Sinnerman

Well, we agree that she looked terrible. Here’s the evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYymRU-bfpQ

Indeed, I have little respect for advertisers and I disagree with her politics. But I wouldn’t say I have no sympathy, and I offered a plausible explanation on why she might have taken the job.

research has indicated that women and other minorities view risky job offers as the only chance they are likely to get.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff

Now’s a good time to advertise the fediverse, if you’re still on reddit. Just pick your favorite instance, and tell people to check it out and to click “login/register” if they like it.

What a bland article. Just when it starts to become insightful, it ends:

These events are all signs of a gig economy that might just be falling apart, not because of any one CEO decision but because companies that find success by framing themselves as a DIY alternative to an established industry can only grow in the same direction as the very thing they wanted to replace. The original sin, it seems, is when they try to be both.

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Noscript extension on Firefox still works.

Though if you want to support quality reporting, paying for a nytimes account is not a bad idea.

You can’t remain unlinked to your real identity as seen by the government because you need to provide your id when buying a new SIM

This varies by country. In the US you can buy a prepaid mobile phone with cash and supply it with prepaid cards, all without showing ID:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepaid_mobile_phone#Privacy_rights

(but obviously they can figure out who you are by tracking your signal and seeing where you spend your time.)

It used to be really tough to unsubscribe from Prime, but Amazon was getting sued for that so they made it easier to unsubscribe.

Coming from Wired, I’d hope the article would have a more technology focused approach,

Wired is for people who want to talk about technology without actually taking about technology.

AI has been here before: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

kbin.social direct link: https://kbin.social/m/printsf@literature.cafe/

But Hanlon’s razor says you shouldn’t.

All right, we got a razor fight!

Kind of like The Matrix if The Matrix was braindead.

Do you like commercials? And how much are you willing to pay for TV?

If the answers are “no” and “zero”, then that’s going to affect how much TV you/we watch, even if you/we like the TV shows.

According to the article, Musk is the ideas guy and it’s her job to implement them. So when Twitter fails, he’ll say the ideas were great, it was an execution problem.

She probably figures at her next job interview she’ll say it was a no win situation, but at least she accomplished (something).

Also, “research has indicated that women and other minorities view risky job offers as the only chance they are likely to get” -Wikipedia

She’s the one who will take the blame.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff

The US version is one of the big 3 broadcast channels transmitting since the mid 1900s, though it’s now also on cable:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company

Yes! It’s a dark pattern microagression.

A fair-minded article. This sounded off though:

a big attraction of Reddit—that its main page is a kind of greatest hits of an enormous community.

No, r/all was the lowest common denominator, full of karmafarming, ragebait, and reposts. Every time I looked at r/all I regretted it, so I mostly stuck to subreddits.