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- Things Could Have Been Different; LLMs as LitTech, Their Use as Response to Mass Functional Illiteracy … the private sector is happily bringing about dynamic pricing to squeeze the most profit out of you (see Wegman’s in New York adding facial recognition tech, airlines …
- Still Mad As Hell; The World’s Best Worst Client; How Many Chances Do You Get?; Sunset Syndrome … Some Peers Are Skeptical. - The New York Times ( archive.is ) ↩ Post by @fritinancy.bsky.social — Bluesky ( archive.is , Bluesky, 27 August 2025 ↩ Some sort of hot potato holding …
- Unreliable Narrators; Palate Cleansers … a federal judge unsealed the source code “for a software program developed by New York City’s crime lab, exposing to public scrutiny a disputed technique for analyzing …
- How old things keep living; Impossible AI; Look, just call it AI … Last month, The New York Times sued Open AI and Microsoft for copyright infringement [5] . Also last month (December 5, 2023), OpenAI made a submission to the U …
- Rude; A Financial Services Social Network?; We Should Improve Attribution and Sourcing Somewhat … Try them more, like in New York [2] . Fuck it, at this point just reward people who turn in their guns with a year of free healthcare. Or …
- The Torment Nexus Section; RFPs, man. RFPs. … What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson? - The New York Times ( archive.is ) ↩︎
- Sudo Do Me An Ethical Art; Twitter Imploding Was Good, Actually … The New York Times Fired My Doppelgänger - The Atlantic , Quinn Norton, 27 February, 2018, The Atlantic ([archive.is](http://archive.is/latest/ Quinn Norton: The New York Times …
- The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things … we transplant it to another, it means we've designed expectations where a New York Times post on Facebook looks like any other post on Facebook . Any photo …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … If you are a university or, say, The Washington Post or The New York Times, you may end up doing this because it's like "not having an …
- Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices … Do you want the kind of instance that will ban/not federate with The Guardian or The New York Times, because of that bedbug guy? Do you want …
- Dying Slowly, and then All At Once; Scrollytelling … term Scrollytelling , which was a big deal when it was called Doing a New York Times Snow Fall [2] and that was back in 2012 . Scrollytelling . Honestly. Kids …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation, Netflix/Everyone Else Edition … a weekend or during a hackathon again and it's not even the New York Times: this time, it's ArriveCan. See: Michael Carlin and Alistair Croll . Frankly …
- Look, the Disney Thing; Weak signals, Zoom; Commoditization breeds Complacency … Commoditization breeds complacency The New York City Sanitation Department is hiring McKinsey for a containerization study and design a pilot , one of the outcomes of which is expected …
- Google Slides is a Feature, not an App; Choices; Here, take one of these … least three hand-wringing articles in The Atlantic, The New Yorker and The New York Times, and then maybe a breathless one in Wired about how restaurants with …
- Infrastructure is that which when you stop believing in it, it goes away … since 2013 has just been detected in New York. Infrastructure doesn't work (he says, tritely) like love . If you love the infrastructure your lifestyle depends upon then …
- It's getting hot in here, so … That's efficient late-stage data-based capitalism, that's marketing, that's Content Optimization from your friends at The Wirecutter at The New York Times, who manage …
- Steven Wolfram Is Probably Busying Figuring Out How To Turn A Cellular Automata Into Blogging Platform … Plus I just realized you could use the Levenshtein distance in cracking Wordles. ( Via Simon Willison ) An oral history of Contact on New York Magazine's Vulture, which …
- Dan, really, are you even reading what you're typing here? … When Al Qaeda struck New York, the United States responded in a variety of ways, formally and informally, in many branches and levels of government and in the …
- Actually, It's About... … 369.49 kgCO2eq! That sounds like a lot! This top hit for " what's the CO2e for flying from New York to London " puts that flight at 509 …
- PARC THOR LASER AKL-IX AOaS CFPB … LASER Via New York Magazine [4] from 2017 (it somehow crossing my feed somewhere), Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures had a plan to kill mosquitos using some sort …
- It's still about Ethics in Dataset Collection, Attribution and Licensing, but also Governance … 2.1 Collecting Question-Answer Pairs We collected a dataset of over six million question- answer pairs from top online publishers such as The New York Times , The …
- Shattered … They're what happens when you want to cancel your New York Times subscription (how middle class of you). They're the time it takes to fill out …
- Actually, it's about the ethics in dataset collection, attribution and licensing in machine learning … We collected a dataset of over six million question- answer pairs from top online publishers such as The New York Times, The LA Times, and USA Today. I …
- Oxo Grips for Software and Vexatious Litigation … I follow Josh Crutchmer on Twitter because he plans the front page of the New York Times, here's the N YT front page sketch for today's …
