Not sure it’s a good sign I thought there was a chance this was real and not satire.
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Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in 4 months
Bloomberg reports that the company has instituted a new rule that places a monthly $1,500 cap per employee and per agentic coding tool, including Anthropic’s Claude Code or Cursor.
AI fanatics love to say “this is the worst AI will ever be,” but it’s probably also the cheapest it will ever be as it’s subsidized by VC money until they can get people hooked and loyal to brands; bleeding billions as they do. And still, Uber has to put caps on their employees (caps which feel pretty high to me). Just imagine how expensive things’ll be when they have to start turning a profit.
YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts
Limit your Shorts scrolling to zero minutes per day.
And to think, I just cancelled my YouTube Premium Family subscription… maybe I should keep it after all…
Billionaire signs up to be killed, have brain digitally preserved
The method is “100 percent fatal,” claims the company.
We are living in the dumbest and most absurd timeline where *Idiocracy* meets *Silicon Valley* except nothing is funny and I hate it all.
Instagram now lets you edit your own comments
An easier way to fix comment mistakes.
I get that I'm only perpetuating things, but seriously folks, what are we doing here? This isn't news. Allow editing, don't allow editing. Why are we taking this shit so seriously?
Instagram and Facebook are about to be filled with affiliate content
The new shopping features come a few weeks after a dustup in which influencers caught Instagram adding shopping links to their content without their permission. The “Shop the look” feature added links to cheap lookalike products and not the actual items, an influencer who discovered the feature said. Meta said at the time it was a limited test and that the company was “exploring various changes” to the feature.
I don’t really care about the actual meat of this. It’s already flooded with ads and affiliates and people just trying to make a buck. I think the consistent abuse, exploitation, and misleading of customers is shameful and paying $375m in New Mexico isn’t enough of a punishment.
