so’ham
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so’ham
@sohamkanade
u serious bro? tweets may contain typos
Katılım Haziran 2010
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this was my experience with most uber/autos in india. even the local juice waala was busy watching youtube shorts on the phone while making the juice!
Aakanksha@aakancvedi
was in an auto the other day and the driver kept watching short videos while driving not occasionally watching, this dude was locked in busy scrolling and not really paying attention to the road at one point, a truck ahead of us started reversing, he didn’t notice and i had to scream Anna nodi munde, he braked at the last second I told him, calmly, please don’t watch videos while driving, and not just with me, even when you’re alon, he agreed but 5 minutes later, he was back at it again you can see in the video, he knows i’m recording him, he tries to block it with his shoulder, but still doesn’t stop watching clips I’m not even mad at him, I could see he is clearly addicted to it, he’s not really at fault, i don’t know who is at fault and there are so many people who do this everyday, scrolling through reels while driving and it’s dangerous, even if you are careful there is always a chance someone else on the road is glued to their phone and they dont pay attention
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I put together some of my favorite shots
Tomi@tomiwebstr
rewatched the first dune & the way denis uses humans as a reference point when playing with scale is so brilliant
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this is how most of the tech industry is now
Librarianshipwreck@libshipwreck
It’s important to remember that this was once described as “inevitable,” and that there was a time when you were derided as a Luddite for being skeptical of it. In retrospect lots of people are acting like it was clearly always BS, but for a time we were told it was inevitable…
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This Mac app bug is one of the single most enraging bugs I've encountered in years! It's in all of the betas too. You get someone's @ mention randomly added to the chat when you press "Enter" and you have to click to get rid of it (and then it will come back on the next message).
Ben Thompson@benthompson
Mac app: if you @-mention someone in a group chat, the @-mention is just permanently stuck in the UI and enters itself into the chat if you press Enter iPhone app: tweets only unfurl at half-height, making them unreadable. Mac bug debilitating.
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One thing that endlessly frustrates with Anthropic, a $300B+ dollar company, where most code is written with AI:
Their landing page for paying customers, Claude .ai has been broken for weeks UX-wise, and no one notices or cares or fixes:
It "loses" stuff I type while it loads:
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can’t believe they literally used this meme as an offhanded in the recent netflix george clooney movie
lines in movies are now downstream of internet memes instead of the other way round
levy@1929stockcrash
Drove from LA to SF and when I saw this outside my window, I thought of the Bakersfield Italy meme
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@antoniogm it’s pretty well written. but i thought it doesn’t try to speak for the wider AI movement; only the roy lee types in AI.
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That Sam Kriss piece was entertaining due to the writing that recalls Wolfe or Lewis.
But it also commits the error of most tech journalism by focusing on the grotesque and absurd, and ignoring the very real mission-driven competence of much of AI.
Roy Lee is the sort of showman that shows up in every tech cycle (I could cite several for crypto, mobile apps, etc.): they soon disappear and the very non-clowns manifest themselves and the tone of the coverage changes from whimsically mocking to 'something must be done!' moral panic very soon.
It happened before; it'll happen again.
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@DepartureJay it’s unbelievably dreamlike too. so real and honest and warm and heartbreaking.
one of the bests of the decade.
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@priyaaarao ditto. it shows up everywhere, one/few “unsung heroes” who are praised by the larger society to for working hard to fix what shouldn’t have been a problem in the first place
so’ham@sohamkanade
same thing here. so embarrassing that this is what the sanitation workers have to put up with, a problem entirely self made by a horrible lack of civic sense in the general public
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When I was younger, I was genuinely enthusiastic about participating in road and beach clean-up drives. It felt meaningful.
Over time, my perspective has changed. Constantly cleaning public spaces only shifts the burden onto responsible citizens, while those who litter face no consequences. Why should some people repeatedly clean the mess created by others who choose to be careless and uncivilised?
