Wednesday, August 20
Daily News Stuff 20 August 2025
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- A three judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed a win to Tesla in its fight over prosecution by the NLRB when it ruled that the entire bureau was probably unconstitutional. (Tech Crunch)
Oof.
- Meta is shaking up its AI group again. (Tech Crunch)
At some point it plans to launch AI products.
Maybe.
Tech News
- 95% of generative AI pilot programs are failing. (Fortune)
You gotta pump those numbers up.
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Disclaimer: Young man, you turn that city right way up RIGHT NOW.
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Yeah, I am of the opinion that US labor regulations exist mainly to prevent employment of US persons, and to promote de facto practices of slavery. I would welcome the end of the NLRB, and of the Department of Labor, but the blue collar trade unions probably turned their coats to Trump in time to win some protection for parts of the status quo.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, August 20 2025 06:36 PM (rcPLc)
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What I liked most about the "95% of AI fails" article was how it ever-so-quietly mentioned the elephant in the dataset: the successes were startups going "from $0 to $20 million in a year". Not mentioned is how much VC money the 20-year-old founders blew through to get that blip, and how much they're trying to raise this year.
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Posted by: J Greely at Wednesday, August 20 2025 09:56 PM (oJgNG)
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Mebbe if Meta introduced a Nay Aye enabled posting bot for social media it would be like the snake eating its own tail.
"Reports indicate that social media posting is up over 10000% from last month . . ."
"Reports indicate that social media posting is up over 10000% from last month . . ."
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, August 20 2025 11:03 PM (LADmw)
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Launching AI products...out the windows of tall buildings?
Posted by: Frank at Thursday, August 21 2025 02:22 AM (+i6Xr)
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Guys, I have a business plan for a start up. A stupid plan. We turn VC money into commercials, and then go out of business. Academics are complaining about budget cuts, but it can be shown that a word salad machine is no worse than some academics. So we pay actors to wear a labcoat and a mortarboard, and speak our synthetic word salad.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, August 21 2025 02:55 AM (rcPLc)
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