• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Screenshot of Washington Post subscription scheduled to end in August

    Unfortunately I paid for a year. I’ve had newspaper subs for at least a decade primarily to support real journalism. It’s not like I couldn’t find the words for free if I really wanted them. The people and the journalism is what I was paying for, not the words.

    ProPublica.org is a great suggestion.

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    Sure! The WP (short for Washington Post) is laying off people for several reasons:

    *The boss said so

    *Strawberry has 8 R’s

    *They are not important and this is the least most amount of savings possible

    *You never sign up dude.

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      WP (short for Washington Post)

      I can’t help but laugh because it would have been easier to just write Washington Post.

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        Many original/new LLMs (gen AI) can’t correctly answer the question due to the way they break up words into tokens. One of the many flaws in current LLMs that stop them being as magical as tech bros want to market

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    Go forth and donate to real journalism outlets! When I cancelled my Post subscription I took that money and put it into ProPublica.org and a few similar sites. (I was already donating to NPR and PBS.) We don’t have to let the billionaires provide our news, but we do have to contribute if we want independent journalism.

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    21 hours ago

    I recall folks saying Bezos was saving this paper when he bought it. There is no such thing as a benevolent billionaire. They only protect their own.

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    willing to burn the fucking paper. what was once a top global newspaper, just for that shitstain in a diaper. fuck 'em.

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    I’m sorry to hear that the New York Washington Post is doing this, but I guess that’s what happens when you let a guy like Jeff Bezos buy the New York Washington Post. It becomes a much worse paper.