Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social
Raised gifted; non-practicing. If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it. 🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
Interesting move from Norway with Smart Glasses being temporarily banned in public spaces due to the covert filming element.
AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.
arstechnica.com
and doing shit that I do not like does not, itself, constitute harm
Plenty of people will refuse to buy a product that used AI (whether as a feature or just a promo). But no one out there will refuse to buy it because there's no AI in it. The profitable choice is not to use AI.
LF Lightning-Barugh@cheeseford.bsky.social · 10h agoAnother café doing an AI flyer that looks like all of the others. People saying they won't eat there, others saying why blame small businesses for using AI? Yes, of course, the environmental cost, but mainly, it looks shit. How much for the ball bearings on an armadillo, topped with matchsticks?
If AI was real, it would be able to tell the difference between adding an emoji to your name, and an attempt to impersonate the FBI.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 6d agoRUDE
all infrastructure erodes consent, sometimes it bypasses it completely this is uncomfortable (& often problematic), but it should not be controversial to point out this fact
these are the only real jobs to be done
nico@nicodelort.bsky.social · yesterdayi dont want to download an app i don't want a qr code menu i dont want to talk to an ai assistant i dont want ai summaries for my searches i dont want to optimize my workflow i dont want to jump on a call i dont want to rate anything i don't want to create an account LEAVEME ADLONEe
In today's @theguardian.com, an article about the #Voynich work Colin Layfield and I have been doing: www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?
Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text
theguardian.com
I was gonna do a bit and say Terminator 2, but it only came out 4 days after I was born
matto@matthewoliphant.com · 18h agoWhat is the movie that came out before you were born that you've watched the most times? The Apartment which is funny and dark and sweet.
Mathematically speaking you can cut the baby in half and then reassemble it in such a way that it produces two identical babies. Perhaps this is what King Solomon was going for, originally.
Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 18h agoSolomon: cut the baby in half Mathematician: good. Now cut it in half again and continue cutting it in halves until the partitions are small enough to fit smoothly along an irregular curve. The number of cuts will approach infinity as the sum converges to the exact definite integral
ME: Does Bronze Walrus get summoning sickness? STEPKID: I am so very sorry. I would give it haste if I could. KEVIN: A walrus with haste is just a hippo. *table pauses to consider the truth of this statement*
It’s not that data brokers and social media companies haven’t been building profiles on people for ages, but it’s worth noting how they are now trying to normalize this by touting it as a benefit rather than the creepy and invasive function that it is.
Meta's Muse Is Collecting Information on Everyone in Your Life
Meta’s AI agent creates profiles of people in users’ lives even if they don’t use Muse.
gizmodo.com
The myth that technology was doing just fine, ethically speaking, until the evil oligarchs got ahold of it actually only serves the ends of technofascists. We can do better than this.
finally got a chance to read @spavel.bsky.social's most recent which reminds me that "velocity" is a vector quantity that has both a magnitude and a direction productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-fake-d...
The fake double diamond is dead. The real double diamond is immortal.
AI is not a substitute for divergent thinking, and the false certainty it gives will never save you from having to iterate.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
People who do not read back in action to stop anyone else reading either
Alexander Manshel@manshel.bsky.social · yesterdaythe answer back then was, nothing the answer today is, javascript bloat on every website
dorian@doriantaylor.com · yesterdayi remember when i was reading you are not a gadget (i think that was it at least), jaron lanier was like "the people with the biggest computers will have the most power" and i recall at the time i was like, what even is there to compute? and the answer turned out to be crypto, then ai
"Our Whole Premise Was Wrong" would be a decent title for a history of the field. I was just thinking about if I can come up with even one big name in the space who was not catastrophically wrong about what would and would not work
Jesse@misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d agoIs it just me or is “jagged intelligence" just a way for AI pushers to spin “our whole premise was wrong”?
”And now, here are YOUR TORONTO REALTORS!”
Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 2d agoThrowing some names out there: San Francisco Loggers Providence Whalers Poughkeepsie Sappers Memphis Butchers Birmingham Orthodontists Petoskey Bootleggers Boise Psychopomps Los Angeles Coroners Reno Landlords Baton Rouge Injury Attorneys Birmingham (other one) Mechanics Macon Cops
The two rules of software development: - Up-front thinking is Waterfall; we can only learn by shipping - There's no room on the roadmap for rework, so everything needs to be done right the first time Bosses love AI because they think it can give them up-front certainty on the cheap. But it can't.
The fake double diamond is dead. The real double diamond is immortal.
AI is not a substitute for divergent thinking, and the false certainty it gives will never save you from having to iterate.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
Real answer: I was really into space as a kid and I had a book on the solar system, including the lifecycle of stars. I woke up early one morning, saw a red sunrise and was convinced that the sun had gone red giant and we were all 8 minutes from death. Heavy stuff for a small child.
Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 2d agoIn honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
28 spam Calendly appointments made in about 5 seconds and take 20 minutes to block and delete Reminded of person talking about repair cafes. Industry has automated and sped up the making but all the repairing is individual and time-consuming.
Mastodon has the juice (vintage aesthetic cat themed playing card stationery)
Nαtαshα :mastodon: (@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt)
Attached: 1 image Post cards - that look like playing cards - designed by the Japanese stationery brand Pottering Cat ♠️♦️♣️♥️ #art #cats #stationery
tech.lgbt
My gran who lived to 102 said the way to survive all your friends dying was just to make younger friends ❤️
Throwing some names out there: San Francisco Loggers Providence Whalers Poughkeepsie Sappers Memphis Butchers Birmingham Orthodontists Petoskey Bootleggers Boise Psychopomps Los Angeles Coroners Reno Landlords Baton Rouge Injury Attorneys Birmingham (other one) Mechanics Macon Cops
Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2d agoOccasional reminder that "Brewers" is an A+ team name and there should be more teams named after professions.
We fucking loved the Internet when it first appeared! That's how it became great! And you know that's how it became great because ghouls immediately appeared to try and sell what we created back to us at a premium rate
Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · 2d agowe fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.