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This display of a man hoping AI reclaims the awe in technology he once felt as a 17 year-old:
Sam Altman is the snake oil salesman who might restore Silicon Valley to its former glory https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2024/06/25/opinion-ai-altman-silicon-valley-revival/
Its former* superfund glory.
*Oh wait https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik/112668309100333232/
One last hurrah for the EPA and the clean air act before the scotus shanks the administrative state in a day or two.
unironically saying "the sharing economy" in the year of our lord 2024 is... certainly a choice
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idk dude I've talked to the rest of the world about this and most of them actually seem to dislike this technology, it seems like maybe you didn't actually try very hard to be cynical
I've had this open in a background tab, reading it in pieces as time allows, and I only just noticed one of it exhibits one of the things I like noticing about various publishers' system fucking up: a lurking page title before a post-publish edit
the page title as it is in my browser right now:
Opinion | AI boom led by antihero Altman is reviving Valley dreams
. the page title as it displays in the content area:Opinion \n Sam Altman is the snake oil salesman who might restore Silicon Valley to its former glory
.the url slug also seems to be mostly the former - most of these renames on various publishing platforms seem to do that (keep the original slug instead of a rewrite+redirect)
can't make direct guesses as to the exact reason why this one was updated whenever it was, but I expect public perception/reception might've been part of that?
it is also something that's been of passive interest to me over some years: things as published often shift underfoot, and the time at which someone reads something then shares on and then someone else reads ... there might be quite a substantive difference in the contents of such things at the times. this ranges from the benign (inserting late-received comments, errata, etc), to a complete contextual/content rework. I've often thought that there's a possibly for a really interesting part project there...