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Artificial intelligence companies deeply underestimate how perfect the things around us are, and how deeply we base our understanding and acceptance of the world on knowledge and context. People generally have four fingers and a thumb on each hand, hammers have a handle made of wood and a head made of metal, and monkeys have two legs and two arms. The text on the sign of a store generally has a name and a series of words that describe it, or perhaps its address and phone number.

These are simple concepts that we learn from the people and places we see as we grow up, and what's very, very important to remember is that these are not concepts that artificial intelligence models are aware of.

(From: Subprime Intelligence)

yup:

I want real things by real people. I don’t want more things averaged out by a language model that can only make likely sentences. I don’t want more creepy images directly sourced from thousands of copyrighted works. I want you to put yourself on the page.

(From: A short note on AI – Me, Robin)

Have been nodding along to this post, that touches on a lot of the themes I plan to bring to Beyond Tellerrand in November:

as AI gets better at mimicking human communication, the pressure on human creators to be weirder, more original, and more authentically human will only increase.

(From: @Westenberg | Shitposting Our Way Through the Singularity)

On and off for the last several years I’ve been manually curating my roughly 40,000 lifetime tweets. I recently finished, and in the process embarked on an unexpected journey of self-discovery.

(From: Emily F. Gorcenski)

Loved this post!

Through our carbon.txt project we propose a standardised, yet distributed place on website domains, to efficiently surface the structured data that companies now have to publish anyway.

Carbon.txt would become a single place to look on any domain for public sustainability data relating to that company, that would allow anyone to build a database.

(From: Introducing carbon.txt - Applying lessons from crowdsourcing net zero data - Green Web Foundation)

The stance that works in standards making and in the workplace in general, is ‘quicksand’ when it comes to politics, Joan Westenberg argues:

The fatal flaw of Radical Centrism is its obsession with the middle ground, as if that's inherently where truth and wisdom reside.

(From: @Westenberg | The Radical Centrism Fallacy)

I think there are multiple implicit dimensions to the meanings of behaviour words. That compounds questions about where to draw boundaries, and it can lead to discussion at cross purposes and confusion.

(From: Do LLMs REALLY reason, understand, think, summarise...? — UlrikeHahn)

Mayank explains how to use the inert attribute in React 19, in earlier versions and with or without TypeScript:

The answer is a bit tricky.

(From: Using the inert attribute in React)

Scott O'Hara shares his thoughts around the ideal way to code spoilers on the web:

I’m just going to tell you what I’d expect from a spoiler component if someone were to build one, or if one were to ever be standardized.

(From: Spoiler Alert: it needs to be accessible | scottohara.me)

Thom Holwerda on the 30% fee Patreon is going to be forced to pay to Apple when users want to donate to creators on iOS:

Remember that ad Apple made where it crushed a bunch of priceless instruments and art supplies into an iPad – the ad it had to pull and apologise for because creators, artists, writers, and so on thought it was tasteless and dystopian?

Who knew that ad was literal.

(From: Apple forces Patreon to charge Patreons 30% tax, or have its iOS application banned from the App Store – OSnews)

What happened to the company that won respect with Think Different?