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I’ve written a couple of pieces in another couple of places: On the Milmud blog I wrote up my recent experience of using an online LLM to help me research relevant facts quickly, you can read that here. On LinkedIn I’m running a poll-based game about how an invented organisation should handled a potential cyber security issue, if you’ve got an account on LinkedIn you can participate here. Otherwise my latest episode of weeknotes, covering the last couple of years, are due out any day now…

If you mix all the vibrant paints together, everything becomes the same brown. As with Cory Doctorow’s enshittification it’s useful to attach specific names to specific aspects of what’s probably late stage capitalism. It just helps identify that aspect, and its characteristics. So what is smooshification? Smooshification is the drive for anything to have the features of everything in its “class”. Now “class” is a vague concept here, so without going into a discussion around taxonomies I’m unqualified to have, I’m using “class” in a vague way. To use the definition from wherever Microsoft Bing gets its definitions from: “a set or category of things having some property or attribute in common and differentiated from others by kind, type, or quality”. ...

How can we help each other? Introduction What’s your preferred working situation - completely alone and self-driven? As half of a pair, as a leader or advisor in a group, or as a “cog” in a much larger hierarchy? For me I believe I’m much better at working in a pair, or in a small team, rather than purely on my own, be it co-writing something, or brainstorming with a customer on a project or solution. ...