All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of products
Personally, I look forward to the (unlikely) day when generative AI goes the way of the Cuecat and Microsoft Bob.
Regardless of their tagline, “playing with” your pets and kids via a $200 robot and your phone does not, in fact, make you “always there, always caring.”
Senate Democrats appear ready to back down in government shutdown fight
Have Senators not noticed that Musk&Trump are already shutting down the government? The lack of aggressive messaging from the Democrats is truly upsetting.
Why I Left the Washington Post
Ruth Marcus traces the decline and fall of the WP under Jeff Bezos, Includes a copy of the column that they wouldn’t run and which she resigned over - which shows just how thin-skinned the oligarch class has gotten, because it’s barely a defense of free speech.
Musk Seeks to Put $100 Million Directly Into Trump Political Operation
The corruption really is right out in the open, isn’t it?
Trump turns the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom
The only mystery here is how co-President Trump managed to find time in his busy schedule of screaming on Truth Social and doing Putin’s and Netanyahu’s bidding to kiss co-President Musk’s ass on the White House lawn.
TikTok will play ‘calming music’ to remind teens to stop using the app
It won’t work. No matter how good their AI-driven age verification technology gets, I have faith that teens will stay ahead with AI-driven age spoofing technology.
King Charles pays tribute to ‘marvellous’ Bob Marley as he shares favourite songs
In these troubled times, it is comforting that King Charles listens to Bob Marley, Kylie Minogue, and Beyonce.
I get an absurd amount of pleasure from swapping 10 watts of electrons with someone in Calgary.
Every time I have to deal with Xfinity I think about getting into business as an ISP. I could eat a handful of iron filings and crap out a more reliable network.