Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking(latimes.com)

112 points by supertimor 3 years ago | 78 comments

California deploys AI-powered wildfire detection systems(latimes.com)

24 points by gamblor956 3 years ago | 8 comments

When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone(a.wholelottanothing.org)

111 points by wawayanda 1 year ago | 56 comments

San Francisco fire chief fed up with robotaxis that mess with her firetrucks(latimes.com)

105 points by tafda 3 years ago | 99 comments

Airbnb allowed rampant price gouging following L.A. fires, city attorney alleges(latimes.com)

54 points by miguelazo 1 year ago | 65 comments

Overnight 'hotel train' could link San Francisco and Los Angeles(latimes.com)

21 points by lxm 3 years ago | 26 comments

Memories from old LAN parties(thomask.sdf.org)

393 points by ecliptik 3 years ago | 213 comments

A blog post by Thomas Karpiniec recounting a collection of humorous memories from attending LAN parties in the 2000s.

Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union(engadget.com)

323 points by ksec 1 year ago | 121 comments

Engadget article reporting that video game workers in North America have formed an industry-wide union, announced at a GDC panel on organizing.

Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California(arstechnica.com)

531 points by Lihh27 5 months ago | 346 comments

Ars Technica article on a California bill advancing that would require game publishers to offer independent play patches or refunds after shutting down servers.

At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work(nytimes.com)

484 points by milkshakes 1 year ago | 687 comments

New York Times article reporting that Amazon software developers pushed to use AI say their work has become faster-paced and more like warehouse work.

Republican data center support collapses locally when sites are in GOP counties(pressaudit.org)

30 points by SLHamlet 17 days ago | 1 comments

A PressAudit report by Paul Renshaw on how Republican support for data centers drops locally as proposed sites move into more Republican counties.

The logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley(nytimes.com)

12 points by ripe 22 days ago | 6 comments

A New York Times Magazine piece arguing that gambling logic underpins Silicon Valley products, including prediction markets; the capture shows a bot-block page.