It’s the same pattern as social media followed over a decade ago. Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey were always claiming their services were going to change the world for the better.

Both of their services (Facebook and Twitter, respectively) have been used for organizing fascism and hate because hate is extremely profitable and they would rather have money than make the world a better place.

They have ultimately, actively changed the world for the worse.

Yep, this is exactly how most people describe using an AI chat bot to write code.

It’s a junior developer who can’t learn.

That sounds so frustrating to me.

The man in the article also was alcoholic until mere “months before buying the glasses.”

They are burying all the ledes to make a “regular guy goes crazy due to AI” story.

It’s always kind of weird to me when articles describe insanely wealthy people in such a way that they try to make them sound normal.

A 50 year old who worked at the same financial services company (in my experience, finance programmer bros are awful a lot of the time).

No way, they lived an affluent suburb??

In 2022, he leveraged his family’s finances to realize a passion project: a rustic resort in rural Utah

“He had it all… please ignore the many obvious issues.”

This article is asinine.

He’d struggled with alcoholism, but quit drinking in early 2023, months before he purchased the Meta smart glasses.

He was past being an alcoholic for months! How could this happen??

a python script that can activate a Sirius radio for three months at a time.

It does this by replicating the API calls that the SXM dealer app makes when activating a radio.

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I was actually wondering if they were bringing back something like Aperture.

I liked Aperture, it was my preferred editing software before they unceremoniously dropped it.

Bréton likened the move to “McCarthy’s witch hunt” in a post on X.

We are barely one generation away from that exact McCarthyism.

Roy Cohn was Donald Trump’s mentor and “fixer.”

He was also Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel and assisted him in rooting out supposed communists (the “red scare”) and gay people (the “lavender scare”). The latter being especially heinous because he was a closeted, self-hating, practicing homosexual.

Cohn had been assisting McCarthy’s investigations of suspected communists. In the 1970s and during the 1980s, he became a prominent legal and political fixer in New York City.

He was a genuine piece of shit. Trump learned a lot from him, Cohn was one of his heroes. You can see more on Roy Cohn the self-hating scumbag’s Wikipedia page.

As a bonus fact, the word “scumbag” initially referred to a used condom. Which is perfectly appropriate for someone like Roy Cohn, who loved being used and thrown away.

We are watching one of the greatest wastes of money in history

This could have been written about the War on Terror.

Or possibly the “war on drugs” in the 80s, or the war on communism before that.

History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes.

One-sentence horror story!

Firefox has actually become less stable for me, which is crazy because it was stable for several years.

It had gotten bloated and unstable when Chrome first came out, too.

Why does Mozilla always trend toward mediocrity?

It wouldn’t surprise me if Ford literally produced the vehicle because of subsidies.

If they could get a portion of the EV tax breaks, they wanted it.

Now that the current administration is obviously still obsessed with burning oil, it no longer matters.

Great idea! Thanks for sharing

I’ve been using JustTheRecipe, which does a good job of parsing a site and just providing a recipe.

But every time I use it, I think how crazy it is that I have to.

Adolf Hitler was the man of the year in 1938.

Instead of a conventional portrait, the cover was an illustration by Rudolph von Ripper entitled ‘From the unholy organist, a hymn of hate’.

Stalin in 1939 and 1942.

There are a lot of lame ones, now that I look.

Richard Nixon in 1971 and 1972, the latter of which he shared with Henry Kissinger.

Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979. Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1983. George H.W. Bush in 1990.

Ted Turner in 1991. Sure, Time.

Newt Gingrich?!

I was going to say, you can remove “its” and “shoddy” and the title is still accurate.

This is interesting but has been happening for an entire decade now. I wish they’d stop acting like it’s new.

The 2016 U.S. election was affected by foreign facebook activity. Specifically, a lot from from Macedonia.

RIP Kevin Mitnick! Ghost in the Wires was a fun audiobook, and I really enjoyed the 2600 documentary Freedom Downtime when it was released.

“The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me."

That’s your killer feature? “But you can converse and it can make any image!”