the joke was on law firms, not individual lawyers.

When you read about them on the news, they are usually associated with protecting the very rich from accountability, like the NFL Vs concussed players, Big Tobacco Vs people they knowingly gave cancer to or various Wall Street criminals.

to be fair, who could have predicted that insulting and damaging your best customers was a bad marketing strategy?

You know you’re in deep shit when law firms are the good guys

It didn’t impact that small island inhabited only by penguins, so it’s not technically a “global” recession, ok?

It says “remove them”, not “forbid them”. The Nation’s food supply is going to be dunked in ammonia before you can eat it.

Adding a “/s” because given the times this sounds weirdly plausible…

“it drove right through my kitchen wall. And I hadn’t even ordered one!”

A high share of people always think the President should have more power, until they find out the President no longer needs to give a shit what they think

When the man finally chokes on his last cheeseburger, he’s going to use his last breath to blame Biden

I hope we can finally see who wins between one Elon-sized toddler and 100 toddler-sized Elons

I like it a lot but I need two physical SIM slots so it doesn’t work for me, unfortunately. But great idea and love the price drop

I still wanted to visit New York. Where can I apply for the free return ticket?

if things get any shittier, this administration is going to have to stop people at the border in the opposite direction

Thanks, I understand better now.

On a related note, I wish I had known of the “just because I said it and I did it, doesn’t mean I succeeded” line of defense when I was a kid

Meta argued that “the FTC’s case rests almost entirely on emails (many more than a decade old) allegedly expressing competitive concerns” but suggested that this is only “intent” evidence, “without any evidence of anticompetitive effects.”

Not sure I understand the argument. if I write that I’m going to buy another company instead of competing with them, then I go ahead and I do buy that exact company, are they arguing that the two things are not necessarily related?

They tried turning their branches into coffeehouses, apparently

it’s so sad that I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not… this sounds too much like a real thing that would now come out of official government communications.

The thing is… You know what CEOs do when they have no confidence in the economy? They cut costs. Also known as “employees”.

That’s true but at least one of these things needs to happen:

1. the forklift costs billions and consumes tons of energy, but it can lift a whole mountain, which no group of humans can do

2. the forklift helps a team of 10 do the work of 50 and, while still relatively expensive, it costs less than the 40 people it’s replacing

3. the forklift becomes an inexpensive commodity and it augments human capabilities and creates new possibilities for society as a whole

This is roughly what happened with mainframes to personal computers to mobile devices. LLMs are stuck between 1 and 2, they are not good enough forklifts to lift a mountain and not cheap enough to replace 40 people and save money. There are some hints that they could at one point move to 3 but the large players that could make it happen are starting to be scared by the amount of investment to get there.

On a related note, lot of people are being fooled by this hype machine mixing GenAI with good “old” machine learning and you now read about all these “AI wins” like “student discovers new galaxies with AI” or “scientist discover new medicines with AI” that make it sound like these people just asked ChatGPT “how would you go about discovering a new galaxy?” or “could you make up a new drug for me pretty please?”.

yes, but with at least $100M of additional VC funding

Consumer sentiment plummets and yet, Trump’s approval is staying where it is. Not particularly high, but at a relatively high point for him: https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

I know it’s incredibly hard to connect the dots between the economy crashing and the orange guy waving a neon sign that says “it was me! I crashed the economy! Tariffs!” but at least some of the most astute GOP voters should have had that a-ha moment by now, shouldn’t they?