The Atlantic is now defending AI. Or maybe they have for a while and I hadn’t noticed until this article got my blood pressure up: https://archive.is/qvbJZ
Author is a chud who used to write for The Free Press: https://muckrack.com/elias-wachtel/articles
Fugly tech-bro shoe company pivots to AI, juicing failing stock.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/allbirds-soars-373-after-sneaker-firm-rebrands-as-ai-stock/
Disappointed this wasn’t Beavis & Butt-head/King of the Hill/Office Space/Idiocracy/Silicon Valley Mike Judge
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13981240/nvidia-california-college-of-the-arts-partnership
Clove cigarettes to be replaced with vapes.
They get mad at any DNS server that strips/doesn’t include EDNS subnet info (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDNS_Client_Subnet)
NextDNS was another that would give me endless captchas.
Unethical though?
Comrade Workwear did the same: https://www.shadowbannedmagazine.com/ceosmostwanted/
Even without home/office addresses, NYPD seized the cards: https://us9.campaign-archive.com/?u=41adb4be5bcdf57e710e21504&id=24bc152009
This one has anus in the name https://manus.im/
Most support reflashing the UEFI, but Linux or Windows support is better on some than others. Biggest problem now is disabling write-protect on the flash: used to just be a screw, now you have to use a special USB cable: https://docs.chrultrabook.com/docs/firmware/supported-devices.html#firmware-and-os-support
idk what the bluesky equivalent of a tweet is
“Skeet” if only to spite Jay Graber
https://www.theverge.com/news/614883/humane-ai-hp-acquisition-pin-shutdown
lol, lmao
edit: I’ve ragged on John Gruber in the past, but he’s really lighting them up 🔥
After fondling ChatGPT to generate naughty things, man has meltdown when he learns no one cares.
Horror. Dismay. Disbelief. For weeks, it felt like I was physically being crushed to death.
I hurt all the time, every part of my body. The urge to make someone who could do something listen and look at the evidence was so overwhelming.
https://xcancel.com/altryne/status/1872090523420229780#m
The whole thread is terrible; controlling and borderline abusive behavior.
Love how the Sun Times completely fails to explain why residential customers are bearing any of the cost.
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/
Nice breakdown and takedown of Omarchy and its ilk. https://stopomarchy.neocities.org/
The chuds on HN of course hated my sharing it, though it hasn’t been flagged (yet). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661901