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If I was going to reduce labor costs by +1M/year, I would rather eliminate 1 CEO then 10 radiologists. I would much rather have 1 unemployed CEO in society than 10 unemployed radiologists. At the very least, "AI" should replace through attrition rather than direct layoffs...

When can we start replacing CEOs with AI?

For being supposedly human curated, it's shocking how much garbage has infiltrated the smallweb.txt registry. I have an agent with browser access running right now checking it and it's close to ~10%... Here's a sample of 10 examples that were found in literally the last two minutes...

- "vermontdailychronicle.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "ziggit.dev" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "fastfrwrd.info" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "evchargingstations.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "escapecollective.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "findingada.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "fontsinuse.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "fortelabs.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "forum.f-droid.org" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "42zero.org" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

It’s not 30k, it’s well over a million: https://screenshots.nry.me/

I wonder how something like ayahuasca or dmt would impact this. People have described these substances as having a type of mental “reset” quality. If they do impact time perception, I’m assuming it’s only temporary…

The indie web was around before google and it will be around long after google is gone. I would argue that the indie web has incurred a much larger loss from people thinking seo/engagement metrics are something worth optimizing. Many of the best examples of the indie/small web don’t have js tracking and little to no css.

Has anyone tried out Tau [1]? It's similar to Coolify but supports multiple nodes which is appealing to me as I have spotty internet and distributing an app across several pi's in different locations sounds ideal.

[1]: https://github.com/taubyte/tau

If you’re interested in maps and the history of cartography, I highly recommend the book: The Mapmakers by John Noble Wilford. Longitude by Dava Sobel is a good follow up.

The book "Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss" by Bradford Matsen is all about Otis Barton and William Beebe and the Bathysphere. The idea of locking yourself into a steel sphere and descending an order of magnitude deeper than any human had previously (and coming back alive) is wild. It's an excellent book that I found at a used book sale and it kinda sent me into a deep sea exploration rabbit hole. "Seven Miles Down: The Story of the Bathyscaph Trieste" by Jacques Piccard descending down to the bottom of the Challenger Deep is also a good one.

“A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America“ by Vishaan Chakrabarti