Andy BaioWaiting for someone to make an artisanal search engine that only indexes manually verified websites written by humans. Farm-to-table organic search results, handmade with 100% certified human creativity, like your grandparents told you about.
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Climate tech and US-Asia relations
Erin KissaneGoogle naming its new ML thing after a profession whose primary purpose is exaggerating the heroic deeds of its patron is extremely funny
@alexhern sounds fair. I don’t know what is the split between commuter vs shipping in Britain, but this video on US rail was interesting: https://youtu.be/qQTjLWIHN74 tldr is that US rail needs investment but shipping rail companies don’t take on the costs for improvement
The One Tiny Law That Keeps Amtrak Terrible
@alexhern do you have specific countries in mind here, or is this for all countries?
@carnage4life who is below a “I saw it first” post?
Google used to take pride in minimizing time we spent there, guiding us to relevant pages as quickly as possible. Over time, they tried to answer everything themselves: longer snippets, inline FAQs, search results full of knowledge panels.
Today's Bard announcement feels like their natural evolution: extracting all value out of the internet for themselves, burying pages at the bottom of each GPT-generated essay like footnotes. https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/
Foreign Policy (unofficial)After a decadeslong push, Beijing wields considerable control over supply chains for lithium-ion batteries, which are critical to everything from electric cars to smartphones.
https://buff.ly/3XRESxJ
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/ForeignPolicy/status/1621992116422336514
Some sobering thoughts on tech decoupling with China: https://www.ft.com/content/74f7e284-c047-4cc4-9b7a-408d40611bfa
Mike Masnick ✅As someone who travels with an extra portable screen (or two) and a laptop stand, I have to admit... this may be the coolest project I've seen in a while... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUKpY0o5tMo
