SkyView Alex
@phantomalexwriter.bsky.social
They/Them +30 || Writer and oc x canon shipper || DMC, FF3H, KH, ME/DA, BG3
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Character design commissioned by Ruby_Donnabelle (Twitter / X)
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March 15, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Character design commissioned by Ruby_Donnabelle (Twitter / X)
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Of Dungeons And Dragons
Spawned from the Kinktober pieces with the girls playing some kind of tabletop fantasy roleplay game.
Spawned from the Kinktober pieces with the girls playing some kind of tabletop fantasy roleplay game.
March 14, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Of Dungeons And Dragons
Spawned from the Kinktober pieces with the girls playing some kind of tabletop fantasy roleplay game.
Spawned from the Kinktober pieces with the girls playing some kind of tabletop fantasy roleplay game.
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Please please please stop burning the planet by playing with this stuff.
Before you use that chatbot prompt, you should be aware that these generative AI companies are using so much power that they're trying to get more power plants built.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
March 12, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Please please please stop burning the planet by playing with this stuff.
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I've said it before, but AI is the new bureaucracy, the new blackbox decision-maker the purpose of which is not to make decisions, but to obscure accountability and prevent any purchase in arguing against those decisions
this will be what AI is mostly used for, not new insights or even replacing jobs but just doing evil shit that helps bottom lines and people can pretend it wasnt their decision www.statnews.com/2023/03/13/m...
Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need
A STAT investigation found artificial intelligence is driving Medicare Advantage denials to new heights, cutting off care for seniors.
www.statnews.com
March 12, 2024 at 9:25 PM
I've said it before, but AI is the new bureaucracy, the new blackbox decision-maker the purpose of which is not to make decisions, but to obscure accountability and prevent any purchase in arguing against those decisions
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March 12, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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Today's newsletter: We're watching the internet die as it gets overwhelmed with content built to be popular with algorithms, much of it generated by AI, crowding out stuff created by humans. Ironically, this is also an existential threat to generative AI.
tinyurl.com/wyea31124
tinyurl.com/wyea31124
Are We Watching The Internet Die?
Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected t...
tinyurl.com
March 11, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Today's newsletter: We're watching the internet die as it gets overwhelmed with content built to be popular with algorithms, much of it generated by AI, crowding out stuff created by humans. Ironically, this is also an existential threat to generative AI.
tinyurl.com/wyea31124
tinyurl.com/wyea31124
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Generative AI isn't magic — it's a fantastical version of autocomplete that can't help but make the same mistakes it learned from the things it's stolen from others.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is getting rich off the death of the internet.
tinyurl.com/wyea31124
Anyone who tells you otherwise is getting rich off the death of the internet.
tinyurl.com/wyea31124
March 11, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Generative AI isn't magic — it's a fantastical version of autocomplete that can't help but make the same mistakes it learned from the things it's stolen from others.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is getting rich off the death of the internet.
tinyurl.com/wyea31124
Anyone who tells you otherwise is getting rich off the death of the internet.
tinyurl.com/wyea31124
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The assumptions behind this (well-researched) article explain so much about the enshittification of companies. Kickstarter provided a good service people loved, followed ethical standards, *and* made tons of money, but steady earnings instead of stonks to the moon = "fading brand" that needs fixing.
Kickstarter's bizarre blockchain announcement in December 2021 makes so much more sense now that we know Andreessen Horowitz secretly promised them $100 million to pivot to a blockchain-based product built on the also-a16z-backed Celo blockchain.
fortune.com/crypto/2024/...
fortune.com/crypto/2024/...
The untold story of Kickstarter’s crypto Hail Mary—and the secret $100 million a16z-led investment to save its fading brand
Inside the once-hot startup’s struggle to regain relevance despite a massive check from the crypto arm of venture giant Andreessen Horowitz.
fortune.com
March 11, 2024 at 4:42 PM
The assumptions behind this (well-researched) article explain so much about the enshittification of companies. Kickstarter provided a good service people loved, followed ethical standards, *and* made tons of money, but steady earnings instead of stonks to the moon = "fading brand" that needs fixing.
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The only thing that grows forever is cancer, and even that eventually kills the host.
This was the paragraph that really confound me. Like can you claim that a complete that was almost immediately profitable and was raking in 10 figures in cash some years "never took off"?
