Tabs for January 13th 2024
- Huge ring of galaxies challenges our thinking of the cosmos. We are very insignificant.
- Platformer leaves Substack
- Ed Zitron on the Substack controversey
- Someone recorded their being-laid-off call. This is awkward and poorly done on both sides, I think.
- RabbitOS. The main draw for me is that the hardware is Teenage Engineering designed.
- South Africa submitted a detailed dossier on calling for a ceasefire in Palestine
- Existential comics
- Google does more layoffs. I understand from folks at Google that this is the tip of the iceberg, but they’ll sneak announcements through subsidiary brands (hundreds at YouTube, a few dozen at Gmail, etc.).
- Twitch laying off 500. Similar to the above, but Amazon.
- Philip K Dick award nominees
- LLMs are racist, which is bad, but worse when it’s in medicine
- NASA shares update on Artemis
- RIP der Kaizer
- Your mom
- Cube rule for food ID
- Wacom uses AI images for promos
- Dublin tech leader ousted from board over political opinions. I would imagine he knew the consequences beforehand.
- SpaceX staff worried about Elon’s drug use
- Coimisiún na Meán go off the rails
- First fortnight Dublin. Mental health awareness programming.
- How to quit capitalism
- The web is yours
- NPM package chaos
- Artists work used to train AI models. This will be an enormous issue for AI companies. As it should be.
- Gardaí search home and seize phone of councillor who opposed use of Galway hotel for asylum seekers
- 30 pieces of advice for entrepreneurs
- Academic celebrity Neri Oxman plagiarized from Wikipedia, scholars, a textbook, and other sources without any attribution. Academia has had a really weird year.
- George Carlin’s estate threatens to sue over AI-generated special
- Who hosts the fediverse?
- brr.fyi. Amazing.
- Bill Gates talks to Sam Altman
- Tesla’s terrible month