I was in Chicago during the 2018 World Hindu Congress, representing an organization I used to belong to. Mohan Bhagwat was one of the conference’s speakers.
But we’re not here to talk about The Brotherhood in Saffron or Bunch of Thoughts. That’s a whole different kind of RSS we’re not getting into.
I found Lemmy during the great API crisis of 2023. Overall it’s a cozy community, but I find it a bit of an echo chamber.
I’ll focus on “AI” specifically. I am no lover of the ungodly amount of capital that has been deployed to produce “digital factories” that predominantly produce slop. I’m not a fan of the environmental impact and the devastation it causes to primarily lower income communities. I’m not opposed to training models on open-source works, but it’s been publicly documented that much of the training data was stolen.
And? Pandora’s box has been opened. We do not have sufficient firewalls to block against the volume of disinformation, cheating, and deepfakes that can be produced. But even if every single frontier model and company collapsed today. There are still a plethora of open models. The technology is not going anywhere and there are narrow use cases that provide value.
Not the best metric, but the downvotes indicate that narrow use cases are a bad opinion.
Apparently using a coding agent in your terminal invalidates any professional experience in the craft you’ve practiced.
As usual, comments on the internet are a great place for nuance. So time for a break.
If my main information stream comes from a bubble, I might as well better curate it.
I returned to the old magic, RSS.
Not an ad, I bought lire because it’s one of the few apps that are still available for a one-time purchase. I’ve spent $10 on worse.
Now for the fun work of finding a list of feeds to follow.
Here’s a couple that used to live in my browser’s bookmarks and now live in doomscrollable format.