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The worst kind of tech hype is when something is portrayed as inevitable and unstoppable, with criticism or doubt blithely dismissed as "they don't get it".

Just because a giant tech company pours vast amounts of money down a toilet, that doesn't mean the toilet is going to start spewing gold coins into the air.

#Hype #Tech #TechBros #Journalism #TechNews

Happy Juneteenth to the Black American community!
So Apple has introduced a new system called “Private Cloud Compute” that allows your phone to offload complex (typically AI) tasks to specialized secure devices in the cloud. I’m still trying to work out what I think about this. So here’s a thread. 1/
Can’t talk now, just remembered I want to sit quietly instead
Make sure you get those WWDC wishlists in by 11:59 P.M. on June 9th so we have enough time to build everything in time for the Keynote the next morning
This week's comic: Many white Americans fail to assimilate
#cartoon #comic #race #immigration #racism #uspol
I miss nostalgia.

A little fun from the FT. Apparently they don't care for American paper sizes in comparison to ISO 216 and I appreciate the poetry with which they express this. 😀

EDIT: A kind person has provided this link https://www.ft.com/content/bb9bf7c6-1785-4383-9e39-03da04a17fe2 although much of the other language employed smacks of desperation to claim credibility as a younger person and is quite cringeworthy in its use.

We tried to design the perfect sellside note. How did we do?

Notes on notes on notes

Financial Times

Share of energy consumed that is converted to light:

Candle: 0.01%
Incandescent bulbs: 1%
Fluorescent lights: 15%
LEDs: 90%

Took less than 150 years to increase efficiency 9000-fold.

Each piece reflects real comments from women about their fears.

By Feminist Collages NYC.