We should be enforcing strict fines and punishment for littering. Civic sense cannot be outsourced to volunteers.
🚨Indian Gems@IndianGems_
A man named Mohammad quit his IT job to remove 1 kg of trash daily from Delhi roads
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turns out they have an offline only version for the software: prosupport.logi.com/hc/en-us/artic…
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come on that’s a ho-oh
Go Uttarakhand@go_uttarakhand
State bird of Uttrakhand Himalayan Monal in flight.
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@jasonfried enshittificafion everywhere indeed x.com/orphcorp/statu…
orph@orphcorp
the curse of abundance (via slopification) goes beyond just clothes & shifts the burden of discernment from artisan/creator to the consumer the consumer now bears the cognitive costs of sorting wheat from chaff, which is a huge tax on attention, time, and effort (the slop tax)
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THE BIG REGRESSION
My folks are in town visiting us for a couple months so we rented them a house nearby.
It’s new construction. No one has lived in it yet. It’s amped up with state of the art systems. The ones with touchscreens of various sizes, IoT appliances, and interfaces that try too hard.
And it’s terrible. What a regression.
The lights are powered by Control4. And require a demo to understand how to use the switches, understand which ones control what, and to be sure not to hit THAT ONE because it’ll turn off all the lights in the house when you didn’t mean to. Worse.
The TV is the latest Samsung which has a baffling UI just to watch CNN. My parents aren’t idiots, but definitely feel like they’re missing something obvious. They aren’t — TVs have simply gotten worse. You don’t turn them on anymore, you boot them up.
The Miele dishwasher is hidden flush with the counters. That part is fine, but here’s what isn’t: It wouldn’t even operate the first time without connecting it to an app. This meant another call to the house manager to have them install an app they didn’t know they needed either. An app to clean some peanut butter off a plate? For serious? Worse.
Thermostats... Nest would have been an upgrade, but these other propriety ones from some other company trying to be nest-like are baffling. Round touchscreens that take you into a dark labyrinth of options just to be sure it’s set at 68. Or is it 68 now? Or is that what we want it at, but it’s at 72? Wait... What? Which number is this? Worse.
The alarm system is essentially a 10” iPad bolted to the wall that has the fucking weather forecast on it. And it’s bright! I’m sure there’s a way to turn that off, but then the screen would be so barren that it would be filled with the news instead. Why can’t the alarm panel just be an alarm panel? Worse.
And the lag. Lag everywhere. Everything feels a beat or two behind. Everything. Lag is the giveaway that the system is working too hard for too little. Real-time must be the hardest problem.
Now look... I’m no luddite. But this experience is close to conversion therapy. Tech can make things better, but I simply can’t see in these cases. I’ve heard the pitches too — you can set up scenes and one button can change EVERYTHING. Not buying it. It actually feels primitive, like we haven’t figured out how to make things easy yet. That some breakthrough will eventually come when you can simply knock a switch up or down and it’ll all makes sense. But that's at least 20 years down the road.
It’s really the contrast that makes it alarming. We just got back from a vacation in Montana. Rented a house there. They did have a fancy TV — seems those can’t be avoided these days — but everything else was old school and clear. Physical up/down light switches in the right places. Appliances without the internet. Buttons with depth and physically-confirmed state change rather than surfaces that don’t obviously register your choice. More traditional round rotating Honeywell thermostats that are just clear and obvious. No tours, no instructions, no questions, no fearing you’re going to do something wrong, no wondering how something works. Useful and universally clear. That’s human, that’s modern.
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@GergelyOrosz @CaseyNewton it’s pretty believable though, almost art
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We’re entering the age of AI slop that people believe en masse.
This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares.
Journalist @CaseyNewton got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…
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What annoys me a lot about “buying clothes” is that every option is slop. It doesn’t matter if you spend 50 or 800 on a ‘winter coat’, it might just be cold af.
With omnipresent sloppification you need to become an expert yourself before buying anything. Huge cognitive costs.
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