It's so funny that Elon musk pays for mr. Beast's advertising on Twitter using unlabelled ads so that he can pay Mr. Beast money from the creator program to repost stuff from YouTube

I'm still trying to work out what they think this will do for Facebook or instagram, free products that make Meta money only when people see ads or sponsored content. And generative AI is deeply expensive, so each use loses them money and distracts from money making products.

It's good that people are waking up to this even if I did it first
wheresyoured.at/bubble-trouble/

Me

Fallout is so, so good. Probably one of my favourite shows of all time. And what do you know, it's by the people who made Person of Interest

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🚨 Biden admin is quietly pressuring countries to vote against Palestinian statehood at the UN, according to diplomatic cables leaked to me:
theintercept.com/2024/04/17/uni…

it's so cool that everybody acts like Sam Altman is god despite the fact that his employees tried to get him fired from his only startup *TWICE* and he got fired from yCombinator for 'absenteeism' and selfishness

wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-al…

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

LEX FRIDMAN: meester storn you are the one who say 'baby booey', why that?
HOWARD STERN: what?
FRIDMAN: Heward starn. bubby boy

After swearing I wouldn't do another I'm gonna be hitting you with another double episode of Better Offline next week - how the internet was broken, and the men who broke it

Here's the latest ep of Better Offline. It's about how industrial glycine company Donghua Jinlong accidentally got turned into a meme. Writers Louise Matsakis and Tianyu Fang walk me through how and why memes about glycine keep going viral.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bet…
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New episode of Better Offline w/ Ed Zitron: How A Chinese Glycine Manufacturer Went Viral ft. Louise Matsakis and Tianyu Fang

iheart.com/podcast/139-be…

this is genuinely the kind of tortured joke somebody would make on Twitter in 2013 and get 2000 likes (a king's ransom at the time)