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Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In
mcsweeneys.net · Jan 27
“[Nvidia CEO] Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI” — Headline from Gizmodo - - — Guys, enough is enough. Bullying is a s...
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Sara
(@sarae) ·
Jan 28
🔁 @lilithsaintcrow:
"It’s easy to throw stones if you think about the job displacement and ecological destruction caused by this pointless technology. But such black-and-white, not-wanting-billionaires-to-get-richer thinking is, quite frankly, cruel."
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/please-dont-say-mean-things-about-the-ai-that-i-just-invested-a-billion-dollars-in
Best gas masks
theverge.com · Jan 29
“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
Vitamin D & Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
blog.ncase.me · Jan 29
A lay-friendly science explainer (⏱️ 22 min read)
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Phil Stevens :tinoflag:
(@phil_stevens) ·
Jan 29
🔁 @leighelse:
Vitamin D and Omega-3 have more impact on clinical depression than anti-depressants.
https://blog.ncase.me/on-depression/
'The "standardized effect size" of antidepressants on depression, vs placebo, is around 0.4. (On average; some people respond much better or much worse.) This is like going from a C to a C+.
In contrast: the effect size of 1500 mg/day of "≥60% EPA" Omega-3 supplements — which are cheaper & have fewer side effects than antidepressants — is a bit higher, around 0.6. This is like going from a C to a B–.
But, much better: the effect size of 5000 IU/day of Vitamin D is around 1.8. This is like going from a C to an A–! It works even for people who don't have a Vitamin D insufficiency, which almost half of American adults do.'
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Cairn Review - Saving Content
savingcontent.com · Jan 29
My fascination with climbing began with tiny me clambering up massive piles of dirt in our burgeoning subdivision. Muddy mountains towering over the backyard,
Talking with Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty about Trump, Operation Metro Surge — and FAFO
lawdork.com · Jan 29
Watch now (47 mins) | "[T]he people of Minneapolis are looking around, and this is what they’re saying to their electeds too, is, ‘Who is here protecting us?’”
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Chris Geidner
(@chrisgeidner) ·
Jan 29
If you missed it, be sure to check out my in-depth discussion with Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty — who talks about Trump, Operation Metro Surge, Walz, local police, local prosecutors starting FAFO (Fight Against Federal Overreach) to push back, and more. https://www.lawdork.com/p/hennepin-county-attorney-mary-moriarty
Windows 11 has reached 1 billion users faster than Windows 10
theverge.com · Jan 28
Windows 11 hits a big milestone
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Introducing ReliCSS: A Tool for Front-End Archaeology
alwaystwisted.com · Jan 28
Introducing ReliCSS: a tool that helps you identify browser hacks and CSS artifacts in legacy codebases. Understand the 'why' behind old code and prioritise refactoring efforts.
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Jason :neobread_this_is_fine:
(@jasonm) ·
Jan 28
🔁 @sturobson:
a couple of weeks ago I 'launched' ReliCSS, an online tool to find those browser hacks you no longer need.
I wrote up a quick 'introducing' article:
Introducing ReliCSS: A Tool for Front-End Archaeology
https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/introducing-relicss-a-tool-for-front-end-archaeology
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Dave á Jus
(@nek) ·
Jan 29
@pluralistic > Disenshittification Nation (29 Jan 2026):
Like all the best Americans, I am a Canadian, and while I have lived abroad for more than two decades, I flatter myself that I am still steeped in our folkways, and so as is traditional at events like this, I would like to begin by apologising... I'm sorry... I'm really sorry... I know that at a tech event, you expect to hear from a speaker who will come up and tell you how to lose hundreds of billions of dollars building data-centres for the money-losingest technology in human history, a technology so wildly defective that we've had to come up with new, exotic words to describe its defects, like "hallucination." A technology that will never recoup the capex already firehosed on – let alone the trillions committed to it – and whose only possible path to glory is to somehow get so good that it makes millions of people unemployed... But don't worry: you can't make the word-guessing program into a "superintelligence" by shoveling more words into it...
#artificialTechnology #enshittification #disenshittification #counterdisruption #datacenters #workers #laborNews #tech #techNews #dmca #techHistory
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/#ottawa
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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back
theguardian.com · Jan 29
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort
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