winojohn

@winojohn.bsky.social

He/dey/Dem. Wine (and food) lover. Retired. Non-serious birder. Blue in a red state. If unions are so bad why is it always your boss telling you that? Lead with kindness. Old enough that there was a time when Joe Foy was my favorite player.

I've been casually paying attention to the dewpoint since 1989 when I became aware of it through work. I've never seen an 80 degree dewpoint before today.

Yes, I admit that I promoted Idi Amin as the sensible reformer, promoter of ethnic harmony, and proponent for healthy diets that Uganda needed. I admit that I continued to promote him as such until his death. In some respects, from some perspectives, this may have been a mistake or even "wrong."

With its new AI-based "search," Google is literally killing the infrastructure that its entire business is built on. Instead of linking people to the web, it will lock users into an "interactive" mode that slorps up data what is rapidly becoming the now-neglected and unvisited web. (1/3)

When nobody visits the web anymore, what incentive is there for people to populate it with information? That means AI search will be retrieving information from deteriorating, out-of-date sources and feeding it endlessly back to us. And that means even fewer people will populate the web. (2/3)

Congrats, Google. We now have unreliable AI narrators of impoverished information sources, representing their hallucinations as truth. I'm glad I learned to use a card catalog when I was a kid, because fuck this. I'm going to the library. (3/3)

If you have a boss that can fire you, you should be in a union. If someone else profits from your labor, you should be in a union. Never forget that if you die on the job, odds are good that the ad for your replacement will be on line before your obituary.