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@Schrank@phpc.socialPagination and batch jobs both get brutally slow once your catalog gets big — for two completely different, fixable reasons. Shopware has a mode and an iterator behavior that solve each, and the docs mention neither. One of them the docblock even gets wrong.
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe more I think about it the more I'm convinced that the only way to beat the AI craze (other than the big companies being on the way to financial self-destruction) is consumer protection laws similar to what's used to prevent gambling and addiction—for example, banning chatbots that refer to themselves with personal pronouns. We should also ban (or excessively tax) environmentally wasteful uses such as video generation. A third pillar would be forcing quotas of production for CPUs, GPUs, memory and storage as the high prices for these are not only becoming an economic problem but possibly one of national security.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with AG Sulzberger on the NYT's OpenAI lawsuit, the NYT's success, Trump's attacks on the press, how reporters at other outlets are self-censoring, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-a…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA study of 14,419 self-published novels on Amazon using Pangram's AI detection tools: in 2,168 of the books, 50% of prose was AI, and in 970 books, 90% was AI (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/books/ai-bookselling-amazon.html…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialI'm not big on the whole Christian "natural/artificial" binary, or the settler-colonialist concept of "wilderness" which erases indigenous stewardship in a bid to claim mid territory (see, e.g., tribes forced out of what are now national parks in the US). But I do enjoy getting out of urban/suburban environments and into places where the human impact on the land is minimal and/or synergistic with non-human flourishing.
I was thinking about why I enjoy this so much today while out on a stroller hike with my younger child, and came to the conclusion that it may be less about being in a "natural" space and more about being in a space whose flourishing is not tied to the capitalist necropolitical "growth" spiral.
Like, there's the baseline intrinsic beauty of flowers, trees, flowing water, etc. Then there's the pleasure of considering how these things fit together into an ecosystem and mutually support each other (and also compete/predate, etc.). But on top of all that, there's the sense that these things are part of a self-sustaining pattern that's capable of continuing without outside inputs and without creating external waste over vast, geologic timescales. The things I see when I look around in a city aren't like that. 100 or 1000 or 10000 years from now they'll be ruins, not necessarily because of human extinction or anything like that, but because the resource flows that create them are inseparable from a fundamentally unsustainable economy built around a paradoxical assumption of infinite exponential growth.
There *are* of course some human-built or -stewarded things in the world that are sustainably maintained, and ruins can have their own kind of beauty. But to me part of the joy of being on a hiking trail is to look around and see beautiful systems that will persist regardless of (most) human political outcomes that I spend a lot of energy worrying about.
Even in the extreme cases of climate change these things will eventually come back, albeit in an altered form. I don't want to ignore the incredibly destructive impact of humans on the environment, of course, but still, it's comforting to me to think about how the problems and brokenness of currently-dominant human cultures might change and scar but will not actually destroy the many systems on this planet that just don't depend on humans for their propagation.
