are later accused of technological backwardness. from<a href="https://www.guernicamag.com/inventing-the-commons-on-alternative-technologies/"> Inventing the Commons: On Alternative Technologies</a> by <a href="https://wordswithoutborders.org/contributors/view/yasnaya-elena-aguilar-gil/">Yásnaya Elena Gil </a>[Guernica]<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/96486">chavenet</a> on Feb 4, 2025 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207500/We-need-to-uncouple-the-concept-of-technology-from-the-ideas-of-progress" target="_self">9 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207478/Musk-DOGE-engineers-identified" target="_self">Musk DOGE engineers identified</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Elon Musk’s takeover of federal government infrastructure <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/">relies on the following six software engineers</a>: Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207478/Musk-DOGE-engineers-identified" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/286925">They sucked his brains out!</a> on Feb 2, 2025 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207478/Musk-DOGE-engineers-identified" target="_self">219 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207420/Bella-Hadids-Spray-On-Dress" target="_self">Bella Hadid's Spray-On Dress</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Coperni's Spring/Summer 2023 show during Paris Fashion Week featured model Bella Hadid being clothed onstage with a <a href="https://youtu.be/opF95jHtzDc?feature=shared&t=384">spray-on dress</a>. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207420/Bella-Hadids-Spray-On-Dress" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/342988">Lemkin</a> on Jan 30, 2025 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207420/Bella-Hadids-Spray-On-Dress" target="_self">39 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207386/Like-a-Rock" target="_self">Like a Rock</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Y1xxzN9mY" title="YT: Pebble Smartwatch Hands On | Engadget At CES 2013">The original Pebble smartwatch</a> launched in 2013 on the back of <a href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/starting-a-business/pebbles-10-million-crowdfunding-secret-keep-it-simple/229427" title="Entrepreneur: Pebble's $10 Million Crowdfunding Secret: Keep It Simple">a last-ditch Kickstarter</a> that ended up raising <a href="https://www.wired.com/2012/05/hands-on-with-pebble-smartwatch-the-most-successful-kickstarter-project-ever/" title="Wired: Hands On With Pebble Smartwatch, the Most Successful Kickstarter Project Ever">over $10 million</a>, the largest ever at the time. Though a bit clunky-looking, its <a href="https://wornandwound.com/review/pebble-watch-review/" title="Worn & Wound: Pebble Watch Review">crisp e-paper display, week-long battery life, and delightfully hackable OS</a> captured the hearts of tech geeks everywhere, inspiring a vibrant ecosystem of <a href="https://store-beta.rebble.io/faces" title="Rebble watchface store">watchface creators</a> and <a href="https://apps.rebble.io/en_US/watchapps" title="Rebble app store">app builders</a>. Another crowdfunding round in 2015 doubled their resources, leading to new models like <a href="https://www.pocket-lint.com/smartwatches/buyers-guides/135394-pebble-time-round-vs-pebble-time-vs-pebble-time-steel-which-should-you-choose/" title="Pocket-lint: Pebble Time Round vs Pebble Time vs Pebble Time Steel: Which should you choose?">the versatile Time, the businesslike Steel, and the elegant Round</a>. As powerful competitors like <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/05/review-the-absolutely-optional-apple-watch-and-watch-os-1-0/" title="Ars Technica: The absolutely optional Apple Watch and Watch OS 1.0">Apple</a> and <a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/7381/samsung-galaxy-gear-review" title="AnandTech: Samsung Galaxy Gear Review">Samsung</a> entered the scene, though, Pebble struggled with <a href="https://medium.com/@ericmigi/why-pebble-failed-d7be937c6232" title="Medium: Success and Failure at Pebble">budget crunches and manufacturing challenges</a>, and the company's assets were eventually <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-2-time-2-and-core-an-entirely-new-3g-ultra/posts/1752929" title="Pebble Kickstarter Update #17: The Time of Our Lives">sold off to rival Fitbit</a>. Undaunted, a dedicated community of open-source developers kept the faith over the years, organizing <a href="https://rebble.io/" title="Rebble.io FAQ">the Rebble Alliance project</a> to maintain support for the watch's app store, firmware, and cloud services. That Pebbler passion has been finally rewarded, as former CEO Eric Migicovsky has <a href="https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back" title="Eric Migicovsky: Why We’re Bringing Pebble Back">announced</a> the <a href="https://repebble.com/" title="RePebble.com: We're bringing Pebble back!">surprise return of Pebble watches</a>, including <a href="https://rebble.io/2025/01/27/the-future-of-rebble.html" title="Rebble Blog: The future of Rebble">a Rebble-sponsored hackathon</a> (and <a href="https://rebble.foundation/">foundation</a>) made possible by Fitbit owner <a href="https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/01/see-code-that-powered-pebble-smartwatches.html" title="Google Open Source Blog: See the code that powered the Pebble smartwatches">Google open-sourcing the full Pebble OS</a> (now available on <a href="https://github.com/google/pebble">Github</a>).