• spongebue@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    First it was GPUs because crypto, then this. Wonder what useless thing the tech bros will cover up with in a few years!

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      17 hours ago

      Article in 2027:

      Keyboard prices soared this month, as tech giants pivoted from failed AI projects to employing hordes of monkeys typing randomly. One CEO was quoted as saying, “Just a few trillion more dollars, and I think our random typing model could reproduce the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria.”

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        16 hours ago

        When in a gold rush, be the one selling shovels.

        I’m off to buy stocks in bananas.