- You'd change your credit card for this … Says It Secretly Removed Malware Worldwide, Pre-empting Russian Cyberattacks , New York Times, April 6, 2022 ,and archive.ph no-paywall link ↩︎
- s11hiatus02/05: Challenge/Response (2) … it for eight hours straight, will listen to it all the way from New York to London and come out of it not sick of the music but …
- In Which I Continue To Make Software Speak, But Only Metaphorically, Not Make Software Actually Speak, Because People Are Actually Doing That And It's Not Going Great, Bob … get the point That's Wirecutter, by the New York Times, which didn't start out at the New York Times and is now generally seen as "Not …
- CAPTCHAs, Cryptography and Personhood … Which is a lot! Light goes really fast! Michael Lewis's 2014 New York Times article, The Wolf Hunters of Wall Street [14] (also Lewis' book Flash Boys …
- Absurdity, net-native journalism, Promising No Solutions, Talking and Snow Crashing, chapter 16 … I’ve written before about the [New York Times’ Snowfall](https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s09e01-no-such-thing-as-a-blank-slate], the 2012 giant that smashed …
- Cursed Takes; Multiplayer Figma and Low Ping Bastards; Digital Isn’t Better Than Paper … Ingrid Burrington wrote about these back in 2015 for The Atlantic [ A Network of Fragments ] and anyway, you should also read her book, Networks of New York . There …
- Get a cozy Data Tiny House, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive People … First, there's April 3, 2021 New York Times story about How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations . One note: “Officials at multiple financial institutions who dealt with …
- Blockchain buzz buzz buzz … 1.0 Some things that caught my attention 1.1 New York, IBM and Blockchain Matthew Green tweeted [ tweet ] with a link to The Intercept’s coverage of …
- The One Where I Don't Want To Talk About Substack Just As Much As You Do, And Yet … I mean, for crying out loud, even the New York Times has audience editors and engagement editors these days. No. These are active decisions. They will result in …
- Three Things … happens when a startup grows up and stops being solely inspired by The New York Times Bestseller Airport Business Book: What Would Sun Tzu Do? and graduates to …
- A small collection of things … But This Designer Made A Better One For Just $50” in, say, the New York Times, I will lose my shit. You would probably be outraged that a …
- Despairing sisyphean absurdity … behavior as I am myself, so perhaps that is some consolation) about the New York Times’ reporting on a (deep breath) better/more useful vaccine website for New …
- No Such Thing As A Blank Slate … When the New York Times does something, that gives you a certain latitude, as if to say: well look, if this frankly conservative organization is able to do …
- An amateur with opinions … Is Resilience Overrated? [New York Times] Okay, that’s it! I am doing better this week than before, but that’s before I start worrying that one of …
- Back on the wagon … It has net-native competitors now, like The Wirecutter , acquired by The New York Times. I see Consumer Reports’ work as a reflection and a (late?) recognition that …
- The ATCR Boundary … Related to this, is… … Buzzfeed’s editor Ben Smith moving over to the New York Times . The reason why they’re related? Because they are more data in …
- Flint and Kindling … what if people don’t fit inside the datatypes you first think of? 1.3 Smaller things The New York Times had a piece on Ring with a …
- Tireless five year olds … Streetscore was trained on “3,000 street views from New York and Boston and their rankings for perceived safety obtained from Place Pulse — a crowdsourced survey.” Place Pulse …
- What’s the target? … 1.1 Digital Classical Musicians You’d assume the New York Times piece When Classical Musicians Go Digital would be about classical musicians using iPads because a) electronic …
- You're The Mayor of Terminal B Airside at SMF Airport! … Zephyr Teachout is a candidate for Attorney General of New York. New York’s AG will be elected on November 6, 2018. I imagine Teachout to be pretty …
- Filtered for wide spread, low accuracy … The New York Times reports that the Airbus A380, a stupendously humongous plane built on a bet (I was going to say figuratively, but I guess both ways …
- It's Not Safe To Go Alone, Buy This … Well! A New York Times subscription costs $9.99 a month and I like them because they're not weirdly passive-aggressive like The Guardian moans at you …
- Fully Connected, Feed Forward … I don't see anyone designing for no gap. * An encouraging - maybe - piece in the New York Times about a former warehouse worker who used to do boring …
- A future of working … I decided to take it because this year I'm spending more money on, as they say, Supporting Quality Journalism, and after getting my Washington Post and New …
- News and Religion … a thing that I get from the New York Times or, in a way that gives me such a tremendous sense of delight, Teen Vogue) than they are …
- Interesting Times … the atomization of news and its insertion into feeds means that you lose the context and the brand values when a New York Times op/ed appears in …
- Not Actually A Law … 1.0 Not Actually A Law So, the New York Times bought The Wirecutter. Background: The New York Times is a really old organization that is trying, like …
- Gigawatt Laser Array … So The Atlantic is rightly worried that New York City's free wifi might aid police surveillance[1] and that this might put low-income users' privacy at …
