Anthropic AI Scraper Hits iFixit’s Website a Million Times in a Day
“As per industry standard, Anthropic uses a variety of data sources for model development, such as publicly available data from the internet gathered via a web crawler…”
“as per industry standard” = “because our industry has no standards”
Counterpoint: The U.S. cannot be shocked.
Caprese salad is my favorite salad.
Finished reading: The Contagion of Liberty by Andrew M. Wehrman 📚
This was a great read! Wehrman helped me understand how the defense against smallpox was so intertwined with the American Revolution.
Unfortunately, we’ve largely forgotten how important inoculation is to our independence.
Quite a fall from grace for this former apostolic nuncio. Good riddance.
I cannot believe that the NYT published this opinion piece on the birthday of the United States. Why I Don’t Vote In this flippant article, Matthew Walther writes off the concept of civic duty as relativism and argues that not voting is okay because abstaining is just as expressive as casting a ballot. WHAT? All this just days after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a former president’s quest for immunity!
In no particular order. ginger ale coca-cola classic (from McDonald’s fountain) orange soda root beer cherry coke
I might have been glamping today.
My latest UX challenge: unsubscribing from a newsletter and accidentially finding the hidden submit button.
Trolley Problem Variations For Dads
Dear McSweeney’s,
You’ve done it again. Thank you.
You’re on a trolley speeding towards a railway switch. Your father must decide whether to let the train hit the people on the track or switch to the alternate track with only one person on it. He responds, “Go ask your mother.”