You don't need to tip Uber/Lyft drivers. It's always been optional.

> Is there anything we can do?

Keep durable notes and share them with your electeds. Particularly at the state level. These kids won’t be prosecuted immediately, possibly never federally. But their actions will need to be systematically undone at the federal level and individually prosecuted at the state and/or local levels. This is going to be a massive bureaucratic and legal undertaking, and we’ll need record preservation to do it.

Maybe. Still going to have the best selling car in the world this year.

This, or a lawsuit like it is going to be the SCO vs IBM of the 2020's, to wit: a copyright troll trying to extract rent, with various special interests cheering it on to try and promote their own agenda (ironically it was Microsoft that played that role with SCO). It's funny how times have changed and at least now a louder group seem to be on the troll's side. I hope to see some better analysis on the frivolity of this come out. There may be some commercial subtlety in specific cases that doesn't depend on scraping and training, but fundamentally using public internet data for training is not copying, is fair use, and is better for society as a whole than whatever ridiculous alternative might be proposed.

edit: I'm speaking about training broadly capable foundation models like GPTn. It would of course be possible to build a model that only parrots copyrighted content and it would be hard to argue that is fair use.

There’s an old interview where Steve Jobs calls out Microsoft in having no taste.

You get a bunch of cocky guys together that say “well the foldable phone is feasible and within our budget, let’s impress people’s demands”

Instead of taking a step back and wondering if pressing this hard is really worth the effort. Like there’s really a convincing need for a folding screen other than quickly tiring party tricks before it goes back to being a boring large Android phone.

Steve was an ass, he thought the average consumer was dumb and didn’t know what they wanted. I couldn’t imagine him catering this hard.

The size reduction of the iPod nano was an example of something consumers found compelling. It was a success and it took a lot of effort to reduce size/price

The takeaway from this is:

Google has taken on the risk factor of a releasing a screen no other company has achieved thus far for a small market that will at most benefit their image.

I just don’t think it’s a surprise Apple isn’t trying to create a seamless Nintendo DS like device so business men can pretend they’re reading WSJ in cyber dystopian 1987.

Dumb

Here's an even less popular take: as someone just casually browsing twitter, it seems to work pretty much the same or slightly better than it used to, with the same (or slightly better) content. The fact that they achieve this with one quarter (!) or so [*] of their previous headcount is truly amazing, and more interesting than some of the other takes media tries to spin on it.

[* by some accounts one tenth -- this is even more amazing if true]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the metaverse isn't a bad idea, but the implementations just aren't there yet. Or at least, folks aren't coming up with applications that are both compelling and supportable with affordable hardware.

Google Glass had similar problems.

Eventually someone's going to nail both these things, we just haven't seen it yet.

I find it shocking that anyone still chooses to live in this broken city.

I left >4 years ago and am never coming back. It's unfixable.

Let's move the tech industry somewhere that isn't rotten to the core.