There are several examples of successful independent journalism ventures.

The point the story is making is the situation for journalists striking out on their own is that work ends up being way more on the back end, such that the reporting itself is a fraction of the time as cultivating the site and keeping subscribers happy with your interaction level, lest they bolt.

What legacy media provided was a premade audience, legal cover and no pay reduction with each lost subscriber. Slim offerings, to be sure, but we’re really learning as we go that as shitty as working conditions were, you could be doing all of that and having to moonlight in marketing.

Perhaps the thinking goes that because of the company name, they are entitled to the full annual discharge of the Amazon basin.

That’s an interesting – if wildly incorrect – summary.

I might make an exception for publishers of religious texts. Seems solid otherwise.

No doubt being built to compute how much energy we’re wasting on LLMs.

I don’t do multiplayer, but I fucking bow down to this pun. Though I’m now wincing at the idea of kids in the cargo area.

And accounting, having no idea what the going price of maotai is and what the markup might be in a service setting, just goes “yeah, that seems reasonable.” The perfect crime.

Oh, shit … that’s fucking hilarious. Oops!

The five-year contract with government technology middleman Carahsoft Technology, made public in September, provides Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) licenses for a product called Zignal Labs, a social media monitoring platform used by the Israeli military and the Pentagon.

Surely, Palantir fits in here somewhere …

It’s entirely possible they’ve also murdered criminals …

The first comment here took me back to the dorms:

I’m excited about the upcoming Carmageddon mode. 3 points for a granny, 6 points for a mom and stroller, 10 points for a cop!

Meh, I want a Cunning Stunt bonus, or it’s not really worth it. (NB: Do not attempt to say this phrase multiple times in front of freshmen women. It only takes one slip, and you’re on a shitlist.)

And then he went to bed, leaving it to his serfs.

More “we made your bed, and you don’t own it.”

I’m well aware that the U.S. has been on metric since the 19th century. My point is the base unit should be sensible. 1/299,792,458⁠ of a second is not that. If the argument is “yeah, but that’s what we’re used to,” then what was the point of the metric system in the first place? Nine significant digits in a denominator suggests a systematic issue, not sensible science.

We’ve secretly replaced your arbitrary base unit with Folger’s Crystals. Let’s see if they notice. Tell me why that definition makes more sense than an inch being three barleycorns.

I hate the metric system for an unusual reason: It’s totally arbitrary.

Internally consistent, sure, but SI is based on a flawed calculation of the circumference of the Earth, and as such, it’s not suited to modern applications, to say nothing of the weird units we end up with like c.

Define distance by the light-nanosecond, and now you’ve got a system based on a constant from which to derive everything else. Metric was a good first step, but measuring apparati weren’t up to the task at the time.

I was not the assigning editor. I’m merely sharing links I find interesting. And structurally, this didn’t throw any red flags.

As I understand it, GE Vernova is a joint venture with a French firm. However, this is the sort of research that’s easy enough to do on one’s own. I’m a newspaper editor, not a physicist, so asking me is pointless. I share things I find interesting, but beyond taking derivatives and integrals, I’m not a good source for that sort of data analysis.

I would point out that if your irritation is that everything you want wasn’t handed to you on a platter, sharing this was not intended to be a treatise. If you’re curious, look into it further. Expecting a single news story to answer all your questions is unreasonable. Often, news intentionally simplifies matters because the audience isn’t looking for methodology or p-values.

I guess I just don’t understand motivations in the F2P market. Like, I’m happy to pay a reasonable price for a game, but I have no interest in being nickeled and dimed – I can’t tell you how many games I’ve noped out on because of that shit. Like, if Factorio charged for cosmetic add-ons, that would just be ludicrous. Either you made a playable game for the price of entry, or you didn’t.

I seriously need to find a grift to hook people in for monthly payments.

The whole concept of in-game purchases is just foreign to me. I wasn’t even willing to pay 99 cents for a few extra lives in Candy Crush. This market being worth billions is frankly unfathomable.