The orange site is an easy target, but the lack of solidarity in the comments about the NYT Tech Guild strike fills me with dread.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball
Did ABC get AI credits to air this? Are they going to use said AI to justify laying off staff? Then use that money to pay Oprah?
TIL Paul Graham has never read a book.
These are the same people who want to remove the humanities from education.
And if you're not paying to chat with an LLM, you're paying some guy with utter contempt for you https://www.wired.com/story/i-went-undercover-secret-onlyfans-chatter-wasnt-pretty/
Its former* superfund glory.
*Oh wait https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik/112668309100333232/
Honeymoon is over
https://www.wired.com/story/what-if-your-ai-girlfriend-hated-you/
Context: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes-action-against-coding-boot-camp-bloomtech-and-ceo-austen-allred-for-deceiving-students-and-hiding-loan-costs/
Surely the CFPB has ulterior motives when they set their sights on this "school" whose Wikipedia page is 2/3 controversies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_Institute_of_Technology
https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1779753281960722706
Critiquing an AI startup?
distasteful, almost unethical
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/04/garry-tan-is-not-just-a-cryptofascist-hes-a-christofascist/
I'll leave the sneer to jwz, but Jesus Fucking Christ indeed.
Because I feel like picking on him again: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/02/google-podcasts
The only Google services I use are YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, YT Studio, Chrome, and Google Keep. Oh, and the Nest app.
It’s rather glorious living a nearly Google-free digital life.
Ars' example gave me some hope 
Buttcoin "miners" literally burning trash. Sponsored by a state who apparently have learned nothing from its 200+ years of environmental destruction.
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/technology/apple-doj-lawsuit-antitrust.html
After so much seething over the EU and the DMA, how will he continue to defend his favorite megacorp?
> Without having read the actual lawsuit yet
Says it all
