> all I said was "you should act more professional"

lol we are so cooked

That's not very "America First"

Why are my taxes paying for benefits for Europeans?

They already killed USAID.

I like that the US government finally speaks out about the rampant censorship from the EU regime but I wouldn't trust a state VPN. But they put the topic on the radar. Hope they can pressure enough to abolish the DSA. And USAID was just funding for propaganda outlets.

The cost of running such a VPN is perhaps worth it when you consider the value of the intelligence it can collect.

For Europeans? They don’t need anything like this, zero benefit. May benefit someone in North Korea, China or the United States.

They will force their users to pay for the service in Trump's crypto and call it a win for freedom.

this administration is the least “america first” we’ve had … like ever!

He's svg-mogging

I wish people would stop with the scrollytelling for data pieces like this. It does not help the case, and distracts more than anything.

on this website i thought it was nice, although i agree in general. i think it really varies between device and is sometimes super awkward.

Semantle is weird. Words you would expect to be close are not. For example: castle is far from moat and stone. Why?

I think the way the similarity is done is based on word co-occurrence and the dataset used is news articles. So you can imagine that not a lot of news articles mention castle in that context.

I guess I get really frustrated when the rules say you are scored on "how close you are to the secret word, based on your word's meaning" with very little explanation what that means.

Then you have cases that drive me crazy, like the guess "food" is very far from the secret word "cupcake", and "toy" is actually very close to "cupcake". What?

Like, come on. This is not playable or fun.

For reference, these are the words close to "cupcake",

https://proximity.clevergoat.com/nearest/Y3VwY2FrZQ%3D%3D

Too big to succeed.

Looking through the staff directory, I don't see a fact checker, but they do have copy editors.

https://arstechnica.com/staff-directory/

The job of a fact checker is to verify the details, such as names, dates, and quotes, are correct. That might mean calling up the interview subjects to verify their statements.

It comes across as Ars Technica does no fact checking. The fault lies with the managing editor. If they just assume the writer verified the facts, that is not responsible journalism, it's just vibes.

"patched" = the answer is in search results

Every business needs to minimize costs in order to maximize profits.

I just skipped to the images. Don't even want to skim generated nonsense.