Non-paywalled version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250728121353/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/well/family/mankeeping-definition.html

Last time I checked, no car actively encourages you to drive into a wall.

This has sadly been the norm in the tech industry for at least a decade now. The whole eco-system had become so accustomed to quick injections of investment cash, that products/businesses no longer grow organically but instead hit the scene in one huge developing and marketing blitz.

Consider companies like Uber or AirBnB. Their goal was never to make a safe, stable, or even legal product. Their goal was always to be first. Command the largest user base possible in the shortest time possible, then worry about all the details later. Both of those products have had disastrous effects on existing businesses and communities while operating in anti-competetive ways and flaunting existing laws, but so what? They’re popular! Tens of millions of people already use them, and by the time government regulation catches up with that they’re doing it’s already too late. What politician would be brave enough to try and ban a company like Uber? What regulator still has enough power to reign in a company the size of AirBnB?

OpenAI is playing the same game. They don’t care if their product is safe — hell, they don’t even really care if it’s useful, or profitable. They just want to be ubiquitous, because once they achieve that, the rest doesn’t matter.

Oh just crawl back into your snake hole already, James Carville…

He was also co-chair of Sanders’ presidential campaign in 2020.

On the other hand, OpenSecrets shows him taking a shitload of contributions from Big Tech (with Google being his largest backer), so I’m not entirely sure I’d trust him to make decisions that favor the working class if push came to shove…

In any case, he’s doing a lot to keep the Epstein scandal in the news cycle, so I guess it’s best not to look a gift horse in the mouth. If and when he decides to run for president I’ll definitely be suspicious of him, but for now it seems like he’s serving the common good.

Mark = business name

Wayne = party name

Yep, math checks out

No, we’d rather be lost at sea than have to participate in the broken society that makes people need therapy.