IYKYK. #aol #bobdole

The Old Fears, Faster

The fears about artificial intelligence are the fears about the internet, rerun at twice the speed. When the public internet arrived in the mid-1990s, four anxieties traveled with it. One concerned human contact, a sense that conversation would erode as it migrated to screens. Another concerned regional culture, a worry that local identity would flatten under a single global signal. A third concerned the limits of knowing, the prospect that anyone, anywhere, could learn anything with no curator to vet the source. The last concerned gatekeeping, the dread that quality would dissolve once newspapers, publishers, and broadcasters lost their grip. […]

https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/12/the-old-fears-faster/

🚀 Oh, great! Just what the world needs: another Italian tech firm named after kitchen utensils trying to make a splash on #Nasdaq. 🍝 Because clearly, owning relics like #AOL and #Vimeo wasn’t enough of a throwback. 😂 Now if only Reuters could figure out how to enable JS before aiming for journalistic relevance. 🙄
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/italys-bending-spoons-files-us-ipo-2026-06-08/ #ItalianTech #KitchenUtensils #JournalismFails #HackerNews #ngated