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miltonlost··on US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds
They're just spending all they money they saved from the wage theft.
miltonlost··on Google changes its search box
Please please please learn the basics of monopolies.
miltonlost··on We let AIs run radio stations
Apple Music actually has radio stations with real humans picking songs. So not all streaming is algorithm if you look.
miltonlost··on Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
Schmidt paying out millions in political donations isn't open debate. Schmidt having a speaking role at a commencement without anyone able to respond to him isn't "open debate". This is purely a monologue. There is no debate that was going to be had in the first place because Schmidt, by virtue of the location and occassion, wouldn't allow a response.
miltonlost··on Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?
> Previously you might use Excel to take raw data from various places and analyze it, create charts, reports, extract findings. Now you can have AI write a script to produce the exactly report you want from the original data

And often from data it makes up!

miltonlost··on Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets
Ah, insider trading! Or playing a rigged game and then taking money from people not in on the game. So fraud!
miltonlost··on Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
If only they had their books open to do more than just "say"
miltonlost··on AI is making me dumb
> You can delegate easy tasks to the AI to save time, while saving the harder tasks for yourself.

This sounds a lot like "You can skip the fundamentals of basketball and just focus on dunking!"

miltonlost··on Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland
How will requiring a £35 brick in a new building cause further problems with the severe housing shortage?
miltonlost··on Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO
He's saying "hey, maybe stop donating to Republicans expecting them to help you out when in reality they will screw over anyone but themselves and especially don't donate to them when the GOP is aggressively homophobic and wants to get rid of your existence entirely"
miltonlost··on New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure
*part of his compensation

The rest of his compensation isn't tied to that, but is tied to the bubble and hype that the lie of Mars living helps prop up.

miltonlost··on Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent
What do you advocate for to help people contemplating suicide? WHat do non-Western culture do to "deal with suicidality"? The issue is when the hotline is selling the data and not that the hotline itself exists.
miltonlost··on America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy
Many things could be manufactured more cleanly, but then the capitalist class will have slightly less obscene wealth by their stealing of profits and pushing of the cost onto society.

The problem is with the manufacturers being evil, selfish environmental nightmares.

miltonlost··on Agents need control flow, not more prompts
SQL's declarativeness is also based on the mathematics of relational algebra, so it will return the same result every time. Will it return it in the same amount of time every single query? No, that depends on indexing and database size. But the query itself won't be altered in the same way an LLM would be.
miltonlost··on Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?
How is that not boosting AI? It's certainly not denigrating it
miltonlost··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
The people who work at the bought-out company who will then be fired due to PE now gutting workforces to pay off the debt. Laborers are getting the shaft
miltonlost··on Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
When managers and VPs all say, you must use AI or else you will not work here, then yes, people will use it.
miltonlost··on U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP
Austrian school is less an academic discipline or study of economics and more a post-hoc justification for libertarian philosophy. So you can freely ignore them.

Maybe decide if the right or left has better priorities. Do you think spending money on guns and war like the right is good? Do you think spending money on social programs to be good? Seems like an easy decision to me, but hey, i have empathy and don't like killing.

miltonlost··on Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles
In no way is that the most important point of the article, especially when you are cherrypicking that sentence and deleting part of it and still don't include how the updated guideline is still ambiguous. You are the "shit writer" here and commenter.

"On April 15, the FAA removed the no-fly zones by replacing the sweeping flight restrictions with a “national security advisory” titled NOTAM FDC 6/2824. The revised notice dropped all mentions of flight restrictions and criminal charges. It instead “advised” drone pilots to avoid flying near “covered mobile assets” belonging to the Department of Homeland Security and several other federal agencies."

"The new FAA advisory wording is “a lot better than it was,” but it still comes off as “too ambiguous,” according to Moss at the Drone Service Providers Alliance. He suggested that the Department of Homeland Security could handle any potential drone concerns rather than making it an FAA issue."

miltonlost··on Is my blue your blue? (2024)
but when does turquoise start and end and green starts and blue ends? or is there just another color there between them. And then what about that color?
miltonlost··on Is my blue your blue? (2024)
Your example would only be valid if "blue" and "green" had objective answers for when something is Blue and something is Green and have clear demarcated boundaries. You're switching to a literal boundary example where there are actual lines to be crossed. Colors are a fuzzy continuum; national boundaries, not including fought-over areas like the Sea of Japan, are easy to be in or not.
miltonlost··on Is my blue your blue? (2024)
Yeah, but is the gray to you more look more black or more white? That's the point.
miltonlost··on Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good
You didn’t address any of the criticism towards Cook and the decline of the product under him. All that matters seems to be “did the line go up?”
miltonlost··on Startups brag they spend more money on AI than human employees
Because some people are evil and only want money and power that comes from owning a billion dollar business
miltonlost··on Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
You would love the world of Severance! Drop your humanity and individuality at the door. Become a mindless drone
miltonlost··on AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
Conflating “kicking over ai delivery bots” and “throwing a Molotov cocktail at Altman’s house” as being both condemnable hasn’t actually been forced off the sidewalk by one of these delivery bots. These are dangerous and anti-human ADA nightmares. They shouldn’t be allowed on sidewalks, emphasis on walk
miltonlost··on Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD
I feel bad for all the other people on the road your friend endangered
miltonlost··on Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers?
More education is actually a good thing. We need to shame corporations and the rich for hoarding wealth and not making education cheaper.
miltonlost··on Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers?
Move fast and break things is, in fact, a bad philosophy to work by and govern by. Especially when the people in charge admit to not wanting to rebuild.
miltonlost··on Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now
Jeremy Lewin was the cause of so many deaths from his actions here. I wonder if he smiled as he cut USAID funding. I wonder if he laughed when vaccines weren't delivered and babies died.
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