People excited by accumulating so much wealth (on paper) are clearly showing sociopathic traits...

Good point, the booing on Eric Schimidt's commencement speech is likely not just about him talking about AI at some point. You see, the man has very heavy baggage... He's one of the architects of the current dystopia but won't acknowledge it.

This is clearly the Ouroboros moment in our industry. People pushing for such restructuring and layoffs are drinking the kool-aid and will ultimately be responsible for killing what put them there in the first place.

This is very concerning. We don't need Wikipedia to fall prey to this kind of tactics... On the contrary!

Wondering how those very rich people think and perceive the world? Here is an explanation. I felt unease reading through this.

Interesting exploration of the Japanese business culture and why it's so different to most companies found in Western countries.

This piece is strongly worded but the logic is sound. We see many examples of power plays in guise of "innovation" which lead to killing openly sharing (and so killing real innovation). It's urgent to fight back and ensure things stay open.

This part of the industry is struggling more and more (or more likely silently taking more risks to hide the struggle). It has no path to sustainability and it starts to show.

Indeed, and it's going to get even crazier at some point. I guess somewhat soon but who knows...

Indeed, the giant managed to make itself weak. This means opportunities for other ecosystems to grow faster than before.

A good piece, well designed too. Shows how demanding our current devices are. So much attention requested and so much complexity the user has to deal with. We clearly lost the plot as an industry.

I personally think this is where it'll head after the bubble pops. We should be able to recover enough material to have something viable to run locally. The question will be "where the updated models come from?", it might be the public sector helping there and hopefully those will be truly FOSS and ethical (like Apertus).

The writing is on the wall I think... the real question is not if but when will the enshittification begins? It's been data harvesting for a while now.

Let's help them help us. There are a few things to have in place for governments to be able to pay maintainers.

Clearly the author is angry and he has every right to be. By closing platforms and fighting against tinkering, the big tech companies try to kill of the power user and hacker cultures. By letting this happen we all loose as a society.

This planned giant data center by Meta shows how the big players are grabbing land to satisfy their hubris. So much waste all around.

It feels like staring in the abyss... rather sad I'd say.

Interesting lessons indeed. Especially the first one: "Technology is inherently political, and anyone telling you otherwise is trying to hide their politics." As tech people we too often forget this is all "sociotechnical", no tech is designed and used in a vacuum.

Indeed, don't assume they misunderstood the sci-fi and fantasy they read and you know. Clearly they just got different opinions about it because their incentives and world views are different from your.

There's really a problem with journalism at this point. How come when covering the tech moguls they keep leaving out important context and taking their fables at face value?