[a pleasurable headache] distant and invisible humans
A short one this week.
Suicide Mission
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/
A deep dive on the absolute shit pile that is Boeing right now, from Maureen Tkacik at Prospect Magazine.
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What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?
The answer will not surprise you.
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Abandon All Delusions Of Control
https://cohost.org/dreamcastaway/post/5275166-abandon-all-delusion
A great post on Cohost about Dragon's Dogma 2 and the game's purposefully designed rough edges.
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ON PERSISTENCE, AND THE LONG CON OF BEING A SUCCESSFUL WRITER
This guest post from Kameron Hurley is around a decade old at this point, but it's a new read for me.
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So, Amazon’s ‘AI-powered’ cashier-free shops use a lot of … humans. Here’s why that shouldn’t surprise you
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/10/amazon-ai-cashier-less-shops-humans-technology
James Bridle at The Guardian on the hidden labour from the new wave of AI.
"An employee who worked on the technology said that actual humans – albeit distant and invisible ones, based in India – reviewed about 70% of sales made in the “cashier-less” shops as of mid-2022 (Amazon responded that “the characterisation of the role and number of human reviewers is not accurate”). Now, Amazon is reportedly moving away from “just walk out” and rolling out “smart shopping carts” instead (AKA a scanner in your trolley – big whoop)."
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I'm off to a wedding and wonder whether I'll have a day job this time next year, see you in two!