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I keep waiting for Amazon to start generating AI-driven online profiles spouting Ai-driven selling points for AI-generated media.
It’s the AI version of “Flood the zone with shit” except the entire internet is The Zone.
I keep waiting for Amazon to start generating AI-driven online profiles spouting Ai-driven selling points for AI-generated media.
It’s the AI version of “Flood the zone with shit” except the entire internet is The Zone.
this is the “can it run DOOM” of manufacturing
brb recompiling my porch
The Peripheral has entered the chat
@frog (just making sure you get a notification of this reply - some servers aren’t great at that)
beg pardon for upcoming language where I try to tell you what to think, it comes from a positive place.
friend, don’t ever let the attitudes of others make you feel like you’re “lesser.”
Let me tell you about one of the most wonderfully boring things I’ve ever seen. One of the most powerful displays of belonging was at my first Pride parade, oh wow this was ages ago. I didn’t notice the name of the group, I’m sure they had a banner, but it just looked like a bunch of regular people walking in the middle of a parade. All I could think at the time was “where is the colourful clothing? why are they not dancing? Where is the outrage? where is the joy?” I didn’t see anything that would make me judge them as being worthy of being in a pride parade. Fuck just writing it makes me realize how stupid I was :) Spoiler: They were in the pride parade because they were all queer. Pick a letter, that was them. And they all looked totally normal, and they didn’t dance and sing and turn themselves about. Because that was the kind of queer they were.
if you’re “too old” you still matter. If you’re “too boring” you still matter. You are not unworthy.
rather than uninstalling adblockers entirely, can’t they just whitelist YouTube? Ad Trackers only have value when they track people across multiple sites: if the tracker only functions on YT then users get the video views they want and YT gets near-worthless tracking data.
Bingo! If accountability hurts the bottom line, then The Big Money will argue against accountability in any form.
Big Money got a mighty voice.
Big Money make no sound.
I’d love to go a goddamn day without hearing about this man. The media’s bizarre fascination with him is entirely unhealthy.
I just want to mention the clever graphic design of the Illustration by Ben Kothe
In Canada in the 1980’s there was a short TV commercial about media literacy portrayed as a nature documentary, about the endangered Canadian House Hippo. After 15 seconds the commercial pauses and a voice asks if you actually believed what you were seeing, encouraging viewers to think critically about what they saw on TV.
These days the closest thing to that is snopes.com , and people have to actively seek that out. Without the House Hippo it is us who are endangered.
maybe you just hate your coworkers? :)
Microsoft submitted video evidence during their Antitrust trial in the late 90’s that had been edited together, but was being presented as unedited. i.e. they tried to pull the wool over the DOJ’s eyes, because why not? https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-on-trial-ms-videotape-not-what-it-seemed/
They included IE4 in Win98 - that was seen as anticompetitive. Compare that to everything they do today. Or everything Apple does today (like, literally everything). It’s shocking that something like including IE with win98 was worth pursuing, but yet everything since then was just how big business does big business.
he only walked it back because he still has functioning legs
he’s an advocate for universal basic poverty
I was just about to mention the goldfish “driving the tank” robotics project. I’m still betting it was inspired by the old joke:
There are two goldfish in a tank. One says “How the hell do you drive this thing?”
Don’t we all.
Martha did time. She should pick who goes next.
If it was a reputable theater she would have had her own Booth.
au contraire, mon frere. There were plenty of AOL users on Usenet, stinking up the place.
kilts are awesome