a harbinger of what’s to come

Ai yi yi

cadet bone spurs? Fat chance. So to speak.

I’ve been asking that for about 15 years. If you’re just now considering it, in 2039 you’ll still be asking it.

Awesome. Is there a, uh, online course?

I so hate to see the global right-wing-nutjob cancer spreading to NZ.

Peter Theil is my guess.

A fair point, though “a ton of money” is essentially 1% of their net profits for the year. Selling Chrome to someone who gets another .5% is not going to do anything at all.

So it is on firefox as well . . ? And also with Edge, for those poor bastards.

Why not just force them to pick a different default? Or something meaningful like splitting them out of Alphabet entirely? Or stop sucking? Okay, well that last one may be hard to administrate.

What the what?

“sell your browser, that’ll limit your search monopoly”

. . . HAH?

Yay!

Even acknowledging that the war and sanctions triggered this cycle of overheating and decline is impossible.

It’s not impossible. I used to acknowledge womp rats in my T-16 back home.

HA!

What a joke.

Oh man there’s nothing i like better than rating some poetry.

True. But back then they made money on advertising. Now we’re funding them directly.

Do you part - cancel the service.

Death to Comcast, Disney, and IBM.

The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders on Thursday announced that it is suing the social media company X, accusing it of spreading disinformation.

After Reporters Without Borders, or RSF, discovered that it was the target of a disinformation campaign this past summer, the Paris-based group filed 10 reports of policy violations with X, formerly known as Twitter.

Since none of the posts in question have been removed, RSF opted to sue the company in French courts “for its complicity in disseminating false information, misrepresentation and identity theft,” the group said in a statement.

“The economics are likely to be grim,” Marcus wrote on his Substack. “Sky high valuation of companies like OpenAI and Microsoft are largely based on the notion that LLMs will, with continued scaling, become artificial general intelligence.”

“As I have always warned,” he added, “that’s just a fantasy.”