Tabs for February 17th 2023
- Ivory for macOS is on testflight. Spaces will be limited but it's worth a go. I'm slightly concerned about the pricing but we'll see where they land.
- Elon is being less than benevolant on his platform showing his content first & foremost. Just get a blog, Elon.
- One of the right-wing nuts in the US commits suicide ahead of trial. It's a rarity to find yourself really living in the same moment that history books will write what feel like bizarre prose about in future.
- Keanu has a contractual stipulation to avoid AI/modelling based on his performance. He is way, way ahead of the curve on this. Bruce Willis has already been AI'd into commercials in China.
- Apple pushes back mixed-reality headset to WWDC. Never first to market, always best to market. Though mixed reality feels early, especially for Apple. I'm massively, massively skeptical. And I'll be annoyed if it features a camera that records everyone, a-la Google Glass.
- Tesla factory workers seek to unionise. It's wild to me that factory workers in the US aren't automatically unionised. I say this as a comfortable tech worker, but we also need to think through unions in our industry, too.
- AWS architecting for sustainability. I work a good bit with folks at AWS through $job, so this stuff is great to see.
- Lauren Weinstein hits a great point about giving creatives control over AI. Generative AI is a new phrase to me, but the concept isn't. This new era of easily accessed, cheap generative AI is going to be messy. It's not quite wild west, which is actually part of the problem.
- Nat Bullard on trends in decarbonisation.
- EU votes to ban fossil car sales from 2035. I actually thought this was already ratified, but it's great to see!
- Eric Schmidt is betting on AI testing for war machines. Gross.
- Geoff Greer reviews gasoline car. I've seen a few of these before but this is hilariously spot-on. Once you've driven an EV for a while (in my case, years), fossil cars is batshit crazy things.
- Ferrari launched their new F1 car. No one does it quite like Ferrari. And once again, I'm aboard the hype train.
- Yale professor suggests mass suicide for old people in Japan. Ethics 101 wasn't part of his training, obviously.
- A Brilliant Mistake: Hacking into the Causes of an Epidemic of Light Pollution with Drew Carhart
- Intro to Zaha Hadid architecture. I love beautiful architecture, and a "Hadid building" is one of the finest things to grace a skyline with. I wish Dublin was more ambitious as it grows/develops it's identity in this regard.
- Data privacy is a nightmare in health
- What is a random number, anyway?. math.rand(), no?
- Monospace fonts. Architecture for the computer. I love a good font.
- Unlimited hols, good pay, great benefits in Berlin. Utopia isn't enriching the rich. It's having the rising tide raise all ships.
- Model F keyboard
- Study shows Irish EV infrastructure to be woeful. It just is inadequate for today, and not advancing at a rapid enough pace for the future when we have many more EVs on the road, reliant on those chargers.
- TikTok CEO on a charm offensive with US lawmakers. And it's not going well.
- Imposter syndrome vs being impostered. This resonated.
- Packing squares into squares can drive some mad results.
- Bing's ChatGPT-powered AI search threatens users.
- Sperm counts are declining
- China needs to get off coal