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Buttcoin “miners” literally burning trash. Sponsored by a state who apparently have learned nothing from its 200+ years of environmental destruction.
Ars’ example gave me some hope
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.
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.
https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1779753281960722706
Critiquing an AI startup?
distasteful, almost unethical
Honeymoon is over
https://www.wired.com/story/what-if-your-ai-girlfriend-hated-you/
Its former* superfund glory.
*Oh wait https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik/112668309100333232/
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/
TIL Paul Graham has never read a book.
These are the same people who want to remove the humanities from education.
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?