Submission + - Palantir's Peter Thiel thinks people should be concerned about surveillance AI (cnbc.com)
Those that are worried about AGI aren’t actually “paying attention to the thing that really matters,” Thiel said.
Trump is blamed for people entering the Capitol illegally, though they did so 18 minutes before he even finished his speech. In addition, the initial perpetrators were a mile and a half from Trump, meaning it was unlikely they heard a word he said.
You don't actually believe that do you? Trump spent weeks spreading false information about the election, he spent weeks attacking the very process that elected him in the first place. No one in their right mind an make the statement that he had nothing to do with the actions that followed. He wanted it to happen. He was happy it happened. He's just upset now that it didn't go well.
"This is a bittersweet note of thanks to our California independent contractors," said SB Nation executive director John Ness in a statement published on Monday.
"In 2020, we will move California's team blogs from our established system with hundreds of contractors to a new one run by a team of new SB Nation employees," he explained.
California Assembly Bill 5 will go into effect in 2020 and is intended to force "gig economy" giants like Uber and Lyft to pay their drivers as if they're employees and provide more benefits. But it is also affecting other freelance workers and causing confusion among employers.
To paraphrase future Beverly Hills gynecologist Eric Stratton, the fired Voxers f***ed up; they trusted Vox:
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I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck. -- Rob Pike, on X.