There are plenty of better reasons to hate The Verge; reposting Press Releases as “news”, jumping on trends of public opinion, 12 minute video summaries of 30 minute events, staff who think Debian is some sort of anti allergy medication (this has gotten better, but there is still a little too much Tim Cook semen spitting at times.), “reporters” who have the job of reposting anything from Techmeme and techurls, the stench of Vox elitism, staff posting quote tweets as news and staff posting their purchase recommendation emails from Amazon (with affiliate links added) as “deals”.
All that being said, it’s still leagues ahead of Gizmodo and I do think it’s worth reading.
Relevant xkcd
“Three man, you always tell me to do three!”
3 minutes into browsing this evening and already found the Russian shrill 😞
I 'member the Atrix lapdock
If this would have surprised no one they wouldn’t have done it and just ate the cost of office spaec. No, there’s people out there who still think company loyalty is a thing and that fostering a “company culture” is actually viable.
I feel like their marketing needs a rewrite, everyone vaguely knew the LHC was to identify the Higgs Boson, what’s this one for, gravitons?
“One More Lane Bro is the only option, I checked, and it should be subsidised by NYT who make too much money.” - Robert Moses
“But I did not do anything, because I am not a journalist, and neither are they, really, and the thing they wear on their head is really dumb, unlike the thing we wear on our heads.”
Oh God do I even want to know what they’ve trained for their AI image generator? Will it ironically be the only one that can show mixed race couples?
I also hope we move away from coal, but if environmentalists are hell bent on getting a bunch of Dell monitors and a few keyboards in a museum hit me up.
How many transgender atheist athletes did he think was going to storm his house?
Am I allowed to think it’s weird the entire open source community can’t compete with SMB?
Sorry, at what point did the US benefit, let alone cause the lost decade?
“… holding in one’s head multiple truths at the same time and working iteratively to reconcile them.”
That sounds really hard, have you tried cognitive dissonance?
I’m betting pigs could write some bomb ass poetry
Test out reading mode in other Chronium browsers, for me that does the job
For me, it’s the blog posts, written with a level of arrogance and condescension that they are “fixing” the limitations of TCP\IP and if you aren’t using them, you’re making the Web worse for everyone
Essentially someone posing as some sort of AI company sold DPD ChatGPT with some starting instructions, probably for at least 5 figures.
I’m sure if you poke around some freelancer website you too could spend an hour downloading a model and packaging it up for a company with a hundred million dollar market cap who wants to save $50,000 on outsourcing.
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