Danya Glabau
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I also hear two versions of this story, three times in an hour. Silicon Valley investors are now recreating the social safety net using a new start up called Escalate as a pass through This written version offers a third version of the story www.npr.org/2026/08/17/n...
- Escalate charges McDonald's franchisees $250 per store per month, plus roughly another $250 per store in Uber vouchers and gift cards.
- Across seven Prince George's County restaurants, the franchise saved about $35,000 a month; over 80% of worker requests are for transportation.
- The startup keeps costs down by employing overseas coaches and using AI to handle routine first requests, escalating to a human after three.
The sentence, "only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities" has been my spell to ward off AI-induced despair since this was published in February, and closed out a talk I gave about feminist AI refusal www.chronicl…
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NPR sponsors are all removing promises about AI from their ads, replaced with pablum about human connection. The AI industry is so cooked lol
Putting on my teacher hat for a couple hours today, and damn, pre-LLM professors didn't know how good they had it with the authentic undergrad writing
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