Links (7 November 2024)
– Baldur
Bjarnason
- “AI is consolidating corporate power in higher ed (opinion)”
- “Silicon Valley got what it wanted - by Brian Merchant”. “It’s time to face facts. In Trump, Silicon Valley got what it wanted: A president that will kneecap antitrust efforts, embrace deregulation, and defang labor laws.”
- “Mind The (Remediation) Gap - TPGi”. “Here’s where things can start to fall apart. Because there’s a framework layered between the developer and the HTML that’s being produced, all the markup that was reported in the audit no longer matches up”
- “The End Of Independent Publishing And Giant Freakin Robot | GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT”. You basically can’t count on any of the traffic coming from Google or Facebook and most media companies, even one that are frugally run, have a hard time surviving on what’s left
- “Apple Buys Pixelmator”. “So it feels strange that Acorn is now effectively the only independent Mac image editor from that era.” Back when I was still using a mac on the regular, Acorn was one of my absolute favourites. It’s one of the apps I still miss.
- “JavaScript dos and donts @ Mu-An Chiou”
- “Your CSS reset should be layered”. This is what I’ve been doing in a couple of recent projects and I think it works quite well
- “Add content to the margins of web pages when printed using CSS”. Glad to see some movement on this and I would love to see more because being able to typeset a book-like PDF with a vanilla browser would be awesome
- “Why Hollywood Workers Feel Stuck: Battle for Opportunity”. “All this career inertia isn’t just bad for Hollywood’s younger workforce. In the long run, it’s bad for the future of the business. In fact, it’s potentially deadly. It means that someday, maybe soon, there won’t be anybody left in Hollywood’s dwindling workforce who’ll have a clue about how to run a set. Or a slate. Or a studio.”
- “Why Hollywood Workers Feel Stuck: Battle for Opportunity”. “As the industry contracts — and stagnates — it becomes more and more risk-averse, with those in charge hoarding their power rather than sharing it with fresh talent coming up through the ranks, in essence starving the next generation of the experience necessary to grow beyond their current titles.”
- “Don’t Give Them What They Want - by Julian Simpson”. “This is an existential problem, because our job as creators is to put on the show and then to learn, both from the number of ticket stubs and the reaction of the audience, how to do our job better next time. Right now, we are standing on the stage, doing our bit, but we have no way of telling if there is anyone out there in the dark, let alone whether they are laughing or gasping or applauding.”
- “Adactio: Journal—Unsaid”. “Whenever the issue of ethics came up, it was only ever in relation to how we might use these tools: considering user needs, being transparent, all that good stuff. But never once did the question arise of whether it’s ethical to even use these tools”I have to confess that my disappointment in the dev and UX fields is ongoing.
- “AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias – GeekWire”
- “How do we fund open source? | InfoWorld”. “The core issue is that open source contributors are not paid fairly. 60% of open-source maintainers are unpaid volunteers, and just 13% make a living as professional project maintainers, according to the 2023 State of the Open Source Maintainer Report.”- “Foundations: form validation and error messages - TetraLogical”
- “Artificial intelligence – is it bad? Yes. But on the other hand it is also terrible | First Dog on the Moon | The Guardian”
- “So Long WordPress - Chris Wiegman”
- “It’s the “1998” of the AI Revolution. So Why Can I Safely Ignore It? | The Internet Review”. “You can literally just not use it.”- “The Entrepreneur’s Case for Voting Kamala Harris for President - Stacking the Bricks”. “Entrepreneurship rests on the architecture of society”
- “More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI - The Verge”
- “The Impact of Toxic Influencers on Communities · Intense Minimalism”. “Unfortunately this person also starts doing — either consciously or unconsciously — things that create a very tense environment”