Are there any oil industry heads that aren’t Trump megadonors?

Okay but “Kafka, Esq.” goes hard.

Related: Jevons Paradox

Drifting quietly away is right.

Gold prices tell the story.

So wait. Did he deserve the peace prize but not get it? Or deserve it and get two of them? Or not deserve it and not get any? Or not deserve it and get two of them? How many realities can they try to make exist at once?

Oh there’s lots of trans people in orchestra

I Know What You Did Last Sermon

There is a big difference, and I’d argue the Claude refactoring is worse. Content was already pursuing the common denominator. But open source was a place where you could actually bring some nuance, examine things in detail, and build a shared understanding of deeper truths. But why bother with the icky social factors of working together to build something with people all around the world that can evolve and last for 10+ years, when you can boil a swimming pool to produce a half-baked one-off solution instead?

Not sure about Apple-mediated payments, but you can usually support the creator more directly and get an ad-free RSS feed that you can plug into the Podcasts app and it Just Works™. Usually ends up being a better deal for the creator, too.

Aaaand he’s being investigated by the DOJ for being an enemy of the state anyway

TIHI

See, if you successfuly steal $3bn, that means God loves you or whatever

Homeless guy failed to steal $100 (he felt bad about it lmao), so he’s evil

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

You absolutely may. Intel is valid too.

Buy a used Optiplex.

Gets you an acceptable case, mobo, CPU, RAM, and probably SSD for about $200. Add a used 3050/3060/4060 GPU and an upgraded PSU.

It’s not gonna knock your socks off, but it gets you going without over-spending and you can carry some of that forward when you upgrade later.

People drive the speed they feel is safe. Occassionally, they read speed limit signs. Occassionally, they drive slower after a ticket. But mostly: people drive the speed they feel is safe.

If you want people to drive slower, it needs to feel (not be, just feel) unsafe to drive fast.

confidentially

It says it’s multiple studios, which I assume were acqui-hired. So it’s not just “VR developers”, but also UI designers, concept artists, QA, PMs, HR, IT, tech writers, community managers, sales people — maybe even localization, reception, janitors… who knows. The structure of these things can vary wildly.

Idk, for a game where sugar skull pirate puppets race rowboats that can boost and drift, it’s hard to call it out-of-place.

I don’t think there’s any disagreement (among you, me, and Molly White) about who the bad guys are.

The question is: What is an effective legal framework that focuses on the precise harms, doesn’t allow AI vendors to easily evade accountability, and doesn’t inflict widespread collateral damage?

Cory Doctorow has a pretty good stab at that: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how-to-think-about-scraping/