🔗 I Have Concerns About My Music Consumption :: abi abi

So I decided to slowly start ditching Spotify.

🔗 Cool native HTML elements you should already be using · Harrison Broadbent

🔗 Mozilla Needs to Fall Apart to Make Space for Others - Jacky Alciné

Let #Mozilla Fall.

It did its job (history will be the measure of its work), but we sorely need to move energy and effort to something with a concrete mission.

It’s weird moving away from Firefox, it’s been essential software for over a decade of personal use. I’m hoping Ladybird steps up as the Free alternative Mozilla seems to be refusing to build.

I’m currently testing Zen, any other alternatives out there?

🔗 AI’s Walking Dog

Today’s tech inverts the value of the creative process by Brian Eno.

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen’s wildly hubristic visions of the future downplay any downsides, dismissing these as “safety-ism.” I for one wish there had been a few more “safety-ists” around when the algorithms for social media were being crafted.

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The experience of what happened with social media is a bad omen for what might happen (and is happening!) with AI. Two words —“maximize engagement”— were all that was needed to send social media into the abyss of spleen-venting hostility where it now wallows.

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For me, using AI all too often feels like I’m engaging in a socially useless process, in which I learn almost nothing and then pass on my non-learning to others. It’s like getting the postcard instead of the holiday. …
The joy of art isn’t only the pleasure of an end result but also the experience of going through the process of having made it.

Via Damon Krukowski.

🔗 Dance in the Ruins - Austin Kleon

A November mixtape.

🔗 IndieWeb icons

Preview of IndieWeb icons 2023 proposal.