They're just insane, the whole lot of them.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
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"Wow, what does your startup do?"
"It synthesizes mining crypto by capturing efforts from Microsoft users trying to uninstall bloatware in Windows 11"
Phoebe Cates has an AI startup??
two of em. and they’re spectacular.
If she wanted to do this she'd change her name and disavow her inheritence.
The only thing she wants is for us to be talking about it, and well here you all are ...
Stephen King's child at least doesn't write under the name "King" to avoid nepotism. I can't read the actual paid article because just going off headlines is apparently OK here, but it doesn't seem like she's trying.
Her chip on her shoulder is a tiny one she blows out of proportion, like so many "problems" of the uber-wealthy.
Joe Hill is quite good.
The first time I had a friend reccomend him, I gave them a funny look, thinking they were talking about Joe Hill the musician and labor organizer XD
Edit: I'm sick of people mentioning musicians without songs; here's Preacher and the Slave, from which we get the term "Pie in the Sky".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RHyGpFncovU
Performed by the late Utah Phillips, as Joe Hill was executed a good 110 years ago.
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Well, she chose AI, so she's already failed !
Good job. It won't succeed thanks to your privilege, because it won't succeed at all !
"I got the VC money, not my problem anymore!"
Phoebe Gates cofounded Phia, an AI shopping assistant, with her Stanford University roommate Sophia Kianni. The shopping assistant plugs into browsers like Chrome and Safari to compare prices and surface deals across tens of thousands of retail and resale sites in real time. It essentially serves as your own personal deal finder: say you’re looking at a $200 dress from Anthropologie, Phia can find and compare prices at second-hand sellers to help customers find a better price.
That's actually a neat premise. Fashion isn't my cup of tea, but otherwise that sounds useful (albeit not very unique; shopping assistants are a dime a dozen).
Anyone here old enough to remember froogle?
Ehhhh. Bah! I’m gonna take a nap.
Ah yes, I remember a browser extension about finding coupon codes for the sites you're on that absolutely didn't end up being disgusting shit. 🤣
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Who is this bozo?
gates is her father apparently.
Still... Fuck AI.
Okay, well I definitely wondered what the hell the star of Gremlins and Drop Dead Fred was getting up to.