Category: The Indie Web

MLSU.IO 2 months ago

The Fertility Rate Argument

Mike, in his piece, Can we have the day off?: If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board, that means that I should be able to produce the same amount of output by midday on Monday that, in the before times, would have taken all week. So can I just take Friday […]

THEVERGE.COM 2 months ago

Free Cleaning, At a Price

Robert Hart, in his piece This AI Startup Will Clean Your Home for Free to Train Future Robots on The Verge: AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch — because, despite what its website says, there’s always a catch — is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, […]

MEDIUM.COM 2 months ago

Wikipedia Fired Union Organizers While Sitting on $296 Million

Jake Orlowitz, in his piece Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia: The Wikimedia Foundation closed last fiscal year with $208.6 million in revenue. It holds $296.6 million in reserves, 17.1 months of operating expenses. The Wikimedia Endowment, a separate fund, sits on $169.4 million in net assets, up $25 million in a single year. […]