Reading up on Wall Street Journal
7 deep · digging since feb 06
- “Hill-climbing” is Silicon Valley’s latest bit of shit jargon - Nudged
The article critiques Silicon Valley's use of the buzzword 'hill-climbing' as vacuous jargon that disguises simple incremental improvement as sophisticated optimisation, signalling status while avoiding specificity.
- People Keep Sneaking Into an Empty IBM Campus. This Town Has Had Enough. - WSJ
A vacant IBM campus in Somers, N.Y. has become a destination for trespassing urban explorers, drawing police responses and local frustration.
- AI Supercharges Deepfake Nudes—Unleashing a New Form of Bullying Among Kids - WSJ
AI nudify tools spread deepfake child abuse images, and schools, police, and parents lack the legal tools and protocols to stop the harassment effectively.
- Why Almost Everyone Loses—Except a Few Sharks—on Prediction Markets - WSJ
A WSJ analysis finds a small number of algorithmic traders capture most winnings on Polymarket and Kalshi, while typical users lose money.
- I’m Signing Off From This Column After 12 Years. Here’s What’s Changed in Tech. - WSJ
After 12 years as a WSJ columnist, Joanna Stern reflects on the consumer-tech shifts that reshaped daily life, including phones becoming everything, cars becoming computers, and AI becoming the new interface.
Takes
I’ve come to the realization that X might be the least toxic space for a woman in tech. I was recently featured in a @wsj_com article about solo founders, and it was one of the few bits of media I’ve done that has escaped containment: posts on Facebook, high school friends, random relatives, etc. seem to all have been served the article on social and pinged me nice notes & links. And WOW the public comments on gen pop social posts were a very unwelcome reminder on what it’s like to put yourself out there as a female entrepreneur: being called a fraud, reprimanded to put mothering first, called a liar, presuming “tech exec” is code for “low level product owner”, calling me a no-nothing MBA fake (what?), calling me a Bay Area baby born with a silver spoon (what??!), denigrating my technical chops, comments that my only advantage is being hot, or a TikTok influencer, and getting LinkedIn connections from men asking how I stay looking 25 in my 40s 🫠 Anyway I could not be more grateful for this hellsite where you all take me at face value, I can share honest experiences and thoughts, debate in relative good faith, beep boop my AI hacks, laugh, and only occasionally poke the trolls. I never thought I’d say this: but X is the place I get the most respect online as a leader, engineer, and mom. What a world. If only we could get rid of the AI reply guys and fix search, this might be heaven.
@clairevo
Fun to be featured in the @WSJ as a million dollar, one employee founder. @chatprd - the little wrapper that could!
@clairevo