Have you heard of cable? Broadcast? Satellite? This already existed. That was the experience. Flip channels to find a show that’s good enough and find something new along the way.

But that’s the real thing that happened. It was never about tech “disrupting” TV any more than it was Uber “disrupting” cabs.

It was just tech going, “hey we want to be in cable, let’s take over and replace cable.”

Swapping one base technology for another, and price-dancing the whole way there, so when your streaming service costs $300/mon, it has been so long that you forgot $80/mon cable used to exist. Read-only services that couldn’t serve you dynamic ads every 3 seconds while profiling your home network and watching your cat through a webcam to figure out what litter coupons to e-mail you next week.

The cable guy screaming in the middle of the street on the streaming service South Park was spot on.

OpenAI employee builds a rapport with an Apple employee on-site. Apple employee leaves laptop unlocked with OpenAI employee in their office and goes to the bathroom. No joke, it’s just that simple.

You’d think they would have learned that from the cloud or any SaaS provider multiple times over already.

My favorite edition is yt-dlp.

Tokens are an AI context of units of text. Could be a character or a word. Why use the term tokens instead of words? Who knows. Maybe because some units aren’t words? The tech industry delights in creating stupid terms for things that already had terms.

And closed-loop cooling. But then it will still emit heat, which should be captured in a downstream process.

Snap Inc. is its own company. Not that it is a good company.

Many of these schools forbid stuff like this

Coming soon to a USA near you: Constitutional amendment 28: Freedom of oppression. Indoctrination starting at the college/university level.