Tag: culture
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Clickable proverbs.
Ancient Dutch proverbs are the best. 🔗 Netherlandish Proverbs, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Defining slop
“It is generic and all the same personalized, the Big Mac without the onions.” defining slop
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🤖 AI Answers Barely Shift Across Languages, Study Suggests
Even when asked in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, or Spanish, modern AI chatbots like ChatGPT deliver answers aligned with secular, center-left, Western liberal values. Language introduces minor stylistic variations, but the core worldview remains strikingly consistent. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: Do AIs think differently in different languages? Key Points AI responses remain largely uniform across…
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tech-culture sayings
“Laws can be opinions on inevitabilities in the world of software engineering, or wry observations on unavoidable realities.” // A round-up of all those laws and bromides tech world people use. 🔗 Hacker Laws
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Low quality content production is a higher quality of life
‘I think the level of quality that everything has these days, every image, every website, every song, every video also has downsides. It defining the “norm”, the expectation we have from one another has two main issues that keep irritating me.’ 🔗 The Professionalism Trap
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“How many $18 glasses of natural wine can you drink while friends relay the latest upsetting news they gleaned from X, Instagram, and TikTok…” the new lost generation
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🤖 The New Lost Generation: Phone Addiction, Expats, and the AI Fork in the Road
Our modern addictions—especially to our phones—have quietly become the backbone of daily life, eroding memory, attention, and a sense of self. Against this backdrop, a wave of cultural withdrawal, from sobriety to expat living, reflects a deep desire to reset before AI either liberates us or consumes us. AI generated summary of: The new Lost…
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Occupying TikTok with love – “And TikTok is full of advice about how to break out of this ‘200 views jail’ – have a niche, have a hook, look at trends – but maybe instead we could just think ‘how beautiful, TikTok are going to share my thing with 200 random people scattered around the…
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🤖 San Francisco’s AI Gold Rush: High-Agency Hustlers vs. NPCs in the Great Lock-In
This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: are you high-agency or an NPC? San Francisco is in the throes of an AI-fueled renaissance, buzzing with wealth, 22-year-old techno-prophets, and absurd $100M salaries, even as anxiety simmers beneath the surface. In a city caught between triumph and precarity, the culture has splintered into “high-agency” hustlers…
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An IT modernization tale, with both technology and culture. // The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
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Thirty Years On, the Californian Ideology is Alive and Well – The cycle of tech loosing its democratic morals in favor of tech innovation, and, of course, making money.
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The forgotten war on the Walkman – The new thing is always going to destroy civilization, or at least proper behavior.
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Practical platform engineering, the industry analyst business dies again, personal utopia – three good videos
Three good videos Platform Engineering 2025: What “great”’ looks like now. Most platform engineering talks are very frustrating for me. The same stuff over and over since about 2015. The platform engineering space is rife with people who’ve made the monumental mistake of thinking Kubernetes is a platform and then finding out they have so…
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The case for memes as a new form of comics –
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How to increase your surface area for luck – “One distinguishing feature I’ve noticed among people who are unusually successful is that they just try a lot of stuff – socially, intellectually, professionally. It’s the rate of experimentation, the number of shots on goal, that provides the magic, not the percentage of successes, which might…
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news that stays news – What’s old to you is completely new to younger people, no matter how old the text is: “One of the things that’s great about being the kind of teacher I am is that you spend your life introducing new people to old things: when my students fall in love with…
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Why Gen X is the real loser generation – I was there for the design meetings. Works as designed. I mean, we had a whole song called “Loser.”
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The work at hand – “Vernacular institutions:” They are more useful than they are legible.
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Why Bro Culture Still Holds Teams Back at Work –
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