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another day, another small step toward consolidation and conglomeration

The Astro Technology Company joins Cloudflare | Astro

The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare! Astro remains open-source, MIT-licensed, and platform-agnostic. With Cloudflare's support, we're focusing 100% on building the best framework for content-driven websites. Astro 6 beta is available now.

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Why is this happening? Well, because a bunch of investors think they can make a bunch of money off an incestuous, illegal pumping scheme. What’s the scheme? Well, it’s basically what tech investors do every 5 years or whatever, but…

this was also exactly what happened with crypto and NFTs

POV: ur my friend at a party and im explaining why i hate "AI" so much

So. It really comes down to a few things, right? Number one for me is the “economy”. Quotes intentional.

june.cat

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extremely sad to hear that the dilbert guy finally lost his long internal struggle with pathological racism

Scott Adams, Audacious Creator of the ‘Dilbert’ Comic Strip, Dies at 68

His chronicle of a corporate cubicle dweller was widely distributed until racist comments on his podcast led newspapers to cut their ties with him.

nytimes.com

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The FBI said on social media that it is investigating the shooting but it appeared it later deleted its posted on X.

great, feeling very safe

US Border agents shoot, wound two people in Portland, city officials say

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to the FBI, Portland police and city officials.Portland p

katu.com

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i had to look this up myself because i almost couldn’t believe it. ICE didn’t exist until after 9/11 and is just one more facet of this country whose entire existence is rooted in racism. we have NEVER needed ICE.

Peng, the Dark Souls of People (@pengautomata.bsky.social)

If you saw Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in theaters or played Ocarina of Time on release, you were alive for an America without ICE. We didn't need it then, we don't need it now, and you already know what a world without them looked like.

bsky.app

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i strongly believe this too. the american exceptionalism we’ve all been raised with, being told we’re all special and unique, all it’s done is breed a mass delusion that we as individuals are all more important than our communities and people as a collective. we prioritize ourselves over all others.

onion person (@junlper.beer)

they’re going to want to kill him for this but he’s so right, individualism as an ideology needs to end

bsky.app

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he literally reformed and renamed the entire company around this. in a sane world, the board would fire him

Meta’s Zuckerberg Plans Deep Cuts for Metaverse Efforts

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to meaningfully cut resources for building the so-called metaverse, an effort that he once framed as the future of the company and the reason for changing its name from Facebook Inc.

bloomberg.com

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this article may be about academia, but a lot of it applies very broadly and it really hits:

We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice.

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

currentaffairs.org

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quite literally the opposite of what everyone’s been asking for but ok lol

Nvidia CEO says AI will actually make everyone a lot busier: 'Everybody's jobs will be different' | Fortune

“I would say that there's every evidence that we will be more productive and yet still be busier because we have so many ideas,” Jensen Huang said.

fortune.com

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how late stage does this make us? surely we must be nearing the end now

Stereogum (@stereogum.com)

Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too. https://stereogum.com/2481091/grimes-djing-immortality-influencers-shroom-trip-with-special-guest-mr-beast/news

bsky.app

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