<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/62135">Rhaomi</a> on Jan 27, 2025 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207386/Like-a-Rock" target="_self">16 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207369/Our-Cyber-Solar-Punk-Future" target="_self">Our Cyber/Solar-Punk Future</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="http://bactra.org/weblog/inherent-distortion.html">The Distortion Is Inherent in the Signal</a> - "Social media is a machine for 'creat[ing] publics with malformed collective understandings'... we know that the people who use social media are not representative of the population-at-large." <small><b>[link-heavy FPP! ;]</b></small> <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207369/Our-Cyber-Solar-Punk-Future" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/3217">kliuless</a> on Jan 27, 2025 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207369/Our-Cyber-Solar-Punk-Future" target="_self">14 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207367/IBM-Plex" target="_self">IBM Plex</a></h2> <div class="copy post">"As the new typeface for our diverse and global brand, <a href="https://www.ibm.com/plex/">IBM Plex®</a> is just as important as our name or our logo. It fine-tunes the tone of our words. It represents who we are and what we believe — as a company and as designers. Every decision was made with purpose; every detail has a reason for being." <small>(<a href="https://www.metafilter.com/187641/Goldman-Sachs-is-Sans-a-lot-of-things-if-you-ask-me">previously</a>)</small> <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207367/IBM-Plex" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/342988">Lemkin</a> on Jan 26, 2025 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207367/IBM-Plex" target="_self">25 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207263/The-Rolex-manufacturing-facilities" target="_self">The Rolex manufacturing facilities</a></h2> <div class="copy post">"By the time I received the invitation from Rolex Geneva to visit its four facilities, I had been to just about every other factory one could imagine – ranging from those who are simply packaging up pre-made movements and strapping them into off the shelf cases and dials, to those who are still doing everything by hand (but only producing a few watches per year). What I saw within the halls of Rolex wasn't like either; it was like seeing something brand new being made, something that went beyond a watch. The scale of everything, the detail, the people and perfection, is I think <a href="https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/inside-rolex">unique in watchmaking</a>, if not all consumer products."<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/342988">Lemkin</a> on Jan 19, 2025 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207263/The-Rolex-manufacturing-facilities" target="_self">40 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207256/Caution-Nerds" target="_self">Caution: Nerds</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Journalist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Evans_(journalist)">Robert Evans</a>, best known for his sharp, sardonic perspective in everything from <a href="https://www.cracked.com/members/PurpleTowel">Cracked</a> to <a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/author/robertevans/">Bellingcat</a> to <em><a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Podcast/BehindTheBastards">Behind the Bastards</a></em>, live-skeeted <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/iwriteok.bsky.social/post/3lfbjsaqpks2k">his experience</a> of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the annual showcase of the latest tech coming your way (whether you like it or not). Lowlights of the bacchanalia can be found in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrW2EqGO3b4&list=PL1yENLKAoRl2-v2Fet8T78fO2Q6AXXRAw">a series of increasingly pointed episodes of <em>Better Offline</em></a> (hosted by fellow Silicon Valley curmudgeon <a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/">Ed Zitron</a>). But it wasn't all bad -- true to the show's mission to be "an oasis within a tech industry gone wrong", Robert and friends made a discovery: <em><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/iwriteok.bsky.social/post/3lfg4vvfojc2y">after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"</a></em>. And reader, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/lupusastartis.bsky.social/post/3lfg6m2rl6c2y">there</a> are <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jdemacek.bsky.social/post/3lfgc3wdfxs2f">pictures</a>. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207256/Caution-Nerds" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/62135">Rhaomi</a> on Jan 19, 2025 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207256/Caution-Nerds" target="_self">30 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207204/Yet-another-thing-that-can-run-DOOM" target="_self">Yet another thing that can run DOOM</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Would you believe: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/01/this-pdf-contains-a-playable-copy-of-doom/">a PDF</a>?<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/342988">Lemkin</a> on Jan 15, 2025 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207204/Yet-another-thing-that-can-run-DOOM" target="_self">8 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207099/Starliners-CrowdStrike-and-AI-slop" target="_self">Starliners, CrowdStrike and AI slop</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/17/1108883/the-8-worst-technology-failures-of-2024/">The 8 worst technology failures of 2024</a>, according to MIT Technology Review.<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/14358">gottabefunky</a> on Jan 8, 2025 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207099/Starliners-CrowdStrike-and-AI-slop" target="_self">39 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207095/Liquid-hot-plasma" target="_self">Liquid hot plasma</a></h2> <div class="copy post">It's been 8 years since we <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/161253/Fusion-power-a-new-hope">last checked in</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER">ITER</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2CnCrz38F4">How's it coming along?</a> <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207095/Liquid-hot-plasma" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/342988">Lemkin</a> on Jan 8, 2025 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/207095/Liquid-hot-plasma" target="_self">34 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206954/The-Most-Important-Machine-in-the-World" target="_self">The Most Important Machine in the World</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/it-s-the-most-indispensable-machine-in-the-world-and-it-depends-on-this-woman/ar-AA1wHmvg">And it depends on this woman.