What kind of AI centaur are you?Kasparov called humans augmented by machines "centaurs." Doctorow flipped it: reverse centaurs are humans degraded by them. As digital nomads leaning hard on AI, which one are we becoming?Nerd on Tour·May 26·5 min readPieter LevelsPhotoAI.comleading to ongoing clashesCambridge Analytica scandal
EnshittificationHere's the natural history of enshittification: First, platforms are good to their users. Then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers. Next, they abuse those busines…Cory Dransfeldt·Oct 26·2 min readFolloweconomicstechsocial mediasocial science
Curate your own newspaper with RSS"In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watc…edafe knabe·Aug 1·1 min readFollowenenshittificationfeedgooglezero
Delta’s AI-based price-gouging"It's a scam. AI agents aren't going to replace human labor. The only way we'll replace human labor with software agents is by redesigning all these heterogeneous, competing systems owned by people wh…edafe knabe·Jul 31·1 min readFollowartificialintelligenceautomationaviationbusiness
When we get komooted"Digital enclosure is the continuation of the physical enclosure of land. This sophisticated form of digital extraction is so common that it’s almost unremarkable. But there’s a wrenching contradictio…edafe knabe·Jul 27·1 min readFollowbusinesscapitalismcyclingen
