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Baldur Bjarnason:

I've stopped trying to debate software developers on LLMs. It's a fruitless debate. Even if the believers in agents and copilots could be budged on empirical grounds, and the past few years have given us plenty of evidence that they can't, this is still a crowd that is…

AI-poisoned Y-Combinator pick-me lickspittle throws parade:

Derik Kauffman insists it's not a joke. He's actually planning to hold a March for Billionaires in San Francisco this weekend. And he says he's doing so because he's opposed to a proposed state tax on billionaires and, more simply, because he feels as…

Mechanical Turk, meet Mechanical Filipino:

Mauricio Peña, the company's Chief Safety Officer, confirmed under questioning that the Google subsidiary employs human operators abroad [...]

"They provide guidance. They do not remotely drive the vehicles," Peña told the Senate committee. "The Waymo vehicle is always in charge of the dynamic driving…

Tax refunds make great down-payments which are great for higher prices. Every year, the industry salivates over tax refund season. But this year will be special.

1. I'm pretty sure that the Vaillancourt Fountain is still there in the year 3195. It's hard to tell because some palm trees are blocking it, but that looks like the East wall to me. It's directly below the Tulip statue.

   Proving that we are in the Terran Empire timeline, that…

Can I somehow unknow this? Is that OK? Please

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The miracle of valuing the company’s stock far higher than its bitcoin holdings came unglued. Then bitcoin plunged.

Much slower turnover in the labor force leaves fewer job openings to be filled.

Rendering reliance on it for indications of employment trends useless.

The sudden CEO switcheroo was just the latest spooky thing.