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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

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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/

  • PaulG on his failing scams

    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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    John Gruber now has to cope with U.S. v Apple
    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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    HotGarbage HotGarbage @awful.systems

    https://www.hotgarba.ge

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