• Sharkticon@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    You know in 5th grade I too went through a leather jacket phase. Really cool bomber jacket style that I got at a thrift store. But when I grew out of it I didn’t replace it with a new one and make that my entire personality.

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    9 hours ago

    He’s now famous not only for his leather jacket but also for having let her jack it.

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    10 hours ago

    Shout out to the book Red Tide by M. P. Woodward. It’s a military thriller where one of the main plot points is a Chinese spy seducing the son of the CEO of a semiconductor manufacturer, in order to export AI chips to China. The book was published last year. The author worked in naval intelligence, so I guess there may have been rumors about this scenario before…

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    7 hours ago

    Has the DHS provided any evidence that she’s a spy? Most I’m seeing is that she’s a former CEO of a company that would benefit from buying Nvidia cards more easily.

    TBH if she was a white European ceo I doubt the headlines would all say “Spy”

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      3 hours ago

      That’s a good point. It’s US intelligence officials who called her a spy, but couldn’t supply any evidence of this. Sounds like the usual US bullshit.

      In our Swedish media it’s also being reported as a “spy” since we copy paste whatever the US say.

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    9 hours ago

    You should notice in his apology letter he said he accepts the criticism for his actions but not the consequences. He, and his legal team, went over this letter a hundred times before it was released.

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    14 hours ago

    I have a dumb question, what exactly does she have over him? Exposing nudes? Did he tell her secrets? What damming information or thing do they have?

    Like can’t he just own it like yeah, I fucked this chick and am a piece of shit like all the other billionaires but I won’t fall for the sextortion

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    19 hours ago

    Who would’ve thought a country run by Pooh Bear would be so skilled at using honeypots.

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    20 hours ago

    A bit off topic, but does anyone else hate this fake structure that some articles have? Here it’s these “headings” printed bold.

    Why it matters:
    Driving the news:
    Meanwhile:
    Zoom out:
    Flashback:
    What they’re saying:

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      12 hours ago

      It’s not AI. Axios used this format for years, going back to Trump’s first term.

      The original pitch was real, sourced journalism in a more concise format, to compete with Twitter and such.

      I like that (hence I’ve read Axios for years), but I do get annoyed by the lack of detail, sometimes.

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      18 hours ago

      AI produces cookie-cutter bullshit.

      That said, at least for the time being, it gets down to brass tacks in the first paragraph or so. I guess they haven’t felt the need to keep your eyes on the page longer.

      Capitalist enshitifed journalism is the reason they’re ‘starving’ for readers. You can’t find a meat-created news article or a fucking recipe without sifting through 10 pages of hyperbole and nostalgia.

      Bring back the fucking newspaper article format where every word cost somebody money. Spend the money on paying someone to make sure the news is right and condense it into an article where your primary goal is conveying exactly what’s going on with a close fucking second goal of not wasting everyone’s time.

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      20 hours ago

      Seems super common in reporting as well, I am noting it with basically every NPR news story these days. LLM’s love outputting this format as well. Almost the same thing that is happening with most media, people are so unfocused that you have to repeat things 20 different ways for them to remember, and the lack of actual journalism means they need to fill time with the ‘big stories’.

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        19 hours ago

        You mean like Netflix making shows “second-screen” friendly? I doubt lack of focus ever really drove longer articles. It pushes them shorter and more towards bulleted lists and headlines only if anything.

        [Insert ad here. Lol.]

        Padding out the paragraph count just gives more spots for ads in between or more eyeball time for banner ads, and even if a site isn’t explicitly going for that, all the journalists (real or not) and LLMs are just trained to only write that way now.

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      19 hours ago

      So much is paywalled now that I haven’t read enough articles to even notice that format.

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    1 day ago

    Just an affair? C’mon headline, it’s not every day we find out a billionaire and CEO has fallen for a foreign honeypot espionage operation