I’m sure it will go as well as the countries that used crypto for their currency.

By leaving they gave up all their special exceptions, and rejoining would mean that they have a worse deal than the one they had when they got fed up and left the EU. It’s like they’ve been looking at Trump’s Iran strategy.

If only she had more than a decade of evidence that Donald Trump was a pathological liar that didn’t just spilt hairs, deflect, or cite misleading statistics like most politicians, but actually told complete fabrications on easily disprovable subjects where there was ample evidence that he was making shit up completely.

Oh no. Twist my arm.

Wow, even with the image from the OP, I still didn’t expect Hercules to be darker than Aladdin.

The study found that young people were growing less hopeful and more angry about the technology, even though around half of the demographic was using AI either daily or weekly.

“Even though”? I would argue “because of”. They’ve used AI enough to know that it’s inconsistent and unable to actually do their jobs, but it’s either being used to justify layoffs or as a cudgel to push you for unrealistic increases in productivity. Maybe the AI will one-shot a prompt and save you a bunch of time or maybe you’ll spend three times as long rewriting prompts in the hopes that the next time will do the trick.

Moreover, people like me explicitly avoided management as a career path. I wanted to do the work that got me into the field to begin with, not manage a bunch of people to do it for me. Now everyone is a middle manager, just of the world’s most frustratingly inconsistent employee who never learns and doesn’t respond to anything other than you asking again but in a slightly different way.

For everyone except C-suite executives and shareholders, this is a fucking nightmare. The Jetson’s envisioned a future where productivity gains increased so much that an employee worked two, one-hour days a week, doing nothing more than pushing a button. Instead we have people working ridiculously longer hours to clean up AI slop, and burning out in the process, leading to being laid off or outright fired, meaning your income drops to zero.

nowing their they’re

Have you ever seen someone in a relationship with someone (often abusive) who they’ve built up a fantasy of their partner and fully believe that person to be the same one as the ideal they’ve crafted in their head? And they ignore clear red flags, make apologies and excuses for that person, and heartily swallow any and all lies that person tells as a way of holding onto that fantasy? And then when they finally snap, reach a breaking point and that person turns on them and they see them for who they really are and tell themselves that the person changed because they can’t face the idea that they were complicit in that person’s behavior and don’t want to believe they were capable of enabling them? This is the political version of that.

He’s the same but unfiltered. Which you can argue is a change, but the underlying personality and (complete lack of) values are the same. He’s always turned on sycophants for the slightest reason, he’s always ranted delusionally, he’s always been a narcissist who cares about petty and meaningless awards, he’s always been a corrupt grifter, he’s always full of threats and bravado who chafes at any restrictions on his impulses, he’s always been a shitty deal maker whose only tactic is escalation and starts out so aggressive he doesn’t leave himself any room to negotiate, he’s always been racist and misogynistic, he’s always been stupid, ignorant, and incurious but still believes he’s smarter and more knowledgeable than anyone else.

None of those qualities changed. The only things that have changed are:

• His dementia has gotten worse and his grasp on reality has weakened.
• He’s now completely surrounded by sycophantic yes men who won’t question or push back on his worst impulses.
• He’s faced so few consequences for his craziest impulses and corruption that he no longer feels any constraint, which is exacerbated by the previous two points.

From the article:

Because she works in the medical field, she decided to create a condition related to health and hit on the name bixonimania because it “sounded ridiculous”, she says. “I wanted to be really clear to any physician or any medical staff that this is a made-up condition, because no eye condition would be called mania — that’s a psychiatric term.”

If that wasn’t sufficient to raise suspicions, Osmanovic Thunström planted many clues in the preprints to alert readers that the work was fake. Izgubljenovic works at a non-existent university called Asteria Horizon University in the equally fake Nova City, California. One paper’s acknowledgements thank “Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy for her kindness and generosity in contributing with her knowledge and her lab onboard the USS Enterprise”. Both papers say they were funded by “the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation for its work in advanced trickery. This works is a part of a larger funding initiative from the University of Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad”.

aEven if readers didn’t make it all the way to the ends of the papers, they would have encountered red flags early on, such as statements that “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”.

He’s been promising infrastructure day for a decade now… nobody thought that’s what he meant.

Large tech companies have a history of providing an API, and then copying or cloning any integrations that are successful. I’m shocked people still continue to provide free product/market research for these massive companies. If you have a valuable idea, the company you built it on top of will steal it.

At least the creator of OpenClaw got hired by Anthropic; Cursor is still struggling to justify its existence after Anthropic jacked up its rates and provided a direct competitor.

Third party services are not optimized in this way, so it’s really hard for us to do sustainably.

If these companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars by providing a service to third parties can’t make money providing that service to third parties… how is that not flashing red lights and screaming sirens on Wall Street? If you’re making a ton of money using their service, they’ll steal your idea to try and stay alive. If you’re not making money, they will cut you loose before you burn more of theirs. It really is that simple.

If we weren’t already boiling the oceans, I’d say that you should continue to use the free tier. A lot. Drive up their costs as much as possible without giving them any revenue by constantly asking it to generate useless crap.