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November 18, 2023

Daily Tech News 18 November 2023

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What the fuck is going on at OpenAI? (Tech Crunch)

Snake ail salesman Sam Altman has been dismissed as CEO and removed from the board, and co-founder Greg Brockman, who yesterday was chairman and president, is now neither of those. CTO Mira Murati is interim CEO until a replacement can be found.

Altman is also deeply involved in the thoroughly sleazy Worldcoin project, and the moderately dubious Humane AI pin. It might be something as simple as a conflict of interests, or it could be something... More.

Sam Altman strikes me as a high-functioning version of Sam Bankman-Fried, so these events surprise me not at all.

Tech News

An online atrocity database got hacked and leaked the personal details of the victims of said atrocities. (The Intercept)

Who thought this was a good idea?
A Canadian court has overturned a government ruling that single-use plastic items are toxic, on the basis that they aren't. (Reuters)

The government wants to ban single-use plastic, so rather than pass legislation, it just defined them as toxic so they'd be banned automatically.

The only problem with that is, well, they're not toxic at all.

A little surprising that a Canadian court would take issue with this, but welcome nonetheless.
What could be toxic, though - as mentioned previously - is eye drops. (Ars Technica)

An inspection of one factory in Mumbai found workers wandering around barefoot - inside an allegedly sterile production area where not only shoes but shoe coverings, gowns, and gloves are required.

They did detect the inevitable contamination. They just... Kept right on going.
You can save oil by taking your kids to school on an electric moped, and even more when you all get killed in a traffic accident on the first day. (The Conversation)

Take a look at the photos in the article. Sad to say, those people are statistics waiting to be calculated.
Meanwhile:

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Getting back to productive matters, Starship flight 2 launches in ~6 hours!!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2023

Possible D&D / Hololive Crossover Music Video of the Day If Twitter Embeds Decide to Work for Once

https://t.co/NQahDe7Hmf pic.twitter.com/L2dRD5RJlU
— Merryweather Media (@Merryweatherey) October 20, 2023

Disclaimer: Slightly less bleh. Not not bleh, but not bleh either.

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