greyscale

The sabotage narrative did feel weak when I was listening to Natasha Bernal talking. Its probably not sabotage, its just their data is wank and the employees aren’t paid enough to care to fix it.

Thats wild, I’m used to zero rating on basic food goods in the UK. Unless its chocolate. That’s taxable. Unless its a chocolate cake, thats a basic food again. But a chocolate biscuit attracts tax. Which was the whole thing about jaffa cakes and their tax status was about. Its a cake, therefore a basic food.

Catering, Alcohol, confectionary, crisps and snacks, hot food, sports drinks, ice cream and soft drinks are taxed.

Its all a bit complicated, but the more you can imagine someone eating it in 1910 the more likely its zero rated.

Short of a botnet

Well, yeah. Or a browser extension that can be circulated.

Generating images and video are hella computationally expensive. requesting it to make millions of junk images will make a non-zero economic impact.

Its also why sora got killed off.

The carbon intensity wont make the product go away, but the economic cost will.

They wanted companies to normalise a dollar spend on tokens equivalent to half a dev salary per dev.

They want to pay you in it too

Gnome 3 was a fad anyway