After announcing a 15 percent reduction in staff last year, GoPro is continuing its cost-cutting measures into 2025 as CEO Nicholas Woodman voluntarily declined his salary for the remainder of the calendar year.
I do like my GoPros. I’d hate to see this company fail.
Apparently I have the cultural sophistication of a 9 year old, as my youngest daughter and I have just nearly wet ourselves laughing at A Minecraft Movie.
It’s a terrible movie, but it’s gloriously terrible.
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Some thoughts on journalism, trust, AI and… a 20 year old debate?
Hat-tip to @ayjay for starting this thought process off.
A flashback to an old feeling: opening up the office copies of a new issue…
The latest issue of XCity magazine is here. Congrats to our magazine students.
This is the end. Embrace it.
Hassocks Station. 📍
Testing the new check-in feature in Micro Social…
This is a lovely piece of artistic graffiti, but it’s the “official” notice next to it that really makes it.
This restructuring will result in an approximately 16% workforce reduction.
Ouch. Sympathies to those impacted.
Discussion of it is everywhere, and @paulrobertlloyd is bored of it.
I know how he feels.
Listening to an interesting talk by Professor Nick Couldry, who pointing out that we legislate to stop companies filling our rivers and land with pollutants. Isn’t it about time we started doing the same to companies polluting our social ecosystems with toxic social interactions?
He’s written a book exploring these ideas and how human solidarity survives social media, called The Space of the World.
Yeah, going to read that.
Taking advantage of micro.blog’s new EU hosting option to move adders.blog’s hosting to the EU.
For obvious reasons.
Turns out there’s a lot of books I wrote in the pirated data Meta used to train its LLM. And I’m not the only family member impacted, either…
I’d be a lot more sanguine about this if it wasn’t, well, Meta.
Meta’s AI Will Suggest Comments for Users to Post About Your Photos:
Meta is testing an Instagram feature that suggests AI-generated comments for users to post beneath other users’ photos and videos.
So an AI can leave a comment on an AI-created image, while being shown an AI-created ad, and we can do something more meaningful with our lives.