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Applied to social media, this vision suggests that rather than give the user only a feed (a single path through the world of in­for­ma­ti­on), we should give the user access to a whole network of trails (in­ter­con­nec­ted paths through the world of in­for­ma­ti­on).



mike masnick:

But, as Godier’s piece notes, protocols are… boring. They change slowly (for a good reason, because you need stability to build on). They tend to change by consensus, which is messy. And rather than having billion dollar companies throwing a whole massive en­gi­nee­ring team at making ever­y­thing work, in the protocol world, we rely on constant ex­pe­ri­men­ta­ti­on by anyone who wants to ex­pe­ri­ment.

tim trautmann:

The open web of the nineties didn’t win because the tools were better. It won because a critical mass of people decided that the al­ter­na­ti­ve, a handful of AOL-style walled gardens choosing what everyone saw, was not the future they wanted. Then they built their way out of it. Slowly, un­g­lamo­rous­ly, in rooms that looked a lot like this one.

Whether atproto ends up being the thing, or a stepping stone to the thing, I don’t know. Nobody in the room claimed to know. But the work is real, the apps are shipping, and the people building them are taking it seriously without taking them­sel­ves seriously. That com­bi­na­ti­on is rare, and his­to­ri­cal­ly, it’s the one that wins.





abgesehen davon das federico viticci hier klüg über die neue siri nachdenkt (siehe zitat), hat er ein paar sehr tolle fotos an den artikel geklebt. ins­be­son­de­re das bild von john ternus und tim cook sieht so aus­ge­dacht aus, dass es fast zu promtig als wahr sein könnte. isses aber nicht.

The new Siri AI is, of course, re­mi­nis­cent of a chatbot at a surface level. And yet unlike Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, the chatbot is not the product here: the chatbot is merely one of the shapes the new Siri AI can take. “It’s a feature, not a product”, Jobs would quip. The new Siri uses a coll­ec­tion of LLMs to deliver a personal assistant ex­pe­ri­ence that, unlike others, can tap into the rich tapestry of device context and app data that other chatbots can’t aspire to. It can work with voice, it can work with text; it can be a glassy bubble in the Dynamic Island, and it can be an app. I saw Siri pull up messages from months prior and compare responses in tables generated on the spot. I saw Siri cross-reference an Apple note against an email and provide a useful response in about five seconds. It was Siri, but it also didn’t feel like Siri.

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Das Ge­dan­ken­spiel, was ei­gent­lich anders wäre, wenn Frauen an der Macht wären, führt Ladies First in eine Welt, in der Frauen sich komplett ego­is­tisch verhalten und nur auf ihr eigenes Wohl bedacht sind. Sie über­neh­men keine Ver­ant­wor­tung für Sor­ge­ar­beit, belegen selbst­ver­ständ­lich alle Füh­rungs­po­si­tio­nen, fördern sich nur ge­gen­sei­tig. Männer be­trach­ten sie als un­gleich­wer­tig, als Lust­ob­jek­te, die hübsch anzusehen, aber nicht ernst­zu­neh­mend sind.

Selbst als Spiegel des Pa­tri­ar­chats wäre das äußerst plump und viel­leicht in den 1950ern als gelungene Satire durch­ge­gan­gen.