Open post muzzle @muzzle@theforkiverse.com · 5mo ago Replying to @jschwa1@mastodonapp.uk Brilliant comment in the FT @jschwa1 This joke dates back to at least the Iraq war. It's possibly even older.
Open post muzzle @muzzle@theforkiverse.com · 4mo ago Replying to @davidgerard@circumstances.run > This is the standard tech playbook. Fire the engineers who know how the system works, fire the ones organizing labor, hope nothing catastrophic breaks before you can ship something splashy. Twitter did it. Meta did it. Salesforce did it. Google did it. We have all seen this movie. this time it's Wikipedia https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 @davidgerard@circumstances.run I clearly did not worry enough when I learned that Wales is a friend of Musk.
Open post muzzle @muzzle@theforkiverse.com · 6mo ago Replying to @randahl@mastodon.social <p>European service announcement:</p><p>Tomorrow Europe switches to Summer Time, but this year please remember that we will not only move time 1 hour forward.</p><p>Additionally, we will change the year to 2029. When you wake up Monday, Putin has been killed, Kamala Harris is now president, Trump is in jail, and The Strait of Hormuz has just been reopened.</p> @randahl@mastodon.social If the Hormuz Strait has only just been reopened after three years, we're probably waking up in the middle of a gigantic economic crisis.
Open post muzzle @muzzle@theforkiverse.com · 4mo ago Replying to @MLE_online@social.afront.org A lot of people tend to disagree with me when I say things like this on here, but I do think that if AI pollutes the internet so much that we are forced to spend more time interacting with each other face-to-face, it will be a good thing. Less online homework, less online hiring, less staring at youtube videos @MLE_online@social.afront.org but I live there! ;)