@arstechnica genuinely no worse than OpenAI stealing all our RAM

@codinghorror And it's not even accurate. The random access nature of written content in a newspaper is largely a by-product of the original medium (paper), the fact that it's written by a whole bunch of different people with different beats, and the need to wrap said writing around advertising. To attribute a grander plan is wishful thinking.

@kottke I am running this bot here if anyone would like beautiful maps every morning https://mastodon.social/@beautifulmaps

@pbx if it's not {{ handlebars }}, I'm not {{ interested }}

@benschwarz there's not a single web technology that I have more genuine anger for than React.

@codinghorror but I bet that 1 out of 5 economist has a SICK guilded coffin

@pbx I still remember a few PEEK and POKEs

@jessamyn (sent with balloons)

@Dpaste do you think the automated accounts are LLM scrapers? at the day job, we are seeing an insane number of "headless chrome" requests coming in, sometimes ~40% of total traffic