The Bookseller.com makes it hard for me to empathize when I need to “Register to read for free”.

I’m tired of having to surrender my time, effort and personal information to read someone else’s propagandas. If you want me to read your propaganda, you can at least pay for it.

This isn’t even the first time someone went to the hospital with an explosive round stuck in their asshole.

With our new energy subscription services you’ll save almost 100% on your energy bills*!

• As long as you never need energy.

Good news everyone! The US Northeast will have record low gas prices… all we have to do now is to figure out how to keep the region’s air temperature above 70F year-round!

Did they ever fix the phantom braking issue? I haven’t used their “cruise control” (Autopilot) for years because I’m tired of it randomly deciding to come to a complete stop in the middle of the interstate. Damned if I’m going to pay for it.

He even cowrote a book with Gene Kim called Vibe Coding. Well, I say “wrote” — they used a chatbot for “draft generation and draft ranking”. They vibed the book text.

So how does one “vibe code” a book? Input a prompt and the LLM expands it into a book using statistically likely words?

Why not save everyone the trouble and just publish the “vibe code” prompt?

Ok, so science story time. I’m not a doctor.

The female human’s reproductive tract is somewhat loosey-goosey. There is a direct path between the outside world, through the vagina, through the cervix, through the uterus, through the fallopian tubes and into the female abdomen. Not literally, but figuratively the ovaries “float” in the abdomen, just outside of the entrance to the fallopian tubes.
While discussing this with a doctor once, I asked, “Since the ovaries are not directly connected to the fallopian tubes, when an egg erupts from an ovary, what ensures that the egg enters the fallopian tubes and heads to the uterus?”
She replied, “Not much. Occasionally the egg will stay in the abdominal cavity and implant there.”

So think about that for a second. It’s not uncommon for a human eggs to float into the female abdomen, attach and begin growing. That’s called an “ectopic pregnancy”. If you know enough women who trust you, you’ll likely know at least one who’s had surgery for an ectopic pregnancy.

So think about that for another second. If you know someone who is against abortions, be sure to ask them how they suggest solving ectopic pregnancies.

If they don’t have an answer, consider what it would be like to die from one.

So they discovered a way to demolish their competition by laying off their employees and still produce products in record time? Before the pink slips are all printed they jump on the internet to tell everyone their most valuable business secret in 100 years?

You can tell how valuable this “business advantage” is by how willing they are to tell the world about it.

‘I don’t think we should have billionaires’

Half of America’s trailer-park residents pass out because he dared to attack our beloved billionaires. “But what about when we become billionaires!?!”

The reason we have had to deal with this over the centuries is half our population is authoritarian. The idea that someone can punch up as a violation of the laws of man.

It should be the other way around. AI should be reviewing code. AI should be debugging code. Instead, it is allegedly doing the opposite. It’s creating code that requires human review and is generating code that requires humans to debug. This is the opposite of useful.

Having a huge existing codebase and having an AI that scan the entire codebase and find actual bugs would be a godsend. Giving humans more drudgework is the opposite of helpful.

Steal it. I did.

“If hard work made you rich, all donkeys would be millionaires.”

After your internet is shut, you’ll be forced to buy Google Prison Internet, where you’re surveiled 24/7 and you’re only allowed to download ads.

The key is to tell your audience something they wish would be true.

“Honey, you know what would really tie this room together? A giant electronic advertising billboard!”

Yes, but my lame “It’s a glitch in the Matrix” jokes might make one person laugh.

AI-generated waterfall.

Goddammit! Is there anything that US corporations won’t fuck up?

In a down market, shift your focus towards a group that’s even more financially literate than the general public. Nice strategy.

Can someone please ELI5:
Why does every site on the web have to adjust for every jurisdiction in the world? Shouldn’t each jurisdiction just be responsible for filtering/censoring the web for their citizens based on whatever batshit idea their leaders have?

Actually, I suspect the answer is quite easy: this way, they force other people to have to pay for their batshit crazy ideas instead of themselves.

Is there another explanation I’m missing?

Wouldn’t Thtis’s two fingers also then be involnerable?