I have a nasty feeling there’s a lot of ordinary people who are desperate to throw their money away on OpenAI stock. It’s the AI company! The flagship of the AI bubble! AI’s here to stay, you know! OpenAI? Sure bet!
Remember when a bunch of people poured their life savings into GameStop and started a financial doomsday cult once they lost everything? That will happen again if OpenAI goes public. (I recommend checking out This Is Financial Advice if you want a deep-dive into the GameStop apes, it is a trip)
One really bad consequence this deal just opened the gates to is to make it much easier for corporations to gut charities. A proper charity can run very like a business, but it gets a lot of free rides — and it can grow into quite the juicy plum. The California and Delaware decisions on OpenAI are precedents for large investors to come in and drain a charity if they say the right forms of words. I predict that will become a problem.
...why do I get the feeling companies are gonna start immediately gutting charities once the bubble pops
Baldur Bjarnason's (indirectly) given his thoughts on the piece, treating its existence (and the subsequent fallout) as a cautionary tale on why journalistic practices exist and how conflicts of interest can come back to haunt you.
(In particular, Baldur notes that Zitron could've nipped this problem in the bud by firing his AI-related clients after he became the premier AI critic.)
Just a heads up I haven't gotten a refund from my cancelled FW12 order. Framework seems to be having trouble figuring it out.
I don't know why, maybe it is Canada or maybe it is a high volume of similar requests, but it is a sign I always find concerning in a company I am worried about the financial stability of.
Could be nothing, but if you have been wavering on a cancellation I figured you might want a heads up.
For something lighter, here's an AI bro getting wowed by the shittiest "video game" I've ever seen (trust me, the screenshot doesn't do it justice):
In lieu of sneering this shit, I'd like to argue that arts education should become mandatory for all students post-bubble, regardless of their profession. STEM, humanities, tech, doesn't matter - give them four years of art so they don't turn out like this guy.
Naturally, the worst people on that thread are praising it - for example, here's the "DHH destroying Basecamp is based" guy whining about people not accepting outright fascists:
Checked back in on the ongoing Framework dumpster fire - Project Bluefin's quietly cut ties, and the DHH connection is the reason why.