acronym-spouting rules lawyers who will crush dissent by a thousand duck nibbles

hey now, my duck nibbling is thoroughly weaponised

i applied the relevant tags and rewrote the intro, may go through the rest later

video version, double episode!!

this video had so many technical hiccups. the front fell off. (literally, my teleprompter tablet’s screen came unglued and fell off. what the.) openshot decided rendering was toooo haaaard and i had to make a copy of the source video with a keyframe every 10 frames. fucking computers.

yeah that’s the tell

what if, right, we made a search engine so good it became the verb for searching, and then we replaced it with a robot with a concussion

oh yeah loved that format, perfect

however, Better Offline makes money

I thought I was looking into the camera, but phones are annoying

the wat.jpeg

if i stop saying “um” all the time that’s half an hour less in post right there

HEY GUYS CHECK THIS OUT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1yHrZR_Sgg

with the awful (systems) assistance of self, fasterandworse and jp of this parish

no idea when i’ll do another one, this one was 3 hrs faff for 5 min video lol

things I need: a better mic, a chair that doesn’t swivel

EDIT: done two more since, let’s see how we goooo

only from that article lol

J. Oliver Conroy’s Ziz piece is out. Not odious at a glance.

please don’t

I’ve read Masnick for over 20 years and he’s never learnt to write coherently. At least this one isn’t blaming Europe.

he started writing about this stuff and it struck a chord with people

the entire pitch is not having to spend money on employees

The Information’s Dealmaker newsletter is talking today about downrounds in AI venture funding

it’s been an ongoing exit scam

OpenAI buys services from a pile of Altman’s other portfolio companies

Text removed in Mozilla TOS update:

       {
           "@type": "Question",
           "name": "Does Firefox sell your personal data?",
           "acceptedAnswer": {
               "@type": "Answer",
               "text": "Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. "
           }
       },

here’s the diff

looks like tomorrow’s Pivot