- ROUND HOUSE … because he's got a better chance of getting shit done at the New York Public Library[11] than at Auntie. As Trump would say: SO SAD. Oh …
- Hello babies; Post-Apocalyptic Duolingo; Recreational Capitalism … Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace - The New York Times [5] What to Make of Amazon's Work Practices? | Bothsides of the Table [6] Jeff Bezos and …
- 2015 (1); A Manifesto Walks Into A Website; Stuff About The Web And Post Capitalism Again … Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth [9] Is This a Selfie? - The New York Times [10] Q: So, Andy, who owns the copyright to DeepDream images? A …
- Iron as a service; Iron as a service; Why we're here; Reader mail … with news that they're looking to hire an Associate Publisher[2] in New York. So, uh, take a look. Andrew seems to think that my readership will …
- Videogame Tourism; Principles for 21st Century Government … previous episodes included visiting Jerusalem, Acre, Damascus, Venice, Florence, Rome, Constantinople, Boston and New York) videogames[1] is set during the French Revolution. One of the things about …
- Small Pieces, Loosely Joined; The New Slang … software. [1] The New Aesthetic - entry permalink [2] Miss a Payment? Good Luck Moving That Car - New York Times Dealbook [3] CVE-2014-6271: remote code execution through …
- They Don't Owe You Anything; Awkwardly Specialised … Now, BBC News Online looks to The Guardian and the New York Times and The Atlantic and Buzzfeed and Reddit and 4chan and any number of online news …
- The Difficult Third Album … Gina Trapani would talk about how living and working in New York during 9/11 would change her and her attitude to time so that you coudl trace …
- Not All...; Now Wear This; Uber … In the USA, "tech" is the West Coast, money is New York, Film and TV is Hollywood and Chicago is, er, Wind, I guess. Or commodities trading. Whatever …
- Up To Code; Science Fictional Network Security; Notes on Infrastructure; Response; 2014 (5) … It's hard (still!) to build $5bn worth of high-speed rail to get from DC to New York, or from San Francisco to LA, mainly because there …
- Essentially Walking Sensors; Recorded For Your Safety; More 2014 … And the means of documentation are getting cheaper. [1] Wearable Cameras, For Police Officers - The New York Times [2] Hundreds of New York Police Officers Ordered To Wear …
- Human Extinction; Let There Be Jobs … This morning (I think?) a link to this New York Times Upshot article popped up in my stream[1], itself based upon a Pew Research "report" (more "we …
- Only 10%; This Hasn't Benefitted Ordinary Lives As Such … s a quote from Tyler Cowen as interviewed by Eduardo Porter in the New York Times' Upshot on income inequality[1]: "If today we had a rate of …
- Dark Value; The Latest Attempt; Five Eyes … A five person team - led by the agency's MD of mobile and staffed by two people in London and another two in New York is going to …
- Bridj Laziness; Deciding In Public; Terrible Tools … In other words, if you mean "everyone", Bridj, you should actually deliver to "everyone". [1] Bridj [2] Bridj FAQ [3] New York's Shadow Transit , The New Yorker …
- The Next Big Thing In Drugs; As If You Needed Another NYT Opinion; Experience This; The Value Of The Thing … Because the New York Times is that example of something more than an organisation and more of an institution. My brother's been writing up a set of …
- The Internet of Safety; Invisible Technology; Like A Dog Whistle; Odds … nothing 2.0 Invisible Technology Google X's Astro Teller was at Disrupt New York last week delivering what TechCrunch described as an "Anti-Technology Mission Statement,"[1 …
- The Pre-Post-Scarcity Economy; Cities … It is headquartered not on Madison Avenue, New York, but in Portland, Oregon. Why Portland, Oregon? Because its founders didn't want to make the kind of advertising …
- Recall; ATMs; … property, and San Francisco, because apparently San Francisco doesn't like building things. New York is an interesting case, though, because although Manhattan real estate may be priced …
- Cities; Disruptive; Still Brittle … For example, a London-equivalent in America would be some sort of freakish combination of New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Boston and bits of San Francisco. Because …
- Snow Crashing 3; Video is a Content-Type; Blame Your Tools … Now that we have (more or less) the right kind of distribution system, genuine multimedia packages like the New York Times' Snowfall are making use of video in …
- Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face … Only a hundred and twenty million total users! At any given time, he says, the Street is populated by double the population of New York City, giving a …
- Challenge / Response (2) … it for eight hours straight, will listen to it all the way from New York to London and come out of it not sick of the music but …
- Humane Technology; They Shoot Jobs, Don't They; On Depression … I am in New York, a wonderful big city. It is Friday night and I am thinking about what I can do tomorrow, Saturday. In theory, tonight, I …
- Rate All The Things … But then related to rating was my 1%-related noticing in New York last week while taking a quite obscene number of Ubers around the city that the …
- The Desire To Fix Things I'm writing this on the way to New York, where from what I can make out, it's officially the coldest place on Earth. 1. The Desire …