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 The point of some blogs is to make people angry. Sometimes change requires anger.  @beep I try not to anger people, I don't track you or show you ads, I just like to write and share... if you haven’t read @kissane’s latest, this is an especially good time to do so https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/ “So sure: Protocols over platforms. Then we have to actually do the inelegant, un-heroic, expensive work of rebuilding the essential structures of human civilization on top of the protocols, because it turns out we just have the one world, online or off, no way out.” — @kissane, https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/ 🦊 Last year, I wrote a book called YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION; several months later, my publisher decided to close its doors. This is a post about what happens next: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/reacquired/ Solidarity with these tech workers, solidarity forever. https://www.instagram.com/p/C51DSugON4G/  🦊 wrote up how i’m blocking “artificial intelligence” bots from accessing my website, with some copy-and-paste code that should (🤞🏻) stay up-to-date whenever i update my blocklist https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/blockin-bots/
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 @beep This is a great thread! Will most definitely be taking advantage of some of the information that's contained here, not that my personal site has content worth stealing. 🤣  “Though it seemed completely automated, [Amazon’s] Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.” https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116 [removes glasses; pinches bridge of nose; sighs until the heat death of the universe] You’d think “it’s easier for many phones to render PUBG than modern websites” would be an industry-wide wake-up call, but. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/modern-web-bloat-means-some-entry-level-phones-cant-run-simple-web-pages-and-load-times-are-high-for-pcs-some-sites-run-worse-than-pubg
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 @beep there's a big old cloud of irony over this of course - but - I'm glad such a big famous old and also bloaty website is running a story like this. More awareness, yes yes. > "As the testing above shows, some of the most brutally intensive websites include ... and basically every major social media platform." I take exception to that. Mastodon loads pretty damn quickly, and it's the only social media site _I_ use daily. But yes, that article is pretty accurate, and most large players will respond "just use our mobile app instead" (with the unspoken part being 'so we can track and sell literally everything you do, visit, and say') my love language is manually deleting all the tracking bullshit from a link before i text it to you
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@beep I’ve been using https://sindresorhus.com/velja for opening links in specific apps/browsers and one of its glorious features is that it’ll strip tracking parameters from all opened/copied links. So here’s a thing that’s live: https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union I’ll have more to say about it soon, but for now I’ll say this: I wrote this little book for you, for me, for all of us. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever written, and I’m really very proud of it. And I hope it’s helpful to you.
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 @beep Wow, brilliant! ✊ Well done for having the conviction to take it on, important work, thank you “A spokesperson for OpenAI said no one was available to answer questions about its use of AI contractors.” five pages is too many six pages? no that’s a problem just delete some of. those pages it’s okay |
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