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Something interesting to note, is that while "Hollywood" is fast losing its status as the nexus of the traditional film / tv industries, LA in the broader sense is already very wel…

This has always and will always be my fundamental concern regarding AI. It will inevitably be enshittified, and its enshittification will be both subtle and opaque, in ways the ave…

We do know pretty much exactly when they pyramids were built though, (+/- a couple hundred years, which in this context is "Exact" enough) as there have been numerous carbon dating…

When I lived in Japan, one of my roommates was a brown American dude of Dominican ancestry. He, like me, was a clean cut, hard working international student attending a well regard…

They relied on frontier tech because GREED. Let's not kid ourselves that the decision to use AI here was done for any other reason than it would save this company the labor costs o…

What an utterly feckless and deflection filled response from the person writing this article. Literally zero personal accountability for the choices they themselves made that led t…

Sure there's a difference, but when you can buy the base lens for $100 and 3D print your own cinema housing for $50, it becomes a lot more odious that IronGlass is charging what am…

Anyone with half a brain, or who doesn't stand to be personally enriched by the plague of parasitical gambling / prediction sites can see they are obviously a net negative for soci…

The only counterpoint to the article's central thesis I really have is that frankly I don't think there even was a "Strategy" for this war beyond the fact it will distract the Amer…

Capitalism rewards those who CAPTURE the most value, not those who create it. Capitalism at its core is a system of expropriating the value of labor by those with capital who thems…

This post absolutely reeks with the privilege of wealth. For the vast majority of people on this earth, the "Returns" from their labor matter a lot more to them than some vaunted, …

You can very easily replace the battery yourself for less than $100 USD too if it ever becomes enough of an issue that you feel you actually need to do something about it. My M1 Ma…

Ad buyers wouldn't be buying ads if they weren't effective.

You have to keep in mind that at this point, a substantial majority of Americans are overweight, and something like a full third of the US population can be considered "Obese," and…

The fact the BBC article doesn't even mention the Irvings is a pretty glaring omission. The Irvings basically own NB like its their own private fiefdom, and if anyone's doing any m…

The US has never really been either. At its core, the US has always been an oligarchy with the veneer of democracy to keep the pleebs in check. Any country that has only ever reall…

I'd wager two things: 1) Mosseri himself will still continue to enjoy the benefits of a flexible / remote enabled work / life balance that he is now denying his employees. Standard…

Very telling / depressing that literally 3 out of their top 4 highlighted examples of the "Amazing" features this browser provides are just ways to help you be a good little consum…

AI of the sort that will be sold via subscriptions or monetized through advertising (Or something similar to advertising yet even more insidious that is still yet to come) will be …

Guess the child born into abject poverty in a war-torn country in sub-Saharan Africa who died before their 5th birthday due to malnutrition and disease just didn't properly prepare…

$400 USD for a $50 Japanese stainless steel blade, and what amounts to the guts from a $10 electric toothbrush. I mean I get that you spent some R&D money on developing this thing,…

Some context it seems a lot of folks in these comments have missed is that the off grid folks apparently use 1/120th of the town's water, yet contribute 15% of the town's water rev…

The #1 reason I would never EVER use any of these AI agents or browsers or whatever, is despite what these companies may say, they don't work work for ME, the work for the corporat…

Its not just Rotten Tomatoes, the vast majority of so called "Reviews" the average consumer sees these days are being manipulated in service of corporate interests. Amazon's full o…

They are far less interested in stopping crime than they are in ensuring the wheels of the capitalist world-eating machine remain sufficiently greased. The primary role of the poli…