I am not very familiar with the WN or the LN, but the industrial setting is the same in the manga, so I wonder if this is something the author decided worked better after the fact.
And just how bad Gamma is really comes across so much better when it's animated. Probably the highlight of the episode for me.
I feel like you didn't read the opinion piece at all, and just ran with your feelings from the title. In the first two paragraphs the author talks about how I agreed with the strong initial response to the terrorist attack. It's the wonton targeting of civilians and looking the other way as language of genocide is being used that the author, and every else that I know that isn't blindly pro one side or the other takes.
Honestly, I don't think more of the same is going to help you feel less burned out. Obviously your couple of sentences doesn't give me a lot of insight into your life, but you do not seem to enjoy your job, and that is going to color your whole perception on anything related to it. I think I'd honestly recommend you start looking for work you actually enjoy, but if that isn't possible I recommend unplugging as much as possible for awhile. That's the only way I've ever had the spark come back for me. Starting side projects always lose their luster after a session or two and just started to feel like another source of stress for me.
I don't see how saying things failing to live up to their promises and helping a mere fraction of the people claimed is. And I can't speak to marketing, but I can to software development and it really is not having the impact claimed, at least in my professional network.
The hype cycle. And just like how even a reasonable read on the supposed benefits are going to leave most people very disappointed when it happens. And I'm glad you're one of the people that have found a good use for LLMs, but you're in the vocal minority, as far as I can tell
I don't even think that it's so much a lack of decency in most people, so much as the capitalist society we live in that falsely promotes the idea that it's a zero sum game and that inherently drives people into a crab mentality.
I believed that like 5 years ago, when S42 was "releasing next year!" Wish I could get my money back.
Tidal was decent for me, but I do a lot of listening to more long tail acts, and probably 80-90% of them weren't on Tidal, so I ended up switching back to Spotify once I found out that they had cancelled the supposedly better revenue sharing with artists.
I haven't verified that everything is totally there, but Proton has all their stuff here: https://github.com/ProtonMail
The ACLU tends to rabidly support anything that labels itself as free speech, even if it actually stifles it. Most importantly, to me, their continued support for Citizens United.
But maybe that's the only real case and it's just loomed so large in my mind for the chilling impact "corporations get free speech, and their dollars count as that" has had on the US political landscape.
I gave up when they randomly jumped topics and I couldn't tell how they were related. And just generally felt like this essay could have been heavily edited to get it's point across.
In general I like the EFF and the ACLU, but I do think that it's not uncommon for them to end up on the "wrong" side because they extrapolate too far or are being dogmatic when most things have and require nuance.
And I feel like the Gamma scene worked better in the anime for me. Truly shows just how much she's just relying on her ridiculous specs while still being awkward and uncoordinated.