</a> “I thought I had the coolest job ever,” Hall says. “I didn’t process the fact that this job is necessary for our entire world to exist as it does.” <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206954/The-Most-Important-Machine-in-the-World" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/37485">JohnnyGunn</a> on Dec 30, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206954/The-Most-Important-Machine-in-the-World" target="_self">33 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206917/The-Sinclair-ZX81" target="_self">The Sinclair ZX81</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="http://rk.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/contents.htm">Sir Clive Sinclair</a>’s technological masterpiece, <a href="https://i.ibb.co/g6cGZCW/zc81.jpg">the ZX81 personal computer</a>, with its <a href="https://i.ibb.co/TkYy4nK/lena.gif">cutting edge graphics</a>, was typecast as a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW8QoL4NYkU">gaming</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60twpQJQEY8">rig</a>, but it was capable of <a href="https://archive.org/details/Sinclair_ZX81_TOSEC_2012_04_23">much more</a>. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206917/The-Sinclair-ZX81" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/342988">Lemkin</a> on Dec 27, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206917/The-Sinclair-ZX81" target="_self">46 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206898/A-True-Brain-Controlled-Bionic-Leg-Now-In-Use-By-Research-Participants" target="_self">A True Brain-Controlled Bionic Leg, Now In Use By Research Participants</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/16/a-bionic-leg-controlled-by-the-brain">A Bionic Leg Controlled by the Brain.</a> (<a href="https://archive.is/WrhqK">Ungated</a>.) <a href="https://gearjunkie.com/climbing/mountaineering/109-below-mount-washington-rescue-video">More personal context about the researcher Hugh Herr</a>.<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/29638">StrikeTheViol</a> on Dec 26, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206898/A-True-Brain-Controlled-Bionic-Leg-Now-In-Use-By-Research-Participants" target="_self">14 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206867/As-we-form-tighter-bonds-our-intentions-merge" target="_self">As we form tighter bonds, our intentions merge</a></h2> <div class="copy post">We talk a lot these days about Big Data, those heaping stores of digitized information that, fueling search and recommendation engines, social media feeds, and, now, artificial intelligence models, govern so much of our lives today. But we don’t give much notice to what might be called little data—all those fleeting, discrete bits of information that swarm around us like gnats on a humid summer evening. Measurements and readings. Forecasts and estimates. Facts and statistics. Yet it’s the little data, at least as much as the big stuff, that shapes our sense of ourselves and the world around us as we click and scroll through our days. from <a href="https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/in-need-of-repair/articles/all-the-little-data">All the Little Data</a> [Hedgehog Review]<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/96486">chavenet</a> on Dec 24, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206867/As-we-form-tighter-bonds-our-intentions-merge" target="_self">12 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206821/Creative-Computing" target="_self">Creative Computing</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.atariarchives.org/bcc1/index.php?showdetails=1"><i>The Best of Creative Computing, Volume 1</i> (1976) - edited by David Ahl</a><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/342988">Lemkin</a> on Dec 20, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206821/Creative-Computing" target="_self">16 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206798/10-INPUT-ENTER-TRANSACTIONCS-GOSUB-1000" target="_self">10 INPUT "ENTER TRANSACTION",CS: GOSUB 1000</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Annoyed by Windows ads, AI and upsell? Macs too expensive? Upgrade cycle got you down? Truth is, you don't really need a lot of computer for many purposes, a fact known by Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsberg, Indiana, which for decades has used <a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/indiana-bakery-still-using-commodore-64s-originally-released-in-1982-as-point-of-sale-terminals">Commodore 64s as their cash registers</a>.<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/23306">JHarris</a> on Dec 19, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206798/10-INPUT-ENTER-TRANSACTIONCS-GOSUB-1000" target="_self">18 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206716/WE-call-information-DATA" target="_self">WE call information "DATA!"</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Youtube channel PeriscopeFilm is a movie archival group that specializes in military subjects, but an anomaly among its collection is "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mVi1FA2b6o">Microcomputers: An Introduction</a>" from 1982, a 17 minute cartoon where farm girl Jennifer positively dances and sings with delight at the prospect of introducing city cousin Jack to the wonders of home computing. They also trap a bank robber remotely in their entirely computer-automated barn.<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/23306">JHarris</a> on Dec 14, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206716/WE-call-information-DATA" target="_self">5 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206633/somewhat-of-an-embarrassment" target="_self">somewhat of an embarrassment</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/12/03/scratch-and-sniff-stickers-and-the-gas-panic-of-87/">SCRATCH AND SNIFF STICKERS AND THE GAS PANIC OF ’87</a> <em>Most Scratch and Sniff stickers are simple nose-based novelties, though they’ve seen other uses as diagnostic tools, too. As Baltimore Gas and Electric discovered in 1987, though, these stickers can also cause a whole lot of hullabaloo. Let’s explore how this nifty technology works, and how it can go—somewhat amusingly—wrong.