This is a wonderful article, well worth your time.
The future of Generative AI rests on OpenAI, and OpenAI’s future rests on near-impossible financial requirements
Kind: Bookmarks
storing a link/bookmark for personal use or sharing with others
BookWyrm is an open source, self-hostable GoodReads
BookWyrm, despite its annoying 90s-era spelling, is an “ad-free, anti-corporate, and federated” site for tracking your reading and interacting with other readers. Think of it like GoodReads without Amazon constantly spying on you and trying to sell you stuff. If you’re currently using GoodReads you can import your reading lists and activity directly into BookWyrm. If you’ve got lots of time on your hands you can even host your own BookWyrm installation. BookWyrm uses ActivityPub to send and receive user activity between other BookWyrm instances and services that use ActivityPub (like Mastodon). This enables your self-hosted BookWyrm instance to interact with others. This is a cool idea but I’d rather spend time doing something more productive than self-hosting a site that works perfectly fine over here.
I’m not sure how long I’ll use it or how long it will be around, but I’m finding BookWyrm to be a refreshing change from GoodReads.
Source: BookWyrm
Big Tech and “captive audience venues”
The reason Facebook was once a nice place to hang out and talk with your friends and isn’t anymore is that Mark Zuckerberg is no longer disciplined by competitors like Instagram (which he bought) nor by regulators (whom he captured), nor by interoperable tech like ad-blockers and alternative clients (which he uses IP law to destroy) nor by his own workforce (who have become disposable thanks to workforce supply catching up with demand).
