Bryan Carter’s stimulating essay about the ways LLM chatbots are designed to respond to us mirror certain trauma response left me troubled. We’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the social impact of AI. This explores below the surface.
I’ve been charmed by learning about other makers, writers, and creatives through hashtag games like #ScribesAndMakers and #WritersCoffeeClub. Now, I want to bring a bit of the Love Make Share ethos to a new hashtag game for Mastodon and Bluesky!
The end of edutainment software wasn’t a natural evolution of the industry. It was brought about by greed, and orchestrated by one of my least favourite fellow Canadians.
Something Hank Green and I have in common is a distaste for grifters and liars. Debunkings are a guilty pleasure for me. This one is a tour de force from Hank, dismantling a video from a Bloomberg reporter whose “explainer” serves a very specific agenda.
I’ve talked about the way that technology is becoming increasingly hostile to its users, and how so much of it feels kind of fake. While that’s not entirely what Nilay is talking about here, it does dig into the mindset that produces that outcome.
A week ago at time of writing, NVIDIA released the following demo. If you haven’t seen it, it’s like a minute long and it broke the internet for a few days. Watch it. For the uninitiated, I will wildly oversimplify where we’ve come from and what we’re seeing. DLSS, or Deep Learning Super Sampling, is a feature of some of NVIDIA’s gaming graphics hardware. It uses machine learning to improve a game’s resolution, frame rate, and latency, per NVIDIA. Other vendors offer similar technologies, but with NVIDIA recently hitting 95%…
Based on Have I Taken Halloween Too Far? from November 30, 2018. Apple Podcasts Spotify Pocket Casts RSS Feed It’s somehow mid-October already. The weather is getting cooler, the leaves are changing, and I am 110% in the autumn headspace. I’m embracing my most basic self. I’m ready for decorative gourds and warm spices and sweaters. I’m not proud of it, but I am definitely not ashamed of it, either. The thing I am simultaneously the most and least ready for is Halloween. I love Halloween. I always go big…
It’s the start of something new. Love Make Share enters the radio age with a new podcast about the things we create and how they create connections between us.
There is a growing pattern I’ve noticed of both creators and commentators. More established writers are creating a wildly hostile environment around entry-level writing content and message boards. And it should stop.
As much as enjoy streaming on Twitch, there’s a lot about the platform that I still don’t like or understand. It’s like being invited to a party where people are happy to have me, but I know isn’t for me. Like all chronic overthinkers, I made a pro/con list.
With my digital neighbourhood becoming increasingly gentrified and hostile, I’m looking to put down roots elsewhere. I’ve found a place in open source.
Steph and Trevor return and break down beta reading, critique, and developmental editing.
