JD Vance wants a twofer. First Francis, now Leo.

The challenge is that users want sites to remember that you don't want the cookie set. and the only viable way to do that is to set a cookie, otherwise the website isn't able to remember that you asked it not to set a cookie.

it's hilarious to feed the current news cycle into Gemini or ChatGPT and watch the AI flipflop between "the user is obviously talking about an hypothetical alternate reality" and "I have now confirmed Trump threatened the Pope and shared an AI image of himself as Jesus healing Jeffrey Epstein".

The democrats tried. They tried to get the courts to declare Trump unfit for presidency, attempted to strike him off the ballot and prosecuted him for crimes, but the Trump-stacked SCOTUS did the most absurd interpretation of the constitution I have ever seen, multiple times in fact.

I thought it was Jeffrey Epstein that he was healing, not Bush.

My guess is that since Orbán rose to power AFTER Hungary joined the EU, he wasn't able to do the full implementation of antidemocratic dictatorship that you need to be able to fake elections like Maduro did. Also, being a post-Warsaw pact country, there was likely still a strong democracy drive.

Next time, you may want to actually read the alt text your LLM of choice gives you, just so you can remove the call to action afterwards.

Amazon's entire UI is just atrocious. I suspect it's entirely designed to steer you towards buying more expensive stuff that isn't quite what you were looking for. Most people are better off using external search providers or price aggregators to find what they're looking for.

@deck.blue I have this issue where every single video I watch just stops at around 70 or 80%. Doesn't matter how long or short it is, videos just cut out a bit before they end...

That airman looks A LOT like Jack Reacher from the Amazon Prime TV show.

Gemini making a difference between safe distances for downed power lines and high-voltage transmission lines.

If you ask Gemini, it also is clear about transmission lines.

I'd love some coverage of the various incidents where a lawyer used AI for their research and ended up with egg not just on their face, but on their entire person...

I've done the math. 150 ships per day, that's 150M per day each, or about 55B per year. For Oman, that's around half their GDP, for Iran it's about 1/6th.

JESUS CHRIST! This is the sort of demented grandstanding that you would only see from a supervillain in a Bond movie. Like, this is something you'd hear from Blofeld or Trevelyan or Carver. Though they would probably word it somewhat more coherent...

And don't forget the people who think questions they think are stupid deserve ridicule. If you have a couple of those people in your team or management stack, you quickly stop asking questions, becoming one of those people from your post.

There is a pervasive theory that Trump's mental decline has made him convinced that he's still living in the eighties.

This is such an affront to journalism. The people most interested in reading these articles generally read the first version, but then don't read any updates. An entire group of NYT readers now doesn't know about Trump begging Iran to open the strait with an expletive...

I'm willing to guess it'll be Hegseth. Seeing how the war in Iran is going and how completely mismanaged it is...

I don't get how the US can feasibly claim that this is Iran doing this. Why would Iran strike their own civilians right at the start of a war? What do they have to gain from that?

bsky.app/profile/star... There's also a different sort of book discourse going on...

I agree with your sentiment, but the proper term is "adjudicated rapist". He doesn't have a criminal conviction for rape, just a civil lawsuit adjudicating him, and he has already won a lawsuit against a major newspaper because they called him a convicted rapist.

If you use Microsoft Word and use their corrective features like spellcheck or grammar check, that's technically powered by AI. Or at least, the Microsoft Editor part is. That's how it can detect whether you're using the right they're/their. But most people probably don't mean that when they say AI.

I remember reading: studies found that AI is A LOT more accurate (not 100%) if they make the AI algorithm less random. But that also makes AI less fun to talk with, which reduces engagement. Ironically, less engagement means cheaper, so OpenAI is providing a worse service with higher cost...

I'm not sure if this applies to clinical insomnia, but I read somewhere years ago that if you can't sleep, you should be doing something boring and physical, like folding laundry or cleaning the house (without noise obviously). Relax your mind, and tire out your body. Programming does neither.

As he said in the video: Hungary is EXTREMELY gerrymandered, so it's not certain...

In his @status.news newsletter @oliverdarcy.bsky.social reports the White House got Getty to delete this photo (from a Thanksgiving White House PHOTO-OP STUNT) because Karoline Leavitt was offended

It ran only in a Swiss newspaper. It would be a shame if you retweeted and Streisanded it

How clearly do you want the "shitting himself on live TV" to be? Because there's speculation that actually did happen a couple of times...

Do you want to end up in jail for five to ten years for felony computer crimes? Because this is how you end up in jail for five to ten years for felony computer crimes. The CFAA is no joke, and a somewhat decent lawyer can probably bring a convincing argument that this caused damage.

Is it usually a lot of mail-in ballots that are received after election day? And if so, how much of that is caused by problems during mail processing and how much by people just delaying their mail-in ballots? Could an antidemocratic decision here be worked around by people mailing ballots earlier?

Honestly, the influencer content in public should probably be qualified with an "intrusive" adjective. Don't record people in intimate or vulnerable moments, and don't go around causing trouble for engagement. But beyond that, yeah, if they're deliberately pissing people off, go wild.