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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.

this is the “can it run DOOM” of manufacturing

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.

yes it does seem that way, but have you considered that maybe we should just all give all of our money to Microsoft and then just die of poverty? It would make their reports look so much nicer.

I just want to mention the clever graphic design of the Illustration by Ben Kothe

holy shit I’m so glad I got out of I.T.
What the fuck is any of that

I’m surprised John Cage didn’t sue over it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3

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I’ve come up with a few novel ideas that were pretty bad, and I have never discussed them online out of caution of someone actually running with them.

If you have exactly the right flavour of British accent, “endure” and “law” almost rhyme.

Deezer is pretty decent.

“WITNESS ME, LEOPARD!!!” - that dude

The article is great. The top comment under the article caught my eye:
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but at least I’m real…last I checked.
That’s very suspicious since that is exactly what I would expect a bot to write.

Point of order: in order for a bot to write that text, it would need to have been already written by someone else. So if a bot didn’t write it before, it might the next time.

Cory’s been “kind of a big deal” for decades. Boing Boing was as relevant as you could get back in the early 2000’s. It had consistently good and interesting stuff on it.
I’m glad the enshittification article became widely read: it’s remarkably astute.

Fellow weirdo here. I started using Thunderbird back when I stopped using (you’re not going to believe this) Eudora. I _loved _Eudora. it did everything I needed. TB’s been great for years, occasionally less than great but still pretty damn good. It’s like a progressive rock band that changes but still feels a bit familiar. Like Rush. Okay, Thunderbird is Rush. No wonder it’s so great. See? This is why we have the internet.

Microsoft cares about dual-booters about as much as Meta/Facebook care about people running anything other than FB on their phone.

They’re like a vampire: once you invite them in you are rendered powerless to them. Source: “The Lost Boys”

I like that name, I gotta say.

| We’re pretty passive when it comes to being gouged

Only if you include cell phone plans, internet access, air travel, housing, and food. Oh, and pet food.