blnlx

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Every new phone shape invalidates perfectly good cases(borisljevar.substack.com)
6 points by blnlx 4mo ago|2 comments
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by blnlx 4mo ago
Smartphone designs change slightly year to year, rendering accessories like cases unusable. Unlike clothing or furniture, most of these accessories have no secondary life. Small design changes can have outsized material consequences. I look
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Is software support the real expiration date of modern electronics?(borisljevar.substack.com)
2 points by blnlx 5mo ago|1 comments
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by blnlx 6mo ago
I suspect it’s mostly a naming convention. Wars are often labeled after the territory where the fighting occurs rather than the actors involved. That’s why we say “Ukraine war” or “Iraq war,” even though multiple states may be involved. In
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Did predictability scale better than openness on the web?(borisljevar.substack.com)
1 points by blnlx 7mo ago|1 comments
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by blnlx 7mo ago
An essay exploring how scale and monetization gradually shifted the internet from open exploration to subscription lock-in, behavioral sorting, and narrative segmentation. The argument is that these shifts were not coordinated enclosures, b
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by blnlx 7mo ago
One angle I expected the post to touch on is the systemic effect. If AI reduces the marginal cost of writing emails, summaries, updates, etc., the rational move for each individual is to produce more of them. But if everyone does that, the
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Is the cure for AI model collapse worse than the disease?(borisljevar.substack.com)
2 points by blnlx 8mo ago|3 comments
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by blnlx 8mo ago
I've written an essay exploring a second-order risk of AI model collapse. The technical safeguards proposed to prevent it—filtering out "AI-like" text—create a perverse cultural incentive: they risk systematically discarding