A good morning.

“Rogue AI” Used to be a Science Fiction Trope. Not Anymore. — Your Undivided Attention Sci-fi warned us about rogue AI systems that deceive, cheat, even coerce humans when threatened with shutdown or replacement. Yet we’re building AI today that does all of these things and we don’t kno...

I love what the CHT is doing. I am not someone that thinks AGI and the singularity is right around the corner. But the dangers of employing LLM’s as agents is already documented. This episode describes in fairly layman terms how an “AI” can go rouge and blackmail people.

overcast.fm/+AARs4vYtIOU

Wait wait. Is that any different than running a human team with varying levels of experience?

Yeah. My understanding is Apple’s not doing that. But there is a ton of image processing.

A star filled night sky rimmed by trees.

Midnight.

(I still find it stunning I can take a handheld photo of the stars and get this kind of quality. Modern phone cameras are a marvel)

It’s a Portland sunrise! 😏

A misty sunlit road deep in a redwood forest.

Have a good weekend.

So many people seem to confuse bravado with leadership. It’s a cut throat world out there, but we all have the chance to build the work environments we want to work in.

This is good leading.

They haven’t publicly released ProductManagerGPT.

It’s coming after the next funding round.

carlyn (@carlynorama@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image The problem ISN'T simply what Google maps or Apple maps show... I wish it was that easy. The problem is what the underlying data set they pull from shows... and that's THE GNS. Eve...

The problem is who controls the datasource—and that maps are inherently political.

mastodon.social/@carlynorama...

Map provided by Google calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America

Map from Apple Maps showing the Gulf of Mexico

When people ask why I trust Apple more then Google

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Here's a glossary for Swift concurrency.

I've been asked about this a few times, and I finally sat down to do it.

www.massicotte.org/concurrency-...

Redwood forest scene with the light racking in from the upper left.

It’s mushroom season in the giant redwood forest.

Laughing at Power: A Troublemaker’s Guide to Changing Tech — Your Undivided Attention The broken status quo of tech may feel immovable, but Srdja Popovic knows something about challenging power. A leader of the Serbian resistance, he’s spent his life studying how to transform entrenche...

The “Your Undivided Attention” podcast is fantastic. This episode dives into the creator of tactics for change.

overcast.fm/+AARs4viA_pE

Tactic4Change The Tactics4Change interactive website provides free access to information about more than 400 hundred cases of nonviolent dilemma actions, from all continents, and more than 100 countries. This datas...

Want to free your speech?

A database of actions to mock the powerful, to demonstrate people power, and to build a better world.

www.tactics4change.org

This is important for the web we want. It is focused on Bluesky’s AT protocol, but envisions interoperability with Mastodon’s ActivityPub.

If you can donate, please do.

(This is how we _free_ speech)

Exactly. I tend to think what you describe here as a very clear way to show the user they had a network problem and teach them where to expect to find it later.

I agree. This feels like a great experience! And everything else you’ve said makes sense. The app looks great. I’m very interested to try it out.

I’d caution again hiding these views.

I don’t know the app well enough right now, but you could consider showing view indicating what would be displayed if their network connection worked.

It can frustrate users to look for something they expect and be unable to find it.

In other words. If you already have cached data, you could skip showing the "Preparing Informed..." progress screen, and instead let the user use the app with the previous cache of data.

Then the important UI problems become:
- Is it clear the existing data is stale?
- Is it clear how to retry?

When there are failures, instead of showing the alert, how about showing the message in your home view and include the retry button with it? That way users are displayed the failure, can act on it, but are still able to proceed immediately after launch if they choose to ignore it.

If I understand what I am seeing, you already have an on-device cache of the previously fetched data?

In this case, could you immediately present the main UI with this cached data and then show some activity indication that the app is also trying to update?

Oh goodness. Yeah, 160 is what they told our parents to cook it too. That’s back when our food safely wasn’t as good as now. You get shoe leather at that temp.

I cook it to 145 and love it. So yummy. I haven’t gotten sick in the 10+ years of doing this.

www.pork.org/pork-cooking...

Hmmmm. Was it thick cut? Was there still plenty of pink inside?

The warm sun rises from a cliffside beach on a misty moring.

The orange sun rises above palm trees obscured in the mist on Pismo beach.

The Pismo beach pier, warmly lit, but shrouded in a light mist.

Pismo beach sunrise.

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Oh how I wish I could have used these shortcuts back when my kids were little!