First they monetized loneliness with OF and Tinder. Then they monetized unemployment with LinkedOut, and now they're monetizing homelessness with Air B and E.

Hey, these are businesses that have to make money, so if they're clubbing kittens to death you have no right to complain. Now we noticed you stopped moving and you aren't spending money so we're going to have to ask you to leave or we're going to call the police and film them beating the shit out of you. Thanks for being our customer.

The latest Sun SPARC arrived at the speed of light... unfortunately it still runs Slowaris

Nothing like giving people the runaround until they're exhausted...

HR often has an Orwellian aspect to their communication. They say things in a way that sounds like they are there to help you, but they are really there to gatekeep. Not everyone can have the salary, promotion, office, etc that they want, and HR is there to control those things, and minimize the company's legal problems in doing so. The double-speak and gatekeeping make them incredibly frustrating to deal with.

On top of that they also know a lot of private info, from salary to disciplinary actions to disputes they got involved in, so they're often in a position of quite a lot of leverage.

Won't you be proud after your career of denying jobs to men while you pulled the office train. You'll be in your apartment all alone with sobs echoing in your barren womb for the next 40 years.

Hope it was worth it. The guy you fucked out of a career and a family has nothing but love for you. Say hi to your cats.

He is mostly writing for attention *now*, nothing to do with immortality.

The whole premise is ridiculous, like SEO slop dressed up as something intellectual. Odds are high that OpenAI's "authoritativeness" is Google PageRank. That means it will move as traffic moves or if one of them changes the rules.

If you want to write for immortality, figure out something to say that is meaningful across human lifetimes.

That's pretty hard to do, which is why only a few works become and stay "classics". The way to even have a shot is not to internet clout-seeking, it is true thought and creativity.

From TFA: out of 15 patients, one patient died during the study. Hope it wasn't due to the treatment...

There's a typo in the headline. It's supposed to read "Microsoft Forms Superintelligence Team Under AI Chef Suleyman 'To Serve Humanity'".

So? What could someone do with the information that your garage door opens every weekday at 7am, opens again at 6pm, and your heat is set to 55 degrees during those times?

China calling Elon. Come in, Elon! :)

Just got an email from United. (They use Newark as a hub so they are at a big risk of cancellations) They say anyone can get a refund from them -- even people with bottom of the line economy tickets. They also say they don't plan on cancelling international flights. The most at risk for cancellations are domestic flights to a non hub city. Travel insurance should pay too but I'd much rather get it directly from the airline.

Brick and mortar stores are hard to come by these days. And they are infinitely more fun than online stores.

I shoot with Kodak T-MAX 400. Love the fine grain.

bah.

Let me know when they start making *autographic* 120 film again. I have the camera, and am dying to shoot a roll!

The last rolls were apparently made in 1932. The cameras had a flap that could flip up and allow writing directly onto the film with a stylus. When you see handwriting on an old picture print, it was likely shot on autographic.

[and, yes, in fact my autographic camera *does* have bellows!]

That Electrolux isn't really an Electrolux.

a couple of decades ago, in one of those weird corporate maneuvers, it sold the name, and now sells its vacuums under another name, while the buyer sells non-electrolux as Electrolux.

So what she knows of Electrolux from the late 20th and early 21st centuries no longer applies.

But, yes, they were very good and lasted forever. Also extremely pricey.