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Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop. www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

You know. I was always told that raising wages, especially minimum wage, would make everything cost more so we could never do it. Now everything costs more anyways and wages haven't gone up. It's almost like these Very Smart Businessguys care about businesses more than people. Weird.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Preach @davidpierce.xyz Views don’t tell the whole traffic story, but it often feels like a noose to anyone who makes any kind of content / isn’t something ppl understand well outside the industry. I find bounce rate more helpful but that’s not public data! www.theverge.com/social/63981...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

I had a blast talking about my Bee AI review. Not least because Ed does voices, Cherlynn is always naturally charming, and it’s been a while since Cranz roasted my ass. Also props to Ed for assembling a consumer tech girl gang in a male-dominated space 

submitted 43 days ago • 8 comments

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28

submitted 275 days ago • 60 comments

Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063

submitted 48 days ago • 230 comments