</em><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/245633">Ten Cold Hot Dogs</a> on Dec 8, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206633/somewhat-of-an-embarrassment" target="_self">11 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206614/Oh-no-Yet-another-story-on-battery-technology" target="_self">Oh no! Yet another story on battery technology...</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/12/lower-cost-sodium-ion-batteries-are-finally-having-their-moment/">Lower-cost sodium-ion batteries are finally having their moment</a> <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206614/Oh-no-Yet-another-story-on-battery-technology" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/19153">fairmettle</a> on Dec 7, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206614/Oh-no-Yet-another-story-on-battery-technology" target="_self">5 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206474/The-whole-idea-of-fully-focused-rapt-attention-is-a-modern-construction" target="_self">The whole idea of fully focused, rapt attention is a modern construction</a></h2> <div class="copy post">I remember going to the Uffizi 20 years ago, and tourists were walking around like zombies taking video footage of the entire experience, not pausing to look at the work. I’m in favor of tolerating hybrid spectatorship, where you look at the work and maybe take a photo as well. Obviously, going too far in either direction is also not great: If you’re only experiencing something through mediation, why are you there? And the “slow looking” movement comes across as pretty conservative—it’s excessively reverential and technophobic. I want to make a case for both being possible, for being with your phone as a way of close looking. from <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/claire-bishop-art-social-media-interview/">Looking at Art Will Never Be the Same Again</a> [The Nation; <a href="https://archive.is/gqrFR">ungated</a>] <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206474/The-whole-idea-of-fully-focused-rapt-attention-is-a-modern-construction" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/96486">chavenet</a> on Nov 27, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206474/The-whole-idea-of-fully-focused-rapt-attention-is-a-modern-construction" target="_self">30 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206425/The-Organization-is-a-Future-Adversary" target="_self">"The Organization is a Future Adversary"</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/">How decentralized is Bluesky really?</a> Christine Lemmer-Webber, co-author of the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/">ActivityPub</a> standard, wrote about <a href="https://atproto.com/">ATProto</a>, the protocol underlying Bluesky. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206425/The-Organization-is-a-Future-Adversary" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/106732">chinesefood</a> on Nov 23, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206425/The-Organization-is-a-Future-Adversary" target="_self">35 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206361/Were-All-Bezos-on-This-Bus" target="_self">We're All Bezos on This Bus</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://magazine.mindplex.ai/firesign-theatre-the-greatest-satirist-of-20th-century-media-culture-and-its-techno-romanticism-were-not-insane-an-interview-with-jeremy-bradock/">R.U. Sirius interviews Jeremy Braddock</a> about his new book <em><a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/books/firesign/paper">Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as told in Nine Comedy Albums</a></em> and the place of the seminal comedy group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firesign_Theatre">The Firesign Theatre</a> in 20th century technoculture. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206361/Were-All-Bezos-on-This-Bus" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/45762">Horace Rumpole</a> on Nov 18, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206361/Were-All-Bezos-on-This-Bus" target="_self">20 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206328/The-Weeds-Are-Winning" target="_self">The Weeds Are Winning</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/10/1105034/weeds-climate-change-genetic-engineering-superweeds-food/">As weed resistance to herbicides is becoming widespread, there is an urgent effort to find new solutions.</a> [MIT Lab Review] These could range from high tech methods like using AI and lasers to more traditional ways of working with nature.<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/20708">blue shadows</a> on Nov 15, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206328/The-Weeds-Are-Winning" target="_self">23 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206316/My-mom-was-happy-with-the-display-right-away" target="_self">My mom was happy with the display right away</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://jan.miksovsky.com/about">Jan Miksovsky</a>'s mom can't make new long-term memories, and gets anxious about her family. So he created a simple e-ink display for her: <a href="https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2024/11-12-momboard">MomBoard</a>. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206316/My-mom-was-happy-with-the-display-right-away" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/110952">Stark</a> on Nov 15, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206316/My-mom-was-happy-with-the-display-right-away" target="_self">23 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206130/An-aging-contraption-hurtling-into-the-future" target="_self">An aging contraption hurtling into the future</a></h2> <div class="copy post">But what if the world really is constructed that way? In that case, it could be a mistake to put too much faith in digital perfection. We might need to fiddle with our technology more than we think. And we might also want to see it differently—less as an emanation from the future, and more like an inheritance from the past, with all the problems that entails. from <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/could-steampunk-save-us">Could Steampunk Save Us?