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Because Meta is not the default to everything.

I've personally been hoping for something like this for a while now. Especially a toolset that is not just targeting yet another SaaS or LLM or social media clone interface.

I don't know if you ever used Draft.js that FB put out some time ago, but it was a horribly buggy monstrosity that was a heavy lift to move away from. One could not write several paragraphs and edit them without losing a lot of work. I wouldn't touch "Lexical" no matter the marketing they put on top. I wouldn't be half as critical if it wasn't one of the wealthiest companies on the planet known for injecting billions into black holes while they raid every area of your life they possibly can for data to be used to manipulate socio-political matters everywhere. If they're going to do that, and release open source libraries, then at least make them good enough to be seductive. They aren't.

ProseMirror and seemingly WordGard have real thought and care put into them by people who have long made the DOM/developer experience and the writing experience priorities– not just their "mind share" for whatever dark purposes drive companies like Meta.

Those are not comparable.

One is the method of recording a message, the other is having something else completely draft a message for you.

The importance of a personal message is not just in the visual appearance or delivery, but that there has to be some emotional loading to even put the effort into drafting one.

With AI, it's a stupid prompt to get it to write trite poesy. It's meaningless and empty at its root. It's discourse with a nullity.

Nobody who values the human connections in their lives wants that. No matter what kind of marketing and fine print gets shoved and manipulated into their lives.

So a writer making money is not okay and means he is incorrect by default, but the CEOs siphoning billions off of circular investment schemes is fine?

Personally, I see both parties making predictions.

Meanwhile, I still must labour. How many more yachts are needed before the earth becomes the utopia they keep selling everyone on? How many more communities must have their rights trampled against their expressed will?

Or do I need to scan my retinas and provide Alt-man a DNA sample for a handful of empty crypto currency first?

Not good. Is this a first for the ISS?

It's not over.

Qualcomm has come out and stated they intend to see networks of agents crawling live communications data in real time. It doesn't take a William Gibson to see where this can go.

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/02/qualcom...

Claiming the rest of the country is against you is playing the victim. And which Alberta? That sounds like "What kind of Albertan were you". Which is starting to sound like real foul stuff.

It's more complex than that. I know tech workers are fond of reductionism, but it is not workable here.

In order to draw the statement and comparison you just have, you have to throw out ALL legal and historical fact. And also decide that the rights of the Aboriginal land owners in Alberta mean absolutely nothing.

I don't know what it's like to be American, but I presume that not even they would be on board with wholesale land confiscations on such a massive scale. Sets a bad precedent, doesn't it?

I understand this. I lived there, I heard the "Onterrible" jokes and wore them with grace.

The concept of an independent Alberta as an identity is a fringe matter, not equivalent with generalized notions of alienation and grievances related to equivalence within confederation on a policy level.

I am aware of recent political movements, yes. Like the Western Independence Party.

However, they failed to even get enough signatures to properly form. Their platform is to "basically remove Alberta from confederation" (the party founder's words). But note: there was no Alberta before confederation.

Alberta business owners having a beef with Ottawa leadership is not the same as a common and foundational identity across Alberta that desires independence. That latter notion is in the extreme minority. Fringe stuff. For instance, the support between the WIP (and aligned groups) is similar to the support for the province's Communist parties.

If you are Canadian, you should be familiar with the running nation-wide joke that "everyone hates Toronto".

Since you decided to take things in a personal direction, yes. I have lived and worked in Alberta. I have had family in Alberta. I have friends in Alberta. My partner is from the west, and we visit regularly.

That's some bad karma, pretending you can read someone like that and attempting to beat them down with your ignorance and then claim to be a victim.

Smith and the UCP have not been acting democratically whatsoever. Trying to paint it that way is either ignorant or deliberately malicious.

She was openly going around all standard democratic and diplomatic protocols and holding private meetings with the American executive in Florida.

That is not part of democracy, unless you are simply calling it the corrupted part.

Alberta was created out of several divisions of the NWT barely over 100 years ago, formed by the federal government of Canada.

It's not a thing.

