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> The structure of this post is a bit of a miss for me. Sorry about that. I wanted to write a short post about writing non-fiction but it turned out to be a bit longer than expected and I need to get to work now. I hope you enjoyed it.

It almost reads like the author climbed the tree to shake its branches and content himself with whatever dropped. Which in this case is fine by me.

This is good blogging right here and sound advice for all writers on the web to follow.

But I'm a little disappointed that one of those ink blot looking circles (preferably the big one on the left) did not lead back to the home page.

That's why I don't trust 'em neither!

Thank you for being able to point out and articulate these issues. LLMs have a habit of laundering pre-existing concepts per the interests (or input) of any given user.

What is the average person losing now on closed platforms?

Think about why they should care about your answer and if there's any proof that it bothers them to the degree that they may view your alternative platforms as actual solutions.

If I was someone who funded/relied on A/I's services I would have been trying to figure out what would it had taken for the US State Department to produce evidence for their allegations and would have lobbied for some sort of determination of whether the scope of A/I's involvement with said parties and their actions violated their own policies/terms of service.

Otherwise there is a way to look at this as A/I getting away scot-free for failing to administer their policies, failing to hold bad actors accountable and ultimately letting down individuals and organizations who lawfully used their services.

I'm also not surprised that A/I themselves never anticipated something like this happening and did not have some sort of protocol in place to deal with it. They had 25 years to do so.

Then do you think that the average person's disinterest in moving to different platforms is a bad thing? How does this affect the ideal version of the web it seems like you're advocating for?

What are incentives for the average person? Their logic seems straightforward: they want to be where their friends are at. And all they want to do there is cycle through their base emotions at a whim's pace.

Whatever politics or technologies that make alternative platforms "better" to some people doesn't matter to most. The idea that new platforms should even have the "millions" (read: the masses) in mind comes across as being antithetical to the trend toward decentralized tech.

The idea that society was always going to be literate—as in a book-reading people—is sort of absurd, especially when the practice is treated like a means to an end and the medium of the book itself is rivaled by digital media that affects its audience quicker, requiring less effort from them in return.

Now force all of culture and the most basic forms of social interactions through this digitally mediated funnel. You get the worst aspects of pre-literate and literate civilizations.

I've been trying to get people on HN to read this for the past two years but I think this is a good place to start for an answer.

https://www.eurozine.com/blogging-the-nihilist-impulse/

Issues like this are proving the Horseshoe theory right.

That's not good.

Is this your first time reading The Economist?

> “Moral panic” is just an academic jargon term for “settle down peasants.”

The irony of this that it portrays everything referred to as a moral panic as something worthy of legitimate worry and/or outrage that was brushed aside by more influential socioeconomic groups.

Which now makes me wonder how many of the examples listed here qualify.

If I'm understanding you correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic#Historic_examples

People refuse to let the concept of microblogs as conventional communications platforms die. Why?

Exactly.

That this is published by the lead of a pretty popular piece of software is disconcerting. The UI for the IDE itself and the web design for Delta even have that Claude Code "Claudhaus" look to them.

I'm beginning to think that this sort of behavior is actually an inverted counter-signal. The average person attuned to LLM's markings may find these things distasteful. But certain individuals or organizations may feel right at ease seeing them.

One of my favorite LLM-smells to train myself to sniff out is how well the author can tie two seemingly disparate ideas together into something compelling or novel. The more ambitious the synthesis and the less impressed I am the more likely I am to assume it was at least partially the work of an LLM.

Previously, "Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer" <https://spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix-systems-engineer>

> Parents aren't allowed to bring them to school. If a parent escorts their children to school they'll be told not to. If they keep doing it they'll get a letter from the school and probably a police visit. And if they continue (I never heard of it getting to this stage) they may be fined.

Can't help but think that this is just swinging things in the opposite direction.

I'm way more interested in knowing what technologies Steve Klabnik is eyeing and planning to get involved with next.

I am imagining a Gary Larson strip about a flock of birds who are so not fond of this.

Economic exploitation is just one way to take advantage of people who lack internal contentment. The other forms are cultural and social.

Modifying one element in this environment in favor of others won't make things better. You could even argue that less people are being financially scammed online than they are cognitively.

These problems are not endemic to the internet. But the internet does cast a broader net and provide a wider variety of ways for people to become afflicted by whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean before 'this'. I shouldn't have even said "before". That was me thinking to myself out loud.

What I'm trying to figure out is if they're related concepts. This may be a very naive question awkwardly asked.

Is this not similar to what Simon Willison has written about before?

https://sqlite-tutorial-pycon-2023.readthedocs.io/en/latest/...

https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jul/28/baked-data/

Is the money refunded related to the cost of the OS license? Why not just advocate that manufacturers and vendors don't pass the cost off to consumers?

ATProto has the hardest working developer relations department in the game right now.

This is peak internet banality.

Notenik does has something like this: https://notenik.app/kb/app-overview.html

If this comment is at all relevant to the post under discussion then we should all be championing OpenBSD as the premier Anti-Racist® OS of our time.

People need to read "Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse" by Geert Lovink (2007)

https://www.eurozine.com/blogging-the-nihilist-impulse/

https://web.archive.org/web/20240925180238/http://www.intell...