adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org
- Homepage
- https://aking.ca
- Interests
- maps, minutiae, solarpunk, theology, small market urbanism, eco-democratic systems, electoral reform, toons, type, world-building, notion, songwriting, spec/sci-fi, weird vehicles/buildings/people, tech history, mac/OS lore, craftsmanship
- I am a…
- work in progress, father of teens, professional webmaster, designer-developer, lapsed blogger, fair trade entrepreneur + green politico, indie musician/technician
former baby, future corpse
Joined Jun 2023
these guys marketing website's design is craaaazy. dont think i've seen anything like it! normally not impressed by scrolljacking but i'll give this a definite pass: http://pierre.co/
about to clear the snow off my truck bed. fold-down sides sure make it easy!
found the button! it’s from when i attended a lecture of his at glendon college circa maybe 2005?
wonder what david orchard would have to say about this whole tariff situation. i still have one of his “free trade is costing us canada!” buttons around here somewhere
adam w.k.
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Oh neat - I had no idea you could do this - get the youtube channels you subscribe to your preferred feed reader.
I pay for youtube, so I don't get ads, but I still appreciate the notion of having more control over what I watch.
https://mastodon.social/@christophemarois/113942189545289716
this is the year i start logging expenses as i go, so i just set up some guy's 1300+ actions-long iOS shortcut: https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/17bqcdf/update_an_eccentric_expense_tracking_shortcut/?share_id=C7joUorexbEKWTi5PefKi&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1
it's impressive! reminds me of some of the crazy things folks built in applescript back in the day.
adam w.k.
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I saw an article about a guy who used an LLM to apply to hundreds of jobs while he slept and woke up to offers for like 50 interviews.
So firms are using LLMs to automate parts of the job search process and skip straight to the parts that can’t be done by machines.
And workers are using LLMs to automate the same parts of the job search process and skip straight to the parts that can’t be done by machines.
So there are just all these LLMs talking to each other, at immense cost and effort, in order to get us right to…the same point we were at before LLMs.
When Joseph Tainter talked about societies collapsing when the marginal return on additional investments in complexity turns negative, this is what he meant. So much labor, so much money, so much energy and environmental destruction, all to…get us right back to where we started.
merry christmas and happy new year to you all! i’m still around, just haven’t had much drive or time to post recently. how’s it going with you?
adam w.k.
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Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon & the Fediverse whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.
can buffer really not post to two channels at once? i thought that was kind of the point. that and scheduling.
i just don’t want to have to post things twice.
hooking up buffer with mastodon and bluesky
adam w.k.
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The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect https://english.stackexchange.com/a/244277/1101
i’ve been an avid mac user since i got my first powerbook at age 14, but never felt i could justify paying for airpods, given that i was bound to lose them every other month. but between “find my” tech advances and this hearing augmentation stuff, i’m rethinking that.
https://nileane.fr/@nileane/113391212658781155
keeping cozy while working in the reclined position via keyboard/trackpad electric warming bag and furry pal on my chest
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.
adam w.k.
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“This is the existential threat that CTOs now face. The scary thing is that most of them don’t even realize it - they’re still operating like it’s 2015, where the goal is hiring and retention. They’re strolling into conversations with their CFOs on ‘productivity’ with developer sentiment surveys in hand.”
adam w.k.
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When I was a teenager in the 2000s I somehow got the opportunity to interview the drummer from Minor Threat for a hardcore zine.
I asked him for his advice for young musicians. He said “you’re not going to listen to this advice because you don’t think it’s cool, and one day you’ll regret it, but always wear earplugs.”
I didn’t listen.
Didn’t think it was cool.
Permanent ear damage by my mid 20s.
“7 people liked or boosted your reply”
whoa, so this is what twotter felt like
https://qoto.org/@sabbatical/113313265422631701
- Homepage
- https://aking.ca
- Interests
- maps, minutiae, solarpunk, theology, small market urbanism, eco-democratic systems, electoral reform, toons, type, world-building, notion, songwriting, spec/sci-fi, weird vehicles/buildings/people, tech history, mac/OS lore, craftsmanship
- I am a…
- work in progress, father of teens, professional webmaster, designer-developer, lapsed blogger, fair trade entrepreneur + green politico, indie musician/technician
former baby, future corpse
Joined Jun 2023
