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The inset NYT story on climate change fueling the catastrophic Texas wildfires somehow manages to not mention that it's Texan fossil fuels causing climate change.
#climatesilence #nytimes #wildfires #txwx
DRM is just punishment for trying to follow the rules

Uber is lying again - the company has no intention of paying drivers the minimum wage

#uber

https://ricochet.media/en/4039/uber-is-lying-again-the-company-has-no-intention-of-paying-drivers-a-living-wage

Uber is lying again – the company has no intention of paying drivers the minimum wage | Ricochet

Toronto’s mayor says drivers tell her that they’re being forced to live on poverty wages

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It's my fervent hope that the Reddit IPO crashes and burns, for all kinds of reasons.

At the top is the company's fundamental contempt for its users, especially the people who've given countless hours of their time to make it useful.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/24/24081441/reddit-shares-redditor-ipo-user-risk?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=theverge%2Fmagazine%2FThe+Verge

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO

Reddit seems like a likely candidate for a meme stock. But the actual reaction suggests that r/WallStreetBets isn’t going to send the stock to the moon.

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@bittner Long time listener of Hacking Humans.. although my listening has fallen after changing jobs. Hope you haven't covered an email like this one yet!

Lot of talk about Arc Browser “cleaning up the internet for you.” If AIs (Bing chat included) read our blogs, skip ads, and generate summaries, there’s no incentive for bloggers or writers to write. The AIs will quickly end up summarizing another AIs confidently generated crap.

I blogged for two decades. 900 episodes of my podcast. AIs can’t generate human interaction. I’d like the web to be more personal. I used ChatGPT to read, summarize my furnace manual yesterday and found great (1/2)

I think I now own the coolest wall clock I could imagine haha. Leaving it in its box till I move in a couple weeks. After I get settled I’ll decide where to put it. Not quite #retrocomputing but I think it counts. 😀

EDIT:
Wow this POST exploded! :D As some other have asked where to get this, someone else in the thread also posted this. But here is where to get one. Thanks all!

https://retrofied.uk/products/windows-3-1-desktop-large-wall-clock

They also have an Amiga version if that's more your speed.
https://retrofied.uk/collections/gifts-and-gadgets/products/amiga-workbench-large-wall-clock

Windows 3.1 desktop large wall clock

kinda weird how people will just attach chatgpt to customer service things and let it fuck around practically unmonitored while they watch their human employees like a hawk and fire them at the first sign of an oopsie
Notice how the right wingers who banned Black people from schools, jobs, military, & public spaces, banned Latino & Asian immigration, locked up Japanese Americans, broke hundreds of treaties with Native Americans—& are now banning teaching that history—want you to stop making everything about race.😐