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An interesting view on the current AI trend by @jimniels

"AI" takes our jobs, not because it’s going to do what we’re already doing, but because organizations feel compelled to shift resources to the AI industrial complex because “everyone’s doing it” and “it’s the future”.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/human-hype-and-machine-intelligence/

#WordPress question / looking for recommendations

I'm looking for a block to display reviews:

• A simple slider where each slide could be customized (background color mostly), and could contain multiple inner blocks (heading, paragraph, star rating).
• Something that doesn't add a ton of dependencies to the frontend. No jQuery please.
• Something that will work well on mobile (maybe using Swiper.js).
• A block that will continue to be maintained and kept up to date in the future.

Does this exist, or am I asking for too much?

Thank you!

I discovered Lance Reddick in Fringe, and really liked what he brought to the show, and the team. Since then it was a pleasure to see him again from time to time, in so many different shows and movies.

He will be missed!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64959805

Damn the AI Torpedos

https://geoffgraham.me/damn-the-ai-torpedos/

Why Write?

Why write an essay when you can type a few words and have AI generate one for you?

That post does a great job at answering this not-so-simple question:

https://fs.blog/why-write/

We talked about it here a month ago when it was still in development, so I wanted to give y'all a heads-up:

Jetpack 11.9, scheduled to be released in a few hours, will include a Mastodon sharing button.

I talk about the feature and how it can be customized in this blog post:
Share your blog posts on Mastodon with Jetpack

Hopefully it can be useful for some of you!

#WordPress, #plugins, #YouHeardItOnTheFediverseFirst

Tonight we play Splendor.

Somehow my wife almost always wins at their game. We've had it for years, and I have still not found a way to gather gems faster than her.
I love that game anyway, it feels good, the chips are nice to handle.

#gamenight #BoardGames #splendor

I don’t want to log in to your website / I simply won’t read! Solved!

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618804/google-facebook-login-ads-web-design-hell

@andy I just read The (extremely) loud minority, and wanted to offer a comment.

I really like the overall message; we developers tend to focus on ✨ the new shiny thing ✨ and sometimes forget everything else, stuff that's used by a majority of the web. JavaScript frameworks are one example and could be compared with sites that use vanilla JS or jQuery.

I don't know if your comparison with WordPress fully works though, because modern versions of WordPress all ship with React.

The React-based block editor was added to WordPress 5.0, so it's not all WordPress sites that ship with React. Still, given than more than 80% of WordPress sites run version 5.0+, that makes for quite a lot of sites.

With that in mind, one could say that React is used on more than 43% of the web.

I think your overall point still stands, but that caveat in your stats is worth noting.

First play of Pandemic Legacy Season 1, and first win!

We played the original Pandemic a few times a couple of months ago, and we lost every time. This time it was very close, but we managed to pull it off at the very last turn!

I'm curious to see what the future plays will bring.

#gamenight, #pandemic, #BoardGames