hell yeah! i love monopolies, which are famously good for local stores and consumers
DoorDash to Acquire Instacart to Help Local Stores Win
Together, DoorDash and Instacart would help stores of every size reach more customers with the kinds of innovative technology that the biggest online retailers and grocers build for themselves.
just had a dream where i met Colin Meloy but said something that upset him so much that he flipped me off and walked away
what a good ass week for movies. watched “You Can See Everything” on friday and seeing “Wildwood” tonight
🗣️ The voluntary layoffs… I mean “buyouts”… will continue until morale improves
Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees
Microsoft is trying to balance a rapid infrastructure build-out with capital efficiency.
someone hit my parked car and scraped it up three weeks before i have to trade it in for a new one and i already had a trade-in offer accepted. fucking awesome
I Did the Absolute Bare Fucking Minimum For Overall Harm Reduction and Incremental Progress Instead of Succumbing to Despair, or Worse, Apathy
another thing AI has made worse: software updates. between constant security vulnerabilities and just the sheer speed with which companies are trying to ship software via AI, there are so many fucking software updates now. why did i have to update VSCode TWICE in ONE DAY
to be fair, who amongst us hasn’t fucked up so bad that we left an entire industry?
eMudhra to Exit global SSL/TLS Certificate Business
eMudhra Limited (BSE: 543533 | NSE: EMUDHRA), a global digital trust company, today announced that its Board has decided to voluntarily withdraw from the global SSL/TLS certificate business.
ME: AI is a project by the tech oligarchy to deskill and devalue labor while enriching themselves even more
“what? but it’s no different than any other form of automation like assembly lines or factories”
ME: you’re so close to getting it
disastrous security vulnerabilities in PHP? well thankfully i’m not running it on any of my servers, so it shouldn’t really affect… WAIT NOOO
Notice Regarding Temporary Suspension of New Logins Across All Worlds (Oct. 21)
holy shit
Electronic Arts Closing BioWare, Laying Off Hundreds
Around 400 people are expected to be laid off across Electronic Arts
github continues to be a thought leader in proving when things are bad. browsers tend to cache favicons, which makes dynamic favicons bad. one piece of jank and now my notifications tab is stuck looking like i’m viewing a PR with a broken build
seeing a lot of discourse about the number 4 today. did Rails bring back whiny nils or something
i’ve watched “Over the Garden Wall” at least once a year since it came out in 2014 and somehow never realized it’s a retelling of Dante’s Inferno
well, i guess i probably won’t be lurking on lobste.rs much anymore
is it just me or has Nigella actually rejuvenated the Great British Bake-Off
call me old fashioned, but i think putting hundreds of liters of highly pressurized cold nitrogen gas on a car in a world where cars regularly crash is maybe not the best idea
what’s sad is how many people know this and go anyway because “the chicken is good” when it’s not. it’s mid! but enjoy your conservative cheat days, weirdos
On the 'Today' show, chief executive Andrew Cathy repeatedly evaded questions regarding the brand’s longest-running controversy.
sooo when are the Gamer Riots finally gonna start
NVIDIA is rumored to discontinue its RTX 5090 lineup and introduce an RTX 5080 with 24GB. The claim comes from an unverified factory message.