</a> [The New Yorker; <a href="https://archive.is/xcdTd">ungated</a>]<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/96486">chavenet</a> on Nov 1, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/206130/An-aging-contraption-hurtling-into-the-future" target="_self">28 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/205845/Galaxy-Gals" target="_self">Galaxy Gals</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/06/the-queen-of-suspense-how-ann-radcliffe-inspired-dickens-and-austen-then-got-written-out-of-the-canon">The queen of suspense: how Ann Radcliffe inspired Dickens and Austen – then got written out of the canon</a> - "She was all but forgotten. Now the 18th-century author's republished novels reveal why she made such an extraordinary contribution to literature." <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/205845/Galaxy-Gals" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/3217">kliuless</a> on Oct 10, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/205845/Galaxy-Gals" target="_self">19 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/205673/Qui-bono" target="_self">Qui bono?</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/799b4fcf-2cf7-41d2-81b4-10d9ecdd83f6?accessToken=zwAAAZIz7o5ekc95m0_PLPdB0tOBtBDZ7N2D9g.MEUCIALvrxdBsoEa_-GUklobSx82790kbV9Bbc5028ZJsnBRAiEAx0xRgKL8O5ewUuTLPJYBzpfaOGq5rk-eQ">Meredith Whitraker of Signal talks about the AI economy with FT.</a> A brief profile and interview of one of the few voices within tech willing to speak out about the relationship of surveillance technologies and AI. “I was just trying to figure out how do we support the community that is effectively building prophylactics to the business model I’m beginning to understand?” <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/205673/Qui-bono" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/338686">Smedly, Butlerian jihadi</a> on Sep 27, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/205673/Qui-bono" target="_self">15 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/205467/squeeks-And-One-More-Thing" target="_self">*squeeks* And One More Thing</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.ifixit.com/News/11986/iphones-are-allergic-to-helium">iPhones are allergic to helium</a><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/47284">lucidium</a> on Sep 12, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/205467/squeeks-And-One-More-Thing" target="_self">21 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/205448/Powered-by-hot-air" target="_self">Powered by hot air?</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><em>As it turns out, AI has a lot in common with steam power, which improved productivity in a range of jobs and clearly foreshadowed the major changes that were to come. Still, steam-powered machines that could automate farm work were available for more than 100 years before it actually happened. Complementary innovation was required, and I suspect that will be true as well with generative AI.</em> from <a href="https://forklightning.substack.com/p/what-steam-power-and-generative-ai">What steam power and generative AI have in common</a> [Forked Lightning]<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/96486">chavenet</a> on Sep 10, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/205448/Powered-by-hot-air" target="_self">48 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/205290/Notes-on-Retrofuturism" target="_self">Notes on Retrofuturism</a></h2> <div class="copy post">"Technostalgia can be described as the fuzzy feeling one gets when seeing a device one used to use, having forgotten all its limitations or why it was upgraded. It is the warm endearment toward home computers of the 1980s that one might have encountered as a child, or else an unexplained fetishism for technology that predates one’s own lifetime but which represents a certain idea of the future — <a href="https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/notes-on-retrofuturism">usually the optimistic future that one wishes to inhabit, not the messy, complicated, fraught present.</a>"<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/57074">cupcakeninja</a> on Aug 30, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/205290/Notes-on-Retrofuturism" target="_self">27 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/205117/Theres-a-significant-intimidation-factor" target="_self">There’s a significant intimidation factor</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/14/1096534/homeland-security-facial-recognition-immigration-border/">The US wants to use facial recognition to identify migrant children as they age.</a> <em>"The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking into ways it might use facial recognition technology to track the identities of migrant children, “down to the infant,” as they age, according to John Boyd, assistant director of the department’s Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM), where a key part of his role is to research and develop future biometric identity services for the government."</em><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/14283">ursus_comiter</a> on Aug 16, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/205117/Theres-a-significant-intimidation-factor" target="_self">26 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/204948/Re-sourcing-the-Mind" target="_self">Re-sourcing the Mind</a></h2> <div class="copy post">What might we lose and gain through widespread usage of Large Language Models? The invention of writing allowed a way to offload our thoughts and memories onto objects and it has since formed an indispensable part of our civilization. <a href="https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/re-sourcing-the-mind">Technology philosopher L.M. Sacasas examines the historical parallel and asks if we might be losing something fundamentally human as people start using it not just for boilerplate but deeply personal expressions.