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simonwillison.net
Tell me your team is entirely comprised of over-confident twenty-somethings without telling me your team is entirely comprised of over-confident twenty-somethings
March 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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evacide.bsky.social
I rarely tell people to throw their devices into the sea, but you should throw your Amazon Echo into the sea.

www.wired.com/story/everyt...
Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out
Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.
www.wired.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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newcastleunited.com
WE ARE NEWCASTLE UNITED

CARABAO CUP WINNERS

#wedontdoquiet
March 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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worldwithoutcaesars.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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jonathanhopkin.bsky.social
There’s a colossal opportunity for Britain to become the world’s leading location for scientific research and we all know there is no way it’s going to even get discussed
March 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
February 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.
February 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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2600.com
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January 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.

You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?

Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.

You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income
This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.
truthout.org
February 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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wbm312.bsky.social
For those leaving Meta apps and services: if you’re looking for a What’s App alternative, download Signal.

Safe & secure: signal.org/download/
Download Signal
Download Signal for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows.
signal.org
January 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
A web developer has created and released an infinitely generating "tar pit" designed to trap AI training bots in an endless maze: "Just me unleashing shear unadulterated rage at how things are going"

www.404media.co/developer-cr...
Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."
www.404media.co
January 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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ledbydonkeys.org
The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla
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Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...
Heil Tesla
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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malwarejake.bsky.social
The data you don't retain can't be stolen when your systems get compromised.

Stop hoarding data you'll never use.
January 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
hindenburg guy signing off with this and it just being a link to a DJ set in Bali rather than like, a Marc Andreesen speech is so good. I respect Hindenburg's hustle so much

hindenburgresearch.com/gratitude/
With unfathomable levels of gratitude, Nate Anderson (P.S. If you are chasing something you think you want or need, or are doubting whether you are enough, take a minute and give this a listen. It had a big impact on me at a pivotal time.)
January 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM