Glad he didn’t just run!

We let our cat out with us in the morning when we have coffee on the front deck. She wanders around with us, checking all the plants. But, most importantly, she has learned where to run towards when she is scared (the door is wedged open a sliver and she can push her way back into the house).

It’s great, because it means she doesn’t run if she gets out accidentally.

Yes. This is the correct view of capitalism if seen from the position of money.

Until you step back and ask where that money comes from.

And you realize that it is a funnel, from those without money to those with money.

And then the exponential growth “feature” starts to feel bad.

I say this as a small business owner experiencing double digit year-over-year equity growth, trying to claw my way up and out of the crab bucket.

Colour me cautiously optimistic

Corporate journalism is digging (no pun intended) its own grave in many cases.

A feedback cycle where no one wants to pay for content, so advertisers are needed to fund their staff, which means clicks and engagement become the metric of success. But, the solution is either publicly funded news (largely unpopular), or regulating the open internet (more unpopular). So, yeah, the death of corporate journalism is coming.

Majestic

I concur. It is also relatively unmolested in terms of fucking up KDE programs.

I wrote for Ars for a brief period, on Linux topics. This was prior to the digg exodus. As a writer, I got a set rate for each page of content, with an expected average word count per page. I’d get a bonus anytime my story hit the front page of digg, slashdot, or similar aggregater. It happened a few times.

But that bonus incentive meant I was encouraged to specifically write stories that would resonate with those audiences. It wasn’t fraud or a scam – it was free market economic pressure. But the effect was the same – I was tailoring my content to maximize aggregator exposure.

I began to submit my own stories to Slashdot and similar, because a minute of my time could pay me $100 or whatever.

I am not sure that reddit is biased towards these publications as much as they are likely intentionally gaming the algorithms, and encouraging their writers to do the same – write content you know will hit the frontpage. I don’t think it is wrong necessarily, but it certainly isn’t organic.

That said, Ars generally has very high quality content due to some very good reporters. Eric Berger comes to mind. So it could be both effects: quality and gaming the system.

Awww. What a cute pet that cat has.

I can sense the tail twitch

I remember when Mandrake was a young distro – a redhat derivative – and they (gasp) chose to compile for i586 instead of i386. People were like VROooooOM! And a bunch of other people were like: why would you target CPU instructions that not everyone has?!

tl;dw?

Yes

8 kittens. Halp!

Meownir

Important questions. Does Fudge ever eat fudge? Maybe the cat should be call Cheese!

I want to take him home and train him to hunt my fruit flies.

Probably someone’s pet project

She is on my lap right now being cuddly and awesome. I am now trapped here. Send food!

Bordering on pornographic. ;)

I wish I could get a kitty friend for my aging cat, but she freaks out and has a panic attack if she even sees a cat outside the window. I don’t want to subject her to the stress of getting used to a new cat :/

This is because AI (vis-a-vis LLMs) became a religion to many, rather than a technology.