Everyone’s offering their thoughts on enshittification these days. I notice this phenomenon…seems like there are conversations that go on which I tap into for a bit before the move alon…
Mastercard Claims NSFW Game Bans Aren’t From Them, Valve Explains How Mastercard Launders Its Control
This whole attempted censorship of adult games on gaming platforms is becoming a thing. Collective Shout—a group out of Australia that wraps itself in a feminist flag while behaving like the religi…
Roxanne Shirazi, a librarian at CUNY, recently commented on the AI hype in her field: I attended a library vendor AI demo/upsell today and I wish I could explain to them that everything they are selling could be achieved by hiring like two more people in our library. And yet this entire team was dedicated...
CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes
Cosmos is — or was — a popular science magazine published by the CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. David Ho is an oceanographer at the University of Hawai’i. Cosmos posted an articl…
Network tokens, the payment tech you've never heard of
I very rarely talk about payments on this blog, but every once in a while I get to talk about something I think might be interesting: network tokens!
Who has my card number?
Many years ago, merchants selling products online and in person were handling your card details directly. That
How Much Money Do OpenAI And Anthropic Actually Make?
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Paradox of ambient intelligence: between certainty and shadows
Weeknotes 350 - Can AI truly perform critical thinking as it does not have a clue? How to bring in humbleness through our own interactions? This and more from last week's news on human-AI-thing collabs.
Financial Censorship and the Love Affair Between Payment Processors and Anti-Porn Campaigners
Valve Corporation recently came under pressure from payment processors to purge Steam, the popular PC gaming storefront, of “certain kinds of adult-only content.” The news rippled across tech …
In her new book “Bad Company,” journalist Megan Greenwell chronicles how private equity upended industries from health care to local news—and the ways workers are fighting back.
A 500-Kilogram Metal Ring Plummeted Over Kenya, Confirming Long-Held Suspicions - Paris 2018 News
On December 30, 2024, a stunning event captured the attention of both locals and space experts when a massive metal ring crashed from the sky into a Kenyan village southeast of Nairobi. The 2.5-meter diameter object, weighing approximately 500 kilograms, landed in a field without causing injuries but immediately sparked…
Insanity is trying the same thing over again expecting a different result
Megan Brenan writing for Gallup: Independents Drive Trump's Approval to 37% Second-Term Low
Six months into his second term, President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has dipped to 37%, the lowest of this term and just slightly higher than his all-time worst rating of 34% at the end of
Recommitting to our why, what, and how - The Official Microsoft Blog
Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, shared the below communication with Microsoft employees this morning. As we begin a new fiscal year, I’ve been reflecting on the road we’ve traveled together and the path ahead. Before anything else, I want to speak to what’s been weighing heavily on me, and what I know many of you...