J.D. Hollis

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@mountainwesttax His coverage of Uber over the years was excellent.

“…more honest demands for massive taxpayer bailouts to keep China from controlling the technology that can quickly summarize office memos or make it easier to create AI slop videos on Tik Tok would nonetheless strike voters as unpersuasive.”

@HuntClancy Staging it in a Blockbuster was perfect.

I don’t give a shit what anyone says this was a brilliant way to stage act 3 scene 1 and it gets more brilliant with age

@BaronDestructo Rodney.

The search for our ship's Techie continues (The Elite Eight) Choose -

@edzitron I hope it’s as entertaining as WeWork’s was.

Me looking at OpenAI’s rushed S-1

@BaronDestructo Rodney!

The search for our ship's Techie begins (The Sweet Sixteen+) Choose -

@glad2meetUagain @HuntClancy The Occluded Bass Pro.

@HuntClancy Hidden Bass Pro?

@TheCinesthetic Lodge 49

The cancellation of which TV show are you still frustrated about?

@TheCinesthetic Patriot

@TheCinesthetic Counterpart

I would be slightly less annoyed with Tower if I didn’t genuinely like the product. I’ve been using it since v1, and one of the reasons I’ve been using it for over a decade is it makes it easy to break changes up into multiple commits.

The way companies are cramming AI into every product is starting to feel like an increasingly desperate attempt to force those of us who do not use it to come around. Fuck off already.

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And how do you expect anyone else coming behind you to understand what you did and why? /fin

Yesterday, I discovered an announcement in my email for one of the stupider AI “features” I’ve seen.