i'm not mr. AI doomer, and i don't actually dislike a lot of the generative features being added, but can we make it less AI! AI! AI! in-your-face all the time?
examples:
- sleep cycle has been analyzing my sleep patterns for over a decade. great app. gladly paid for it. but loaded it up yesterday after a long break and now they're calling it AI. subtext: "are we cool now that it's a buzzword?"
- today i opened notion and a big "notion AI" nav item's been added to my sidebar. on top of the many "please use AI" prompts popping up across their UI. big pick-me energy.
many such cases!
i feel like a curmudgeon, but it makes me like your products less.
Social media: it’s just the market’s answer to a generation that demanded to perform so the market said,
"Here. Perform. Perform everything to each other, all the time for no reason."
It's prison. It's horrific. It’s performer and audience melded together.
What do we want more than to lie in our bed at the end of the day and just watch our life as a satisfied audience member.
I know very little about anything. But what I do know is that if you can live your life without an audience, you should do it.
— Bo Burnham
This is ridiculous. I regularly get blaring super-loud annoying unblockable Amber alerts on my phone for kids who have disappeared at locations more than a 4-hour-drive away from me.
But today, there's a missing 10-year-old who disappeared just ten miles away from me, and no alert. I wouldn't have known at all if I didn't have the FEMA app installed and allow it to show notifications.
Want to take a guess what color his skin is?
"Tag yourself" as they say https://xkcd.com/1269/
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