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https://www.europesays.com/2115550/ Spain aims to ban flushing of wet wipes, with manufacturers paying for cleanup | Environment #Environment

Mark Kristensson 1d ago

S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸1d ago

Maybe requiring that everyone needs to be a marketer in order to be successful wasn't such a great idea after all

https://phire.place/@phire/114582817706308128

jenny (phire) (@phire@phire.place)

the degree to which the internet economy runs on self-promotion and the amount of angst and anxiety self-promotion causes for most people with humility and self-awareness explains a lot about the state we’re in tbh tbqh

phire.place

Mark Kristensson 1d ago

Jason Lefkowitz 1d ago

"I want to start this week with a comment about the meta-news environment. It’s a point that may not surprise you. But it shapes everything we’re seeing today and does so with an uncanny silence. Quite simply, lots and lots of things are not being reported or said because people are afraid to say them."

🎁 https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-trump-white-house-and-the-great-quieting/sharetoken/30ee6b1a-0da1-41c7-9ee3-1be3a49e1dbd

#USPol

The Trump White House and The Great Quieting

I want to start this week with a comment about the meta-news...

TPM - Talking Points Memo

Mark Kristensson 1d ago

Glyn Moody 2d ago

Some signs of #AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves - https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/opinion_column_ai_model_collapse/ "Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse" indeed

Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves

Opinion: Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse

The Register

Mark Kristensson 2d ago

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jcoglan 2d ago

you cannot have an "injection attack" in a system with no formal distinction between data and instructions. what you actually have is an "everything is instructions" model and a failure to isolate untrusted inputs from the elevated privilege of access to private information

Mark Kristensson 2d ago

Brian Vastag 2d ago

Germany puts its business criminals in prison, in the US they get put in the Cabinet.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/26/four-vw-execs-found-guilty-in-trial-that-transformed-europes-auto-market/

Four VW execs found guilty in trial that transformed Europe's auto market | TechCrunch

Four former Volkswagen executives received prison sentences Monday for their role in the emissions-cheating scandal that fundamentally transformed

TechCrunch

Mark Kristensson 2d ago

Chris Adams 2d ago

I am totally borrowing “AI is being purchased using the FOMO budget” in future.

It’s such a handy framing, and captures the moment *SO* well.
https://mastodon.social/@adrianco/114564980271973849

Mark Kristensson 3d ago

David Roberts 3d ago

Barcelona's history is so fascinating.

Barcelona’s remarkable history...

Barcelona’s remarkable history of rebirth and transformation

How the city grew, from pre-Christian Romans to Cerdà to the 1992 Olympics.

Vox

Mark Kristensson 3d ago

Peter 3d ago

I feel pretty confident that this is more of a gambit to squeeze extra work out of the engineering staff than an actual productivity gain. the long-term cost is going to easily outweigh any short-term benefit. it's like the Cultural Revolution, but for software development, every mid-level manager pushing underlings to do damaging shit so they can report spectacular LoC numbers to Chairman Jassy https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html

At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work

Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift.

The New York Times

Mark Kristensson 4d ago

Ek-Hou-Van-Braai 4d ago

Exposure might cause suffocation

https://piefed.social/post/786827

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