#techpress — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #techpress, aggregated by home.social.
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In covering the story of an AI agent apparently writing a hit piece blog post about someone who declined its GitHub merge request, Ars Technica posted a story that included fabricated quotes created by AI.
It's slop all the way down.
#ArsTechnica #TechPress #TechReporting #TechMedia #AIslop #MJRathbun #AIagents #Journalism #AIcodingAgents #VibeCoding #VibeJournalism
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In covering the story of an AI agent apparently writing a hit piece blog post about someone who declined its GitHub merge request, Ars Technica posted a story that included fabricated quotes created by AI.
It's slop all the way down.
#ArsTechnica #TechPress #TechReporting #TechMedia #AIslop #MJRathbun #AIagents #Journalism #AIcodingAgents #VibeCoding #VibeJournalism
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In covering the story of an AI agent apparently writing a hit piece blog post about someone who declined its GitHub merge request, Ars Technica posted a story that included fabricated quotes created by AI.
It's slop all the way down.
#ArsTechnica #TechPress #TechReporting #TechMedia #AIslop #MJRathbun #AIagents #Journalism #AIcodingAgents #VibeCoding #VibeJournalism
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In covering the story of an AI agent apparently writing a hit piece blog post about someone who declined its GitHub merge request, Ars Technica posted a story that included fabricated quotes created by AI.
It's slop all the way down.
#ArsTechnica #TechPress #TechReporting #TechMedia #AIslop #MJRathbun #AIagents #Journalism #AIcodingAgents #VibeCoding #VibeJournalism
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In covering the story of an AI agent apparently writing a hit piece blog post about someone who declined its GitHub merge request, Ars Technica posted a story that included fabricated quotes created by AI.
It's slop all the way down.
#ArsTechnica #TechPress #TechReporting #TechMedia #AIslop #MJRathbun #AIagents #Journalism #AIcodingAgents #VibeCoding #VibeJournalism
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This article about scAmazon CTO Werner Vogels reminds me of everything wrong with the Gee Whiz! school of tech journalism pioneered by Wired;
It's like reading an article about a guy who made excellent chains, and continued to work hard on making them better, even after learning they were being deployed in Stalin's gulags. It's a completely amoral approach to reporting, with zero consideration of the political economy of how tech is deployed and used.
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🧵1of2 #SmartGlasses aren't just "not ready yet." They're #surveillance devices by design.
@Em0nM4stodon called Meta's Ray-Ban glasses exactly what they are: voyeurism tools.
The #TechPress keeps reviewing them like consumer gadgets instead of acknowledging the harm potential.
Here's what's actually happening when these become mainstream:
1. Recording people without clear consent indicators.
2. Facial recognition in public spaces.
3. Data harvesting from every interaction.
4. Stalkers and harassers getting military-grade surveillance capabilities.The #Fediverse community understands something Big Tech pretends not to: Technology isn't neutral. Design choices reflect values.
When Meta builds glasses that can secretly record, they're not solving problems.
They're creating new ones for the most vulnerable people.
Women, trans folks, activists, and marginalized communities already navigate constant surveillance and harassment.
Smart glasses amplify existing power imbalances in dangerous ways.
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GoodRead #NewBook #Techpress #EuBubble
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691241173/the-tech-coup
Former MEP @MarietjeSchaake
goes to show how technologies—from social media to artificial intelligence—have gone from being heralded as utopian to undermining the pillars of our democracies. -
GoodRead #NewBook #Techpress #EuBubble
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691241173/the-tech-coup
Former MEP @MarietjeSchaake
goes to show how technologies—from social media to artificial intelligence—have gone from being heralded as utopian to undermining the pillars of our democracies. -
GoodRead #NewBook #Techpress #EuBubble
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691241173/the-tech-coup
Former MEP @MarietjeSchaake
goes to show how technologies—from social media to artificial intelligence—have gone from being heralded as utopian to undermining the pillars of our democracies. -
GoodRead #NewBook #Techpress #EuBubble
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691241173/the-tech-coup
Former MEP @MarietjeSchaake
goes to show how technologies—from social media to artificial intelligence—have gone from being heralded as utopian to undermining the pillars of our democracies. -
GoodRead #NewBook #Techpress #EuBubble
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691241173/the-tech-coup
Former MEP @MarietjeSchaake
goes to show how technologies—from social media to artificial intelligence—have gone from being heralded as utopian to undermining the pillars of our democracies. -
Tech business writers really struggle to understand that a free protocol doesn't usually come from one company, and even when it does, it's not theirs. If it's a genuinely free protocol, it's a commons.
"Nostr’s protocol powers apps like Damus, Nostur, Nos and others."
#SarahPerez, 2024
This is like saying;
'ActivityPub's protocol powers Mastodon, Flipboard, Threads, and others'
Or;
'XMPP's protocol powers Snikket, Conversation, Jitsi Meet and others'
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“Mario Fusco, a great software developer, once said: ‘The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don’t have to write makes you a great one.’ So maybe, for once, AI is on to something.”
https://www.inkl.com/a/nPvYapcJNlJ
Way to quote someone without understanding a word they’re saying.
Take a bow, John Naughton.
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Also-also, the #TechPress is about three decades overdue for starting to do its actual job, which is warning the world against people like Prabhakar Ragahavan, instead of fondling their privates & pretending they're some sort of superheroes.
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"If you talk to people about these projects [Mastodon and the #fediverse] and they respond with cynicism — “it won't scale”, “it's just a bunch of hobbyists”, “it can't compete” — what is really at work here is the default prejudice against bottom-up self-organization without a profit motive.
...they are “doomed to fail”, meaning that they will be unavoidably and repeatedly characterized through the distorted lens of a capitalist media ecosystem"
https://write.as/eloquence/why-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-are-doomed-to-fail
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@davidgerard @jpm How do they get away with hiding their implicit designs? Is it the endless incredulity of the #TechPress, short-sighted greed of the Financial sector or is it something else?
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me repeatedly over the course of 15 years while I enrich myself beyond a normal persons wildest dreams.... Shame on us all.
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John @gruber nails it on business press (WSJ) coverage of #Apple product launches:
"Do Wall Street Journal Reporters Read The Wall Street Journal?"
https://daringfireball.net/2023/05/do_wall_street_journal_reporters_read_the_wall_street_journalMy Favourite: WATCH is a dud
Runner Up: AirPods will fail because there are much cheaper BT ear buds
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"Tim Cook hosts anti-Semite, alt-right troll, insurrectionist defender, Putin sympathizing, colossal piece of sentient shit at Apple Park"
There, fixed your headlines for you tech press.
What a fucking disgrace. Please, please stop being so goddamned complicit.