</a><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/147239">ndr</a> on Aug 4, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/204948/Re-sourcing-the-Mind" target="_self">61 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/204672/if-you-understand-this-youre-a-giant-nerd" target="_self">if you understand this youre a giant nerd</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07VWD36Rfc0">Vibroplex: the Fastest Key in the West</a> <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/204672/if-you-understand-this-youre-a-giant-nerd" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/85311">ChurchHatesTucker</a> on Jul 15, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/204672/if-you-understand-this-youre-a-giant-nerd" target="_self">9 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/204337/A-Genealogy-of-Technology-and-Power-Since-1500" target="_self">A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://calculatingempires.net">Calculating Empires:</a> A "large-scale research visualization" by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler showing the evolution of communications technologies and how they have been used to advance projects of social control.<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/118611">Cash4Lead</a> on Jun 24, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/204337/A-Genealogy-of-Technology-and-Power-Since-1500" target="_self">7 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203818/Exactly-how-stupid-was-what-OpenAI-did-to-Scarlett-Johansson" target="_self">Exactly how stupid was what OpenAI did to Scarlett Johansson?</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://wapo.st/4bNasDf">We ranked it.</a> It's #6, so you know - somewhere between Musk and Uber. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203818/Exactly-how-stupid-was-what-OpenAI-did-to-Scarlett-Johansson" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/212189">Toddles</a> on May 21, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203818/Exactly-how-stupid-was-what-OpenAI-did-to-Scarlett-Johansson" target="_self">109 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203799/AI-detic-Memory" target="_self">AI-detic Memory</a></h2> <div class="copy post">Microsoft held a live event today <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JmkWJNng2I">showcasing their vision</a> of the future of the home PC (or <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/05/20/microsoft-surface-copilot-qualcomm-recall-ai">"Copilot+ PC"</a>), boasting longer battery life, better-standardized ARM processors, and (predictably) a whole host of new AI features built on <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/lets-get-personal-computing/learn-about-windows-on-arm-with-the-npu-accelerated-windows-arm-developer-kit">dedicated hardware</a>, from <a href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copilot-pcs/">real-time translation to in-system assistant prompts to custom-guided image creation</a>. Perhaps most interesting is <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24159258/microsoft-recall-ai-explorer-windows-11-surface-event">the new "Recall" feature</a> that records all on-screen activity securely on-device, allowing natural-language recall of all articles read, text written, and videos seen. It's just the first foray into <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/05/17/ai-pc-computers-microsoft-apple">a new era of AI PCs</a> -- and Apple is expected to join the push with <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-and-openai-are-prepping-a-big-announcement-for-wwdc">an expected partnership with OpenAI debuting at WWDC next month</a>. In a tech world that has lately been defined by the smartphone, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/technology/microsoft-copilot-ai-pc.html">can AI make the PC cool again?</a><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/62135">Rhaomi</a> on May 20, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203799/AI-detic-Memory" target="_self">120 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203709/Well-you-seem-like-a-person-but-youre-just-a-voice-in-a-computer" target="_self">"Well, you seem like a person, but you're just a voice in a computer"</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/" title="OpenAI: Hello GPT-4o">OpenAI unveils GPT-4o</a>, a new flagship "omnimodel" capable of processing text, audio, and video. While it delivers big improvements in speed, cost, and reasoning ability, perhaps the most impressive is its new voice mode -- while <a href="https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-can-now-see-hear-and-speak/" title="ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak (September 2023)">the old version</a> was a clunky speech --> text --> speech approach with tons of latency, the new model takes in audio directly and responds in kind, enabling real-time conversations with an eerily realistic voice, one that can <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQacCB9tDaw&t=712s" title="Demo: GPT-4o responds to requests">recognize multiple speakers</a> and even <a href="https://vimeo.com/945587286" title="Demo: GPT-4o responds with sarcasm and laughter">respond with sarcasm, laughter, and other emotional content of speech</a>. Rumor has it <a href="https://archive.is/ryan7" title="Bloomberg: Apple Nears Deal With OpenAI to Put ChatGPT on iPhone">Apple has neared a deal with the company</a> to revamp an aging Siri, while the advance has clear implications for <a href="https://vimeo.com/945587864" title="Demo: Customer service call">customer service</a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/945587808" title="Demo: Translation">translation</a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/945587328" title="Demo: Homework help">education</a>, and even <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/technology/meet-my-ai-friends.html" title="NYT: Meet My A.I. Friends">virtual companions</a> (or perhaps <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ai-girlfriend-boyfriend-replika-paradot-113df1b9ed069ed56162793b50f3a9fa" title="AP: Artificial intelligence, real emotion. People are seeking a romantic connection with the perfect bot">"lovers"</a>, as the <a href="https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/what-can-we-expect-from-the-openai-event" title="Tom's Guide on comparisons to 'Her'">allusions</a> to Spike Jonze's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV01B5kVsC0" title="Scene: Meeting Samantha"><em>Her</em></a>, the Samantha-esque demo voice, and <a href="https://mashable.com/article/openai-nsfw-no-pornography" title="Mashable: Despite NSFW explorations, OpenAI says porn is off the table">opening the door to mature content</a> imply). Meanwhile, the <a href="https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-and-more-tools-to-chatgpt-free/" title="OpenAI: Introducing GPT-4o and more tools to ChatGPT free users">offloading of most premium ChatGPT features to the free tier</a> suggests something bigger coming down the pike.