Me: doctor, I don't feel well
Doctor: do you have a cough?
Me: that's the funny thing, it's not so much a cough, it's more of a 'moo' sound
Doctor: oh dear, I'm afraid it's... Bovid
Me: should I take time off work?
Doctor: absolutely, milk it for all its worth
I’m not sure if the penny will ever drop. It’s been clear for the past few years that Trump's base believes that rights-based democratic values do not serve their interests and so must be critically diminished.
The MAGA movement will not be shamed by pointing out the basic features of a liberal pluralist democracy. They don't believe in any of it. They see it as a weakness, something that merely holds them back or slows their efforts to reshape their world.
Using Gmail on desktop just sucks now? Is that what the go is? Can't open a document to print it? Can't login without 8 tries? Google spending too much time on dogshit AI and not enough on what makes the useful again.
Newsletter: The Shareholder Supremacy has eaten the world, turning the tech industry into the playground of do-nothing management dictators that see human beings as assets and the customer as subordinate to growth - all inspired by GE’s Jack Welch. www.wheresyoured.at/tss/
Remember when a group of crypto bros bought a copy of 'Jodorowsky's Dune' for $3 million (around 100x more than it was worth) thinking they could turn it into NFTs and an animated series because they didn't understand what copyright is?
it's one thing to admit that your political party has structural problems with producing desirable and viable candidates, it's quite another to suggest that the time to fix these problems is in the four months leading up to an extremely high stakes election
Bullshit.
The social contract for content on the web is that it's made available on the terms the creator chooses.
Also:
Given M$'s incredibly consistent position on the use of their own content, this is incredible hypocrisy.
Every morning I check the news and it's like
-SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain
-President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler
-New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation
Our awesome Inland Empire team moved into a new building. It’s very nice, but the bathroom stalls have a cell phone holder with a liability waiver and I confess I can’t decide whether to be horrified or intrigued.
people find it so hard to believe that stormtroopers from Star Wars have terrible aim
probably because bad equipment
it's 2024 on earth and we have two of the most valuable companies in the history of the world: one of them is making airplanes that crash, the other makes trucks that can't get wet
peak 2024 story, the rotting zombie of a dead company murdered by private equity uses generative AI to make an awful branding movie about the origin story for a company that has not existed in any recognizable way in many years
happy to say that Crikey officially thinks AI-generated writing sucks and promises that our editions will continue to be written by humans and not energy wasting, data stealing, hallucinating, bland, thoughtless machines.
Guy waited five years and paid $102k for a Cybertruck, crashed it after four hours of driving, only for Tesla to tell him that "the accelerator may not disengage under braking" and that it will take $30k and one year to repair.