the Lightning makes an excellent work truck for those who actually need work trucks

yeah…no

the non-electric F-150 has multiple bed lengths (5.5’, 6.5’, and 8’)

the Lightning only offered the 5.5’ “short bed” length

if you actually need a work truck, the Lightning is deficient in the #1 thing that makes a work truck a work truck.

for another comparison - the “short bed” option on the F-250 is 6.75’ long, in addition to the 8’ “long bed”.

yeah, the browser extension world is an absolute shitshow. the AI part of this is new, but nothing else about it is.

I’d recommend reading Temptations of an open-source browser extension developer from 2021 if you haven’t seen it before.

tl;dr - a guy writes a simple, useful, open-source browser extension (Hover Zoom) that as part of its functionality needs permissions from Chrome to view every page the user opens. he has receipts of 10 years worth of companies reaching out to him and offering to buy the extension (when concrete dollar amounts are mentioned, they’re in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars range). this would only make sense if they wanted to use it for nefarious data-harvesting purposes.

In a small room in San Diego last week

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I was in town for NeurIPS, one of the largest AI-research conferences, and Tegmark had invited me, along with five other journalists

congrats to this author on getting a business trip to San Diego during December. I bet it was nice and warm.

it seems like this is a pretty typical piece of access journalism:

The place to be, if you could get in, was the party hosted by Cohere…

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With the help of a researcher friend, I secured an invite to a mixer hosted by the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, the world’s first AI-focused university, named for the current UAE president.

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On the roof of the Hard Rock Hotel…

leading to a “conclusion” pretty typical of access journalism:

It struck me that both might be correct: that many AI developers are thinking about the technology’s most tangible problems while public conversations about AI—including those among the most prominent developers themselves—are dominated by imagined ones.

what if the critics and the people they’re criticizing are both correct? I am a very smart person who gets paid to write for The Atlantic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Benioff

Marc Russell Benioff is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman and CEO of the software company Salesforce, as well as being the owner of Time magazine since 2018.

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In January 2023 Benioff announced the mass dismissal of approximately 7,000 Salesforce employees via a two-hour all-hands meeting over a call, a course of action he later admitted had been a ‘bad idea’.

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In September 2025, Benioff reduced Salesforce’s support workforce from 9,000 to about 5,000 employees because he “need[ed] less heads”. Salesforce stated that AI agents now handle half of all customer interactions and have reduced support costs by 17% since early 2025. The company added it had redeployed hundreds of employees into other departments within the company. The decision contrasted with Benioff’s earlier remarks suggesting that artificial intelligence would augment, rather than replace, white-collar workers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce

In September 2024, the company deployed Agentforce, an agentic AI platform where users can create autonomous agents for customer service assistance, developing marketing campaigns, and coaching salespersons.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff stated in a June 2025 interview on The Circuit that artificial intelligence now performs between 30% and 50% of internal work at Salesforce, including functions such as software engineering, customer service, marketing, and analytics. Although he made clear that “humans still drive the future,” Benioff noted that AI is enabling the company to reassign employees into higher-value roles rather than reduce headcount.

haha consent factory go brrrr

But just pasting a god damn video link is low effort

imagine 4 things that could be posted:

• a 3 minute long video
• a 3 hour long video
• a 250 word article or blog post
• a 25,000 word article or blog post

do you have a sufficient grasp of how the internet works to understand that the effort involved in posting a link is exactly the same in all 4 cases?

How is this keyboard not popular?

their front page explicitly says “Currently in beta state” and according to their docs installation via Google Play requires joining a beta tester group.

that means a random user searching “keyboard” on the Play store isn’t going to see it. likewise if a friend told you “I use Florisboard” and you searched for it by name in the Play store. if you’re not already in the beta test group the direct link to the app page literally 404s.

it’s certainly available to power users who already know they want it, but it’s sort of pointless to ask why it’s not popular at this stage of its development.

yeah…his previous article just before this one was “Americans are heating their homes with bitcoin this winter”

you’re a couple years late to that hype cycle, Kevin.