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Dirk Geurs

@dirklectisch.bsky.social

Creator of sociotechnical systems by day, board gamer in the evening, night clubber in the weekend. European 🇪🇺

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Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4w ago

Musk was humiliated in his interview with The Economist editor Zanny Minton Beddoes. She called him out on his bullshit, pointed out his lies and ignorance and extreme prejudice. We need more interviews like that. This is the response of the world’s thinnest-skinned man.

Elon Musk • X @elonmusk X.com She is a traitor to the West, plain and simple
Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 3mo ago

How useful are all those vibe-coded apps at the end of the day? “The marked increase in mobile app releases over the past year has not been accompanied by any increase in downloads — most of the new apps fail to capture even a modest audience.” www.ft.com/content/8e9a...

Agentic AI spurred a boom in mobile app releases, but there is no sign of these apps gaining traction
Nayan Ramachandran@thetrin.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

This is a very important quote from the interview that I hope every single company hoping to capitalize on the gaming industry reads and internalizes. Games are a unique market, and you can't just apply strategies from other industries and find success. This has been proven time and time again.

Blackley: But again, Asha’s background is entirely in software as a service and AI. The implicit thing here is that games is going to be AI-driven software as a service. If that’s true, she is a young person with those ideas. But she’s not a young games person with CEO ideas. I understand where that strikes a lot of people as really fucking weird, because the games business is a different thing. One of the things I ran across in my career in games, having interfaced with Hollywood and tech and all these different companies and different cultures, business cultures, is that games almost always represent an unexpected, much higher than wagered challenge. One assumes that it’s technology, and it’s not technology. It just happens to depend on technology. One assumes that it’s a service, and it’s not. One assumes that it’s a purely creative business. People come in and say, “We’ll bring movie directors to do games!” They also fail, because technology is an important part. It’s a difficult wall to scale. Because it’s games–one thing that I’ve learned across my career is that everyone believes they’re a game developer. Everyone thinks they’re a game designer. There’s something about games–when you play them, they seem so effortless. There’s an assumption that anyone can do it. This can also get you in a lot of trouble. Asha’s statement in there about how she’ll figure it out reminds me a lot of that. I’ve been around a lot of that. I’ve had Bill Gates say that to me. I’ve had Steven Spielberg say that to me. I’ve had a lot of really smart people say, basically, that line to me. It’s funny for me to see that in there as well.
Mat Piscatella@matpiscatella.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Xbox, like a lot of businesses that aren’t the core AI business, is being sunsetted. They don’t say that, but that’s what’s happening. I expect that the new CEO, Asha Sharma, her job is going to be as a palliative care doctor who slides Xbox gently into the night." gamesbeat.com/what-an-xbox...

Charlie Thomas@cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 7mo ago

Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."

the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 8mo ago

we've reached the 'Bellingcat investigations in your country' part of the authoritarian program

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 8mo ago

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

Nicolas Veron@veron.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A few quick thoughts about this morning's decision. Don't believe the spin from various Russians & others: it's a big deal. The EU has now unambiguously demonstrated that it is able and willing to provide the external financial support Ukraine needs, for as long and as much as it takes. (1/N)

Dirk Geurs@dirklectisch.bsky.social · 9mo ago

After years of using Safari as my main browser I switched to Orion. It's the same familiar user interface but feels so much faster it's really pleasant. Having my preferred search engine as a first class citizen is a nice bonus. orionbrowser.com

Orion Browser by Kagi

Orion — a web browser designed from the ground-up. Native WebKit speed, full extension compatibility, and absolute privacy is finally together in one browser that respects you.

orionbrowser.com

Dirk Geurs@dirklectisch.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Pinning Wikipedia to always be the first search result on @kagi.com has significantly changed how I consume the web. For many searches now my first stop is the encyclopaedia. The ordering of search results matters much more than I imagined.

Dirk Geurs@dirklectisch.bsky.social · last yr.

I wish the internet has a better way to find commentary like this. This showed up on my timeline but if I try to find it using a search engine or even Bluesky's search it doesn't turn up.

Toby Vogel 🇪🇺@tobyvogel.bsky.social · last yr.

Late to this but @economist.com published an editorial that is factually wrong, misleading (not to say manipulative) and presents a convoluted argument about how to build a better international protection system – essentially by scrapping international protection. First, a couple of facts.

Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · last yr.

What you definitely want in the mountains is a nav app which isn’t actually deriving its advice from the real world. 🤦‍♂️

Robson Fletcher@robsonfletcher.com · last yr.

"AllTrails has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to 'shorten my route' or 'make this more scenic.' But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they’ve been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information."

Andrew@andrewt.net · last yr.

I think people have a kind of Gell-Mann amnesia towards LLMs — like, they can think "AI is bad at things I am good at and know about, but good at things I can't judge because I'm bad at them" Tech bros think AI is good at everything, including coding, and that's because they are also bad at coding

Gell-Mann amnesia effect - Wikipedia

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Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · last yr.

Reminder that women don't use ChatGPT because they are competent at their jobs and can tell that it's doing a shit job. bsky.app/profile/gwen...

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · last yr.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.