“The kid who tries to run Blender on a Chromebook doesn’t learn that his machine can’t handle it. He learns that Google decided he’s not allowed to. Those are completely different lessons.”

• Sam Henri Gold, This Is Not The Computer For You

I read this thinking of my daughter’s untaught hatred for her school Chromebook and how quickly she figured out the school forms to drop it for an ancient MacBook Air that she still refuses to let me replace.

Well that’s not good! 😰

angelic chorus sound

The first spring bird of this year sang atop our chimney, filling the house with its happy sound.

Producing training data means working toward your own obsolescence. While the number of people doing data work may continue to rise, any particular gig will last only as long as it takes for the machines to successfully mimic it. It takes years for a human to develop expertise, and sooner or later, they’re going to run out of skills to sell.

• Josh Dzieza, writing for The Verge about another depressing “business” created to exploit people.