Sinnerman

what little ever existed of the plot

The plot isn’t really the point.

hadn’t cracked a smile in over a hundred pages.

Apparently one of the reasons for the historic rivalry between France and England was their different senses of humor, with the French wit considered much classier. Anyway, plenty of people would agree with you, though I think the books are hilarious.

Coming from Wired, I’d hope the article would have a more technology focused approach,

Wired is for people who want to talk about technology without actually taking about technology.

kbin.social direct link: https://kbin.social/m/printsf@literature.cafe/

But Hanlon’s razor says you shouldn’t.

All right, we got a razor fight!

Do you like commercials? And how much are you willing to pay for TV?

If the answers are “no” and “zero”, then that’s going to affect how much TV you/we watch, even if you/we like the TV shows.

According to the article, Musk is the ideas guy and it’s her job to implement them. So when Twitter fails, he’ll say the ideas were great, it was an execution problem.

She probably figures at her next job interview she’ll say it was a no win situation, but at least she accomplished (something).

Also, “research has indicated that women and other minorities view risky job offers as the only chance they are likely to get” -Wikipedia

She’s the one who will take the blame.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning

But what are the chances that StoryGraph will undergo enshittification?

It should be an unconditional requirement that the day your university receives a penny of public funding your papers must be public domain.

Some grants do have this requirement. So publishers just charge you extra to make your article “open source”.

Truly, academic publishers are vile people who make the world a worse place.

The whole point of Oulipo is “the seeking of new structures and patterns”.

Constraints inspire creativity, so let’s come up with new constraints.

If you only allow one structure/constraint, that’s the opposite of what Oulipo is about.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
“Oulipo Compendium” is a fun book if you can find it.
Motte’s “Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature” is OK but a bit dry. Looks like there’ve been a couple new surveys recently too.

The mastodon community Oulipo.social only allows one structure/constraint, so it’s not that interesting. If you know of any good Oulipo communities in the fediverse, I’d be thrilled to hear about them.

“Lastly, I’ve intentionally done this work in a way that will, I hope, prove illegible and hostile to summary in media reports”

lel I like the way this person thinks. Did a quick read, is worth re-reading.

I was initially excited to hear about the Oulipo community, but they seem to have an very limited take on what Oulipo is/was. There is a lot more to Oulipo than lipograms (avoiding a character) as even the Wikipedia page says.

I’m pretty sure they were being sarcastic.

It’s “enswastification.”

Possibly relevant background: https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-start

Direct link for those of us on kbin.social: https://kbin.social/m/origami@normalcity.life

artificial general intelligence - the thing LLMs claim to be

The major GPT-based systems will deny being AGIs. Most companies will also deny this. Is anyone reputable saying LLMs are AGIs?

Well, tensions were building, then there was an Incident, now they are trying a reconciliation so there will be a moment of calm. See here for more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_of_abuse

AI has gone through several cycles of hype and winter. There’s even a Wikipedia page for it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

Of course it’s valuable to discuss the dangers and inequities of a new technology. But one of the dangers is being misled.