https://www.theverge.com/news/614883/humane-ai-hp-acquisition-pin-shutdown

lol, lmao

edit: I've ragged on John Gruber in the past, but he's really lighting them up 🔥

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/02/18/hp-buys-humane

After fondling ChatGPT to generate naughty things, man has meltdown when he learns no one cares.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/time-bandit-chatgpt-jailbreak-bypasses-safeguards-on-sensitive-topics/

Horror. Dismay. Disbelief. For weeks, it felt like I was physically being crushed to death.

I hurt all the time, every part of my body. The urge to make someone who could do something listen and look at the evidence was so overwhelming.

https://xcancel.com/altryne/status/1872090523420229780#m

The whole thread is terrible; controlling and borderline abusive behavior.

The orange site is an easy target, but the lack of solidarity in the comments about the NYT Tech Guild strike fills me with dread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42040795

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball

https://xcancel.com/SmokeAwayyy/status/1834641370486915417

TIL Paul Graham has never read a book.

These are the same people who want to remove the humanities from education.

And if you're not paying to chat with an LLM, you're paying some guy with utter contempt for you https://www.wired.com/story/i-went-undercover-secret-onlyfans-chatter-wasnt-pretty/

Honeymoon is over

https://www.wired.com/story/what-if-your-ai-girlfriend-hated-you/

https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1779753281960722706

Critiquing an AI startup?

distasteful, almost unethical

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/04/garry-tan-is-not-just-a-cryptofascist-hes-a-christofascist/

I'll leave the sneer to jwz, but Jesus Fucking Christ indeed.

Because I feel like picking on him again: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/02/google-podcasts

The only Google services I use are YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, YT Studio, Chrome, and Google Keep. Oh, and the Nest app.

It’s rather glorious living a nearly Google-free digital life.

Ars' example gave me some hope