as happy as i am that GOP incumbents are losing their races, i would still strongly prefer that they be atomized into dust. i’ll take what i can get, but—
An important update on our team
🗣️ The layoffs will continue until morale improves
An important update on our team
Today, Canva Co-Founder and CEO Melanie Perkins sent the following note to the Canva team.
“we need this huge project to be done as quickly as possible. let’s just give a bunch of engineers constantly-shifting requirements, have them push as many 1000+ line AI-generated PRs as they can into unstable testing environments, and then the same 2-3 tired people can review all of them”
Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I.
it’s almost like the internet and incredibly common/useful functionalities (like search) should be public utilities
Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I.
Google is making it easier to restrict its A.I. tools for students. But schools that block A.I. entirely will lose student access to Google’s search engine.
Anthropic's internal AI use is now worth more than employee pay, at the prices it charges customers
is this good
Anthropic's internal AI use is now worth more than employee pay, at the prices it charges customers
Anthropic's IPO filing reveals a striking milestone: Its internal AI usage is now valued above employee compensation.
DoorDash to Acquire Instacart to "Help Local Stores Win"
hell yeah! i love monopolies, which are famously good for local stores and consumers
DoorDash to Acquire Instacart to Help Local Stores Win
Together, DoorDash and Instacart would help stores of every size reach more customers with the kinds of innovative technology that the biggest online retailers and grocers build for themselves.
just had a dream where i met Colin Meloy but said something that upset him so much that he flipped me off and walked away
what a good ass week for movies. watched “You Can See Everything” on friday and seeing “Wildwood” tonight
Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees
🗣️ The voluntary layoffs… I mean “buyouts”… will continue until morale improves
Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees
Microsoft is trying to balance a rapid infrastructure build-out with capital efficiency.
someone hit my parked car and scraped it up three weeks before i have to trade it in for a new one and i already had a trade-in offer accepted. fucking awesome
I Did the Absolute Bare Fucking Minimum For Overall Harm Reduction and Incremental Progress Instead of Succumbing to Despair, or Worse, Apathy
another thing AI has made worse: software updates. between constant security vulnerabilities and just the sheer speed with which companies are trying to ship software via AI, there are so many fucking software updates now. why did i have to update VSCode TWICE in ONE DAY
eMudhra to Exit global SSL/TLS Certificate Business
to be fair, who amongst us hasn’t fucked up so bad that we left an entire industry?
eMudhra to Exit global SSL/TLS Certificate Business
eMudhra Limited (BSE: 543533 | NSE: EMUDHRA), a global digital trust company, today announced that its Board has decided to voluntarily withdraw from the global SSL/TLS certificate business.
ME: AI is a project by the tech oligarchy to deskill and devalue labor while enriching themselves even more
“what? but it’s no different than any other form of automation like assembly lines or factories”
ME: you’re so close to getting it
Notice Regarding Temporary Suspension of New Logins Across All Worlds (Oct. 21) | FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone
disastrous security vulnerabilities in PHP? well thankfully i’m not running it on any of my servers, so it shouldn’t really affect… WAIT NOOO
Notice Regarding Temporary Suspension of New Logins Across All Worlds (Oct. 21)
Electronic Arts Closing BioWare, Laying Off Hundreds
holy shit
Electronic Arts Closing BioWare, Laying Off Hundreds
Around 400 people are expected to be laid off across Electronic Arts
github continues to be a thought leader in proving when things are bad. browsers tend to cache favicons, which makes dynamic favicons bad. one piece of jank and now my notifications tab is stuck looking like i’m viewing a PR with a broken build
seeing a lot of discourse about the number 4 today. did Rails bring back whiny nils or something
