Apple Should Make LampsSep 10
and washing machines. and printers. and anything besides thinner iphones.
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The Costs of Europe’s GDPR Regime
the eu’s approach to regulating tech discourages both innovation and competition — and now brussels has its targets set on ai
Brian Chau
Aug 28, 2023
In the past decade, China was a black sheep when it came to social media. Whatever the new app was, odds were it was banned in China. X/Twitter? Banned. Facebook? Banned. Instagram? Banned.
But over the past few months, a dark horse has emerged in the censorship olympics: the European Union.
Earlier this year, the government of Italy took down ChatGPT citing the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a monstrous 261-page law cracking down on the European web. By taking down OpenAI’s flagship app, Italy put itself in the same camp as China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea. Only after a few photo-ops and Sam Altman’s endorsement of the EU’s draconian licensing scheme did the bureaucrats back down.
Apple Should Make Lamps
Inside the Amazon Slop King's $3M HustleSep 9
he's exploiting gaps in the ebook market to sell (probably llm-generated) books about potty training and finance, among other topics — and recruiting an army to do the same
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Luigi Mangione: China's Next Top ModelSep 4
shein used the face of accused murderer luigi mangione to sell $12 shirts — and behind the fiasco is a full-blown luigi cult in china that western media has ignored
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