<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/62135">Rhaomi</a> on May 13, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203709/Well-you-seem-like-a-person-but-youre-just-a-voice-in-a-computer" target="_self">150 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203557/We-Need-to-Rewild-the-Internet" target="_self">We Need to Rewild the Internet</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/">People who care about internet monoculture and control are often told they’re nostalgists harkening back to a pioneer era. It’s fiendishly hard to regenerate an open and competitive infrastructure for younger generations who’ve been raised to assume that two or three platforms, two app stores, two operating systems, two browsers, one cloud/mega-store and a single search engine for the world comprise <em>the internet</em>.</a> (Noema sl) <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203557/We-Need-to-Rewild-the-Internet" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/112463">Kitteh</a> on May 2, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203557/We-Need-to-Rewild-the-Internet" target="_self">54 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203547/Hold-infinity-in-the-palm-of-your-hand" target="_self">Hold infinity in the palm of your hand</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/palm-os-and-the-devices-that-ran-it-an-ars-retrospective/">Palm OS and the devices that ran it</a> - a retrospective on the popular <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant">PDA</a> and precursor to the smartphone.<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/110952">Stark</a> on May 1, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203547/Hold-infinity-in-the-palm-of-your-hand" target="_self">38 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203493/The-end-of-the-end-of-passwords" target="_self">The end of "the end of passwords"?</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><blockquote><a href="https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shattered-dream/">At this point I think that Passkeys will fail</a> in the hands of the general consumer population. We missed our golden chance to eliminate passwords through a desire to capture markets and promote hype. Corporate interests have overruled good user experience once again. Just like ad-blockers, I predict that Passkeys will only be used by a small subset of the technical population, and consumers will generally reject them. To reiterate - my partner, who is extremely intelligent, an avid computer gamer and <em>veterinary surgeon</em> has sworn off Passkeys because the user experience is so shit. She wants to go back to passwords. And I'm starting to agree - a password manager gives a better experience than passkeys. That's right. I'm here saying <em>passwords are a better experience than passkeys</em>. Do you know how much it pains me to write this sentence? </blockquote> Aussie software engineer <a href="https://fy.blackhats.net.au/pages/about/">William "Firstyear" Brown</a> pours one out for <a href="https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shattered-dream/">the "shattered dream" of passkeys.</a> <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203493/The-end-of-the-end-of-passwords" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/62135">Rhaomi</a> on Apr 26, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203493/The-end-of-the-end-of-passwords" target="_self">45 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203404/No-Tech-for-Apartheid-organizers-fired" target="_self">No Tech for Apartheid organizers fired</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><em>In an internal memo Wednesday, Google announced the firing of 28 employees in connection to a protest of Project Nimbus. The previous day inside Google offices in New York and California, a couple dozen employees staged a sit-in to bring awareness to the $1.2 billion Israeli government contract. It began in 2021 and provides cloud computing services to Israel—specifically, we’ve recently learned, to the Israeli Ministry of Defense—and though it has faced internal criticism since its inception, efforts against it have naturally intensified since October 7th. The memo from Google’s global head of security Chris Rackow was ominous. “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies,” he wrote to the company’s thousands of employees, “think again.”</em> <a href="https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/google-worker-fired-protest-israel-project-nimbus?utm_source=www.thehandbasket.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=i-spoke-with-a-google-worker-fired-for-protesting-a-1-2-billion-contract-with-israel">From Marisa Kabas of The Handbasket</a>. <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203404/No-Tech-for-Apartheid-organizers-fired" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/179924">Bella Donna</a> on Apr 19, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203404/No-Tech-for-Apartheid-organizers-fired" target="_self">72 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203329/The-Interdimensional-Jukebox" target="_self">The Interdimensional Jukebox</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/eY7xtug1dV6hbfCDhyHJua">Dune the Broadway Musical</a> [Showtunes] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/282ZPSyaunNC8GjegZ1LD1">Baby On Board</a> [Barbershop] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/coixNX1gnJ1oWT8z2LQddk">Carolina-O</a> [Indie Country] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/aiUsRe4JZrWPkqpdhoBpxr">Sabrosito Amor</a> [Latin] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/uUjAaApMbjmMqBoj6Z6dsd">Rising Sun Gospel</a> [Soul] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/xtju1X31YfVbKWTCGd4yw7">Allegro Consort in C</a> [Classical] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/cSJprYpAfFaJi15EtWTKU2">You