Neurospicy ramblings
@Sophie Yeah, I tend to just come up with systems to make most micro-decisions for me. If it's not going to matter a week from now, it's not worth spending my limited mental energy on it.
@minego Eh, it's no weirder than the rest of the fleshy vessel we inhabit.
The Reddit protests are winding down—so what’s next?
Ars spoke with community mods about where Reddit goes from here.
We are not at the end of the useful Internet. We may be nearing the end of the phase where the corporate Internet pretended it didn't feel entitled to your attention and efforts.
Any of these large media sites have been useful in the last 15 years, it was rarely because of anything they did. Usually in spite of.
What a wild turn of events... Yesterday folks at CodeWeavers, along with everyone else, have learned that Apple used the open source part of CrossOver as a base for their Game Porting Toolkit. Apple has provided a Homebrew formula that downloads the tarball from CodeWeaver's servers and applies a bunch of patches, most of which seem to originate from Proton + some glue to make their proprietary DirectX-on-Metal implementations work.
To say that this got me and many others by surprise is an understatement.
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd More BIT.TRIP Runner, probably marginally less stubborn insistence on doing hard stages now.
Here's my postmortem of the RustConf Keynote Fiasco (so far), linking to all public statements, with additional context from interviewing 15+ people about it:
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/the-rustconf-keynote-fiasco-explained
Did you see headlines last week about the Surgeon General's report claiming that it said social media is dangerous for kids? I looked at the actual report and it says no such thing. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/30/a-deeper-look-at-the-surgeon-generals-report-on-kids-social-media-its-not-what-you-heard/
Weaponized heterogeneity only harms the most vulnerable #autistic people
"Unreliability of speech for usually fluent autistic people, and the speed at which we can go from articulate and competent to completely unable to access speech, is not generally appreciated."
Excellent article on #autism, quite important for all to read, but especially for those (like me) who are prone to potentially harmful generalizations on any topic. Made me stop and think.
OpenAI execs warn of “risk of extinction” from artificial intelligence in new open letter
Strategically vague statement on AI risk prompts critic response.
@hollie To me, turning it off immediately on noticing or going through settings on a new device was always the obvious choice. I don't understand how people can comfortably use something so unpredictable, especially while complaining so much (and generally not wanting it pointed out that they can turn it off).
TikTok—banned or not, it’s probably here to stay, an Ars Frontiers 2023 recap
Experts discussed the legal impossibility of a nationwide TikTok ban.