March 11, 2024 at 10:11 PM
The only thing that grows forever is cancer, and even that eventually kills the host.
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The fact that future generations will deal with catastrophe, all because the solutions to the problem were mildly inconvenient, is incredibly sad.
March 11, 2024 at 9:21 PM
The fact that future generations will deal with catastrophe, all because the solutions to the problem were mildly inconvenient, is incredibly sad.
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When you write your first book, people tell you not to read reviews and you ignore them because OMG BOOK OH GOD WHAT ARE THEY SAYING but I suspect the path of wisdom is literally this: read. none. of them. anywhere.
Although… 1/2
Although… 1/2
Are you a novelist?
Are you a published novelist?
Are you a prepublished novelist?
*gently mushes your cheeks together* IP block Goodreads. Now. Right now. Never go there. Never let your friends tell you about your GR reviews, good or bad. Your domain is everywhere the light touches-except that.
Are you a published novelist?
Are you a prepublished novelist?
*gently mushes your cheeks together* IP block Goodreads. Now. Right now. Never go there. Never let your friends tell you about your GR reviews, good or bad. Your domain is everywhere the light touches-except that.
March 11, 2024 at 10:18 AM
When you write your first book, people tell you not to read reviews and you ignore them because OMG BOOK OH GOD WHAT ARE THEY SAYING but I suspect the path of wisdom is literally this: read. none. of them. anywhere.
Although… 1/2
Although… 1/2
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February 14, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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Corporate greed made the Change Healthcare cyberattack worse. The company handles records for 1 in 3 patients in the U.S. In 2022, regulators sued to block UnitedHealth Group's acquisition of Change, citing antitrust laws and the dangers of consolidation. Regulators were unsuccessful.
Corporate Greed Made the Change Healthcare Cyberattack Worse
Hackers have made it impossible for millions of patients to refill prescriptions or even schedule procedures by striking at a single company.
nymag.com
March 8, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Corporate greed made the Change Healthcare cyberattack worse. The company handles records for 1 in 3 patients in the U.S. In 2022, regulators sued to block UnitedHealth Group's acquisition of Change, citing antitrust laws and the dangers of consolidation. Regulators were unsuccessful.
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more 2024 fanarts ✨
March 7, 2024 at 9:05 PM
more 2024 fanarts ✨
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The make-believe medical condition called "excited delirium", now chiefly used to exonerate cops who murder black men, started out as an excuse for cops to ignore the murders of black sex workers: maggiemcneill.com/2024/03/08/a... cc @radleybalko.bsky.social
A Pseudoscience is Born
We should be perfectly clear about the ultimate goal of Axon, its network, and the people behind The Fall of Minneapolis: They want to make it easier for police to kill people without consequence. …
maggiemcneill.com
March 8, 2024 at 6:56 PM
The make-believe medical condition called "excited delirium", now chiefly used to exonerate cops who murder black men, started out as an excuse for cops to ignore the murders of black sex workers: maggiemcneill.com/2024/03/08/a... cc @radleybalko.bsky.social
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reminder I'm also a comic artist
March 2, 2024 at 7:22 AM
reminder I'm also a comic artist
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March 7, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Amazon has long cultivated the idea that it runs its shopping platform on tiny margins, relying instead on AWS for its profits.
This is widely reported. It's also not true.
Amazon’s marketplace is hugely profitable. I have a new piece in The Atlantic on how Amazon has kept these profits secret.
This is widely reported. It's also not true.
Amazon’s marketplace is hugely profitable. I have a new piece in The Atlantic on how Amazon has kept these profits secret.
Amazon’s Big Secret
Nearly 30 years after the company was founded, we still don’t really know where its profits come from. The answer will loom large in the antitrust case against it.
www.theatlantic.com
February 29, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Amazon has long cultivated the idea that it runs its shopping platform on tiny margins, relying instead on AWS for its profits.
This is widely reported. It's also not true.
Amazon’s marketplace is hugely profitable. I have a new piece in The Atlantic on how Amazon has kept these profits secret.
This is widely reported. It's also not true.
Amazon’s marketplace is hugely profitable. I have a new piece in The Atlantic on how Amazon has kept these profits secret.