There is this weird notion among software developers that software goes bad just like milk does.

It literally works and will always work exactly the same way (including all good and bad things about it) as the day it was created. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Please someone start a company that exclusively makes and sells electronics and appliances that don’t connect to the Internet.

Could call it “Luddite”.

“Hey how’s your new Luddite dishwasher?”—“Great, it washes dishes and never crashes!”

If we just not talk about bad things, they surely don’t exist!

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Q&A with Abeba Birhane on how she was censored during the AI for Good summit and how the industry can do better.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (thebulletin.org)