Hello. I tried turning it off and on again, but stuff still happened.
So what's up? Joe Biden has approved the Willow Oil Drilling Project in Alaska.
Biden, who is an 80-year-old man in charge of a country,
ignored natives, locals, and environmental advocates to approve this oil project.
Biden, who is likely to be dead before the next generation of home entertainment
concerts comes out, has made decisions that impact our future,
but this is not really all that surprising if you listen to some of his favorite hits,
such as, I'm a Capitalist, and don't bust those black people.
Get ready for another massive wave of AI headlines.
GPT-4, the next generation of AI that powers things like Bing AI and chat GPT, has dropped,
and it can do stuff with images and videos at the same time,
and it can take images in as context, and that's pretty cool,
but otherwise, it's basically the same thing.
Anyway, speaking of AI, Google is doing what they do best,
and they're just shoveling AI into every product surface they can think of
in the hope that something sticks.
Following neatly in the footsteps of just cramming Google Plus into everything,
they're just kind of putting it everywhere, Google Docs and email.
Who knows what's next?
By my calculation, Google will kill this project in approximately eight months.
Warning, warning, warning.
You are about to see a bunch of outraged headlines from bad faith outlets talking about reparations.
A committee in San Francisco was tasked with estimating what it would look like to do
real reparations for black people in America, basically saying,
hey, like, slavery wasn't great, and also we've suppressed black people for centuries.
So what would it take to correct that financially?
It is a thought experiment, but one of the things this committee put out
was the notion of giving every eligible black person $5 million.
While that would be kind of dope, it really doesn't undo the history that we've got here,
and also, it's just a thought experiment.
This is not policy, and this is not binding, and this is nothing.
It's just the output of a thought experiment,
but it's gonna make a lot of headlines.
Zuck would prefer to just not have employees.
Meta is laying off another 10,000 people, again,
after laying off 13% of their workforce a little while ago.
And because it's all the rage to lay people off via blog post,
the title of this blog post laying off 10,000 human beings was an update on Meta's year of efficiency.
Your healthcare coverage just isn't efficient enough for Mark Zuckerberg.
A moment of silence, if you will,
as Nintendo is killing off the eShop for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.
Those actually great consoles, the Wii U had a lot of great games,
and just didn't go anywhere because it was...it made no sense.
But like, the 3DS is a legit-ass console, though,
so it's got kind of a bummer.
Rapid fire.
Biden said he's gonna do something about guns.
I doubt anything's coming from that.
The Fed will be opening an investigation into what happened
that caused Silicon Valley Bank to fail,
and hopefully, that results in Peter Thiel being put in jail.
But I have my doubts.
An autopsy from a protester who was murdered by cops for protesting Cop City in Atlanta
showed that this person was murdered while they had their hands in the air.
Microsoft teams will soon be rolling out an option to use a 3D avatar instead of your fleshy body.
According to data from the FBI,
hate crimes in America had a sharp rise in 2021.
Alongside getting rid of their 10,000 employees,
Meta is also getting rid of NFT support on Facebook and Instagram.
An appeals court in California has ruled that Lyft and Uber drivers
can remain contractors.
And finally, Reddit had a multi-hour major outage yesterday
in what was probably the sharpest decline in overt misogyny on the internet in years.
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