Posts by maxleibman@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AjN2174nnqKb6M7Fo0 by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-06-28T01:07:35Z
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An iPad is a great PC replacement for someone who hates computers. A Chromebook is a great PC replacement for someone who hates themselves.
(DIR) Post #AjT05K0UdSqxP3jsmW by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-06-30T02:34:31Z
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Shoplifting professional grade fireworks—also known as the three-finger discount.
(DIR) Post #AjcjeY8aKpeXivKrEO by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-01-25T14:50:36Z
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Your skill as a writer is inversely proportional to the number of words you have added to an article for SEO purposes. #SEO #PaddingIsntWriting #LongerIsntBetter #enshittification
(DIR) Post #AjcjeZNVipBbZVKI8O by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-01-25T14:54:31Z
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Afraid of content jobs being taken over by AI? Then write for humans. Stop padding, stop vamping, stop over-explaining the background, stop putting the answer to the question below the fold, stop click-farming, stop writing for machine indexing, and stop putting a single word anywhere in the piece for any reason other than to make it a better piece of WRITING for HUMANS to read. If you write for machines, you deserve to be replaced by an #LLM. #SEO #enshittification
(DIR) Post #AjcjeaafDPIlKaUJH6 by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-01-26T20:02:39Z
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We all seem to agree that ruining the web for money should not be a business. What am saying here is that ruining the web for money should also not be a job. #LLM #SEO #enshittification
(DIR) Post #AjcjecsSiCj8QMpYIK by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-01-25T14:57:13Z
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“There’s only about 100 words of new information here, but a 1600-word article performs better on Google.” –A shitty writer#writing #SEO #enshittification
(DIR) Post #Ajdc6KrIh4d8Anwtm4 by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-07-05T21:37:47Z
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Her: I’m a dominatrix. Me: Oh, that’s lovely! I used to play dominoes with my grandpa when I was little.
(DIR) Post #Ajlf3QC0GBN8yTc8DQ by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-07-09T20:00:28Z
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Google dropping “Don't be evil" is about as clear a "When someone tells you who they are, believe them" moment as tech is every likely to see. (Semi-related, I am *very* curious to see how Apple's forays into this field affect their 2030 climate commitments.)https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/112756821589832511
(DIR) Post #Ajw36kFnTAi3AiLvdI by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-07-14T21:46:36Z
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Models that are fed on data created by other models is “degenerative AI.” #PeakAI #LLMs #GenerativeAI
(DIR) Post #AkD5KyqPWPhW4biGFk by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T20:00:10Z
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Nobody in your timeline who is both sincere and smart is complaining about DEI today. Nobody. Not one. If they're bitching about DEI right now, they're either a dumbass or disingenuous (and don't rule out both). #Harris2024(EDIT: this is also true about people bitching about DEI on other days.)
(DIR) Post #AkGGx2ZNnjkFbLylVo by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-07-24T16:17:28Z
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Look, I don’t want to make this political, but I think the sky is blue.
(DIR) Post #AkpztucADZpkWvlAFU by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-08-09T16:19:35Z
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If you don’t feel the enthusiasm for Harris and Walz, that is your right. And also completely understandable. But 100% of the effort you make to blunt others’ enthusiasm about them between now and election day is effort spent to elect Trump. No path to viable leftist candidates runs through a right-wing victory in November. You can’t get there from here.
(DIR) Post #AkpztwvNd6ORh6lXTk by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-08-09T16:26:23Z
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Recall that joke about climate change: don’t think about this as the hottest summer of the last hundred years—think of it as the coolest summer of the next hundred. The same applies to the political choice in front of us. If you hate Harris and Walz for falling short, you might think this is the worst slate of presidential candidates in your life so far. But if we get this wrong, this will likely be the best set of options you have in a presidential election for the rest of your life.
(DIR) Post #AkpztxKu6CoGyGhvGK by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-08-10T01:16:38Z
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“This is a child's view of politics,” replies Isabel, immediately before blocking me so I can’t reply.
(DIR) Post #Akpztz3xgARiKInQ8G by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-08-09T16:29:00Z
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One one level, this toot didn’t age super-well, because Biden isn’t running. But the principle still applies. https://mastodon.social/@maxleibman/111922448201715288
(DIR) Post #Akpzu0t2tiu1z1hjOa by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-08-09T17:07:09Z
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And yes, we have to be about more than beating Trump. But if we don’t beat Trump, it won’t matter what else we’re for.
(DIR) Post #Al87PNozsEUycDzjLE by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2023-01-24T15:36:16Z
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Point: multitasking is a myth. You cannot simultaneously pay attention to this mandatory security training video while processing your email with the care and attention it deserves. Counterpoint: multitasking is real. Letting this mandatory security training video play in the background still results in full credit for watching it, while you simultaneously crank through a whole bunch of email. #productivity #multitasking #administrivia
(DIR) Post #AlL6Gs1Wdj0QmQi7k0 by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2023-02-27T16:56:14Z
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I believe in hard work, but never, ever work like a founder, unless you have a founder's share of the equity. #WorkLifeBalance #FairPay #QuietQuitting
(DIR) Post #AlQkDnU028QjmkuzRY by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2024-08-28T02:53:35Z
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Me, in high school in the 1990s: hoping every class period would be just watching a video so I didn't have to learn anything. Me, online in the 2020s: hoping none of these links will lead to watching a video because I want to learn something.
(DIR) Post #At6PGxTVMcH1rurBSK by maxleibman@mastodon.social
2023-12-02T04:04:47Z
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“How many ways are there to skin a cat? None. How do you eat an elephant? You don't. And not only can you not beat a dead horse, you can't even say it." –PETOMA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Obviously Metaphorical Animals)