The Atlantic is now defending AI. Or maybe they have for a while and I hadn’t noticed until this article got my blood pressure up: https://archive.is/qvbJZ

Author is a chud who used to write for The Free Press: https://muckrack.com/elias-wachtel/articles

Fugly tech-bro shoe company pivots to AI, juicing stock. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/allbirds-soars-373-after-sneaker-firm-rebrands-as-ai-stock/

https://xcancel.com/altryne/status/1872090523420229780#m

The whole thread is terrible; controlling and borderline abusive behavior.

Love how the Sun Times completely fails to explain why residential customers are bearing any of the cost.

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

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/

Its former* superfund glory.

*Oh wait https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik/112668309100333232/

Honeymoon is over

https://www.wired.com/story/what-if-your-ai-girlfriend-hated-you/

https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1779753281960722706

Critiquing an AI startup?

distasteful, almost unethical

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/04/garry-tan-is-not-just-a-cryptofascist-hes-a-christofascist/

I’ll leave the sneer to jwz, but Jesus Fucking Christ indeed.

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.

Ars’ example gave me some hope

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.