Time for the JSON creator to do the funniest thing ever www.json.org/license.html

Marty Baron's Post thrived because it took meaningful steps away from false balance, toward a defensible north star. As long as media execs insist financial pressures require wooing back right-wing audiences, why help them build a false sense that this is possible? www.offmessage.net/p/a-requiem-...

Some of us might do it on purpose.

Typical Boomerism

Looking up biggest ballrooms in the world.
This Ballroom is going to be like his military parade.

This is pretty wild to me, in that YouTube imagines commenting to be what makes a social network, not just UGC

He has ZERO talent and his ratings are worse than Colbert’s

Seems like a good time to discuss stopping funding for wars…

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Does anyone know why sharing an episode via @pocketcasts.com bottoms out on the pocketcast home page if you do not have an account? Is there anyway to simply share the episode?

I’m pretty sure the Google Home is designed to ignore you the first three times so that when you eventually yell at the top of your lungs, everyone in the neighbourhood can hear you say its name #freeadvertising

How California feels about AI Spoiler: Not great. Plus, how AI is raising our electricity bills, the chatbot therapist that failed to intervene in a suicide, and what lays behind Grok's personas.

BLOOD IN THE MACHINE was given early access to survey data pulled from interviews with 1,400 Californians on their thoughts about AI.

Among the findings:

-59% think AI will primarily benefit corporations and the wealthy
-55% are more concerned than excited
-*70%* want strong AI laws

I bet Trump offers Canada to Putin in exchange for ending the war in Ukraine

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."

MBA-brain is real.

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Finally AI is proving useful

America has never been broke. It’s just violently anti-poor. Troops in LA cost $134M — the price of 44 million school lunches.

But sure, let’s keep pretending the issue is lazy parents and not a government that eats kids for breakfast.

Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up

Duolingo is taking this AI thing too seriously

I hereby verify that I am myself

Very strange and unnecessary parenthetical inclusion. NYTimes!

“What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?”
― Tony Benn

AI: More words. Less meaning

My election promise: companies that make you wait longer than five minutes on the phone are billed accordingly

I loved it and recently watched it with my two teenagers. I think it held up but then my son came out with this theory of alternate universes supposedly from the director that he read online that was totally bonkers.

I worry that banks who provide BSBs with a hyphen, but do not accept hyphens when entering payee's information might not be so good at details, which seems important for a bank.

Searching: how do I self-deport myself from the US?

Very heartening to see foreign officials mocking him for being a fucking clown. Feels like the garlic to his vampire

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