the-enternal-mainframe
The Eternal Mainframe, Rudolf Winestock (Via I Started Programming When I Was 7. I’m 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed Lobsters)
By extending the capabilities of computers to their technological and logical limits, we get computers controlling mundane gadgets and doing major calculations. Good user experience demands that the computer interface should get out of the way, that it be invisible. Thus, it makes sense to present only as much computing power as the user needs.
dead-internet-pull-request
AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it (Via HN)
The sad part here is that the LLM posted an article about “what it learned”, but there’s no learning in place. This issue will happen again.
pr-and-submarines
The Submarine, Paul Graham (via HN)
Readers aren’t the only ones who’ve noticed the change. The PR industry has too. A hilarious article on the site of the PR Society of America gets to the heart of the matter:
Bloggers are sensitive about becoming mouthpieces for other organizations and companies, which is the reason they began blogging in the first place.
PR people fear bloggers for the same reason readers like them. And that means there may be a struggle ahead. As this new kind of writing draws readers away from traditional media, we should be prepared for whatever PR mutates into to compensate. When I think how hard PR firms work to score press hits in the traditional media, I can’t imagine they’ll work any less hard to feed stories to bloggers, if they can figure out how.
life-of-pi
Life of Pi Analysis, Themes and Plot Explained, trevelyan22
Pi is presented as literally halfway between rationality and faith: look at the way the film emphasizes him as the child of both his father (the rationalist) and mother (the believer). See also his name, which comes from mathematics and yet remains an “irrational” number.