Luis Crespo

Since 2004, this community has helped make Firefox and the open internet possible. Our “Come Back to Firefox” campaign reunites a few early internet icons to remind people what made the internet special, and why it’s worth protecting.

This chart probably mirrors your felt experience since 2016 pretty well…

Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

Así es.

that basically explains why AI stuff blows it’s like auto-tune for ideas, like yeah you hit the note but you lose the subtlety, the richness, the soul

Coming soon to a software product near you.

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

The deeper history of literally everything can be assumed to have been like this, can it not?

Same energy

a weird inversion with LLMs is the models improve faster than the tinkerers when i see people with custom workflows and setups they're all addressing problems that don't exist anymore the person naively using vanilla codex is more likely to be experiencing state of the art

JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”

Due to AI, I have disabled external pull requests on all my repos. Open source, as we have known it, was fun while it lasted. (It’s been 15 years for me) I will still maintain projects and handle issues.

Two countries voted against making food a human right at the UN, Israel and the USA. The vote would have mandated the UN to prevent starvation, and the US and Israel didn't want to fund preventing starvation.

Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad

Dark Mode Very Much Matters To Me It's not just vibes, it's an accessibility thing.

Gudim

Rather than the sound of water trickling, which indicates a typical leak, software memory leaks can be identified by the hiss of a fan.

on my way to look at a webpage

Wow

And the 2019 sci-fi sequel Happy Birthday!

It amazes me....

Can the media please stop platforming these losers?

Stop asking the sci-fi question: 'Is it conscious?' Start asking the engineering question: 'Is this a powerful, unpredictable component being put somewhere consequential, and where's the feedback that tells us that it's safe?

For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs

Before the advent of smartphones I had a job working for a service where people would send a SMS text asking a question, we would Google it on our computer at home, and text the answer back to them. It was actually kind of fun, I got to learn a lot of random shit

Ironic how man's search for meaning so often leads us to gibberish, really. Anyway, chat GPT is not talking to you, and it's not going to do the Matrix either, don't be a bloody fool.

We don’t need to "save the planet." The planet will be fine. We need to save the conditions that allow human civilization to thrive. Let's be clear about the stakes.