Hatred or criticism of Toronto and Ontario at large is a thing. But that's a thing everywhere. It's a fundamental part of the Canadian identity.

By that framing you are saying that Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver should also all seek secession.

Likewise, you could say that NYC and LA should singularly secede from America by that same logic.

It doesn't track. There is no legal precedent. Alberta as an entity did not exist beyond Canada.

Albertans, while obviously the most disadvantaged and persecuted Canadians in recorded history

Um what?

But you would be banning trains if they were built to just run smack into the centre of town squares loaded with bombs, rendering the cities to dust, as a part of their design and boasted about by the owners.

At least until the maniacally evil train ownership debacle was better organized to prevent such harm in their core application.

Don't forget that the money being spent to do said scraping has, in great sums, come from subsidies paid by taxes from public coffers.

Are you working for hire? I'd like you to join my team where we are automating parametrizing paradigms to foster growth in changing paradigms of parametrizing workflows.

It's literally funded and published by the VCs backing so many of the AI companies here. Literally the fountain of money that produced Sam Altman.

I'm going to have to ask for a little more rigour than "they use data".

Data can be wielded in all manner of manipulative fashion to suit a preferred narrative. And when it's wielded by engineers defending large AI (or any) companies, they should at least acknowledge the fact that the data reporting is "coming from inside the house", so to speak.

Except what we have here is razor blade companies getting the government to heavily subsidize present razor blade production running massive advertising campaigns and intense intra-industry pressure to give said razor blades to babies under fear of losing your job or "falling behind" those not giving razor blades to babies.

Let's not forget all the razor blade enthusiasts just screaming at you that you are using babies with razor blades wrong and that it works totally fine for them.

Notwithstanding that the guidelines will even be applicable in the quiet versions that get deployed when you aren't looking. It's a constant moving target, and none of the fanboys will even acknowledge the lack of discipline in it all. It's fucking mad. And I say this as one who can see utility in the tools. But not when they are constantly shifting their functionality and behaviour.

One day everything works brilliantly, the models are conservative with changes and actions and somehow nail exactly what you were thinking. The next day it rewrites your entire API, deploys the changes and erases your database.

If only there was intellectual honesty in it all, but money talks.

I think good faith would request that the source used for these kinds of questions is not one of the VC firms at the root of these questions.

Doubly so when they use such innocuous and authoritative titling as "Our World in Data" which implies some collectivist, community-based outlook that this website is indeed not.

To wit, this page is produced in part by the Global Change Data Lab which is a team of economists, and YCombinator.

have claude read all your emails every day

But that is exactly what it is sold to people to do as a panacea: consume all the data, produce insights.

Nobody is being instructed to be judicious. Everyone is being instructed to use it as much as possible for all problem areas.

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Click + hold. Then move onto an option

You aren't alone.

Not even a few years ago if you introduced a component to a system that would result in non-deterministic output... Hell, a single function... You would be named and shamed for it because it went against every principle you should be learning as a novice writer of software.

I have used the LLM tools, and I see the real-world potential for these things. But how it's all being sold and applied now: it's upside down.

Look at their privacy policies. It absolutely is. They are harvesting video, voice, and much more.

God help us if Mark doesn't collect his fee between every one of our interactions, eh?

But do you really think they accidentally over-hired to the tune of tens of thousands of individuals? Across these companies the numbers are close to 100,000 people. Maybe much more.

That means that a large number of high ranking people in these companies projected they would need these people in the coming years, and then some.

I think it may be darker than that, and the overhiring was a tentative measure to build up a charge, like electrons in a capacitor, to release a shock to the market that would achieve two aims:

    1) drive salaries down through fear and contest

    2) reduce the bargaining power of employees (software engineers were starting to look to unionizing in the past 5 years especially and that has gone deathly quiet even though working conditions have worsened and demands have increased on 'ICs')

Any objection as to whether these companies executive teams were collaborating should be seen as very empty by now, given we know they are all deeply circularly invested in each other and thus are bound to each other's success or failure.

That's when they encourage you to adopt their new implantable identification. Always on, always connected, always verified.