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At least someone's Mom. On Mothers' Day 2024 I found gardens of sculptures and decorations filling 3 home lots in central Phoenix, AZ. Earlier I shared an iPhone shot of a side yard and this is one of the sculptures I was able to see inside the side yard. By Don Russell, an extraordinary Outsider Artist who doesn't sell his work. He just buys more homes there to be able to work on them and store them while his renters enjoy the atmosphere. #Phoenix#Sculpture#Wired#Metal#Mom
The new RedragonShop Eisa K686 Pro SE keyboard just arrived at my front door a few minutes ago.
This was sent to me as a review unit, so I'll be using it, checking it out and testing it over the next couple of weeks and then posting my review on the #AllThingsTech blog that you can view here:
A week or so later, one good thing about the #xz#backdoor is how it all pretty much played out on Mastodon and in the #fediverse. The discussion wasn't on #x or #twitter, not #facebook or #stackedoverflow or whatever. Analysis and investigation and discussion happened here on #mastodon. Even #wired magazine gave credit.
This is the core problem with #Instagram & #Threads, they have a very high false positive that they won't fix. It has been that way for 3 years, & Threads is using it.
No help either unless you are an “influencer”. So frustrating!
#ConsumerReports sill exists, y'all. It's still the gold standard of product review.
And for tech products beyond CR's ambit, I guess I'd use sites that have been around a while and have not (SFAIK) been hollowed out: #Wired, #CNet, etc.
È anche questo un effetto del Digital Markets Act #DMA dell'#EU
È chiaro che un'operazione di questo tipo sia complessa (basta pensare alla gestione dell'#encryption), ma l'abbattimento dei #walled#garden e del predominio dei #gatekeeper è comunque un vantaggio per gli utenti
I have trouble believing there are people that believe the Earth is flat. Well, here are two experiments that normal people could perform to show it's actually a sphere. #physics#science#wired
@Richard_Littler Fascinating! Here's the #WIRED article with the photographer, Antonio #Guillem, who doesn't mention the 60s #Puffin book.
"While multiple shots came out of that session—and countless have featured the same trio over the years—it was “Disloyal man walking with his girlfriend and looking amazed at another seductive girl” that would go on to set the internet ablaze with infinite spins on the same formulaic joke." https://www.wired.com/story/distracted-boyfriend-meme-photographer-interview/
For a brief time this year, Amazon's bestselling "bitter lemon drink" was "Release Energy," which consisted of the harvested urine of Amazon delivery drivers, rebottled for sale by #CatfishUK prankster #OobahButler in a stunt for a new #Channel4 doc, "#TheGreatAmazonHeist":
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Speaking to #Wired, Amazon denied that it forces its drivers to piss in bottles, but Butler clearly catches a DSP dispatcher telling drivers "If you pee in a bottle and leave it [in the vehicle], you will get a point for that" - that is, the part you get punished for isn't the peeing, it's the leaving.
Amazon's defense against the FTC is that it spares no effort to keep its marketplace safe.
"Corporate crime" is an oxymoron in America. While it's true that the most consequential and profligate theft in America is #WageTheft, its mechanisms are so obscure and, well, dull that it's easy to sell us on the false impression that the real problem is shoplifting:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
While this veil has parted somewhat, it is still intact enough to allow the company to work the refs and kill disfavorable reporting from the trial. Last week, #MeganGrey - ex-FTC, ex-#DuckDuckGo - published an editorial in #Wired reporting on her impression of an explosive moment in the Google trial:
In case you need it, wayback machine link for the article #wired#magazine removed, criticizing #google for doctoring #search#results to benefit their wallet.
OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets (www.wired.com)
Released earlier this month, OpenAI’s GPTs let anyone create custom chatbots. But some of the data they’re built on is easily exposed.