Without news sites to scrape, there will be no feeding the AI. With one key exception. When a site is driven by political agenda instead of advertisement revenue.

You have it partially right here.

But the one divergence from the pattern you didn't list is, that because most AI. (and Google's AI specifically) is very left leaning, it will feed you only left leaning news... so the sites that will remain, and keep earring revenue are more right leaning sites since people would have to go to them directly anyway to seek out news Google will never give them.

Of course that merely delays the full effect of what you lay out, when most for-profit left wing news sites fold the AI starved for information will in the end actually make use of right leaning sites as well.

What it does mean is that left wing news sites that remain in the next year or so will only be hyper-partisan info funded by some external source.

What did HyperCard even do?

It's kind of hard to explain, and honestly my memory of what you could do with Hypercard and how you actually did it is very fuzzy as it was so long ago.

But basically it was a visual programming languages, where the visual bits you drug around were then also backed by actual code that would do things. You would create a variety of cards, and in those cards could store data, move on to other cards, and so forth.

Some people used it to create games, but used it to create an inventory tracking system for a store, and probably some other stuff I have forgotten about.

In the end, it was a way to make programming a lot more approachable to people at a time when programming was VERY low level for the most part!

A key part of it was once you made a stack of cards it was very easy to share with other people as a kind of application (but one you could modify in any way you liked).

You might get a better feel reading this Tribute To Hypercard.

Everyone always talks about Woz but it sure seems like Atkinson deserves nearly as much praise.

Sad to see one of the great ones go, but accomplished so much for so many and that is better than a lot of people manage.

Nobody is really in favour of limited government because when push comes to shove those who profess being in favour of limited government remain so only until they get into power.

If what you say is true it means lots, not none, are in favor of limited government because they do not seek power over others and thus wish for possible power over them to be minimized...

Basically the age-old axiom, most people just want to be left the hell alone.

Being for limited government, I am also against the 10 year moratorium on AI regulation (and giant bills generally).

But also that is because what are regulations going to do? They can't stop you from accessing a web site in another country running some hyper advanced AI model, or downloading AI malware that can jack your system.

All regulations can possibly do is retard (in the classic sense of the word) tools in the states or countries of whatever places are stupid enough to even try to regulate AI. It's going to hurt enough companies that try to follow the law that it's a bad idea and would provide no benefit you are seeking through the regulation.

In fact if you really believe AI can even be dangerous at all then the only possible thing you can do is to advocate for as much AI as possible to counter the "bad" AI.

The summary claimed the company had $50m in revenue (the real number, not corrected).

I can't understand how it got any revenue, ever - if you ask any real AI to produce code you'll have results in a minute or so.

But if it was backed by people writing real code, answers would have taken many minutes to hours to produce! Heck just the time to write a summary of the request would seem awfully long.

Who would use that after any trial? Who was paying them at all?

Or was it 700 engineers each with a trial chatGPT account just pasting questions and answers back and forth between user and chatGPT?

Yeah I ran into that also, very sad to see. What a crime against humanity. Thanks for the link.

Sorry I'm late to response but you simply have to pay $25 more for the ticket and get Earlybird to auto-checkin, then you are either in A or B section and can get a good seat anywhere.

Even adding that Southwest tickets are still usually cheaper than other airlines.

I have not looked into this myself yet, but in order to write anything GPT needs to have a direction to go in... so I assume the way it would work is you'd write a summary of the issue and chatGPT would fill out details?

Maybe an indicator that the issue was written by ChatGPT along with a link to the prompt that generated the summary. Then you'd have original intent of the issue.

I can kind of see the point where people might want to block it altogether but it does come off as a bit luddite. But I can see a very real danger of number of issues rising dramatically if they are easier to generate.

I agree with his description of Spirit and Frontier. Ultra budget airlines built around making sure the airline paid the minimum price for everything (like seat cushions) and the customer paid as much as possible (like for a carryon larger than a purse).

But Southwest? Even with the VERY UNFORTUNATE changes they are making around seat reservations, even with that I would vastly rather fly Southwest than those other two - or frankly even United.

Southwest has OK seat size and seats. They ACTUALLY HAVE under-seat storage, unlike (again) United. They have really reasonable policies around re-booking or cancelling flights. They have been to date extremely customer friendly in a way zero other airlines I have flown have been.

Southwest has been the only airline I have been on to really strike a good balance between cost and services.

One interesting possibility Apple's chip has that Qualcomm does not, is that it could do things like lean on the AI chip for additional help processing the incoming signal, or any other hardware in the phone.

I also figured that the first try from Apple would not be quite as good, it will be interesting to see how fast iterations improve.

It's strange I had been seeing some very angry takes on X about story changes in Lilo & Stich - but I guess they were not problem enough to drive people away!

Personally I never saw the appeal of the original or Stich himself, but I have to say I have seen that many, many people just LOVE stitch.

Disney really needed a win like that... though I'm sad that may lead to more live action remakes, which I thought were on the way out. But if they can just preserve the heart of the original, I guess they are OK...

If you think that there should not be a government run social media (and there should not be)...

That ALSO means we should not be funding any government media, like PBS or NPR.

If you disagree you have to distinguish what is the difference between social media and other media outlets.

Hahahah, reminds me of one bank claiming "Security is our highest priority!"

One small interactive play I attended a while ago was in a SciFi setting where I think we all started off as passengers of some kind... anyway in the briefing they gave us they reminded us all that "Your safety is their 7th highest priority" and never has something felt more real. :-)

Those who do not watch movies are doomed to live them.

Here we have someone literally making an AI MCP, as if they have never watched TRON!