Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans We're making these changes to ensure a reliable and predictable experience for existing customers.

This is news for today. Finally, someone (Microsoft) admitted that the real running cost of AI infrastructure massively exceeds the income from it.

I expect similar posts from other AI giants to follow.

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at the brigham it's called 'the pavilion'

what the fuck is happening

BREAKING: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned after a tenure marked by allegations that she had an affair with a security staffer and that her husband sexually assaulted her employees.

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Katie Notopoulos industry plant confirmed

The Atlantic POLITICS The FBI Director Is MIA

Rapper M.I.A.

Wow I had no idea

Here is a more serious take: confidentiality is one of those norms that is respected within systems in which everyone agrees on the rules of the game and trusts that others are following the rules in good faith.

This is part of a broader push the Trump admin began in term one (that Biden didn't roll back in any way). First each visa applicant had to disclose your social media handles. Now under Trump 2, the U.S. government demands that you make your social media accounts public so they can scan 'em.

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
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“Education and re-skilling workers” is what people talk about when they think they’re going to get people who have had good jobs in manufacturing to take bad desk jobs at a newly built data center or something instead, and *this doesn’t work*.

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

how does dan think his service-based company will make money if 1/3 of his potential customers are unemployed

Even for trans adults, care is hard to find: ‘I could not do it on my own’ State restrictions, Trump administration policies, and waning public support are further limiting adults' access to transgender care

A phenomenal story from @theresagaff.bsky.social about how access to gender-affirming care for adults, like with kids, is shrinking.

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Fake Massachusetts Towns april 19 2021 April 17 2022 4/17/23 4/14/24 4/21/25

Tomorrow is Patriots' Day in Massachusetts, which means it's a good time to roll out this all-timer from our archives.

yep: one of the reasons i want to nip the "stabbed in the back" myth now is that it gets Americans an excuse to avoid reining in the boys in Tampa in CENTCOM

(In The Culture, the communist AI administration could literally terraform you a planet if you wanted, but that’s so obviously scifi it’s not worth thinking about lol)

I think a generous reading would be that he means everyone can have a really nice place, as nice as the penthouse. But of course, the actual literal penthouse will still be scarce and will still be owned by the billionaires.

My wokest take is liberty and justice for all actually means ALL.

No tankers have been able to cross the Strait of Hormuz today. -CNN

I mean, we're humans and we're making the rules.

I would actually very much like us to treat machines with different rules than humans. Your thought exercise insists this is something we cannot do but I fundamentally disagree and not for reasons of protecting the copyright system.

How do men's and women's national teams compare in World Cup performance?

I built a #dataviz to explore the results of a simple scoring system.

#worldcup #football

Hello I am CEO of EvilCo, a branch of Umbrella Corp, and no we’re not the Umbrella Corp from the games we were just inspired by them, you’re not gonna to believe this but we have just released a company memo that says we’re not good human beings

5 to 10 years away. Max. Forever.

Y'all are gonna lose your minds when you hear about horses.

making up new forms of woke to be mad at

Here’s what will happen: we will always be in the stage before “amazing abundance” which means we can’t pull the trigger on UBI (and the necessary taxation) quite yet. But just keep waiting (and working)!

Wait wait. A purpose-built, specially designed robot that presumably can’t do anything other than emulate human running only beat the human record by six minutes? Over 13 miles?

UPDATE 034-JMIC ADVISORY NOTE

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Cyberattack targets city of Tallahassee; official says no data compromised The city of Tallahassee has confirmed it was the target of a cyberattack earlier Friday morning, and a county IT administrator says they have disconnected from the internet.

Florida capital city Tallahassee has shut down its IT network after a mysterious cyberattack on Friday

The surrounding Leon County disconnected from the city network to prevent contamination (aka ransomware language)

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