27 June 2023

So this is why SVB was rescuedChinese accounts had to be made whole.  Surprised?

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Straight from a Three Stooges movie.  Janitor annoyed at freezer alarm, pulls plug on freezer.  There go 20 years of research.

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FinallyKing County Regional Homelessness Authority gets a bit more de-diversified.  It's a start, folks, but don't get your hopes up too much.  It is still Seattle, you know. 

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Congress tells their staff not to use the free ChatGPT.  If it's not good enough for them, what does it say for us?

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Enjoy it while it lasts. A.I. is killing the Web as we know it. 
Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification of TikTok. Layoffs are gutting online media. A job posting looking for an “AI editor” expects “output of 200 to 250 articles per week.” ChatGPT is being used to generate whole spam sites. Etsy is flooded with “AI-generated junk.” Chatbots cite one another in a misinformation ouroboros. LinkedIn is using AI to stimulate tired users. Snapchat and Instagram hope bots will talk to you when your friends don’t. Redditors are staging blackouts. Stack Overflow mods are on strike. The Internet Archive is fighting off data scrapers, and “AI is tearing Wikipedia apart."
Some are saying it's the opposite, and that A.I. will add value to the Internet.  But A.I. even threatens Google's ad-serving business model.  Not too sad about that one.

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NYC wants to ban wood-fire ovens.  Will the Italians stand up against this?  Hell yes!

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