Spilt a Coffee on my Dog</a> [R&B] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/rmjjqujd8xjQtB8fezYrJ6">Potion Seller</a> [60s Folk] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/3D9eDjSxLa6oet9zwFFUkg">I'm Not Your Star</a> [Screamo] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/aKk8tu8VCyhcyZmyBf6rg4">SNES Greensleeves</a> [Chiptune] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/hVFdh7fVyyJzwgwWPQRQtt">Syncopated Rhythms</a> [Jazz] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/dGGsT3ibv4Zfkx77tq5wjP">Tavern Serenades</a> [Fiddle] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/hcFMx3mc25vUvq9Vm1hGE5">My Tamagotchi died in '98</a> [Country Pop] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/wwC5fdj9U2c9cNNFxVBgBN">Senna Tea Blues</a> [Bluegrass] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/x988To7icPA4K8xGfme7kW">Unexpected Item in Bagging Area (A Cowboy's Lament)</a> [Americana] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/3t2xTSBwiiPeaJuebrdzvP">Herb's Whisper</a> [Hip-hop] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/n1S3APz6G7YxuqUXdWyBjh">Metropolis Pt. 3</a> [Prog metal] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/kHABgFqYJ5Bomixw9Jm5FZ">F**k You Elmo</a> [Acoustic Guitar] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/p66uVGEgifEBLdoR5Ttyue">Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet</a> [Orchestral] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/6XhapqbsP1mupg8hJhytPb">ムーンライト【.】【3】【1】</a>[Vaporwave] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/9AzxCSCME1s7ZrCpPCVWtL">Dreaming Miku</a> [Vocaloid] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/r9Ne4xBUBW66o842Bs31Jc">The Deku Tree’s Decree</a> [Broadway] - <a href="https://www.udio.com/songs/1vdVciNLTro4cvRP49FXmD">Website on the Internet</a> [50s A Capella] // <a href="https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/meet-udio-the-most-realistic-ai-music-creation-tool-ive-ever-tried">Meet Udio — the most realistic AI music creation tool I’ve ever tried</a> <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203329/The-Interdimensional-Jukebox" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/62135">Rhaomi</a> on Apr 13, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203329/The-Interdimensional-Jukebox" target="_self">33 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203289/Welcome-the-new-Overlords" target="_self">Welcome the new Overlords</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-american-capitalism-mutate-into-american-corporatism/">How Did American Capitalism Mutate Into American Corporatism</a><br> In short, this corporatism – in all its iterations including the regulatory state and the patent war chest that maintains and enforces monopoly – is the core source of all the current despotism.<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/18324">adamvasco</a> on Apr 11, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203289/Welcome-the-new-Overlords" target="_self">48 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203149/Dont-Be-Email" target="_self">Don't Be Email</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><a href="https://googlepress.blogspot.com/2004/04/google-gets-message-launches-gmail.html">User Complaint About Existing Services Leads Google to Create Search-Based Webmail; Search is Number Two Online Activity – Email is Number One; "Heck, Yeah," Say Google Founders</a>: <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2024/04/01/gmails-20th-anniversary-technologys-best-april-fools-prank-yet/">Gmail's 20th anniversary: Technology's best April Fool's prank yet</a><br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/96486">chavenet</a> on Apr 1, 2024 - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203149/Dont-Be-Email" target="_self">26 comments</a> </span> </div><br> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/203079/The-right-side-of-history-and-the-cost-curve" target="_self">The right side of history (and the cost curve)</a></h2> <div class="copy post"><i>"We learned when somebody's back is up against the wall, they come up with a lot of creative solutions. And if they don't have a lot of money, like Ukraine doesn't, they can figure it out."</i> As crucial American aid remains <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/25/ukraine-aid-house-republicans-mike-johnson" title="The Guardian: Ukraine aid back on US agenda – but still at mercy of unruly Republicans">tied up in Congress</a>, Ukrainian defenses have been forced to improvise with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O0sRM-uY7E" title="WSJ video: Lessons on Low-Cost Deterrence and Drones From Ukraine">cheaper, lower-tech, but surprisingly effective countermeasures</a>, from <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2024/03/07/how-ukraine-is-building-a-drone-army-at-its-kitchen-tables/" title="Forbes: How Ukraine Is Building A Drone Army At Its Kitchen Tables">bleeding-edge first-person piloted kamikaze drones</a> and <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ingenious-ukrainians-invent-homemade-war-machine-out-of-old-soviet-weapons-to-gun-down-russians" title="Daily Beast: Ukrainians Invent Homemade War Machine to Gun Down Russians">repurposed Soviet tech</a> to <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-donetsk-bakhmut-nightmare-rockets-/32455962.html" title="RFE: The 'Nightmaremobile': Ukrainian Soldiers Devise Improvised Combat Vehicle">pickup truck-mounted MIRV launchers</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-says-using-frankensam-weapons-fusing-us-soviet-weapons-2023-12" title="BI: Ukraine says it deployed its 'FrankenSAM' air-defense systems made from stitching together US and Soviet weapons">"FrankenSAM"</a> hybrids to <a href="https://u24.gov.ua/safeskies" title="United24: Safe Skies">Project Safe Skies</a>: a donation-driven network of 8,000 cellphones and mics on sticks whose crowdsourced acoustic monitoring detected 84 out of 84 Russian UAVs in one day and shot down 80 of them with anti-aircraft fire -- at a cost of only $500 a pop.<br> <span class="smallcopy postbyline"> posted by <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/62135">Rhaomi</a> on Mar 26, 2024 - 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