Modern work:
you get a message in Slack with a link to the Confluence doc to prep for the meeting on Zoom, where you take notes in Notion, and track project progress on Monday and then update the Trello and you get to the end of the week and instead of doing fucking anything you've just moved bits of information around in 17 different databases and each one costs $15 a month per user...
The NFT market grows even more shambolic, Binance has more crises, and Cameron Winklevoss does his best supervillain impression.
Catch up on the past week in the crypto world with Issue 32 of my newsletter: https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/issue-32-i-write-to-inform-you-the
Total student loan debt that would have been erased for millions of Americans: $400 billion
Total cost of the Trump tax cuts that largely benefited the wealthy and corporations: $1.9 trillion
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
20 years jail for rescuing 1000 low income migrants who were forced to put their lives at risk.
Expanded search for rescuing a few billionaires who chose to put their lives at risk.
Criminalizing poverty and excusing opulence.
Smh. We don’t have to live like this.
In 1952, the British government prosecuted Turing for what it termed "gross indecency."
He was gay, which to them was a crime. To avoid prison he was forced to submit to chemical castration. A few years later he took his own life by ingesting cyanide.
Turing’s codebreaking work at Bletchley Park during WWII had been critical to the war effort and saved tens of thousands of lives, maybe more. The British government repaid him with demonization and persecution.
In the past week, a lot of supporters for former President Trump have argued that the current administration has violated the norm against prosecuting former presidents.
The problem? That norm doesn't actually exist.
So I decided to dismantle it properly. Apart from anything else, criminal investigations of former presidents is probably a lot more common than you think:
https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/there-is-no-norm-against-prosecuting
In the past week, many supporters of former President Trump have made an argument in his defense that his indictment violates the norm against prosecuting former presidents. There is no such norm, and there never was.PwnAllTheThings is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber.
I’m not concerned about AI outcompeting competent writers or impacting my career directly. I am deeply concerned about AI swamping submission systems and destroying the ability of editors and readers to find the next generation of writers.
AI is very much a danger to the long term health of the field not because of competition for quality readable fiction but because of its ability to create dreck in previously unimaginable quantities and drown submission systems and indie publishing in shit.
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