Tabs for January 26th 2024
- Privacy washing in 2023
- Supermarkets will be forced to take cash. I work in fintech and I absolutely think this is a good idea.
- Musk warns Tesla workers that they’ll need to sleep on the floor. Production of a product like that should not warrant such personal sacrifice. Hire more people, for fuck sake.
- Workplace health benefits ain’t cutting it
- A guide to Beethoven’s 4th. I was listening this week so dug in a little.
- Journalism is in a death spiral
- Apple cuts self-driving car program back
- Documenting the uneven playing field for Firefox
- Remember when Microsoft held a funeral for the iPhone?
- Cancer vaccine hits phase 3 testing
- The indie web is back
- Storm Isha data
- Storm on the island by Seamus Heaney
- Meta will allow users to untether accounts
- Hackers had access to Microsoft exec emails
- Half of US inflation down to scumbags profiteering
- Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85. RIP.
- Taylor Swift does not exist
- Defending tech from corporate interests
- 1970 paper on AI from MIT. This stuff has been around a long time.
- DPD chatbot swears at customer
- The wartime CEO. Tim Cook is wartime while Jobs was peacetime.
- Sam Altman’s self-serving vision of the future