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This is indeed very specific, but should probably be the default.

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

Pivot to AI demolishes the atrocious AI-slop Coca-Cola ad.

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

Current estimates say that every prompt you give a generative "AI" system— not each session, every PROMPT— is like pouring a 16 oz bottle of water onto the ground. This is a fact that goes somewhere in every talk i give, now, & i always see audience members looking it up… and then looking horrified

submitted 346 days ago • 48 comments

Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground. www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...

submitted 358 days ago • 76 comments

Inside me there are two wolves. This is not enough to control the deer population inside me, which is degrading the river ecology inside me. I’m attempting to release more wolves inside me to address this, but the ranchers inside me object, and

submitted 378 days ago • 24 comments

the private equity acquisition process where they take out huge loans to buy a company, put those loans on the company’s balance sheet and liquidate the company to pay them off (while looting the assets) should be made illegal it is a purely destructive process and it’s absurd that we allow it

submitted 394 days ago • 90 comments

Today's newsletter: We're watching the internet die as it gets overwhelmed with content built to be popular with algorithms, much of it generated by AI, crowding out stuff created by humans. Ironically, this is also an existential threat to generative AI. tinyurl.com/wyea31124

submitted 401 days ago • 41 comments

You're god damn right they should fire the ceo if a company needs to do layoffs wheresyoured.at/p/google-sho...

submitted 448 days ago • 24 comments

a thing that is enraging about this (and so many other of these layoffs) is that profit numbers like this coupled with layoffs at this scale should be an indicator to investors and the market that executives at these companies are all out of ideas and are unable to develop new profit streams

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submitted 468 days ago • 22 comments

Amy and David’s sure-fire* analyst predictions on crypto for 2024! davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2... * within acceptable margins of error

submitted 472 days ago • 0 comments

Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says “Henry Kissinger died.” Man says “Oh holy shit this rules. This is so great thank you so much. Fuck

submitted 503 days ago • 9 comments

Fried-Bankman, Fried-Bankman, Does whatever a Bankman can Spins the facts, straight up lies, And when caught does more crimes. Look out, Here comes the Fried-Bankman! @davidgerard.co.uk

submitted 515 days ago • 0 comments

A new and important step towards the Digital Sovereignty Pledge : to offer you (and all AWS customers) the most advanced set of sovereignty controls and features available in the cloud. aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in...

submitted 539 days ago • 0 comments