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The internet is already racist. Here’s how chatbots make it even worse.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/internet-already-racist-s-chatbots-make-worse-rcna81569
I wonder how many members of the Washington Post editorial board actually take the DMV's shitty public transportation. Today I took Metro and trains were running more than 8 minutes apart DURING RUSH HOUR. So maybe they need to consider that before they start harping on federal workers to go back to the office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/18/federal-agency-remote-work-policy/
Tuesday night on Fox News, host Jesse Watters asserted that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) "donated $74 million to Black Lives Matter." That was why, Watters claimed, federal regulators did not pursue more aggressive oversight of SVB's business practices. According to this theory, SVB was treated with kid gloves because it was "woke."
New ownership, with a powerful sense of public service, could take advantage of the huge opportunity to become the world leader in U.S. political and government news presented by the abysmal failure of the industry-leading New York Times to adjust to the asymmetry of the current political environment.
Or if you want it put another way, every American is spending in the order of $50 a year in direct lethal assistance to Ukraine, but losing about $1700 a year in indirect economic costs caused by that war.
If you had a company that sold a widget that upped a business cost from $50 to, let's say, $100, but doing so saved the customer $1700 a year, how quickly do you think VCs in Silicon Valley would jump in to invest in that widget?