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Ed
@ed3d.net

people I respect keep retweeting 404 media posts (they do not rise to the level of articles) and I keep sighing between them and the verge, we both need a better class of journalists and may never get them as they salt the earth

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Miller Hall
@arlindohall.com

there was a minute some time back when i thought 404 was good, though i haven’t checked them out in ~months. this weird RLHF panic has me now asking myself why…

Danny Page
@danny.page

Lotta good stuff early, but they emptied the notebook after the first year. Makes sense, gotta get orbital escape velocity to stick around, but being a small outfit makes it harder to get farther than that.

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@eggmansasshole.bsky.social

I barely remember their work at this point, but I vaguely recall them having interesting articles on AI that quickly morphed into "the machine is an environment-killing stochastic parrot lolol" sorts of shit to get clicks

Christo Silvia
@christosilvia.bsky.social

You get what you pay for. The rapacious capitalist editor J Jonah Jameson only works when the paper makes money. Otherwise it's a vanity project for the extra cash conservative billionaires can't manage to spend on yachts

hailey
@hailey.at

was it you that got the verge guy to give you an absolute dogshit response to the water thing irt portal completion? fucking embarrassing

Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social

kind of frustrating to have been doing tech journalism under capitalism lo these 36 years and to see so few of the successful publications be the kind of tech journalism I want to do because so many more people will pay for *that* kind of tech journalism; I mean, congrats they made a business but