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https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/openai-ceo-says-its-quite-terrible-for-your-pc-to-have-ram-sam-altman-says-data-centers-offer-better-utilization

angels* do exist and they walk amongst us

* absolute chaos goblins

good afternoon to everyone EXCEPT this dude who sat down next to me in the public library, pushed the “NO FOOD ALLOWED” sign off his desk, and started pouring water into a ziploc bag filled with (i think??) oats

logging on

INTERVIEWER: ethan you just broke a two month-long blogging dry spell with the most old-man-yells-at-clouds thing you’ve ever written, how did you do it

ME: that’s an excellent question, i guess the first thing i’d say is [plays a single unbroken note on a slide whistle for like two hours]

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Wrote an angry little plea to all the stars in the firmament and whatever saints exist, asking them to deliver me from recommendation engines. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/all-watched-over-by-algorithms-of-loving-grace/

todaybor day is labor day

summer is a design flaw

There’s a lot of (correct imo!!) outrage in my mentions, with some folks brainstorming actions to take. One suggestion from the peanut gallery: follow @wwu, and support any actions *they* ask us to take, and when they want us to take them.

You can (and should!) register your displeasure with The Wikimedia Foundation however you see fit. Just consider that your action will be *even more effective* if it’s part of a worker-led campaign.

(https://medium.com/regarding-wikipedia/the-wikimedia-foundation-hired-the-union-busters-its-own-encyclopedia-warned-about-42b7142a5cd1 was via @Ashedryden, @wwu)

The Wikimedia Foundation hasn’t just refused to recognize their workers’ unions; they’ve also hired one of the most notorious union-busting firms out there. https://medium.com/regarding-wikipedia/the-wikimedia-foundation-hired-the-union-busters-its-own-encyclopedia-warned-about-42b7142a5cd1

#1u #unions #TechUnions

(the new profile pic’s courtesy of elaina natario, who just does lovely work imo https://www.elainanatario.com/)

having updated my headshot for the first time in years, i have spent the last twenty minutes in a state of Wait Who The Hell Is That whenever i see one of my own posts

For ages my portfolio page has said I’ve been working online “for over two decades,” but I just realized that technically it should read “for nearly thirty years” and then I had to sit down and have a good long think https://ethanmarcotte.com/work/

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In what I’m sure future design historians will call a stunning display of timeliness and marketing savvy, let me tell you about the redesign I launched two weeks ago. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-house-is-valuable-because-it-is-the-house/

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Been reflecting today on how good it’s been for the ol’ mental health to start storing interesting links on my actual website. https://ethanmarcotte.com/stream/

Not sure why, but it’s done me a world of good to store interesting links somewhere *I* own, rather than peppering them everywhere *else*.

I AM VERY EXCITED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLMX2w3cwuE

so i’m back from my walk and somehow she managed to turn off my computer with her butt. okay thanks