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  • Firefox’s Shake to Summarize expands to Android and new languages on iOS | The Mozilla Blog

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  • Jesus, they are sprinting to kill the Internet before others do rather than offering an alternative.

    This centralizes information, decisions, and removes humans from the web. Shitty website? Poor writing? Illiterate population? No penalty, someone else's AI will summarize it for your victims users. You can just insert someone else's AI token you can buy that shares content that some other AI told you is "optimized" and when the AI summarizes itll be something users respond to or engage with. Just like short form video, it doesn't mean it's correct, true, useful, insightful, complex or wise, but as long as they come back and stay on the treadmill who cares?

    Also, when your innovation is akin to "ShakeWeight" you want to go back to the drawing board...

  • Can anyone please explain this website I found while "Sailing the Seven Seas"?

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  • I miss the Internet of the late 90s and early 00s

  • Today I learned that 400 million years ago, the largest land organism was kinda like a giant sausage sticking out of the ground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites

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  • Wow, spoiler alert, apparently E.T. didn't make that flight.

  • Consumers sue Amazon for not refunding Trump tariff costs

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  • "All humans are equal, but some humans are more equal than others."

  • What is your favorite media villain?

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  • I just watched gladiator to show the kid for the first time and for me it was the first time in 20 years, he was wonderful. I then watched "space camp" a few days ago which id never seen and Phoenix's 11-year+old face jumped out of that.

    Showing the kid "Sneakers" now, and the kid was blown away Phoenix had a brother (River) who was also an actor.

  • What idiom did you initially misunderstand, but you prefer your interpretation?

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  • "it was at this moment, Bub realized why many of their online forum discussions may have ended with them being banned."

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    AI isn't paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds

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  • but rich C-suite aliens managed to buy into the entire illogical chain.

    When many decision-makers are incentivized to only care about their next quarterly bonus or stock grant, just like the subprime crisis, people will absolutely set their company up to fail regardless of the consequences. Companies have trained people they are disposable so why would they act in the long term interest of the company? Economics, that is, incentives, are undefeated in making people do things. It may not be what someone intends, but being naive about economics is why adults are needed in designing reward systems (from government policy to company programs).

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    Oregon data centers now have to pay full costs of expanding the power grid to meet their needs

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  • Time to close that barn door now that they've all left. Nice work legislators!

  • What are your BEST tech purchases?

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  • Is gadget bridge OS? I'm not familiar with what it does/offers, etc.

    Data privacy was somewhere Garmin was better than other providers when I looked at it, though that's relative and also with how fast companies are coming out fascist maybe I've missed them losing any privacy advantage?

  • What are your BEST tech purchases?

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  • Garmin running watch. Never liked running but am a list checker and analyst; seeing my inactivity or progress drive me to be more consistent and active. I'm massively healthier and happier as a result. Also first one lasted 10 years, 1-week battery life. Just bought a replacement last year(face was scuffed up after 10 years but was still running like a champ). No idea why other watches have such crap battery life without offering more features than Garmin but it's brought me joy, mental and physical health.

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    Banks seek to offload risk to avoid ‘choking’ on data centre debt

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  • What commonly given advice is actually wrong or toxic?

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  • "If you didn't hear back about the application, reach out to the company/recruiter/interviewer." - they're either not into you or swamped trying to get things lined up to move forward or both. Either way they don't want to hear from you because you're not getting it or they are working on it. Just pretend you didn't get it and move on.

    "Personalize your cover letter for each job application." - no one has read that shit in years--and that was before AI slop started doing them all for people---and good companies don't ask for them anymore as it's cruel to waste applicants time on them.

    "Ask for what you're worth in the interview/during a promotion/counteroffer!" - this one comes with an asterix as it's not always terrible advice, but well-run orgs gave a budget for your role, know what the job generally pays for the skills it requires and can't go much outside of it at all or they'll create pay equity issues which is against the law in most states if not federally, depending. I say all that and close by saying most companies aren't well run, so they're just trying to save money, but some are actually working withing a good system so don't take it personally if they don't or can't offer you more.

  • AI Is Already Changing Porn. Is It for Better or Worse?

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  • Double entendre was like falling out of bed for him.

  • AI Is Already Changing Porn. Is It for Better or Worse?

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  • Goddamned Shakespeare!

  • What book would you recommend to a person in their final days?

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  • HHGTTG, Les Miserables or Don Quixote.

  • What's an aspect of you that people don't know about?

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  • Boils down to "we're so smart we don't need to think or evaluate our thinking anymore". Anyone who can look around the world and try to push that line aping an oligarch's fantasy of going back to serfdom.

  • Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women

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  • There it is. Had been wondering who the creator of this solution to a problem with many better solutions was and why this was the answer and outcome, it's so much more base and low than I suspected.

  • The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon

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  • Interesting article! You should cross-post to some retro gaming communities, I'm sure they'd love it. I still never okayed this game as it came out when there was too much heat in Sims in the 90s, but probably would have enjoyed it more than some of the sim games I did play.

  • GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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  • Which brings the model back to AI. All businesses have accomplished was basically add an extra step in actually forcing themselves to pay for what they actually need every so often. Instead of Sr>jr>offshore>sr. they now just added in AI to the loop.

    Not that charlatans care, as long as they get theirs in the interim.