2025-11-21
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The Verge
Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was “manipulated by adversarial prompting”
Elon Musk is as smart as da Vinci, fitter than LeBron James, and really good at drinking piss.
2024-06-20
The YIMBY argument is that freeing the housing market from regulatory interference will cause landlords to compete against each other, and rents drop; the Yieldstar case is a concrete example of how capitalist class solidarity works to prevent that. https://prospect.org/...
American Prospect
A look at the many lawsuits against RealPage, the rent-fixing software company accused of artificially inflating the real estate rental prices across the US
RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles. Masto...
2021-03-14
@atrubek @alyssaharad and I couldn't begin to disentangle “it seems like substack is disproportionately hurling coins at a specific kind of established writer” from “a certain kind of established writer is disproportionately looking for an exit strategy from traditional media”
Substack Blog
Substack co-founder on how Substack Pro works: year one, writers get upfront pay, Substack keeps 85% of revenue; later, writers keep 90% revenue, no minimum pay
The thinking behind Substack Pro — When we started Substack in mid-2017, the future for writers was frightening.