Category: Links of Interest
My Top Tool for Making Note Connections
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My vault has just over 4k notes in it, and there is no way I can know what each note is. In fact, I’ve likely forgotten most of the notes in my vault, which is fine because they’re remembered in my vault for me. But this does bring up a problem, how do I go
Foxconn industry investment was a can
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Unsurprisingly, subsidies given to Foxconn were a terrible deal for citizens. The jobs never materialized in real ways. Governments spent millions preparing power and roads for a building that never showed up. People’s houses were stolen to get the land that Foxconn wanted. We should loudly oppose our cities courting big companies with subsidies.
Cool robot build with personality
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In the name of AI Google is making its bad search worse
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According to David Pierce writing in The Verge, you’ll be getting Google’s AI, called Bard, at the top of your search results soon. So now you’ll have an AI summary, then a list of SEO crap articles about the topic. You’ll have to dig even further to find anyone real that has an opinion on
Systems before Tools
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I always say that a good system/process is far better than whatever tool is “hot” in your industry. It would seem that CJ Chilvers agrees with me. He says that you shouldn’t believe in goals, you should believe in process. Stick to the process day in day out, and the goals will keep coming closer.
I agree with this take on Facebook and Federation
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Measured reasonable take from Fosstodon. I’d look at Facebook joining the Fediverse as a person having 2 strikes against them. The slightest misstep and they’re gone. Like the OP, I hate Facebook. I also try to avoid it at all costs.
Tech CEO’s are Hallucinating
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And as those of us who are not currently tripping well understand, our current system is nothing like that. Rather, it is built to maximize the extraction of wealth and profit – from both humans and the natural world – a reality that has brought us to what we might think of it as capitalism’s
Greg – Apple’s Vision of the Apocalypse
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I’m with Greg in thinking that Vision Pro is fairly dystopian. The only use I could see is as instead of a multi-monitor setup, but then $3499 USD for a “companion” to your $2k computer???? WTF!!! That seems crazy. I hope to never see this on the faces of the people around me. I already
Reddit’s Headlong Dive into Enshitification
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So Reddit is diving headlong into its enshitification cycle. Cory Doctrow popularized this idea which looks like this: Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value
