RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jdp23/117576314563238917

I bought "Against Tech Oligarchy" and "Let This Radicalize You" for $2 each (normally $20 at other bookstores)! 15 hours left on the sale.

The HTML cat is out of the Web Audio bag. I've finally released HYPERBLAM.

It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML.

https://hyperblam.how

RE: https://mastodon.sboots.ca/@sboots/116735005072405511

"Above all, be motivated by love instead of fear."

RE: https://mastodon.sboots.ca/@sboots/116654192085688205

"The cost of producing a document has fallen to nearly zero; the cost of reading one has not, and is in fact rising, because the reader must now sift the synthetic context for whatever the document was originally about."

AI boosters like to talk about "taste". This is gross mostly because it's explicitly exclusionary, but it's also gross because it seems to envision a future where we're parsing intuition from a stream of pure noise like Cypher reads the green symbols of the Matrix, and AFAICT this is not how learning works.

(I'm not endorsing everything in this blog. The author is more positive about LLM use than I -- and their essays have some telltale signs of it.)

https://youtu.be/lqikP9X9-ws?si=7IpHm2mpQ8ct2lB-&t=1193 for the above quote.

In this quote, Sundar clarified that he views the competition between gen AIs to be a competition over content silos. This is in stark contrast to the web model of a shared commons of content, wherein a rising tide lifts all boats.

"Creators *which support their platforms*."

This was the backdrop to exclusivity deals like https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-ai-content-licensing-deal-with-google-sources-say-2024-02-22/.

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RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116605858023186072

I've said it before: The destruction of the web isn't just an acceptable loss for Google; it's a critical part of their new business plan. Sundar told us so.

Nilay asks him about web publishers feeling that Search Generative Experience undercuts their incentives to publish. He responds:

"I view, through this AI moment, over time there'll be players who will do better by the content creators which support their platforms, and whoever does it better will emerge as the winners."

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the more we're all encouraged to optimize our time and deliver more output, the more i want to never hit a single metric again in my life.

i want to commit on a project and never launch it. i want to code slower, spend more time choosing colors, re-invent wheels that will never get used - not better, just different - taking as long as possible.

i want to spend my time imagining different ways to say a thing, just to enjoy saying it differently.

zero output, always only process forever

I’m excited to share a new project from Adobe Spectrum Web Eng that tracks support for #CSS features within and across the shadow DOM. Think “CanIUse” but for CSS for web components.

The goal is to surface how modern CSS behaves when light and shadow DOM contexts meet, providing visibility into feature parity, usage details, and outstanding issues and bugs. We hope it’s a useful resource for the web components community, and we’d love your feedback and contributions!

https://shadow-dom-css.adobe.com/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116188896230856115

This, except *Google said this would happen*. They telecasted their plan to destroy the commons of the web and replace it with their exclusive content silo back in 2024.

My commentary from back then, with quotes and link to Sundar's exact words: https://mas.to/@twifkak/112476628674502543

no pain syntax highlighting‽
- no JS
- no markup transformation or tokenization

how?
via **Colr Fonts** 💪

try it!
https://codepen.io/argyleink/pen/GRbyNNv

alt text in #CSS generated `content` is now supported all modern browsers (as of firefox 128 and safari 17.4)

please hide your weird glyphs and icon fonts using an empty string like this:

```
content: "›";
content: "›" / "";
```

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/content#alternative_text