Flo Ion
Flo Ion
@ohthatflo.bsky.social
Senior writer at @pcmag.com I pod with @ihnatko.bsky.social and @androidfaithful.com
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You know what's really funny about all of this is that the reason our workers aren't "skilled" or whatever you want to call it is because we don't educate anyone here unless you are lucky enough to be able to a) live in a suburb with a well-funded public school system, b) have the money to study.
US bars Microsoft, Adobe, and major IT firms from green card program for skilled foreign workers
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“You cannot engage with Newsom in good faith, because what faith can you have in a shell of a person who so baldly pursues wealth, power, the next shiniest thing?” Nice work. His first Chronicle quote in 1991 was bragging about giving wine discounts to his wealthy benefactors. Has anything changed?
Gavin Newsom, who has spent the past year courting billionaires and the right wing, is "a political juker — an advocate for nothing but his own ambitions as the Democrats’ best boy," writes @soleilho.com. www.coyotemedia.org/what-is-the-...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ - Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/one-of...
One thing to know about SF politics is that everyone is currently raving about Manny Yekutiel's transit policy while openly ignoring the fact that he was recently convicted of sexual assault. sfstandard.com/2026/08/26/m...
Jeff Dean is the guy who made a bunch of women's lives hell when they were working at Google
Google is losing two of its biggest AI researchers from day to day operations. 27-year Google veteran and Google Brain cofounder, Jeff Dean, is leaving Google with 3 others to focus on AI accelerating scientific research. Demis Hassabis is no longer CEO of DeepMind and is now their chief scientist
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There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Here's another look at Byline, a tool I'm making at @serpapi.com that creates a writing portfolio by scraping Google search results. It can also create offline copies of the articles by calling a third-party CLI tool. Full release is coming soon™ but the code is public: github.com/serpapi/byline
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Do you love the #90s? When everything smelled like cigarettes and your dad was always on business trips? Well I did too! So I tried to recreate Windows 95 in #react and see how far I could get. It's part time capsule and part personal fun project. Anyway, click here firebel.ly