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Here is one I put the finishing touches on a few weeks ago, a majestic illustration of Captain Canuck atop the Rockies; this photo was taken a few days before finishing it; msg me if you're interested in this one, it was done with acrylics & graphite on wood 🍁

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Why there is pretty much no real innovation in tech industry?

Beacause there is no real Research & Development being done - tech industry is so much less than Bell Labs and so much more like Microsoft, Google and Apple. Crapload of money doesn't generate innovative breakthroughs if talented people are micromanaged and squeezed into Jira boards and deadlines, also scared to be randomly hit by another "optimization" layoffs :blobcatjustright:

This is why the best the industry has to offer is the new iPhone that doesn't differ from the previous, synthetic parrot that repeats scraps of texts without any sensible context for enormous amount of energy (LLMs), and tech jobs that sucks the soul from enthusiastic geeks to exhaustion and overburn :blobcatheadinitshands:

Read an excellent post by @fabio :blobcatreading:

manganiello.socialFabio Manganiello (@fabio@manganiello.social)Why Bell Labs worked so well, and could innovate so much, while today’s innovation, in spite of the huge private funding, goes in hype-and-fizzle cycles that leave relatively little behind, is a qu...