Today was a really, really hard day. But someone came sprinting when she heard me walk in the door, so that counts for something. 💜 image
“hey, your plagiarism machine stole from MY plagiarism machine” — tech ceos in 2025, apparently
The Verge
OpenAI has evidence that its models helped train China’s DeepSeek
Sucking in data you didn’t ask permission for? Sounds familiar.
Hey, Apple users: if you install the latest iOS, iPadOS, or macOS updates, you’ll be automatically opted into “Apple Intelligence”. If you don’t want that running on your computer, you’ll need to go into Settings to disable it. (this is far from the most pressing thing happening today, but just a heads-up)
🦊 Heck yeah, I love a good blogging challenge! Thanks so much to @npub10gp9...t9wk and @naz for sending it my way!
A challenge of blog questions. — ethanmarcotte.com
Jon and Naz kindly tagged me into a blogging challenge! Namely, to answer a set of questions about how I blog, and why.
 #blogging
me in my twenties: oh neat, a free program me in my forties: oh neat, a free program, what horrors are concealed within
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if you haven’t read [@kissane](
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Erin Kissane (@kissane@mas.to)
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 )’s latest, this is an especially good time to do so
wreckage/salvage
Bad shape
The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, wh...
“Today, Alphabet Workers Union-CWA members on the Google Help team secured a first collective contract with Google vendor Accenture, becoming the first group of AWU-CWA represented workers to bargain a collective contract and only the second group of Google office workers ever to do so.” WONDERFUL NEWS
Google Help Workers Ratify Collective Contract With Accenture, First In Alphabet Workers Union-CWA History
Dec 18, 2024 - Press Release from AWU-CWA
 #1u #TechUnions #TechLabor
my “our slot machine for stolen text and images is going to be massively profitable soon, honest” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
CNBC
OpenAI says it needs 'more capital than we’d imagined' as it lays out for-profit plan
OpenAI said in a blog post Friday that heading into 2025, "we have to become an enduring company," which requires changing its structure.
producer: did you finish the soundtrack for that animated christmas special vince guaraldi: sure did boss, real fuckin hip and sexy, just like you asked producer: what