Yea I’ve heard people who know nothing about computers talk about Claude (Anthropic) like it’s clearly the best brand (though I’m sure they don’t know what they’re talking about) … and copilot like it’s the worst thing to ever happen to them.

Funny to see such a quick branding move (it’s AI people, so what would you expect I guess) and Microsoft potentially miss another tech wave.

One my most embarrassing personal moments with tech is that I wasn’t immediately revolted when I learned that captcha was being used to farm training data. I just didn’t think it through, and didn’t think I needed to think it through. A hang over from the era of Google in the naughties I suppose.

Still … fool me once …

At the risk of dogpiling on a well known thing …

I distinctly remember when I first heard the theme, watching Enterprise for the first time, and I seriously thought it was either a joke or a blatant rip off of Trek.

I really didn’t believe it was Star Trek by the same people who’d made 90s TNG era trek. It being a prequel was part of that (like how is Star Trek about looking backwards?!). But so obviously US hokey populism was just a major turn off … as a youngster then I “knew” that’s not what Trek was. And while I was somewhat wrong (US idealism is kinda what it’s about), I think I was right in the right way.

Probably not the last time we see this, right?

Realistically, the “Open” in OSS has changed its meaning and shape. Same with the Open in open web.

Just another refugee from reddit and looking to build a community here.

Well I for one welcome you!!

Thanks for the link/video!

Amazing!

More “Software brain” BS. Sure, many/most people are unthinkingly consumeristic. But it’s been a weird few decades for the tech industry where a lot of its ideas have been taken up as “the inevitable future”. There’s no guarantee that that relationship between the population and the industry holds, and the industry sure is full of people that have only lived in that bubble in time.

Cue the pirates of the Caribbean scene/ where captain Barbosa tells you you’re “in one”

You best start believing dystopian sci-fi stories, you’re in one

I suspect the point was more about cultural cringe and presuming that we should fold to our “superiors” rather than determine our own fate and values.

My hot take is that mainstream software technology hasn’t worked out how to be useful enough to be good in education and is now currupyrd by get rich quick start up mentalities, when really it needs the kind of open ended research that created the PC in the 60s & 70s.

Generally speaking, in a Bret Victor kind of way, enhancing human thinking behaviours and practices just feels like a purpose that has been left behind, probably since web and big data took over.