Got a more direct link for FF? This one just goes in circles, with the download link in the instructions bringing up the page that links to the download instructions.

EDIT: That was a NoScript problem. I was able to grab the .xpi once I allowed the Russian domain.

The rest of the Fediverse runs off ActivityPub.

You have got to be fucking kidding me. Some 54% of U.S. adults read at a sixth-grade level or less? We all saw this coming from the '80s on, but I forgot that it’s been 40 years, and education has been properly gutted.

Sadly, “you’ll never work in this city again” has been true for my entire career. What are you going to do? Walk across Main Street to the other paper?

But it has never been an editor’s job to “push back on the folks who write articles,” which I thought would be the worst part of that sentence; literally, rewriting is what editors do. We don’t push back on staff, we push back on copy. A minor omission here, a glaring hole there, and – as a last resort – spiking a story until questions are answered.

No one has felt any job security in this industry for at least 15 years. “You can’t say that” probably cuts both ways at this point.

2025 didn’t exactly open as the most vehicle-friendly year.

I question the rigor of this reporting. I read the story, and it’s a series of “on the other hand” setups that generally tells you you don’t have a story on your hands.

Basically:

Is “AI” cheaper? Depends. Does it have wider reach? Depends. Is it more effective? …

You see where this is going. Down that road lies conjecture and anecdote.

The same thing happened in journalism starting in the early aughts, and I don’t see anyone saying the field is better for it 20 years on. When your entire stable is people less than three years out of college, you’re going to get what you pay for.

“Teases, reveal and prototypes” is a lot of hedging.

As with so many things, that this was legal in the first place is the problem.

This year has, on some level, radicalized me …

It’s unusual to run into a story with a line I’d just been thinking about. Also, I really hope the domain is a reference to Bassment Jaxx.

The list of cities where this is available simply reaffirms the AP’s take on dateline cities. It’s a useful list for geography buffs but incompetent at suggesting the scale of operations for anyone else.

Why not include legacy media? Same problem.

Right. China is the problem. “Look over there!”

Eh?

If these are technical manuals, I see no issue.

But fucking fiction?

Do you want to know more?

This feels like a “may be able to” situation. Once they’ve completed a flight from New York to London, I can get on board with the notion of them being able to fly from New York to London.

Who the fuck is Alice? (if you do not get this reference, Gompie is what you’re looking for.)

That’s all well and good, but it comes at the expense of the user experience.

The implication that rewriting GPT output makes one a professional writer … not sure we’re on the same page there. If you know how to use it for those results, great!