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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024
  • 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.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42040795

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    Oprah does AI: The hype engine resorts to celebrity promo
  • 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?

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    The Paul Graham vs Nigerian Twitter Saga; Lexical racism and language bias masked as ChatGPT hysteria
  • TIL Paul Graham has never read a book.

    These are the same people who want to remove the humanities from education.

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    AI influencer bots: my sexy robot is just too horny
  • 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/

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  • prospect.org My Dinner With Andreessen

    Billionaires I have known: Part One of a three-part series

    Historian sneers at billionaire while HN trip over each other to lick boot.

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    https:// twitter.com /paulg/status/1780897522778554841

    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

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 April 2024
  • 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.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 31 March 2024
  • https://www.reuters.com/legal/crypto-miner-pennsylvania-hit-with-lawsuit-over-pollution-bitcoin-mine-2024-03-26/

    Buttcoin "miners" literally burning trash. Sponsored by a state who apparently have learned nothing from its 200+ years of environmental destruction.

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  • daringfireball.net U.S. Department of Justice Sues Apple, Accusing It of Illegally Abusing an iPhone Monopoly

    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

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