anybody with a budget line was the lord of his (usually his) own little fiefdom. I spent years there trying to standardize internal web APIs when absolutely no one was incentivized to cooperate with anyone else

I believe it's spelled møøse

nazi science

how many users type chatGPT in an address bar has *zero* to do with the question of whether users endorse LLM integration into browser platforms, and "new behaviors that people have started doing in their browsers" is just a shabby obfuscation attempting to conflate the two

my lasting image of atom-bomb horror was Burgess Meredith weeping on the library steps. I'm not sure I even registered the ironic comeuppance part, I just saw myself

uncanny valley effect happens with text too, it makes my skin crawl having to address a bot

I was a bookish little kid newly prescribed with glasses when I first saw this one, and it haunted me for years afterward

"first year teacher" so basically you're admitting that the first time you had institutional cover you had sex with a child. seems like your actual complaint is that the system worked for once

that's not a face, that's the flatiron building

"risky tactics" count on the journos to never call things by their right name

then again, using formulaic ethics to ward off blame for evils you're actively propagating is pretty much just what moral discourse is for neoliberals

it sure sounds like "you'll have to fix your copy on your own (I won't touch it)" is a kind of prophylactic gesture on Siegel's part, to give her some bullshit indemnity against the massive ethical breach she's offering to make *in the very same sentence*

fascism and amphetamine abuse, two great tastes that taste great together

remember when boys could just be boys without having to apologize for it?

we gather children in schools to sort them into winners and losers, obviously, not because they all deserve the benefit of an education