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This sort of journalism doesn't really care about real consumers, labor, technology, or even whether the technology even works. Its focus is propping up extraction class narratives surrounding unchecked wealth accumulation. It's lazy fanfiction for MBAs who want to pretend to be informed without the pesky weight of ethical or even logistical realities.

But the scam is so lucrative!

The true risk of AI to your job isn't: "an AI will do your job." It's: "an AI salesman will exploit your boss's infinite horniness for replacing mouthy workers with pliable machines to sell him a chatbot that can't do your job, and then your boss will fire you and replace you with that inept, defective chatbot."

CEO brain in a nutshell.

This was probably the most alarming Trump appearance to date. He was breathless and incoherent, ill-seeming and off-piste. He spent 32 minutes justifying his deal with Iran to the world before mentioning a single discussion that had taken place among the G7 countries at the summit, and the justifications spoke for themselves.

Painful to watch because it reminds how far the US has fallen.

A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.

Instant pharma karma.

Theodore Gillibrand, whose mother is Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), has drummed up $30 million in a fundraise led by the venture firm Lux Capital, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

He just graduated from Stanford. Seems legit.

Computers don’t have opinions.

No, Siri isn’t lying here. Apple is lying. Just like all other unethical corporations in the Big AI space, Apple has created a sycophantic chatbot which glazes users, providing an utterly false impression that there’s any value whatsoever to the assessment the chatbot has made. There is none. It is a valueless exchange.

I thought Apple was making good decisions to keep AI features out of its core ecosystem but they’re hopping on the slop train to garbage town.

Tridgell has the right to run the rsync project his way, and nobody can tell him not to. But also, other people do have the right to say: this broke our stuff, it’ll keep breaking our stuff ’cos it’s vibe slop now, and so we’re moving, and everything about all this sucks.

Not rsync! Some things you just expect to work. Someone check on the curl guy!

"Starting today, Automated Counting will be retired," read an internal company newsletter dated Monday that Reuters reviewed and verified ​with two employees. "Beverage components and milk will now be counted the same way you count other inventory categories in your coffeehouse."

Feels good when AI gets fired. I guess Starbucks is realigning resources to focus on human talent.