I went to highschool with him. We hung in the same crowd of nerds and geeks. Not sure if he’s changed as an adult, but back then he was extremely introverted. Hung out at a couple of parties in his parent’s basement (where he started his shareware empire) and he spent the whole time on his computer. Should he ever write his memoirs I suspect they would focus mostly on his business life and his anti-trust efforts against various companies.
i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.
Catherine, Princess of Wales, has been diagnosed with cancer and has begun chemotherapy, she announced in a video message on Friday, in which she described the past two months as “incredibly tough for our entire family.”...
The funny thing is that Spez didn’t even come up with the idea of Reddit. Him and Ohanian showed up with some other dumb idea and Paul Graham was like, that’s stupid, try this idea of mine.
Then Spez put together some shitty code in Lisp of all languages, which Aaron Schwartz had to rewrite in Python. The site was so unstable that Spez slept with his laptop so he could reboot it in the middle of the night.
They used sock puppets because nobody was posting enough content. Then they cashed out and fucked off, leaving Aaron to rewrite it, and Erik Martin to actually make a proper community out of it.
Then Spez comes riding back into town over a decade later to claim credit while he fucks the whole site up by selling out.
Truly a masterclass in incompetent white male privilege.
Republican Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, reported that Congress’s priority is to finalise the budget of the US government for the year 2024. As this matter is nearly resolved, attention will soon shift to the aid package for Ukraine and its partners.
Anti-authority narratives could tear 'fabric of society,' intelligence report warns (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
What’s your best museum experience?
Whos autobiography/memoirs would you like to read?
For the sake of discussion lets presume it both (a) exists and (b) has been translated to a language you know.
Playground bullies do prosper – and go on to earn more in middle age (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI Said to Court Hollywood in Meetings With Film Studios, Directors (www.gadgets360.com)
What do you miss from the old internet?
i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.
What do you think are the beliefs, sayings, mindsets, or whatever of this generation that will make YOUR kids embarrassed or exasperated or say "Oh Mom/Dad!"
Catherine, Princess of Wales, Has Cancer (www.nytimes.com)
Catherine, Princess of Wales, has been diagnosed with cancer and has begun chemotherapy, she announced in a video message on Friday, in which she described the past two months as “incredibly tough for our entire family.”...
Lot of deep thought happening today (lemmy.world)
~ Sinsational ~ (slrpnk.net)
AI is creating fake historical photos, and that's a problem (marinaamaral.substack.com)
Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods (futurism.com)
GitLab takes down Nintendo Switch emulator suyu due to the DMCA (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Angela Chao: Shipping billionaire intoxicated when she drowned in Tesla, police report shows (www.bbc.com)
Shipping tycoon Angela Chao was drunk when she inadvertently reversed her Tesla into a pond and drowned last month at a Texas ranch, police say....
We've all just got to do our part! (slrpnk.net)
Speaker Johnson vows not to delay assistance for Ukraine: We won’t allow terrorists and tyrants to march through the globe (www.pravda.com.ua)
Republican Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, reported that Congress’s priority is to finalise the budget of the US government for the year 2024. As this matter is nearly resolved, attention will soon shift to the aid package for Ukraine and its partners.
Swiss Move Towards Vote On Reinforcing Neutrality (www.ibtimes.com)
C++ creator rebuts White House warning (www.infoworld.com)
Science Always wins (midwest.social)
3rd of 6 former officers in Mississippi gets 17.5 years for racist torture of 2 Black men (apnews.com)
May I introduce to you … the Goon Squad....
Deeply Unhappy Gen Z and Millennials Cause U.S. to Drop in Global Happiness Ranking (gizmodo.com)
Who is actually surprised by this? I would be more surprised if young Americans felt it was a great place to live.
Polio survivor Paul Alexander, who lived for decades in an iron lung, dies aged 78 (www.abc.net.au)