Week 2616
It was still Sunday of this week when the site was last published. Maybe you want last week?
2 Notes
I see a lot of experts-of-the-day gnashing teeth over @rabbit@threads.net being “exposed” for using puppeted Android apps in the cloud:
What did you all think they were using? Hand-wavy AI magic you’ve been pretending to understand? Some secret Android API that app developers have been quietly implementing just for them?
This is the obvious way to pull off what they’re doing with today’s ecosystem. It’s funky and pushing the envelope in ways that deserve scrutiny for security and privacy, but isn’t this what “innovation” is supposed to look like?
A parable of our decade in two pieces of nearly-identical hardware:
In 2012 we had the Descriptive Camera using Mechanical Turk, as a thought provoking student project and a blog post.
In 2024 we get the Poetry Camera using AI, with a slick website and signups for buying one.