This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center
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In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
Joseph Cox
"It's like a calculator that's wrong sometimes."
@devindra.bsky.social sits down with @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social to talk about Microsoft and Disney's FOMO over AI (even if the tools don't work properly), why Hollywood isn't over, and the state of the film industry.
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Amazon employees are posting memes on Slack about how their AI coding tool sucks www.404media.co/sloppenheime...
a really incredible story about a childhood memory of a neighbor's generosity that was true and backed up by decades old paperwork. But it didn't matter. This is the story of how 90 acres of land donated for a park was sold for $10 million to become a data center
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Amazon employees have a Slack channel for memes where the mock and commiserate about the company’s faulty AI coding product.
Three options:
1) Nadella can't read
2) Nadella has no idea what's going on
3) Nadella is lying
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Matthew Gault
Emanuel Maiberg
Jason Koebler
Anyways, standard big tech public relations playbook being run here:
1) ignore or blow us off when we ask for comment
2) whine about story afterward to another publication
rinse repeat
