Daily Archives: 2024-01-21

Article note: Gig economy startups "successfuly" turning straightforward two party interactions that are more or less acceptable to both parties into three-party interactions where everyone is unsatisfied and losing money (except the executives making off with investor money).

Article note: Not that modern Nokia Bell Labs is all that related to monopoly-lucre-era Bell Labs, but it does seem existentially weird that they're leaving the Murray Hill campus.

Article note: If the creepy, intrusive, and largely useless "AI" shit could go away because it's unsustainably expensive to run and not paying for itself, that would be great.